Inside Higher Ed covers the recent AAUP meeting in Philadelphia.

If the evolution from print to online poses one set of challenges, the sagging budgets of colleges pose another. University presses’ budgets are generally small line items in large research universities. But when college presidents list the (few) things that are exempt from cuts these days, university presses aren’t on the list. With many press directors feeling that administrators don’t understand their operations, much discussion here was about how to become better known and appreciated.