TOMORROW: Join AFT & @aaup.org for a higher ed day of action to push back against Trump’s attacks. Students, faculty & staff are rallying on campuses across the country to stand up for higher ed as a democratic, accessible & transformative public good. Find an event ⬇️ www.studentsriseup.org/map

A new report published today by the AAUP & @mesa1966.bsky.social finds that the weaponization of civil rights law has been central to attacks on campus speech over the past two years. Only one of 102 antisemitism complaints reviewed raise antisemitism claims unrelated to criticism of Israel. 🧵

Join us this Friday! NYC says Hands Off Higher Ed

NYC, come out 11/7 and say: Billionaires out of our classrooms! Stand with @aaup.org @aft.org @debtcollective.bsky.social @psc-cuny.org @uupinfo.bsky.social. @higheredlabor.bsky.social @nysut.bsky.social @fordhamaaup.bsky.social @aaupcu.bsky.social, NYU AAUP, SDS, & many more

On Novemver 13th the PSC will be cohosting a hybrid forum with Higher Ed Labor United & @aaup.org about academic freedom, free speech and how contingency and adjunctification contribute to the suppression of political speech on campus. Find out more: psc-cuny.org/calendar/com...

Isaac Kamola, Aaron Supple, and Ralph Wilson, “From Direct to Diffuse Donor Influence: Charles Koch Foundation Funding in Higher Education, 1990–2024” 1/4 @isaackamola.bsky.social www.aaup.org/JAF16/direct...

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

“All across NYU, students and colleagues have been undeterred in their organizing. NYU leadership should follow the example of their courage and tell the Trump administration and grifters like Rowan to keep their hands off higher education.” — @zachsamalin.bsky.social, NYU AAUP #DefendHigherEd

“Students & education workers form the backbones of communities in every state & are witnessing firsthand how Trump’s policies are wreaking havoc on campuses & beyond. We need a massive movement of higher ed workers & students...As higher ed goes, so goes democracy.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

“The Coalition for Action in Higher Education and AAUP Local 6741 are delighted to announce: ‘Mapping Anti-Palestinian Discrimination, Harassment, and Misinformation in U.S. Higher Education.’ This series of five webinars takes place from October to December.”

Faculty, students & staff are joining together to defend & advance higher education on 11/7. Plan your action & register it here: docs.google.com/.../1bhu9QLt.... This event is in collaboration with studentsriseup.org @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social @aaup.org @higheredlabor.bsky.social @aft.org

Really well done this defector.com/higher-eds-r...

Today's reminder that ALL colleges were "invited" to join Trump's compact, meaning all higher ed workers need to organize against it. Theresa Kulbaga shares why her union, the Faculty Alliance of Miami Local 375, thinks Miami U should refuse to sign ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/10/24/c...

"To claim that the AAUP wants to permanently impose a political orthodoxy on academia because its magazine published an article questioning government-imposed viewpoint diversity is a really bad argument." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

“If you make statements that right-wing politicians don’t like, then you can lose your job. Period. That is chilling” — Isaac Kamola of the @aaup.org Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom and Faculty First Responders, which provides peer-to-peer support for professors who have been targeted.

“People forget the students involved in all of this. Their educations are in jeopardy, and they want to learn the truth. They don’t want to not be sure that what they’re learning is true or not because we’re afraid to say something”—Louise Williams, President of @csuaaup.bsky.social

"We are living through a multi-decade moral panic that’s been manufactured against higher education." @aaup.org @isaackamola.bsky.social

GIFT LINK: For anyone wondering about Mark Bray, according to this article, it seems he is okay for now after the airport debacle and will be leaving soon. These TPUSA dox squads are stochastic terrorists.

Dr. Rupa Marya was a professor of medicine at the UCSF. She reveals how she was fired from her position after a campaign involving a state politician, a billionaire donor, and university admin targeted her for speaking out against the destruction of hospitals from a region experiencing a genocide.

This video is part of the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom's series, "Faculty on the Front Lines," which spotlights ten AAUP members who share their stories of repression and resistance in the face of partisan interference and violations of academic freedom. Learn more at the link below👇

Join the AAUP and other allied organizations across the nation on October 18 for a day of peaceful and impactful protest as we come together to make clear: America has no kings, and the power belongs to the people! #NoKings #AAUP #AcademicFreedom #HigherEducation #DefendHigherEd #Education

Press conference for Prof. Dwayne Dixon's return to classes. Dixon, NC AAUP, AAUP UNC Chapel Hill, NC ACLU, and TranspaUNCy all delivered stinging criticisms of UNC Chancellor Lee Roberts and ringing affirmations of our Constitutional rights and academic freedom. When we fight, we win. @aaup.org

This week, our colleague Dr. Mark Bray came under attack by Turning Point USA’s Rutgers chapter for his public scholarship. Rutgers AAUP-AFT and the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union condemn this campaign and stand in solidarity with our colleagues. Read our full statement here: https://loom.ly/BDXasRY

Columbia canceled bargaining, again. We are still gathering at Trinity Lutheran Church on Monday. Our demands are commonsense: protection for non-citizens, no cops or surveillance on campus, and fast resolution for contract violations. Columbia, will you meet us?

@aacu.org has stepped up & called the Trump "compact" for higher ed what it is: "The compact is, in effect, an ultimatum...This is not constructive engagement." Big question is where is @aau.edu? If your university is part of AAU, write to your president & trustees now. www.aacu.org/newsroom/aac...

The question journalists need to be asking is: WHY is the government trying this? It’s because they want to control universities in unlawful ways that courts will not allow; it’s not working; so they’re trying to get universities to sign up “voluntarily” for unlawful levels of government control.

The Trump admin’s offer to give preferential treatment to institutions that toe the party line reeks of bribery in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological agenda. This is corruption. Adherence to ‘loyalty oaths’ would usher in a new era of thought policing in American higher education.

AAUP President Todd Wolfson unpacks the dangerous consequences of the Trump administration’s compact, which aims to exert ideological control over universities and colleges. As Wolfson makes clear, this partisan incursion into higher education affects ALL sectors. @proftwolf.bsky.social

BREAKING: WE WON!!! 💥 💥 💥 Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment. Full ruling here: