Same energy #KavanaughStop

The fight against austerity at The New School is connected to other fights in higher ed challenging admins that hire Huron, a consulting firm that offers data to justify budget cuts & faculty layoffs. Ujju Aggarwal of AAUP-TNS says that solidarity across AAUP chapters & unions is the way forward.

Massive turnout of organized higher ed workers to protest the brutal austerity measures proposed by The New School management ✊ @newschoolaaup.bsky.social

Sign the petition linked below to support higher ed workers at the UNC System in their fight against the requirement to create a searchable repository of all university syllabi, which will endanger students and instructors by inviting political actors to attack free inquiry across UNC campuses.

The University of North Carolina System may require all instructors to publish syllabi starting next year. “Calling instructors 'work for hire' & stripping them of copyright is a surefire way to turn creative thinkers into widgets." - Abigail Hatcher, AAUP UNC-Chapel Hill

#academicsky @emoryaaup.bsky.social

The American Association of University Professors said 40% of full-time faculty members — or 169 academics — have received voluntary separation or early retirement offers, making it the “largest attempted firing of faculty currently taking place in the nation.” #AcademicSky

Please sign & spread the word. @unc-ch-aaup.bsky.social @uncgaaup.bsky.social @ncaaup.bsky.social Passing along to some other chapters w accounts here: @emoryaaup.bsky.social @utaustinaaup.bsky.social @aaup-penn.bsky.social @wesleyanaaup.bsky.social #AAUP

Remember: NO STARBUCKS at ANY location while we’re on ULP strike! nocontractnocoffee.org

The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.

“An instructor's freedom to teach includes the right to assess student academic performance. We are gravely concerned that a climate of escalating authoritarian assaults on academic freedom is normalizing politicized interference in classroom teaching & learning.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

AAUP University of Nebraska - Lincoln is countering the threats to cut around $25 million in funding and to close four academic programs with music and grassroots energy! The creative solidarity among faculty, students, and staff energize powers the fight against these disastrous budget cuts!

I wish I had written this essay. I think it's perfect. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

Attacks on academic freedom refer to threats to freedom of faculty to conduct research, publish, speak, and teach, based on disciplinary expertise without outside political interference. More importantly, this also includes students’ right to learn. 🧪 www.commondreams.org/opinion/acad...

“It didn’t have to unfold this way.” Northwestern could have resisted these illegal & unconstitutional demands and sued the Trump administration, as Harvard did. Instead, they capitulated, & turned over Northwestern’s policies to federal law enforcement. Why? 🧐 @nu-aaup.bsky.social #defendhighered

Andrew Martin, president of the Texas Tech chapter of the AAUP, called the memo a “profound disappointment” and said it swaps out faculty judgment for political judgment. “I’m not going to deny part of the identity of some of my students when they walk into the classroom.” @texasaaup.bsky.social

“Northwestern has abdicated its duty to uphold principles crucial for higher education.” — Jacqueline Stevens, Northwestern AAUP President @nu-aaup.bsky.social

“Disciplining union members for protected, concerted activity reveals just how far Columbia University leadership has fallen, prioritizing political submission to the Trump agenda over fair treatment & rights of their own employees.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

Higher ed folks! Hopkins Press is having a 40% off holiday sale, so it's a great time to get copies of "the best book there is on the topic" of academic freedom. Use code HHOL25. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/... #Academia #academicsky #highered

"The Stanford Daily et al. suit comes on the heels of a major First Amendment victory; The American Association of University Professors sued Rubio, and the court held that the Trump administration unconstitutionally targeted noncitizens for deportation based on pro-Palestinian speech."

Really pleased to learn that one of our students, Kristen Waddell, has won a national award for her NSF-funded research on local water quality. Congratulations to Kristen and to my teaching colleague, Dr. Daisy Zhang. Folks, we're a community college. www.kiiitv.com/article/news...

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I love caramel brûlée lattes during the fall / winter, alas no can do. Respect the strike!

