300 in less than 24 hours. But we’re aiming even higher. Sign and circulate to everyone who values Ohio State, in any capacity. We need a transparent and inclusive process. We need to turn this ship in the right direction. actionnetwork.org/petitions/tr...

"It may seem obvious, but I’ll be explicit: Faculty with tenure should summon the same level of courage as an all-but-dissertation lecturer or untenured assistant professor to fight against attacks on academic freedom." brilliant piece from @bakerdphd.bsky.social @insidehighered.com

TODAY: One of the most consequential attempts to assert ideological control over the nation will potentially be thrust upon colleges and universities: the weaponization of federal student financial aid. Participants will learn what's at stake & what they can do. Register here: bit.ly/4ufJZsj

Testimony needed — Help stop #Ohio HB 531 from bringing religious chaplains into public schools: bit.ly/OhioHB531

Call for Participants — Research Study Are you a neurodivergent tenure-track faculty member in the U.S.? I’m conducting a study on how neurodivergent scholars navigate faculty work, the tenure clock, and “crip time.”

Book bans disproportionately affect LGBTQ books, authors, and readers. The Federal Book Ban bill uses funding threats to pressure schools to remove books. Federal control over ideas is among the worst of all ideas. Sign @everylibrary.bsky.social's petition to defend the freedom to read.

Series: Forgotten Pasts, Alternative Futures "How to Build a College: Experimental Alternatives in History of Higher Ed" M 3/16 4:00-5:30pm ET/1:00-2:30 PT Co-sponsored w @aaup.org Center for Def of Acad Freedom, Critical Legal Collective REGIST > @higheredlabor.bsky.social @rooseveltinstitute.org

🚨What if some intrepid students and I decided to see if private foundations' public stances on justice were thin enough to fold under anti-DEI pressure? We tracked their website language using Wayback Machine. The retreat is real and it seems political vibes alone supercharged it. osf.io/29gda_v1

Hi friends. As I previously noted, the U. of Iowa is planning to get rid of African American studies; Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, & the Classical Languages major—along with others. If you wish, please sign the classics petition: www.change.org/p/keep-the-c.... I will add more as I find out.

I finally got time this weekend to read Josh Moody's great story on the war against student free speech (including student journalism). You should read it, too: www.insidehighered.com/news/student...

States like FL, TX, NC and GA, which have done the most to degrade academic freedom at public universities, are now trying to create their own state-run accrediting agency, the CPHE. What could go wrong? We have until March 4 to send in feedback.

Watching Ohio House Committee hearings makes me want to scream in my office. How, exactly, is creating an invasive registry of ‘former DEI staffers’ that surveils them into their new roles a strategy for ‘protecting the employee’?

It seems to me that the foundational 'wrong turn' in education was the increasing rhetoric from universities themselves and their supporters that the primary value of a university education was increased earning power. That leads pretty directly to this place we're in now.

Consider signing the Ohio AAUPs HB698 opposition petition— an effort to further chill campus speech and surveil faculty and (particularly) student affairs staff actionnetwork.org/petitions/47...

This Manhattan Institute proposal isn’t reform — it’s a power grab. It strips faculty governance, weakens academic freedom, & puts political control over teaching, hiring, and curriculum. As @aaup.org president, we will fight this every step of the way! manhattan.institute/article/mode...

DOCTOR Rümeysa Öztürk has earned her PhD!!

The "Classic Learning Test" board is full of political ideologues, including Christopher Rufo and far-right media outlet PragerU It's time to put students before politics Call your #Ohio House Rep TODAY. Tell them to vote NO on HB 326 ➡️ bit.ly/HB326OH

On Feb 23, @aaup.org hosts a conversation about activism and academic freedom, inspired by legacy of Chandler Davis (fired after upholding his 1A rights). Featuring Isaac Kamola, Henry Reichman, Marjorie Heins + Melanie Tanielian #academicfreedom @isaackamola.bsky.social @hankreichman.bsky.social

NEW: An immigration court has terminated removal proceedings against Tufts doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk, finding that DHS did not meet its burden of establishing that she was removable, her lawyers tell the Second Circuit. live-awp-vermont.pantheonsite.io/app/uploads/...

AAUP President Todd Wolfson issued the following statement in response to Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt's Executive Order issued today immediately eliminating academic tenure at the state’s public regional universities and community colleges.

Breaking, from me: An executive order from Oklahoma's governor directs most of the state's public colleges to "phase out tenure." #AcademicSky #HigherEd @chronicle.com www.chronicle.com/article/tenu...

