Important piece on the history of the US government's ideological deportation policies in light of the outcome in AAUP v. Rubio, including crucial quotes from the courtroom testimony of AAUP-Harvard member Bernhard Nickel:

Congratulations to the newly formed AAUP chapter at Williams College! “An overwhelming number of faculty decided that it would behoove us to have more independent organization & to try to stand up for faculty governance, for having our voice heard in the governance of this institution."

This is an egregious end run around the Constitution and a violation of the rights of students, educators and parents. Schools must remain safe and welcoming places—not targets for warrantless surveillance and militarized raids. www.the74million.org/article/ice-...

"Appeasement is being coordinated while resistance is not" is exactly right. (This op-ed from Arne Duncan and David Pressman is excellent; I hope university leaders will read it.) www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Almost all university presidents and trustees are in high appeasement mode. It won’t work and it emboldens the autocrat. Brilliant piece by David Pressman & Arne Duncan. Will anyone heed their warning? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Yale professors Tarren Andrews and David Watts urge Yale to defend academic freedom! The Yale AAUP and Faculty Senate have proposed contract changes to protect free speech and free inquiry at our university. Now, we need the university to defend its core values. yaledailynews.com/articles/why...

Mark Bray is Instructional Assistant Professor of history at Rutgers University & the author of Antifa: The Antifascist Handbook. After Trump’s executive order naming “antifa” a terrorist organization, Bray became the target of right-wing attacks, forcing him to flee the country with his family.

Great oped on Yale's remarkable rejection of academic freedom - and our Yale AAUP chapter's proposal to start to make academic freedom real for all Yale faculty and researchers. Check it out! yaledailynews.com/articles/why... @yaleaaup.bsky.social

“With this decision, Governor Stitt has made Oklahoma less attractive to highly qualified educators & has weakened the institutions that provide the most accessible & affordable education to its residents—at real cost to students, communities, & the democratic & economic future of the state.”

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.

The forced compliance of Portland State admin to reinstate 10 wrongfully terminated faculty members—after initially defying a binding arbitration ruling—is a monumental, hard-won victory for academic labor. @psuaaup.bsky.social

Yale professors Tarren Andrews and David Watts urge Yale to defend academic freedom! The Yale AAUP and Faculty Senate have proposed contract changes to protect free speech and free inquiry at our university. Now, we need the university to defend its core values. yaledailynews.com/articles/why...

“There can be no question Dr. McCoul was terminated based on the exercise of her right to academic freedom. The subject matter that the student, and then the university, found problematic was germane to her lesson, consistent with the syllabus, the course description and the catalog description.”

Aggies stood up in full force to challenge government censorship of course materials and to protect academic freedom last week. You can follow @tamu-aaup.bsky.social's Substack, "Unmuzzled," for updates about their ongoing efforts to defend higher ed in Texas. #AcademicSky #DefendHigherEd

New statement from @osuaaup.bsky.social on DHS violence as a threat to university values: “These are impossible conditions in which to work, to learn, to teach, to exercise academic freedom. Our community deserves better.”

So the question here is mis-specified. There is no "alternative" research funding in any way that would make American biomedical research whole for researchers to seek out. 1/ www.statnews.com/2026/02/03/p... via @statnews.com

BREAKING: the AAUP and @democracydefendersfund.org filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Trump admin's “Gold Card” visa program, which unlawfully sells US residency to wealthy individuals while pushing aside scientists, researchers, engineers, and other outstanding professionals. Read more below👇

The NY Times reported that Trump was backing off from his $200M fine. Trump saw the report and had a tantrum: he is now threatening Harvard with a capricious and baseless $1B fine and criminal charges. Read the whole sordid tale in this gift article from the Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

Reminder: Never capitulate to tyrants. Fight Back. #DefendHigherEd #AcademicSky

Join us Wednesday to protect academic freedom at Yale and across CT!

Care about Academic Freedom in Connecticut? Join us! We will hear from experts from Connecticut on what academic freedom is, why it is so important, and how we can take action in Connecticut. Register here: aftct-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi... @aaup.org @aftct.bsky.social

"if the university is asking instructors and professors to teach the same way in the classroom with fewer resources and with less support, they're living in a fantasy world." Jeremy Pressman, UConn-AAUP @uconnaaup.bsky.social

"Yale has more resources than 99% of institutions in higher education" Daniel Martinez HoSang of @yaleaaup.bsky.social on how cuts to Yale's Ph.D. programs threaten critical university research

Do not underestimate our collective power when we unite to defend academic freedom in the face of government censorship. We are ready to transform higher ed for the better at Texas A&M and beyond. This is what the AAUP stands for. @tamu-aaup.bsky.social @texasaaup.bsky.social @texasaft.org

Legalize Plato! Top-down decisions to censor, cancel, or flag classes at Texas A&M do not protect students. It harms their growth. Brian Evans, @texasaaup.bsky.social president, believes in the students’ ability to stand up for themselves, and for the futures of their university and of Texas.

