Our careers at the National Endowment for the Humanities weren't boring - they were inspiring and fulfilling, in service to America. And after months of uncertainty and unemployment, most of us certainly aren't working in better jobs for more pay. You destroyed so much, and for what? #NEH

Historic Win: Staff at the Metropolitan Museum of Art voted overwhelmingly to unionize with UAW, with about 76% voting in favor after years of organizing. https://seiu.co/4qw2qq3

The scale and speed of state censorship of campus really is amazing. More than half of America's college students attend institutions in states that have passed laws censoring higher education since 2021. From @penamerica.bsky.social pen.org/report/ameri...

TODAY: TransparUNCy teach-in about Area Studies Centers closures TransparUNCy is hosting a teach-in today, Jan. 20, 4:30pm in 3411 Student Union. unc-ch-aaup.org/news#2026-01...

London’s The Guardian on our arbitration victory, our colleagues’ reinstatement, and the Cudd administration’s pricey consultant and outside legal counsel driven attacks on Portland State:

My dedication to speak up for the importance of protecting academic freedom and higher education put a target on my back. Texas A&M has lost control of their narrative that they’re balancing education by censoring topics on race and gender. Now they are punishing the messengers. I’m one of them.

Read AAUP President Todd Wolfson's full statement here👇

“The suspension of Mel Curth, a graduate instructor at the University of Oklahoma (OU), stemming from a grading dispute with a student, is an egregious violation of widely accepted principles of academic freedom and due process.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

The Trump administration is demanding "lists of Jews" from the University of Pennsylvania. The AAUP condemns this as “a profoundly invasive & dangerous demand that intrudes deeply into the freedoms of association, religion, speech and privacy enshrined in the First Amendment.” Read more below 👇

Last night, The Minneapolis Federation of Educators Local 59 signed on to the call for a Jan 23 shutdown. That brings total labor support to: the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 1005, SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, CWA Local 7250, St. Paul Federation of Educators Local 28, and the MFE 59

Nearly 15,000 nurses are on strike across NYC—the largest nurses strike in the city’s history. Members of @nynurses.bsky.social say hospital management left them no choice as they fight for safe staffing and workplace safety.

faculty again having to clean up the mess their universities helped to create. that mess = fueling the ever present authoritarian assault on us all. bravo to @aaup.org @aaup-penn.bsky.social. reporting from @alicesperi.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Yesterday, federal agents abducted an educator trying to protect safe dismissal at Roosevelt High School. (That person has since been released.) Here is what a coalition of unions and community groups, including Minneapolis Federation of Educators, is demanding. workdaymagazine.org/teachers-and...

UNC-Chapel Hill obeys Project 2025 dictates by closing all 6 area studies centers. “Admin announced these cuts when they thought no one was watching, but we are watching & we are here to say to everyone: you do not get to dismantle our education quietly.”

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Professor Peterson response to censorship at Texas A&M. (philosopher) king

"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato." surreal times dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

An urgent take by @cnewf.bsky.social TNS ”senior management lack a renewed academic self-conception for TNS… so they have turned instead to a formulaic restructuring… disconnected from concrete educational practices & wholly controlled by fiscal crisis.” utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/12/line...

From an email to one of our faculty members.... Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!

The firing of Sang Hea Kil from her tenured professorship at San Jose State for her pro-Palestinian speech has major implications for academic freedom and unions at public universities. Despite unanimously winning the faculty hearing, the campus president overturned the decision. Read more here👇

Educators and organizers from @aaup.org discuss how the Trump administration is systematically dismantling higher education as we know it.

Earlier this month, HELU Leadership convened in Detroit to connect, reflect, and strategize. We left feeing energized and ready for the work ahead. HELU is building a wall-to-wall, coast-to-coast higher ed labor movement. Join us!!!

This is how you stand up for educators against politically motivated attacks on teaching. Please sign OU AAUP’s petition demanding that OU protect the freedom to teach & learn, & stand up against targeted harassment & intimidation. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ actionnetwork.org/forms/defend...

Also from our agenda: www.republicreport.org/2025/billion...

For those working on next semester's syllabi: www.aaup.org/about/progra...

SOLIDARITY! Sunnyside WA farm workers were proud to participate in Starbucks baristas "Stop buying Starbucks Day of action." Farmworkers stand in solidarity w/ striking @sbworkersunited.org workers who've been fighting for a fair union contract for almost 4 years. #NoContractNoCoffee

🚨 Strike ballot opens at University of Essex Management plans to close Southend campus and axe 400 jobs. All staff were told they could lose their jobs as they broke up for Christmas. This is academic vandalism and we will not accept it. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1428...

