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Academe is "the quarterly magazine of the American Association of University Professors," which "explores critical issues facing higher education,". The winter, spring and fall issues carry feature articles, book reviews, opinion columns and news.
The summer issue is the annual Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors, which "collects AAUP reports and policy documents from the previous academic year." A companion site, the Academe Blog (academeblog.org), publishes commentary on higher education news through the year.
Its submission guidelines state that "Academe is not a peer-reviewed publication." Articles run 1,000 to 4,000 words, Faculty Forum columns about 700 words, and accepted pieces are edited by AAUP editorial staff.
The AAUP was founded at a meeting in New York City on January 1–2, 1915, according to the AAUP's history page. In a 2014 Academe Blog post, editor Michael Ferguson wrote that the first Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors appeared in December 1915, and that "Academe came into existence in 1967" as a newsletter with short updates on chapter activity and national office news. The two publications ran side by side until 1979, when they "merged as Academe: Bulletin of the AAUP."
According to Ferguson, in 2010 the AAUP separated editorial content from association reports, retitling the magazine Academe: Magazine of the AAUP and reviving a separate annual Bulletin, and "beginning in 2012, the Bulletin took the place of the September–October issue." AAUP's 2012 announcement of a new faculty editor said that under outgoing faculty editor Cat Warren the magazine began publishing original journalism and received a complete redesign. The online issue archive lists six issues a year (January–February through November–December) through 2018 and four seasonal issues (Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall) from 2019 on.
2010 – present. Annual Bulletin issue — collects AAUP reports and policy documents from the previous academic year; listed in the online archive as the July–August issue (2012–2018) and the Summer issue (2019 on).
2009 – 2018. Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession — the AAUP's faculty compensation survey report ran as the March–April issue in each of these years in the online archive (for example, "On the Brink," 2008–09; "No Refuge," 2009–10; "Losing Focus," 2013–14; "Busting the Myths," 2014–15).
Jan. – Feb. 2015. "AAUP: The First One Hundred Years" — issue marking the association's centennial.
Recent themed issues. Fall 2026, "The Brave New World of Higher Ed"; Spring 2026, "AI in the Corporate University"; Winter 2026, "What Is Academic Labor Now?"; Spring 2025, "Trump 2.0"; Fall 2023, "Confronting Legislative Attacks on Higher Education."
Editor. Michael Ferguson
Associate Editor. Kelly Hand
Editorial Assistant. Austin Rhea
Book Review Editor. Matthew Boedy, University of North Georgia
Director of External Relations. Gwendolyn Bradley
AAUP President / Executive Director. Todd Wolfson / Mia McIver
Advisory board: François Furstenberg (Johns Hopkins University), Shawn Gilmore (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Afshan Jafar (Connecticut College), Rana Jaleel (University of California, Davis), Tina Kelleher (Towson University), Jennifer Ruth (Portland State University).
Past faculty editors: Cat Warren (North Carolina State University), whose three-year term ended with the September–October 2012 issue, and Aaron Barlow (New York City College of Technology, CUNY), appointed in 2012.
Address. American Association of University Professors, 555 New Jersey Ave NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20001
Phone. (202) 737-5900
Website. https://www.aaup.org/academe
AAUP — Academe landing page. https://www.aaup.org/academe — current and recent issues, sections, address and phone.
AAUP — About Academe. https://www.aaup.org/academe/about — self-description, quarterly schedule, annual Bulletin, masthead, advisory board.
AAUP — Academe submissions. https://www.aaup.org/academe/submissions — readership description; not peer-reviewed; lengths and editing.
AAUP — Academe subscriptions. https://www.aaup.org/academe/subscriptions — member subscriptions; 2026 nonmember rates.
AAUP — Advertising in Academe. https://www.aaup.org/academe/advertising-academe — ad rates; e-newsletter reach.
AAUP — Academe issue archive. https://www.aaup.org/academe/issues — issues and themes, 2009–2026.
Michael Ferguson, Academe Blog, Apr. 7, 2014. 100 Years in Bulletin and Academe Covers — publication history: 1915 Bulletin, 1967 Academe newsletter, 1979 merger, 2010 and 2012 changes.
The Online Books Page (University of Pennsylvania). Academe — serial record — describes Academe as a 1979 retitling of the AAUP Bulletin.
AAUP — History of the AAUP. History of the AAUP — 1915 founding; 2013 restructuring; 2020 return of the Collective Bargaining Congress; 2022 AFT affiliation.
Gwendolyn Bradley, Academe, Jan.–Feb. 2013. Introducing the New, Restructured AAUP — AAUP became a 501(c)(6) professional organization as of Jan. 1, 2013; AAUP Foundation is a 501(c)(3).
Academe, Sept.–Oct. 2012. New Academe Faculty Editor Appointed — Aaron Barlow succeeds Cat Warren; original journalism and redesign under Warren.
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