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...

He couldn't save himself by firing professors. The cultural revolution marches on. You won't escape it by cowardice. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

“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

This is a HUGE win for American higher education! #DefendHigherEd www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

AAUP-HARVARD, AAUP, & UAW WON THE HARVARD CASE!!!! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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AAUP-OSU board member Richard Finlay Fletcher spoke to “Inside Higher Ed” about OSU’s ban on land acknowledgements - and its chilling effect on academic freedom. Link below.

See the photos from the 'Workers Over Billionaires Labor Day Rally' Monday in Stow; over 200 people gathered according to organizers

‘It feels like a betrayal.’ Ohio college students experiencing effects of new higher education law ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/08/25/i...

Students are worried over where the country is headed under Trump, state policies that could affect teaching in their classes, the cost of their schooling and what that all might mean for their education and future careers. by Laura Hancock and Mary Frances McGowan www.cleveland.com/education/20...

Opinion There's money to feed Ohio's online students lunch. They shouldn't be going hungry Ohio public eschool students are not eligible for free or reduced lunch programs, despite meeting income requirements. by Traci Woodard www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...

Kent State University students, wearing all black, marched across campus Wednesday, holding a “funeral” for the now-shuttered LGBTQ+ Center, Women's Center and Multicultural Center that they say state legislators killed with Senate Bill 1. by Conor Morris www.ideastream.org/education/20...

Wore my black, taught my students... great day!

Something is wrong with a system where 76% of workers say they’re worried to make ends meet, while greedy corporate CEOs make 285x what the median worker does. Working people don’t have to accept this. A union contract is how we fight back.

First day of class and I’m ready to go!! Taught some excellent students. Commemorated the ongoing genocide & scholasticide in Gaza. And wore black following the call from the Ohio Student Association to protest SB1. Faculty: Join @osuaaup.bsky.social & let’s get organized! #SB1Blackout

Not teaching tomorrow so I picked it up a day early. That said, I basically dress like this anyway?

We encourage faculty at OSU and around the state to follow the lead of the Ohio Student Association (at OSU and across the state) and wear black on Wednesday, August 27. Let’s show our opposition to Senate Bill 1, the Destruction of Ohio Higher Ed Act.

🔔”Let’s be completely clear: this is censorship disguised as procedure. The racks and papers were not removed because they were clutter or junk; they are lifelines for student information.” 😡 www.dallasobserver.com/news/ut-dall...

A beatdown in broad daylight was caught on video: Masked men in tactical vests grappled, tased, and piled onto a delivery worker. Pinning the worker face down on the pavement, agents tased him again and punched him repeatedly in the head. trib.al/cz33S3H

The Supreme Court’s ruling is a setback for public health. But the court also agreed that the NIH directives targeting politically disfavored science are unlawful, and cannot be used to shut down research. We will continue fighting to ensure researchers' terminated grants are restored.

The AAUP is starting to get better at comedy and it’s making administrators nervous

Where's the "more speech" we were promised?

Are you a professor who was involved in DEI prior to SB 1? It could be a DEI office, center, or even being an advisor to a student group. There is research being conducted about the changing landscape in places like Ohio. If you are willing to participate, please send a message to [email protected].

Chalking builds community on campuses. Ohio State, long an oversized university, particularly needs that. But their conservative president prioritizes requiring all students to learn AI over communicating with each other in a way students do across the country. OSU's a mess under Ted Carter.