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David Rabban’s Academic Freedom: From Professional Norm to First Amendment Right “could not be timelier” in today’s climate of political interference, writes @aaup.org Committee A member Anil Kalhan in a new review for #Academe.

"Does OU have resources and plans in place to safeguard the security of its employees or are we just easy targets for vociferous bullying? Our future depends on...academic freedom, free speech, the pursuit of knowledge, safety, human rights, and trust and belief in mutual coexistence."

“Rather than lying low and hoping to fly under the radar, we are proposing a strategy of strength in numbers. It is all the more urgent now to work in solidarity to safeguard higher education in this country.” #defendhighered #academicsky

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John McCumber looks back on the University of California's history during the McCarthy era to understand how Berkeley's recent naming of 160 scholars associated with “alleged antisemitic incidents” compares with past periods of campus repression.

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Gary Rhoades writes for #Academe about how the changing working conditions of academic labor, demographic shifts in the workforce, and a new "sense of justice and possibility" have reenergized the labor movement in #highered.

A new #Academe article from @davidabanks.online takes a clear-eyed look at the academic “underclass” and the “ever-widening gap between those who do the work and those who administer it” in #highered. @aaup.org

“The report is not an attempt to adjudicate the experience of antisemitism but instead to demonstrate how Title VI…has been used to create an enforcement apparatus that sidesteps long-established AAUP-recommended procedures of shared governance & compromises academic freedom.” — Rana Jaleel

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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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