The AAUP censures the administrations of institutions that are not observing the generally recognized principles of academic freedom and tenure approved by AAUP, the American Association of Colleges and Universities, and more than two hundred and fifty other professional and educational organizations which have endorsed the 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure.
Placing the name of an institution on this list does not mean that censure is visited either upon the whole of the institution or upon the faculty, but specifically upon its present administration. The term “administration” includes the administrative officers and the governing board of the institution. This censure does not affect the eligibility of nonmembers for membership in the Association, nor does it affect the individual rights of members at the institution in question.
Some members of the Association have considered it to be their duty, in order to indicate their support of the principles violated, to refrain from accepting appointment to an institution so long as it remains on the censure list. Since circumstances differ widely from case to case, the Association does not assert that such an unqualified obligation exists for its members; it does urge that, before accepting appointments, they seek information on present conditions of academic freedom and tenure from the Association’s Washington office and prospective departmental colleagues. The Association leaves it to the discretion of the individual, possessed of the facts, to make the proper decision.
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One Connecticut institution is currently on the AAUP censure list: The University of Bridgeport, under censure since June 1994.
Albertus Magnus College, which had been under censure since June 2000, was removed from the censure list in June 2025.
Connecticut State Conference of the American Association of University Professors, Inc. 