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It’s a beautiful day to show your solidarity!

A dangerous new policy requires a campus President's approval for profs to teach race & gender topics in Texas. "It strikes at the heart of what education means...which is circulate the exchange of knowledge without fear of retaliation.” — Rana Jaleel, AAUP Chair of Committee on Academic Freedom

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Tomorrow’s a Faculty Union Friday! Need to grab a sticker or pin? Give us a shout!

Join us tomorrow at 1 pm (mountain time) for a watch party: “Navigating Choppy Waters - Key Legal Issues Faculty Need to Know,” hosted by @rhetsoc.bsky.social! LNCO 2110.

Hey, Texas Higher Ed workers, meet us at Capitol today! We’ll be at the African American Memorial beginning at 1:45. “No Crowns. No Thrones. No Compact.” ✊

Ladies and Gentlemen: WE ARE OUT HERE! Send us your pics & videos! #NoKings #NoKingsAAUP #DefendHigherEd

BOOM! After over a thousand students, faculty, & workers gathered on campus to demand a rejection of Trump’s bribe, UVA SAYS NO LOYALTY OATH! ✊🏼✊🏿✊🏻✊🏾 M.I.T. ☑️ BROWN ☑️ PENN ☑️ USC☑️ UVA ☑️ This is People Power in Action. #DefendHigherEd

University of Utah faculty: Get ready for Faculty Union Fridays! Wear your AAUP stickers, shirts, or pins today and every Friday!

We’re tuned in!!

We hope @utah.edu’s leaders will have the insight and resoluteness necessary to reject this compact. In Utah, we do not trade away our independence and autonomy. @sltrib.com @thechrony.bsky.social

Great piece @insidehighered.com by Robert Post and Tom Ginsburg about the considerable threats posed by Trump's (extortion) "compact" with 9 universities. @aaup.org www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

Check out AAUP’s statement denouncing the Trump admin’s compact and undemocratic loyalty oaths here👇

Say NO to Trump’s loyalty oaths and extortion of our universities! We will NOT throw our students, faculty, and staff under the bus to comply with undemocratic and partisan ideological agendas.

⬇️ NEWS: “This is a historic ruling that should have immediate implications for the Trump administration’s policies. If the First Amendment means anything, it means the government can’t imprison people simply because it disagrees with their political views." knightcolumbia.org/content/in-l...

Opinion | It is time to resist the injustice that now threatens to be normalized by those who capitulate, sometimes in advance, to powers that are clearly willing to destroy the basic principles that protect the university’s independence.

AAUP members are invited to join the Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Academic Professions for a discussion of member-based research, recommendations & resources for building faculty power over ed-tech decisions at their institutions, including AI! August 27, 4-5pm on Zoom Register here👇

Faculty who wrote to defend their president and object to a DOJ investigation of their university...are now being investigated by the DOJ. The most banal defense of free speech and academic freedom will trigger the full wrath of the US government now. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...

U of Utah Partnership With Institution in Occupied West Bank Draws Opposition

Local 6741 is in the BlueSky house! We are an @aaup.bsky.social & @aft.org local, composed of all non-collectively bargaining AAUP chapter & at-large members of AAUP. Follow us for news on & organizing resources for faculty in pre-majority union contexts. Check out our website too! local6741.org

Hey, the AHA, ACLS, and MLA are still suing the NEH and DOGE. Still the best way to support this is by joining as members or by donating. Links below! 🗃️

Scientists, tell your story in a LOCAL HOMETOWN PAPER op-ed, to publish on June 16! #McClintockLetters #saveNSF We have to reach folks who don't read NYT & WaPo. Fight this attack by sharing how we serve the public with fed dollars, & insights into fed funded research. tinyurl.com/McClintockLetters

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We love to see it: faculty senates across institutions resolving to stand up for one another as members of one community, dedicated to higher education in service of the common good. 👏👏👏

Celebrate every win! www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Today! Day of Action for Higher Ed - join the U’s AAUP chapter and United Campus Workers of Utah for a watch party! And tonight for the Worker’s Town Hall!

“Act like universities, not like businesses. Spend your endowments. Accept more, not fewer students. Open up your campuses and expand your reach not by buying real estate but by bringing education to communities. Create a base. Become a movement.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...

Nothing in federal privacy law precludes a university from denouncing the Gestapo-reminiscent arrest, detention, and deportation of students whose only offense was exercising their First Amendment rights. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/n...

“Dissent is not grounds for deportation.”

🙌🏽 Bravo, Harvard AAUP!

Like most schools, the U. is unaware of what’s driving the decisions. Most of the students affected don't have criminal records, and there doesn’t appear to be any direct cause. Some of the letters list the reason as “otherwise failing to maintain status.”

Today is the Day! Every life-saving breakthrough in healthcare starts with research. No research, no cures. Say no to NIH funding cuts and join the fight at killthecuts.org #KillTheCuts

🧵 Thread from @uuaaup.bsky.social on the Utah’s new law usurping faculty governance to create a “Western civ” curriculum at Utah State University as a “pilot” for the whole state:

This is awful news for higher education in our state. The legislature thinks they can dictate what faculty do, down to the level of choosing our assigned readings. It’s a grotesque violation of academic freedom.

@utah.edu, silence won’t protect us. The only answer is collective action. Why be members of the AAU and the Big-12 if we aren’t going to leverage those orgs to protect academic freedom from authoritarians? Time to lead, Pres. Randall. @uuaaup.bsky.social

Columbia University has failed to defend academic freedom & freedom of speech & allowed a great institution to be bullied & extorted into submission by an administration hellbent on contorting higher education to their will. The AAUP condemns this capitulation. We can & must fight back.

“Columbia’s concessions today strike at core principles of academic freedom and self-governance in the higher education sector,” says Kristen Shahverdian, PEN America's program director for Campus Free Speech. Full statement: pen.org/press-releas...

A clear-eyed letter from Columbia historians. “The situation we encounter today is fundamentally different from these earlier campus conflicts. Authoritarian regimes always seek to gain control over independent academic institutions. That is what we see unfolding now.”

We condemn in the strongest possible terms any university that would sacrifice its own students to the demands of an authoritarian government. This is absolute cowardice & capitulation to an administration hellbent on the destruction of American higher education. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/n...

BREAKING: We're sending an open letter to universities across the country, offering support and urging them to reject pressure to punish international students and faculty for exercising their First Amendment rights. Schools must hold firm against the Trump administration's censorship attempts.

Thank you to everyone who attended our social this weekend! Join our chapter by visiting www.uofuaaup.org!

Hey chapter members! We’re getting together this Friday! Come share your priorities and concerns. Hope to see you there!

“Trump’s orders are about controlling ideas that can be discussed in the classroom, limiting & censoring faculty & students, & codifying into law the prejudices of the past. This nation has overcome attempts at authoritarianism before. We will do so again.” www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

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A new AAUP statement on institutional neutrality says it is neither a necessary condition for academic freedom nor categorically incompatible w/ it—& that respect for faculty voices & shared governance is essential to sound decision-making & the protection of dissenters. www.aaup.org/report/insti...

Our chapter of @aaup.bsky.social signs this op-ed in defense of our students’ rights!

On Monday, join academic workers for a webinar on science funding, & NIH indirect cost rate, and the threats to research from the the Trump administration. us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Faculty at the U: ▪️ Have you or your colleagues experienced disruptions w/r/t federally funded grants, such as NSF or NIH grants? Let us know! ▪️ We also want to hear how Utah's anti-DEI law, HB 261, has impacted you, especially your research or teaching. 📩 Send us an email at [email protected]!