“We have shown that when the government tries to turn fear into policy, the AAUP will answer with law, with organizing, with solidarity, & with the oldest commitment we have: the defense of academic freedom for the common good.” 💥💥💥

The Vanderbilt and Wash U AAUP chapters have released a *joint* statement rejecting the dangerously shoddy and hyper-politicized "Report on the State of Scholarship" commissioned by our chancellors. Please read and circulate!

The Energy is ELECTRIC on Day 3 of the #AAUP2026 Higher Ed Summit in Chicago! #DefendHigherEd @local6741.bsky.social @unac4996ak.bsky.social @cfaunited.bsky.social

Yesterday, June 11, PSC members joined students & advocates from the CUNY Rising Alliance for a CUNY at the Council day of action! We talked with Councilmembers on their way into the bimonthly Stated meeting, sharing our platform for a fully-funded CUNY system... (1/2)

📣 💪 🏥 RALLY FOR AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE! 6/18 @ 12-2PM in Trenton! Join the Coalition of Rutgers Unions and other state worker unions to tell lawmakers to put working families and our healthcare over billionaires! actionnetwork.org/events/rally...

The Vanderbilt and Wash U AAUP chapters have released a JOINT statement on the preposterous and embarrassing "State of the Scholarship" report commissioned by our chancellors. Please read and circulate!

“Power is always found in organized coalitions. The common cause is survival. Build organized force.” — Stacy Davis Gates, President @ctulocal1.bsky.social #AAUP2026 Higher Ed Summit 👊🏽👊🏼👊🏿👊🏾

The 19 laid-off faculty all teach at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts and the New School for Social Research. The AAUP TNS condemned “in the strongest possible terms” the layoffs, many of which appear politically motivated and retaliatory.” www.newschoolfreepress.com/2026/06/03/t...

The AAUP chapter called for laid-off faculty to be reinstated or offered a phased retirement. Rather than saving money, the layoffs “will instead destroy lives and fundamental structures of the academic institution that have been built over years.“ www.highereddive.com/news/the-new...

“People were so sick of being insulted.” Jacob Remes of Contract Faculty United-UAW spoke with In These Times about the years of organizing behind the NYU faculty strike and the sense of power and community workers found on the picket line.

Last week, one of New York's most iconic universities, The New School, laid off 19 full-time faculty and 68 staff members. Along with coerced "voluntary" separations and early retirements since December 2025, these mass firings constitute a major gutting of The New School's full-time faculty.

The AAUP is battling Trump’s attacks on higher education on multiple fronts: on campus, in the courts, and in the streets. “We’re only getting stronger. I can promise you that we will fight them tooth and nail.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President Join us.

The AAUP chapters at Vanderbilt & Wash U have issued a joint statement denouncing the “State of Scholarship” report commissioned by their chancellors. Please, let’s make this as widely read as the gaslighting to which it responds.

The AAUP is doing what SACSCOC apparently will not. Thank God! Faculty across Texas have raised concerns about censorship, political interference, program closures, and attacks on shared governance. Those concerns deserve independent scrutiny. If accreditors won't act, someone must. bit.ly/4okOu1R

Excellent op-ed from our own Mark Levin on UChicago's deal with Anthropic:

This letter to the New School details the crisis for full-time faculty and our demands, which include reinstatement or “step-down” (a phased retirement process); and that the criteria for termination, institutional need, & financial impact be made publicly available docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Days before the largest-ever layoffs at Portland State, faculty & students rallied to demand an alternative: “President Cudd: the worst of this can be avoided. There’s still time to stand with the PSU community & save this university.” @psuaaup.bsky.social

Tonight, hours before our election count begins, USC's admin formally ran to the Trump federal NLRB asking them to overturn democracy. This shit is wildly cynical and has huge implications for academic workers nationally and I am begging my journalist followers to get in touch

Want more breakthroughs like this? Fight like mad to keep the changes to OMB's Federal Financial Assistance Rule from being enacted! www.federalregister.gov/public-inspe...

The Trump administration’s proposal to transfer core decisions on federal research funding from qualified scientific experts to political hacks weaponizes the federal bureaucracy in order to further the Trump administration’s authoritarian control of scientific research. We must fight back.

“The message I keep trying to send is that when you hear about one high-profile case, you know there are a thousand more that we never hear about, not to mention those instances where a professor just avoids teaching on a certain topic altogether.” – Lorena Grundy, VP, @aaup-penn.bsky.social

This is heartbreaking. I stand with faculty, students and staff at The New School and @newschoolaaup.bsky.social

In the last 48 hours, The New School has fired almost two dozen colleagues in humanities and social sciences, many of them tenured faculty of color, and multiple staff members, including in social justice.

