🚨 Academic freedom is under attack, and we’re not standing down. We, alongside the @unitedfacultyfl.bsky.social, have filed a petition seeking to protect academic freedom and the learning environment our students deserve. Read more: https://bit.ly/3Y4e9zu

"over one-third of this apparent decline is an artifact of some community colleges being reclassified as offering four-year degrees" today in demographic cliff is unsound

“After one full year of negotiations, Penn administrators have failed to agree to a contract that includes fair wages, improved benefits, and strong support for international workers." ow.ly/whj050XxuqI

American University faculty, staff, students & alumni: please sign our chapter statement asking AU to refuse to sign the trump compact & proactively plan how to effectively respond to govt. pressure to sign. The compact isn't dead & new iterations are likely coming down the pike. La lucha continua!

This is why AAUP and PSC-CUNY members and allies turned up outside Rowan's office. And why we'll do it again.

Solidarity with @teamsters.bsky.social , who sanctioned our strike nationwide and won't be delivering food, picking up trash, or bringing packages across picket lines! ✊🔥 #NoContractNoCoffee

Resource share! Our Joint Academic Freedom Committee has compiled a toolkit for our members facing challenges to their academic freedom on campus, in the classroom, and beyond. Read and share with your colleagues: https://rutgersaaup.org/academic-freedom-toolkit/

We @uam-umd.bsky.social won. Faculty packed town halls, talked to their colleagues and collected hundreds of petition signatures. Now UMD is coughing up $8.75m, during a deficit, to fund faculty whose research is under attack. Not enough, but a helluva thing for a union the state calls illegal.

“The University of Phoenix has itself been a prime example of many of the problems that Mr. Rowan has highlighted in his attacks on academia”

Did you hear that a stunning 92% of GETUP-UAW members voted to authorize a strike? It’s time for Penn to come the table instead of trying to coerce faculty and staff into strikebreaking (“ensuring instructional continuity” =🐀), because these grad workers are ready to win a fair contract now

Two weeks ago today a coalition of NYC unions incl @psc-cuny.org, @aaup.org chapters, @debtcollective.bsky.social, @higheredlabor.bsky.social & student groups took the fight against Trump’s loyalty oath “compact” for higher ed to its billionaire author, Apollo Global Management CEO Marc Rowan (1/3)

Today, @aaup.org @aaup-penn.bsky.social @psc-cuny.org outside Apollo Global Management's Midtown office to protest Marc Rowan's "Compact for Higher Education". PSC-CUNY President James Davis explains why this assault on higher ed undermines academic freedoms and our democracy itself.

“For the first time, we are delivering a united message to the Regents: We will not accept a lack of transparency, the exclusion of faculty from decision-making, or the erosion of our university’s 156-year-old mission to educate Nebraska’s students.” – UNL AAUP President Sarah Zuckerman

“Students, faculty, and staff are the ones stepping up to defend their institutions and higher education, while administrators run for cover.” -- @proftwolf.bsky.social on the what the AAUP v. Trump win means for the University of California.✊ @aaup.org @ucaft.bsky.social @uc-faculty.bsky.social

This is a win for us all!! ✊👏🎉

NEW: The Philadelphia Housing Authority is planning sweeping layoffs that will affect more than 300 of the agency’s 1,200 employees. Instead of directly employing union electricians, carpenters and other workers, beginning next year, the agency will contract out for those jobs as needed.

destruction comes for The New School "The university's cycles of austerity+consolidation, betray a pattern where we are all being asked to work more for less, and at the expense of students and workers. We must stand together." docs.google.com/document/u/2...

"After half a decade of organizing, nearly 1,000 workers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art told mgmt that they want a chance to form a union." Someone's been reading their McAlevey: "We didn't want to petition before we were sure we had a supermajority of support" ✊ hellgatenyc.com/met-union-nl...

Yesterday, our union was proud to join public higher ed workers across PA. Our coalition is unprecedented and growing. Community college and PASSHE, and Pitt, Temple and Penn State workers are calling on Harrisburg to fully fund public higher ed. Let’s go from the bottom 10 to the top 10.

WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.

Harvard's endowment now has almost $443 million invested in BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF

Universities can win against fascism when faculty, students and staff come together to take action. This decision is huge for not just UC, but all of us. It was driven by faculty with #AAUP, and wouldn't have happened if they had waited for administration to save them. #edusky #academicsky

Harvard custodians launched a strike at 10 a.m. on Monday after union negotiations broke down on the eve of their contract’s expiration, their first strike in at least 50 years. Hugo C. Chiasson and Amann S. Mahajan report.