“If there is a message to be heeded in the legislative assault on governance bodies, it is that the enemies of higher education, nonetheless, still fear faculty authority. Why else would they be so insistent on silencing faculty members?” #DefendHigherEd

We appreciate University Baptist Church!

Wonderful to see THREE new AAUP chapters in Texas! Let’s go!! 👏👏👏

AAUP TV — WEDS, NOV 19 @ 7 PM ET! Veena Dubal, AAUP General Counsel, and Todd Wolfson, AAUP President, will discuss the historic victory in AAUP v. Trump and what it means for the UC system & higher ed! @proftwolf.bsky.social @veenadubal.bsky.social Tune in on IG or YouTube (link in thread)!

UConn professors get ZERO days of guaranteed paid family leave 🤯 UConn AAUP is negotiating for paid family leave as well as better safeguards for academic freedom and more robust protections for faculty working on contracts. Read more about their contract demands here👇 @uconnaaup.bsky.social

AAUP Stanford emphasizes three key features of our struggle to remake higher ed for the common good: 1️⃣ Solidarity 2️⃣ Integrity, not Neutrality 3️⃣ Student speech "Let us act in solidarity and with integrity. Let us trust our students to speak." - Jessica Riskin, AAUP Stanford Co-President

YES!!!

Desperately need coffee and a snack and you know where I am NOT going? Starbucks! Friendly reminder to respect the strike! ✊🏾

BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!! We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org

Truly I am in tears. My beloved UC system! Saved from the clutches of fascism. ❤️🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾❤️❤️❤️

WE WON!!! The US District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a preliminary injunction in AAUP et al v. Trump et al (the wall to wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of Title VI to reshape the University of California system. Read the order here:

It’s almost time. nocontractnocoffee.org

Always a delight to have something in print—my piece on Mutual Academic Defense Compacts for AAUP’s @academemagazine.bsky.social, also available online. #MADC www.aaup.org/academe/issu...

For more than 3 years, @pghguild.com members at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette have shown incredible strength while on strike. Their heroic persistence demonstrates the real power of our solidarity and what’s possible when we come together in a union.

Happy to report that the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign academic senate overwhelmingly passed a resolution against the federal “compact” all of us in higher ed have been offered, encouraging our administrators to keep opposing it. #MADC www.senate.illinois.edu/2025-2026/20...

UNC-Chapel Hill's chancellor says the university will not sign on to a higher education compact from the Trump administration. www.wunc.org/education/20...

If Schumer votes AGAINST this but enough Ds vote FOR it that it passes, he needs to RESIGN immediately. He will have shown himself to be absolutely ineffective as a minority leader. He has to go. Literally resign tonight.

The Cornell AAUP chapter has consistently stated that any deal with the Trump administration would be strategically unwise and a betrayal of Cornell’s principles. This remains the case. At best, we can say that this deal could have been worse. Read our full statement here:

Congratulations to a lot of folks, but especially to all those at state universities in Virginia who continue to fight for honest truth and rigorous scholarship, even when those in power – governors, executives, boards of visitors – do not.

31 years ago tonight, I met an amazing guy named Steve Silberman, and we went on a wonderful journey together that lasted almost 30 years. Happy Anniversary, buddy. I love you, and I miss you terribly. Photo: a sketch of us he made on an anniversary card ages ago.

If Kamala Harris or the DNC don't sue CBS News for "deceptive editing" and "election interference" then what are we doing here? It's the lowest of low hanging fruit.

Vicki Schultz and I wrote this in 2021. For some reason I've been thinking about it lately. www.nbcnews.com/think/opinio...

What on earth can UNC schools expect from an accreditation agency whose principal proponent espouses these kinds of destructive know-nothing policies? Don't get on a train that's heading for a fatal crash! @aaup.org www.chronicle.com/article/flor...

The Jan 6 insurrection was successful, & now it gets to be preserved as a success by this administration it brought to power.