Come out to our November chapter meeting this Thursday! RSVP here: actionnetwork.org/events/aaup-... We have a ton to talk after the rally on 11/7 & the fight for free speech & academic freedom at all levels. Whether you’re a regular or it’s your first meeting, your voice is what we need to hear.

Help our local chapter of Students for a National Health Plan feed hungry folks here in Central Ohio! Campaign runs until Thanksgiving. ➡️ visit give.mofc.org/snahpforsnap to donate 🥫Local to Columbus? Physical donations can be brought to OSUCOM for distribution through the Street Med student org

Our students are amazing! OSA, with the support of many groups, led a successful protest yesterday as part of the November 7 national day of action. More photos soon, but for now here’s coverage from the OSU Lantern and from Columbus Dispatch.

The dude’s making up to $150,000 while lying about higher ed. What kind of school hires Gordon Gee not once, not twice, but three times?!

Comic #4. Enjoy, share, reflect.

Friday at noon, Thompson statue, the Oval. Please read through the petition to see the demands. if you are local and want to speak, you can submit your name also. Remember to wear red. #redfored This is part of a national day of action on 11/7.

What are you doing 11/7 to stand up for higher ed? DM us if you need ideas!

AAUP-OSU is proud to support the OSU chapter of the Ohio Student Association and other students who are coming out to demonstrate on 11/7 at noon for free speech on this campus. 11/7 is also a national day of action & events will be happening around the country. It’s time to stand up & be counted.

“After Rainey’s termination, UT’s accreditor put its status as an accredited university on probation…The AAUP censured the institution for nine years, deterring professors from coming. It took a decade for UT to restore its reputation.” 😬

To all who have an interest in defending free speech at Ohio State: Come out to the Thompson Statue on the Oval at 12noon on Nov 7. AAUP-OSU is a proud co-sponsor of this event organized by the OSU chapter of the Ohio Student Association. 11/7 is a national day of action by “Students Rise Up”

OSU community members and beyond - please sign this letter to OSU admin to reject the Trump compact. And share widely. actionnetwork.org/petitions/os...

✊ Solidarity with our colleagues in Ohio who are facing tremendous repression post-SB1. Faculty teaching conditions are student learning conditions. This is nothing less than an assault on the freedom to learn.

Our board member @cmcknichols.bsky.social & AAUP members from OSU & around the state contributed to this @dispatch.com article on the chilling impact of SB1 across Ohio. Between legal mandates & admin overcompliance, we are living the grim reality that thousands protested for over 2 years.

Tuesday! Ohio State’s Center for Ethnic Studies, with American Indian Studies, hosts a teach-in on land acknowledgements and their relevance to OSU. Affiliated faculty have a petition calling for dropping new “guidance” restricting when and where land acknowledgements are permitted. Please share!

#3. Enjoy the comic, then scroll for action items.

A 🧵 with evidence from The Ohio State University on why these conservative centers that falsely claim to not be conservative centers are quite dangerous for any serious academic institution.

Our chapter, along with several others, has been pushing back on the repression of academic freedom at OSU—which often takes place around indigenous history, race, and diversity. Two articles today, taken together, show both what the repression and resistance look like.

"In the case of land acknowledgements, the ban on factual information is a troubling example of overcompliance to SB1 & a transparent attempt to appease & cower in an anti-DEI moment." — AAUP OSU Teaching Indigenous history and practicing academic freedom are inseparable! @osuaaup.bsky.social

More ridiculousness and caving to political pressure by THE Over-Compliant University. @osuaaup.bsky.social is pushing back.

The attack on our colleagues’ academic freedom, and anything to do with race and diversity, is in full force at OSU. Obeying in advance once again, OSU is now withdrawing support for scholars studying topics and attending relevant conferences that the federal government doesn't like.

The Dept of Education’s $3m grant to the Chase Center (link attached) makes it plain. Don’t buy the rhetoric about the Center's political neutrality.

Coming up on October 20!

NO LOYALTY OATHS IN HIGHER ED! Trump's attacks on our universities are an attempt to consolidate power. This loyalty oath directly undermines our right to academic freedom & goes against every democratic principle our country should uphold. Please click below, sign, & share. #DefendHigherEd

An enormous legal victory for @aaup.org, MESA, and the Rutgers, NYU, and Harvard chapters of AAUP, in a case that Judge Young describes as "perhaps the most important ever to fall within the jurisdiction of this district court."

AAUP v. Rubio is out, and look at how it starts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING: WE WON!!! 💥 💥 💥 Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment. Full ruling here:

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Please read this new report from AAUP national on Title VI and academic freedom.

A fee days ago @aaup.org published an advisory for academic workers in this time of intensive repression and censorship. Please read *before* a crisis hits, if possible, whether you’ve been targeted before or not. www.aaup.org/news/advisor...

New statement: Academic Freedom, academic responsibility, and the attack on higher ed. www.aaup-osu.org/post/aaup-os...

Firings, sanctions, bans, threats, chilling of speech… OSU AAUP laying out and standing up for the essence of academic freedom and responsibility @aaup.org @osuaaup.bsky.social www.aaup-osu.org/post/aaup-os...

“We will not allow authoritarians to dismantle higher education. We will not allow billionaires to profit while communities suffer. And we will not allow fear to silence students and workers who speak out.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President #DefendHigherEd #HigherEdBenefitsEveryone @aft.org

ACLU-Ohio challenges OSU’s expulsion of student as a violation of free speech www.acluohio.org/press-releas...

Please see the national AAUP statement on the current disciplining of student, faculty, and staff speech.

A GoFundMe for the instructor who was fired at Texas A&M!

chng.it/v648fZ9tKW Solidarity with colleagues at Texas A&M.

Update on the Texas A&M professor / cell phone video situation: the professor has been fired by the A&M president president.tamu.edu/messages/an-...

PEN America: “We are witnessing the death of academic freedom in Texas." https://pen.org/press-release/swift-removal-of-academic-leaders-at-texas-am-signals-the-death-of-academic-freedom-in-the-state-warns-pen-america/

Considering that most acknowledgments are simply… acknowledgments and statement of fact (and not a call for action), this seems like absolute BS and suppression of speech and academic freedom, period

Ohio State going full colonial bullshit.

Our colleague and AAUP-OSU member Elissa Washuta, director of American Indian Studies, spoke to WOSU about OSU’s ban on land acknowledgements and why it has a “chilling” effect on our teaching. Link to article follows.

“Land acknowledgments are not statements on behalf of an issue or cause. Acknowledging the historical and contemporary realities of the university on Indigenous land is not an activist act. It’s a factual statement.”

The federal budget deadline is October 1st. We still have time to convince Ohio representatives to fund research through the NSF, NIH, and NASA. We've drafted a letter that you can send. It will only take a few minutes! buff.ly/OG8IgXy

AAUP-OSU was quoted again in 10TV coverage on SB1: buff.ly/ZcCxfp3

The 2025 @aaup.org Faculty in the South Survey of 4,000 professors in 12 states has revealed the significant impact of political attacks on faculty work and recruitment. The findings show a widespread climate of fear & ongoing desire by some to leave the region for other jobs. 1/x