In our most recent AAUP TV episode, Jeremy Varon, Prof of History and AAUP The New School Leadership Council member, discusses the university administration's proposal to terminate up to 40% of full-time faculty. The proposed layoffs will be catastrophic for faculty, students, and staff.

"Faculty and staff—who have given decades of their lives to the university—have been given less than two weeks to accept insulting “offers” and pack up as early as January 2, 2026." Please support our colleagues at @newschoolaaup.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...

I work at WashU. I have never, not once, heard any student, faculty member, or administrative staff say *a single* good thing about Workday. It has made my job harder, and previously simple tasks substantially more complicated. All for $266 million, and counting.

Something stinks at The New School. Between ’22 & ‘23, numerous high-level admin received large raises: President Joel Towers ( 11.6% to $417,000), exec dean Richard Kessler (11.7%, to $469,000), & provost Rene White (10.9%, to over $712,000). Now they’re broke? 🤔 @newschoolaaup.bsky.social

We need to flood them with letters now. Write today!

Happening now! Hear from @newschoolaaup.bsky.social faculty and @aaup.org national allies fighting back against austerity atracks on The New School www.youtube.com/live/RcTxJTd...

"...the uncritical adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) poses a threat to academic professions through potential work intensification and job losses and through its implications for intellectual property, economic security, and... faculty working conditions..." www.aaup.org/reports-publ...

Sign the petition linked below to support higher ed workers at the UNC System in their fight against the requirement to create a searchable repository of all university syllabi, which will endanger students and instructors by inviting political actors to attack free inquiry across UNC campuses.

Please sign & spread the word. @unc-ch-aaup.bsky.social @uncgaaup.bsky.social @ncaaup.bsky.social Passing along to some other chapters w accounts here: @emoryaaup.bsky.social @utaustinaaup.bsky.social @aaup-penn.bsky.social @wesleyanaaup.bsky.social #AAUP

The University of North Carolina System may require all instructors to publish syllabi starting next year. “Calling instructors 'work for hire' & stripping them of copyright is a surefire way to turn creative thinkers into widgets." - Abigail Hatcher, AAUP UNC-Chapel Hill

New School students, faculty, staff, and allies across NYC are out in the cold and the rain tonight fighting for their future and saying no to devastating cuts

Correct link to live stream here: www.youtube.com/live/iT2HhjU...

BREAKING: Texas nurses at CommonSpirit Health St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital just voted to join NNU. Southern nurses are on a roll in our fight to protect our patients and our communities! #OrganizeTheSouth 🎉 🎉 🎉

Students, faculty, staff, members of @newschoolaaup.bsky.social and more are rallying against brutal and unnecessary cuts at The New School. Join them right now at 66 W 12th St in NYC. @aaup.org is livestreaming here: youtube.com/live/w8NJOS7...

Sign on to this petition demanding that management at The New School stop the devastating budget cuts, which propose a massive layoff of 40% of full-time faculty⬇️ @newschoolaaup.bsky.social

Join the livestream tomorrow, Thursday December 11 at 7 PM ET at this link👇

Tune in for another episode of AAUP TV tomorrow, Thursday, December 11 @ 7 PM ET. Chenjerai Kumanyika, AAUP National Council Member, and Todd Wolfson, AAUP President, will discuss the organized effort to fight extreme austerity attacks at The New School. Tune in on YouTube (link in thread).

Working people deserve dignity, fair wages, and respect. Meanwhile, billionaires keep getting richer off our labor. Enough is enough. ✊💚 Proud to be in this fight. Proud to stand with workers. #Philly #union @afscme.bsky.social @phillyaflcio.bsky.social

DC47 VP Robert Harris said it loud & clear: “If we don’t get it… SHUT. IT. DOWN!” This past Saturday (12/6), DC47 members showed up strong, standing shoulder to shoulder w/ @sbworkersunited.org @PhillyJwJ & community allies to support the striking Starbucks workers in Philly->->

AAUP is livestreaming the rally and press conference against extreme austerity measures and the proposed termination of 40% of full-time faculty at The New School! Join the livestream tomorrow, December 10 at 4pm ET. Link below 👇

TODAY at The New School!

TODAY! 4PM! CUT THE CUTS Rally at The New School! • SUSPEND “realignment” measures • RESCIND all “voluntary separation package agreements” • CAP on salaries over $200,000 • CALL on the Board of Trustees to hold a public meeting with the entire university community Livestream link below.