A central goal of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) is to protect academic freedom, tenure, and due process by assisting faculty governance bodies and AAUP chapters in their efforts to incorporate AAUP-recommended policies in faculty handbooks and collective bargaining agreements. This report provides a statistical analysis of the presence of AAUP-recommended policies on academic freedom, dismissal for cause, financial exigency, and program discontinuance in faculty handbooks and collective bargaining agreements. In 2000, Cathy Trower, who at the time was a researcher at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, edited a book in which she and a group of collaborators presented results of a survey of faculty appointment policies in faculty handbooks and collective bargaining agreements based on a stratified random sample of 217 four-year institutions of higher education. The analysis conducted for this report partially replicates Trower's study to provide updated information about the prevalence of several appointment-related policies and to track changes that have occurred during the past two decades. Differences in prevalence based on Carnegie classification and on whether the faculty at the institution engages in collective bargaining provide important context for such findings and will be reported where relevant. The policy areas considered in this report are: (1) the provenance of academic freedom statements; (2) grounds for dismissal for cause; and (3) policies related to terminations of appointment because of financial exigency and program discontinuance.