An American citizen and Los Angeles native, @seiucalifornia @seiuusww President David Huerta was injured and detained when ICE terrorized a working neighborhood. We demand his immediate release!

BREAKING The President of California’s largest union has been detained during an ICE raid.

Let’s be clear: ICE injured and detained the president of SEIU California for peacefully observing. ICE picked the wrong side. The wrong state. The wrong person. and the wrong union. David Huerta stood up. And now 750,000 SEIU workers are standing up behind him. seiuca.org/press-releas...

AAUP President Todd Wolfson calls on the Penn State Board of Trustees to reject proposed campus closures and go back to the drawing board to develop a plan that will serve all Pennsylvanians. @aaupsu.bsky.social

We support PEN America's condemnation of the Indiana University investigation of Dr. Ben Robinson after IU chose to file an anonymous complaint about his in-class example as an SB 202 "intellectual diversity" violation pen.org/press-releas...

“The workers and the unions, faculty, students, staff are leading and developing the fight in how to respond to the Trump administration, and we’re sort of dragging the universities along with us, slowly,” said Todd Wolfson, the president of the AAUP.

Thanks to Saja for sharing her story with AAUP members at this week's discussion hosted by our Committee on Race & Solidarity. We heard first-hand testimonies about how the destruction of universities and schools has impacted lives. www.linkedin.com/posts/saja-a...

John Fetterman needs to resign.

It’s time for academics to organize. We’re stronger together ✊

The Penn State administration's decision to close commonwealth campuses is a dereliction of its duty. www.centredaily.com/news/local/e...

Trump’s executive order on accreditation is yet another attempt to dictate what is taught, learned, & said by college instructors & students. Threats to remove accreditors are transparent attempts to consolidate power in the hands of the administration in order to stifle teaching & research. 🧵

They don't have much of anything to say these days, do they?

Cuts to federal research funding hurt colleges, slow innovation, and undermine public knowledge. Attacking higher ed is an attack on America’s future. #HigherEdCrisis www.highereddive.com/news/educati...

We are thrilled to be participating in the @actioninhighered.bsky.social National Day of Action for Higher Education this Thursday April 17th! We have a packed day of teach-ins and we're fired up 💪

In this post, I commend universities that filed amicus brief in AAUP case challenging speech-based deportations of foreign students, but also explain why this isn't adequate substitute for universities bringing a case of their own: reason.com/volokh/2025/...

Mark your calendars! This Thursday, April 17, faculty, students, and higher ed workers across the U.S. are uniting for a National Day of Action to defend academic freedom, fight for tuition-free education, and advocate for higher ed as a public good. www.diverseeducation.com/faculty-staf...

The UNC-CH chapter of the AAUP strongly and unequivocally condemns the targeting of international students and scholars. In light of the April 8 revocation of six UNC student visas, we call on UNC-CH to take concrete steps to support students and scholars at risk: unc-ch-aaup.org/news#2025-04...

Finally joined @aaup.bsky.social today after checking in with my local chapter about my eligibility. The AAUP has done more for academic freedom in these last two years than any university administration has. Seems like a good investment in the Trump era.

“The Trump administration’s illegal campaign against universities isn’t just an attack on the people who work and study at them. It’s an attack on the local communities that thrive alongside them.” – Nikolas Bowie, Harvard law professor and Harvard AAUP member

everyone at a university who is not in AAUP and/or a union should fix that ASAP

Yesterday we delivered a letter do Rep. Glenn Thompson with over 300 signatures from the Penn State community, telling him to #KillTheCuts to research and higher education. @aaupsu.bsky.social radio.wpsu.org/2025-04-09/e...

NEWS: It began with Mahmoud Khalil. Now the Trump admin is trying to deport *hundreds* of students by vaguely saying they have criminal records—making them guess why. Some have traffic violations. Some didn't even commit a crime. One's "criminal record"? Apparently being a domestic violence victim.