Starbucks workers are on strike. Chronic understaffing, unfair wages and hundreds of unfair labor practices pushed a 92% super-majority to walk out on Red Cup Day and beyond. The Working People Podcast with @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social speaks with the baristas on taking an indefinite stand.

Tomorrow at noon! Join higher ed workers from all across PA in Harrisburg for a rally for respect and full funding! Register here: tinyurl.com/y7s4usk8

Penn's Title VI office failed to discuss allegations of violating academic freedom! “The administration does not answer in any meaningful way to faculty...to staff or students, but instead has shown repeatedly that it answers to donors, lobbying organizations, & politicians." - AAUP - Penn

Marc Rowan--a billionaire responsible for Trump's devastating loyalty oath compact--will step down from his advisory role at the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania in summer of 2026! AAUP President Todd Wolfson discusses our November 7th action that led to this step forward.

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

Marc Rowan is trying to end academic freedom as we know it. The billionaire Trump donor is demanding higher ed institutions to sign a loyalty oath to gain access to federal funds. Here's how faculty, students, and @aaup.org @psc-cuny.org @debtcollective.bsky.social responded.

UNC-Chapel Hill's chancellor says the university will not sign on to a higher education compact from the Trump administration. www.wunc.org/education/20...

Indiana University removed a Lecturer from her "Diversity, Human Rights, and Social Justice" course after a student filed a complaint about a graphic the instructor showed in class, which included "Make America Great Again" as an example of "Covert White Supremacy." www.wfyi.org/news/article...

“reject the Trump administration's so-called compact, which asks colleges to make sweeping changes to policies and practices to align them with the president's agenda.” #TheCTDifference @csuaaup.bsky.social

@aaup-penn.bsky.social Vice President Lorena Grundy took to the streets alongside @psc-cuny.org @debtcollective.bsky.social and more to denounce Trump ally and billionaire Marc Rowan's assault on academic freedom.

A coalition of AAUP chapters in Atlanta stood up today for the future of higher education and marched from Morehouse College to Clark Atlanta University! @neatoday.bsky.social #defendacademicfreedom

CSU-AAUP co-hosted a press conference with other American Association of University Professors chapters from across the state to demand that CT leaders reject the Trump administration's higher education "compact" and protect our freedoms.

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The City of Brotherly Love is turning out to defend academic freedom and fight for higher ed for all! Thank you @fsfccp.bsky.social, @apscuf.org, @aaup-penn.bsky.social TAUP, UAP, and the Philadelphia AFL-CIO for turning out for today's higher ed day of action. #HigherEdBenefitsEveryone

Standing with our siblings from higher ed institutions to protest billionaire oligarch Marc Rowan, the man behind Trump’s authoritarian “compact” for [email protected] @aaup-penn.bsky.social @solidaritydept.bsky.social @debtcollective.bsky.social @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social

Higher education workers are out here in NYC at billionaire Marc Rowan's office to say: Hands Off Higher Education! Rowan is an architect of Trump's loyalty oath compact & the assault on higher ed today. The university belongs to the students, faculty & staff—not to the billionaires! @aft.org

Hear @proftwolf.bsky.social: “OUR compact is: higher education as a public good—that means free college for all; that means an end to student debt; that means work with dignity for everyone on our campuses; it means freedom to teach and freedom to learn without Big Brother on our back!”

No compact! No tyrants! Hands off higher ed!

We need teachers, we need books, we need the money the billionaires took! Come out NYC!

Good morning Philly! Who has the power?

Haven’t even rolled in yet and already in the Post share.google/cF05BiGvHMbK...

Good morning NYC! Are you ready?

Philly! On Friday, Nov. 7th at 12pm Noon, join higher ed workers and students at 20th and Market to protest Senator McCormick’s co-signing of billionaire attacks on Higher Education in Pennsylvania. Despite writing a book about leadership, is nothing but a fool follower of bad actors.

Tomorrow! Wesleyan-AAUP hosts a "One Campus" rally to celebrate Wesleyan faculty, staff, and students who refuse to live in fear. Academic Freedom! Freedom of Speech! Solidarity across campus!

TOMORROW!