“Dr. McCoul’s firing was the canary in the coal mine for Texas A&M University. They had a chance to stand up to the politicians seeking to meddle in Texas universities + instead they caved," said Dr. Brian Evans, president of TX AAUP-AFT. aaup-texas.org/blog/f/prof-...

I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio. Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3. Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.

In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition. We’ve also added a list of additional recommended reading:

“Workers are the ones who will drive out ICE, not elected officials,” a Twin Cities labor leader told Whitney Wimbish. After the killing of Alex Pretti, union members are planning to do just that. Wimbish has the story on labor’s plan for resistance: trib.al/J1xTCLi

The auditor of the state of Ohio, who is running to be the state's next attorney general, wrote an oped this morning that the Columbus Dispatch published on how Renee Good is to blame for her death. The subheadline alone is already chilling. www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...

A federal judge has formally ordered the Trump administration to cease efforts to deport foreign-born students over pro-Palestinian speech.

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

📢 Season 5 of the #SpeechMatters podcast starts now! Tune into the latest episode, “Campus Speech and Academic Freedom, A Guide for Difficult Times” with guest speakers and Center Co-chairs UC Irvine Chancellor Howard Gillman and Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean of Berkeley Law. 🎧 buff.ly/5yp9QFx

So all colleges and universities will bring back the DEI stuff they cut when obeying in advance right...............................................................................................................................................right?

Your periodic reminder the college student are adults CHOOSING their courses in NONCOMPULSORY education. Yet a record number of state legislatures have decided they know best. Give adults the freedom to learn. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Please help out with this important U of Oklahoma study on how recent changes in state and federal policy are affecting you and your students. qualtrics.ou.edu/jfe/form/SV_... @drkalebbriscoe.bsky.social @modernlanguage.bsky.social

New PEN America Report Warns of Expanding Web of Control as Politicians Escalate Campaign to Censor U.S. Colleges and Universities https://pen.org/press-release/pen-america-warns-of-expanding-web-of-control-as-politicians-escalate-campaign-to-censor-u-s-colleges-and-universities/

The Trevor Project, known for its hotline for LGBTQ+ youth, received $45 million from billionaire MacKenzie Scott at the end of 2025. The gift is the largest in the organization’s history.

InsideHigherEd wisely hired @bakerdphd.bsky.social to write a new column and the first one is a banger www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

I know this isn't a headline that gets many people to click, but I spent a ton of time going over the last 7 years of Ohio news. I put all the articles all in one place. It's a valuable resource for anyone researching or trying to keep track of all that's happened in Ohio. I hope folks take a look.

Syllabi review policies at Texas A&M introduce censorship on discussions of race & gender in 200 courses. Restrictions include banning Plato's writings, who "founded Academy, the very first university," Martin Peterson says. "If we cannot freely discuss Plato, we no longer have a university."

"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction." "How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...

This gets at something important that is in danger of being lost not only in the AI conversation but in any efficiency-focused, assembly-line model of academia. A lot of the best scholarship needs wayward paths. It's time-intensive, unpredictable, odd. The process is what produces the knowledge.

It's hard to overstate how impossible this demand is from Purdue's administration to implement these AI requirements by next fall. We are nowhere close to understanding what AI proficiency means or what it looks like in education. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

If we accede to the demand that political appointees can decide what is worthwhile to study and what isn't, we've lost universities as institutions of knowledge, innovation, and progress. This is why academic freedom and tenure are so important.

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

When we say the AAUP and accreditors like SACS could be doing more, this is what we mean (From Jim Crow Campus by Williamson-Lott)

Tonight’s repeal of Utah’s ban of teacher collective bargaining is a historic step in the right direction to return respect and dignity to the workers of Utah. Here's my full statement. www.aft.org/press-releas...

AI Is Not Inevitable join AAUP for a conversation with educators, educator unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience zoom.us/webinar/regi...

hard to overstate how bad this is for discrimination against everyone but white people. I'm saying we are undergoing a wholesale revision of equal protection and anti-discrimination law so that it only protects white people. Let me explain:

This is horrific and exactly what those of us in Black studies, gender studies, women’s studies have been warning our colleagues in the sciences about. Their seeming neutrality will not save them.

UNL AAUP are fighting tooth & nail to stop the Board of Regents from cutting $27.5 million from UNL's budget. "There hasn’t been enough time for faculty to respond...We want shared governance, which means we have a voice that actually matters.” — Theresa Catalano, UNL AAUP.

Glad to see this volume out in the world! My chapter on ‘picket line pedagogy’ overviews experiences of 30 extraordinary graduate student/employee labor organizers and grapples with the role of social movement learning in and against hied Use 25AFLY4 for 20% off! www.routledge.com/Democracy-in...