The nine most terrifying words in the English language: I'm from private equity, and I'm here to help.

"Non-citizen faculty feel profoundly at risk in the present environment, with 70% reporting concern about being deported in connection with their academic work."

"Out of 177 faculty respondents, close to half reported significant concern about being disciplined by the university for their public engagement. One-fifth indicated that they had been asked by an administrator to change language related to their courses, research, or website."

For those who prefer graphs "at a glance": #yaleacfreedomreport

Today, the AAUP Yale Chapter releases our report on The State of Academic Freedom at Yale. Uncertain that university leaders will protect academic freedom when tested, Yale faculty are managing risk alone and making changes that narrow what Yale teaches, researches, and communicates to the world.

People who think U.S. higher education is under attack only in red states are just not paying attention

Cornell just released this statement from its committee of Trustees investigating the incident where the President ran over a student's foot with his car. The statement extols the President and blames the students.

"The faculty vote comes on the heels of graduate students voting in November 2025 to unionize. It also comes amid sweeping changes at Penn State, including the decision to close seven campuses, and hire McKinsey & Company to conduct a review of the university's operational and academic operations."

Congratulations to our new union comrades at Penn State! Especially glad to hear the union covers temporary and part time faculty as well, to head off attempts to pit adjunct and TT against each other. www.centredaily.com/news/local/e...

>Today, over 5,000 faculty across Penn State campuses, including University Park and the Commonwealth Campuses, won their faculty union, the Penn State Faculty Alliance, SEIU Local 668, with 2,510 faculty members voting Union Yes! www.pennstatefacultyalliance.org/news/2026/05...

"We can & must fight for public investment that allows us to serve all students, across the broadest spectrum of academic fields, with a renewed commitment to true academic freedom & secure employment for those who further this mission & serve our students." —Rebecca Givan, @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social

There will be more to say - and this is far from over - but this is one giant step toward justice for our grantees at the National Endowment for the Humanities. #NEH staff have awaited this day for more than a year - for you, and for us. 🙏✊

Listen to @mattseybold.bsky.social about Canvas theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/historyofc...

What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.

Breaking NEWS!! Federal judge rules DOGE illegally terminated NEH grants last year in a summary judgment in favor of plaintiffs AHA, ACLA, and MLA, and orders the restoration of 1400 terminated grants

Register for all the College for All Jubilee School events run by @debtcollective.bsky.social here! Your future self will thank you!! debtcollective.org/forms/colleg...

BREAKING: Federal Judge Rules to Restore National Endowment for the Humanities Funding In Historic Case This afternoon's ruling declared that the mass termination of more than 1,400 grants by the NEH was “unlawful, unconstitutional, ultra vires, and without legal effect.” https://bit.ly/4wmbFg8

Construction workers 🤝 Higher Ed workers Apollo Global Management & its billionaire CEO, Marc Rowan, are responsible for drafting the "loyalty oath" compact for higher ed AND for violating construction laborers' rights. Our solidarity spans sectors: we show up for each other's labor struggles.

Construction laborers must be paid area-standard wages with health insurance and retirement benefits, and Apollo Global CEO Marc Rowan must keep his hands off higher education. Shame on Apollo! We reject Rowan's loyalty oath!

The PSC was proud to join our labor allies from St. John's University @aaup.org Chapter and the @nyclabor.bsky.social yesterday as we stood in solidarity with LIUNA Local 79 members to demand that Apollo Global Management respect NYC Labor standards.

St. John's University is using surveillance and intimidation tactics to stifle legally-protected union organizing on campus. "It's an attempted chilling effect. Which is backfiring but also unconscionable and illegal." — Sophie Bell, SJU AAUP President

Well, let's give it a shot again and see what we get.

NYC is a union town! We are proud to stand with Laborers Local 79 to call out the disrespect for working people on the part of Apollo Global. Exploitation of workers - whether in the construction industry or of university professors - just will not fly. Do better Apollo!

The spring 2026 issue of #Academe is out today! Contributors examine AI’s rapid integration into campus life, discuss how faculty are organizing around technology, and consider the value of human intellectual labor in an age of automation. Check out the full issue at www.aaup.org/issue/spring...

The AAUP & @aft.org stand in solidarity with UM Faculty Senate Chair Derek Peterson. Right-wing attacks on his commencement speech are a direct threat to academic freedom. University leaders must stop apologizing to political agitators & start defending their faculty & protected speech. 👇

NEW: Less than 72 hours before Weber State University in Utah was scheduled to host a conference on censorship, presenters were told not to discuss identity politics, or be removed from the official program agenda. www.404media.co/how-a-univer...