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...

#OtD 4 May 1919 50,000 factory workers in Rio de Janeiro walked out for a maximum 8-hour working day and a 20% pay increase. In June workers in São Paulo joined them, and by the following month they won stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1045...

We’re unionizing! Workers at UCP are forming a union with the Chicago NewsGuild, TNG-CWA Local 34071, joining the nationwide movement for a stronger publishing industry.

UP UNION ALERT: A supermajority of U Chicago P's 139 eligible workers have already signed union cards citing low, stagnant wages, lack of standardization re WFH, & "potential precarity in the form of layoffs, outsourcing, or the intro of AI into our workflow" www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

“Historically, allowing regimes to collect lists of Jewish people has not boded well for their safety.”

Solidarity with the University of Illinois Chicago graduate workers on strike. ✊🏽 They show up every day to teach, research, and support students, and now they’re standing together for fair pay and respect. https://seiu.co/4tLlW3s

From coast to coast, AAUP members showed up for May Day actions yesterday demanding a higher ed system that serves the public good: one that is affordable, protects scientific research, free speech, & academic freedom from political assault, & stands up for students' right to learn. #MayDay2026

Higher ed labor is out in force this May Day! Guru Shabadi is celebrating GET-UP UAW 5124's first contract @upenn.edu with higher ed union comrades from across the Philadelphia (& NJ!) area. Solidarity! #HandsOffHigherEd #MayDayHigherEd #HigherEdOverBillionaires #DefendHigherEd

Workers from @osuaaup.bsky.social are out this May Day for academic freedom, free speech, increased wages and public funding for higher ed, diversity & inclusion, and solidarity with survivors of sexual violence. ❤️ #HandsOffHigherEd #MayDayHigherEd #HigherEdOverBillionaires #DefendHigherEd

Victoria Antonetti, VP of the Graduate Labor Organization (GLO) at Brown University, speaks to a crowd of gathered students and workers, demanding an end to the attacks against working class people. People over profit! Hands off higher ed! #HandsOffHigherEd #MayDayHigherEd #HigherEdOverBillionaires

Nearly a thousand PSC members were in the streets of NYC today for International Workers' Day! ✊

RIGHT NOW! NYC HIGHER ED WORKERS ARE IN THE STREETS! @newschoolaaup.bsky.social @psc-cuny.org #MayDay2026

Happy May Day! Philly higher ed workers showed up in force to say FUND EDUCATION, NOT WAR AND DEPORTATION

On May Day, workers across the globe stand together to show that we have the power — not the billionaire class. Today we march for workers over billionaires, for local communities over federal oppression, for public services over foreign wars. Join us to build a better world for all working people.

TODAY!

Today! Come for a visibility action at noon and then at 1pm, take a special campus tour led by faculty highlighting the locations that exemplify Ohio State’s current crises and the struggles against them

Happy May Day! Philly is a union town—and today higher ed workers from many unions are meeting up in Love Park at 3:30 and marching together to City Hall at 4 to join the citywide Workers Over Billionaires march as a unified bloc. Come out and stand with workers all across the city!

#MayDay is a reminder for workers to stand together. If you’re going to a May Day event, you can download this graphic and use it as a sign.

On Monday, @uicgeo.org went out on strike. Yesterday, unions from across Chicago came together to stand in solidarity with UIC-GEO and demand a fair contract. UIC-UF president Aaron Krall talked about cross-union solidarity. Find a higher ed May Day action near you: www.labor4highered.org

TODAY IS THE DAY! Higher ed workers & students across the country are coming together to demand: Hands Off Higher Ed! Fund Education, Not War & Deportation! Freedom to Teach, Research, and Learn! Learn more at labor4highered.org. #HandsOffHigherEd #MayDayHigherEd #HigherEdOverBillionaires

As we gear up for the biggest May Day rally ever, there are actions you can take RIGHT NOW to stand up to billionaire tech bros. Ask Council to pass the $1 rideshare tax. No Philly public school should lose a counselor, academic coach, or math teacher amid a severe K-12 staffing shortage. #PhlEd

New from @pamherd.bsky.social and I: Trump has added work requirements to Medicaid, expanded them in SNAP. Now he is going after public housing. You can do something about it: take 5 mins to write a public comment opposing this change. Instructions enclosed.🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

Texas public university systems have restricted how faculty teach gender, sexuality & race. The universities' accreditor, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, refuses to take action despite these flagrant violations of academic freedom.

Today, workers at Hachette Book Group launched the largest unionization campaign in trade publisher history! Hundreds of employees signed unions cards in support of forming a union at HBC. Workers now join @wbng.org and fight for recognition. newsguild.org/hachette-boo...

proud of my union @ucaft.bsky.social for defending the autonomy of our classrooms and protecting our rights vis privacy and IP - read our proposals at weteachuc.org/2026/04/17/b...

We are building a movement to #defendhighered & save our democracy. Join Us: Check the AAUP Starter Pack: 👇👇👇 go.bsky.app/3YidJ7k #academicsky

Good god. Trump fired the entire National Science Board without explanation on Friday afternoon.

After facing pressure from AAUP Penn and other organizations, a federal judge has delayed the order for the University of Pennsylvania to comply with the Trump administration and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's subpoena to hand over a list of Jewish faculty and students. Read more ⬇️

Learn about the radical history of May Day, including how workers have organized for and won victories for themselves and their communities, and how we continue to mobilize today. Featuring Professor Donna Haverty-Stacke of @huntercollege.bsky.social.

Universities captured by corporate boards drunk on ideologies of growth & expansion trying to turn institutions of learning into “real estate empires”—it’s pathetic + ruinous + ignores the fact that universities don’t need to “grow” they need to attain steady state & persist durably into the future

We are growing, and people are noticing it. If you’re faculty and not linked up yet, what’s holding you back? If not now, when?

Amid chants of "Hot, cold, rats, mold! @cuny.edu this is getting old," staff members, who rallied in front of Brooklyn Borough Hall, say students and faculty have gotten rashes and itchy eyes as classrooms crumble around them.

1. In a draconian new policy, Texas Tech is banning writing about LGBTQ+ topics. The ban is the first don't say gay or trans policy to apply to students themselves. It applies to any thesis/dissertation moving forward. They are using AI to scan everything. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Have you joined @aaup.org yet? Defend higher ed today. Make higher ed better for the future. Become part of the solution. Join today: www.aaup.org/join www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/u...

📣 Take action: Tell Lawmakers to Support the Adequate and Equitable Public University Funding Act! Cuts to academic programs and faculty and staff positions are limiting student opportunities and the supports they need to succeed.

Yale fires adjunct faculty, "the instructors most directly tasked with supporting our education. To implement Trust report while eroding the foundations of intellectual life is like giving a blood transfusion to a patient whose wounds haven’t been stitched shut: You’ll end up with a corpse anyway."