Read and share AAUP-TNS's open letter to the Board. Its proposed plan of action is reasonable, generated by experts in higher education, independent fiscal analysis, and through the research of dedicated TNS faculty members. To mass lay-offs, we say NO. There is another way. tr.ee/DOebr7qOXy

Texas A&M ends its women's & gender studies program while hundreds of syllabi remain flagged and censored under top-down review policies. “I have never seen anything like this.” — Dr. Leonard Bright, @tamu-aaup.bsky.social President @texasaft.org @texasaaup.bsky.social @cwa-tseu.bsky.social

Big Brother is running our classrooms across Texas A&M. They're changing syllabi, canceling courses, ending Women's Studies and "overhauling" classes on race. Glen Hegar is Captain Beatty from Fahrenheit 451! @aaup.org @texasaft.org @texasaaup.bsky.social @aft.org www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

"I believe that in the importance of speaking up, being truthful and try to fight for this most important thing called academic freedom, but also a deep quality education. So I think that’s more important to me." —Leonard Bright, @tamu-aaup.bsky.social President

“A central premise of freedom in the United States is freedom to speak our minds, to engage in critical debate or conversation without fear of state reprisal.” — Veena Dubal, AAUP General Counsel

Education is a public good for all. When politicians censor classroom teaching in order to narrow the field of topics that students can engage in, they rob them of a stellar world class education. This is what is happening at Texas A&M & other institutions in the state. 🧵

For every new STEM PhD hired by the US Government in 2025, 11 quit/retired/fired. Eleven.

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From Friday's @nytimes.com: “We are meeting ICE violence with nonviolence. We are meeting their chaos and cruelty with passion and community." - AFT President @rweingarten.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/u...

“It is going to have longer term impacts about the role of academia and higher ed in this country.” #DefendHigherEd @yaleaaup.bsky.social

AAUP President Todd Wolfson on the killing of Alex Pretti: "This moment demands a unified, bold, and powerful response from the labor movement. We are uniting across sectors to organize, mobilize, and wield our full collective power to confront ICE." Full statement:

A federal judge in Boston blocked the Trump administration from retaliating against two groups of scholars and students in a case that he said exposed an “unconstitutional conspiracy” to violate the First Amendment.

If Texas A&M truly believes in the values of leadership, integrity, & service, it must defend academic freedom & protect student learning. Please sign & share this petition to TAMU leadership demanding an end to all censorship of instruction & retaliation against faculty who refuse to censor.

There must be independent investigations as this govt is not just breaking the law, not just engaging in state sponsored violence but stripping Americans of basic constitutional rights. We are at an inflection point for our democracy and fundamental freedoms

“They have cameras in every classroom. I’m telling you, I have seen the camera move around my classroom & then the blue light comes, and I know someone’s watching. Dr. Bright sometimes tells his class: “Oh, wave to the camera.” @texasaaup.bsky.social @tamu-aaup.bsky.social @texasaft.org

The censorship at Texas A&M is out of control. Classes have been cancelled & professors are being retaliated against for speaking out. It’s time to stand up. Join the TAMU community to rally next Thursday! Aggies for Academic Freedom! @texasaaup.bsky.social @tamu-aaup.bsky.social @texasaft.org

Let’s support workers in MN! Contribute $20+ to Unite HERE Local 17 Solidarity Fund to support mutual aid for MN union members. Send us a copy of your receipt and we'll mail you a special HELU postcard & sticker! workingpartnerships.betterworld.org/campaigns/un... #ICEOUT #ICEOUTMN #ICEOutofMN

The AAUP continues to fight to protect noncitizen speech on campuses nationwide. “Our chapter sued to protect the rights of everyone on our campus to speak their mind, even when their speech is unpopular. We will never stop standing up for our community.” — Kirsten Weld, AAUP Harvard President

This administration's statements belie what we can see with our own eyes.The federal govt's actions today—both the killing and the cover-up—are a disgrace. Since the president will not, we must call on Congress to act to create accountability 4 this federal malfeasance. www.aft.org/press-releas...

Today we are all Minnesota. The AFT is standing proudly in support and solidarity here in Minneapolis against ICE’s assault on people’s constitutional, civil and human rights. #ICEOUT #ICEOutSchools

“Students and scholars shouldn’t have to live in fear that ICE agents could seize them from their homes merely for engaging in political expression. Today’s judgment makes emphatically clear that the administration’s campaign of intimidation must end.” —Ramya Krishnan, @knightcolumbia.org

“Judge Young affirmed unequivocally, without a doubt, that non-citizens lawfully present here in the US have the same free speech rights as everyone else. He established that the federal government clearly & unconstitutionally pursued a policy of discrimination against pro-Palestinian speech.”

Higher ed says: ICE out of Minneapolis. The AAUP stands in solidarity with the higher ed workers marching in today's Day of Truth and Freedom action. No shopping, no school, no work. We want ICE out. See the link below for details about the action. @higheredlabor.bsky.social