- Academic associations have a long history of connecting scholars and promoting scholarship, but too many today have traded their scholarly mission for a political one.
- Of the 99 academic associations examined, 81 percent have issued at least one official position on race or affirmative action, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Israel-Hamas conflict, immigration, or climate change. These statements almost uniformly reflect progressive orthodoxy.
- We estimate that public colleges and universities spend nearly $200 million a year subsidizing faculty dues and paying conference registration fees to politicized associations. While faculty certainly have a right to participate in such organizations, they have no right to do so with public funds.
- We recommend that public officials stop allowing faculty to use public funds to pay dues and fees to associations that adopt political positions.
