Three of this year’s #JAF articles focus on philanthropy’s intersection with racial capitalism, “delimiting what knowledge is produced, who produces it, and whose voices are silenced”:

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"Rights, liberties, and freedoms are never secure when they lie dormant or unused." Interesting article in the latest volume of the Journal of Academic Freedom. Rather than thinking of #AcademicFreedom as a defense against attacks, we should make it an active practice. www.aaup.org/JAF16/conspi...

The final four #JAF articles in this year’s volume address tensions and schisms between the private and the common good and “the urgent need to defend academic freedom not as an abstract principle but as a lived practice in concrete institutional contexts”: www.aaup.org/JAF16

“From attacks on academic freedom to the defunding of life-saving scientific research to arresting peaceful student protesters, Trump’s higher ed policies have been catastrophic for our democracy. We’re excited to build a coalition of workers & students fighting back." – AAUP president Todd Wolfson

Three of this year’s #JAF articles focus on philanthropy’s intersection with racial capitalism, “delimiting what knowledge is produced, who produces it, and whose voices are silenced”:

Four of this year’s #JAF articles examine how “philanthropic agendas directly reshape academic life”: 🧵

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Three of this year’s #JAF articles “interrogate the compatibility of neoliberalism and academic freedom”: 🧵

The 2025 volume of #JAF is now live! This year’s volume brings together articles that probe the uneasy relationship between philanthropy and academic freedom and the financial infrastructures and political economies that sustain or threaten it. Check out the full issue at www.aaup.org/JAF16

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New in #Academe: Judith A. Wilde and James H. Finkelstein examine how executive search firms have played a significant, often underexamined, role in the erosion of shared governance and the corporatization of American higher education.

W/ @genevievelakier.bsky.social, the @aaup.org today released a letter to the Offices of the General Counsel at US colleges & universities. We detail why the Compact violates the Constitution & urge that no one signs it. www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...

TONIGHT! Join AAUP president Todd Wolfson & AAUP General Counsel Veena Dubal for an update on the AVALANCHE of universities rejecting Trump’s loyalty oath compact & how the compact violates the US Constitution. 7:30PM ET / 4:30 PM PT Live on both IG & YouTube. Link: youtube.com/live/h-H-ETa...

Writing in #Academe, Ajay Skaria of @umn-tc-aaup.bsky.social breaks down how recent attempts to bar speech by academic units in the name of "institutional neutrality" undermine academic freedom:

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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

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The fall issue of #Academe is out today! Contributors examine a range of threats to academic freedom, freedom of expression, and shared governance on campuses today. Check out the full issue here:

AAUP’s @academemagazine.bsky.social runs regular features on organizing as well—an ex: www.aaup.org/academe/issu...

Four down. Five to go. Let’s go. Join our National Teach-In on Trump’s Loyalty Oaths. Register Here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #DefendHigherEd

Harvard's AAUP chapter got profiled in the latest issue of Academe magazine! We've had a truly wild year in the eye of the higher-ed hurricane, and you can read a little about it here: www.aaup.org/academe/issu... @aaup.org @academemagazine.bsky.social

The fall issue of #Academe is out today! Contributors examine a range of threats to academic freedom, freedom of expression, and shared governance on campuses today. Check out the full issue here:

We're excited to share the new call for papers for next year's volume of the Journal of Academic Freedom: www.aaup.org/CFP

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NO LOYALTY OATHS IN HIGHER ED! Trump's attacks on our universities are an attempt to consolidate power. This loyalty oath directly undermines our right to academic freedom & goes against every democratic principle our country should uphold. Please click below, sign, & share. #DefendHigherEd

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In a landmark ruling in our case against the Trump admin on the deportation of international students for protected speech, Judge William Young rejected the government’s justification for the wearing of masks by ICE agents as “disingenuous, squalid & dishonorable.” #AAUPvRubio @knightcolumbia.org

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Academic freedom will not survive by encouraging professors to censor themselves more. “Too much of the response to the Trump admin’s repression has been driven by fear & cowardice. We need to fiercely support #academicfreedom as a fundamental right for all.” — @johnkwilson.bsky.social

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"Look, we are a labor union. We’re going to fight & respond to this moment...We're standing for what we always stood for...a powerful higher-education sector that leads to innovation & social mobility & is a bedrock of our democracy." —Todd Wolfson, AAUP President #DefendHigherEd #AcademicSky

🚨🚨🚨 NEW AAUP Report Analyzes Trump Admin Weaponization of Title VI to Undermine Civil Rights Protections. #Academicfreedom #AcademicSky #DefendHigherEd

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Andrew Ryder’s The Challenge to Academic Freedom in Hungary “illustrates how reactionary campaigns against higher education are not only a response to the rise of academic capitalism but also in some ways a fulfillment of that program,” writes @hankreichman.bsky.social in a review for #Academe.

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“We will not allow authoritarians to dismantle higher education. We will not allow billionaires to profit while communities suffer. And we will not allow fear to silence students and workers who speak out.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President #DefendHigherEd #HigherEdBenefitsEveryone @aft.org

Committee A member Joan W. Scott praises Jane S. Smith’s A Blacklist Education as “a carefully wrought analysis of power and of different kinds of resistance to it.” Read the full review in #Academe:

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"Step by step, by recognizing in word and deed the important contributions of contingent faculty . . . we can pave a path toward the ‘one faculty’ we need at this critical time.” Eva Swidler writes in #Academe about everyday actions to build faculty solidarity.

“The atmosphere of scarcity reduces our field of vision, decimates departments, and leaves researchers scrambling.” Leslie Bary writes in #Academe about the implications of shrinking departmental budgets and the proliferation of “minigrants” in #highered. @lesliebary.bsky.social