Right Now across the nation: scientists, educators, students, & healthcare workers are STANDING UP to #KILLTHECUTS. Every life-saving breakthrough in healthcare starts w/research. No research, cures. Trump’s cuts to NIH are a direct attack on our health, our families, & our future.

Thousands of @uawregion6.bsky.social members and community members are gathering across the University of California (UC) campuses to #KillTheCuts! 📸 from UC Santa Barbara, UCLA, UC Berkeley, and UC San Diego

Hello from Newark, NJ! We’re joining our union family from @aaup.bsky.social, @afscme.bsky.social, @cwaunion.bsky.social, @seiu.org, @neatoday.bsky.social, and more to call for an end to the cuts to medical research. #KillTheCuts www.youtube.com/live/pFU0Lvo...

UCLA standing up to #KillTheCuts! Thousands of research, healthcare, & education workers across the country are out on campuses & in the streets today to demand that our elected officials #KillTheCuts to lifesaving research.

UE has joined 8 other national unions, including @uaw.org & @seiu.org, in issuing a statement calling for the release of abducted union members & political organizers who are being swept up in the Trump Administration’s campaign of terror against working people.

Never before have so many of our sources requested—or been granted—anonymity to share their stories of being detained by ICE and/or having their student visas revoked. And no one is following the story more closely than @liamknox.bsky.social. www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

Add Penn State to the list of colleges where students' visas have been revoked www.psucollegian.com/news/campus/...

🗞️“We need to fight with all we have to keep building spaces of research, learning, & service that focus on the public good.” — Jessica Hunsdon, program coordinator at Rutgers & VP of URA (Union of Rutgers Administrators). 📣 Then join us at 4PM📍 in Military Park Newark #KillTheCuts 🔗 loom.ly/Zg592hA

Hands Off IN higher ed! We oppose SB448. inaaup.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

300+ signatures delivered to Rep Glenn Thompson, telling him to #KillTheCuts to research and higher ed. @aaup.bsky.social

Nearly 300 people in the Penn State community signed our letter to tell Rep Thompson to #KillTheCuts We’ll be delivering it to his office later today ✊ @aaup.bsky.social

Folks: Saturday was HUGE, POWERFUL, & HISTORIC! Now we have to keep the pressure on. Join us tomorrow, April 8, as workers across the country stand up & demand NO cuts to education & life-saving research. Every life-saving breakthrough in healthcare starts w/ research. www.killthecuts.org

I was scheduled to give a talk on Palestine at a student conference at @notredame.bsky.social. The University rescinded my talk a week in advance citing an extremely flimsy excuse. It is truly disgusting. Attached is the letter I received and my reply, link below...

We're sending a letter to Rep Glenn Thompson (PA-15) telling him to publicly oppose the cuts to federal funding for research, healthcare, and education. #KillTheCuts @aaup.bsky.social If you're part of the Penn State or State College community, sign the letter here👇 www.jotform.com/form/2508870...

We must stand up for all of our students. The federal government's targeting & treatment of international students is completely unacceptable. International students are core members of the Buckeye community and we won’t be silent as they are scapegoated in this way www.dispatch.com/story/news/e...

Great turnout in State College to tell the fascists #HandsOff our freedom and our government! Also realized I need to massively up my sign game. Everyone is so creative.

Didn’t get any good shots, but easily 500+ for Hands Off! demonstration in State College despite the rain. ✊✊

@aaup.bsky.social Please also ask him to publicly oppose #censorship of research!! defendresearch.org

Support my Alma Mater Penn State as it faces devastating cuts to its research and local economy.

We're sending a letter to Rep Glenn Thompson (PA-15) telling him to publicly oppose the cuts to federal funding for research, healthcare, and education. #KillTheCuts @aaup.bsky.social If you're part of the Penn State or State College community, sign the letter here👇 www.jotform.com/form/2508870...

AAUP has just published a memo laying out the many legal reasons why universities should not hand over the names & nationalities of their students or faculty, as the Trump admin has asked. Please share freely with your friendly university admin! @aaup.bsky.social www.aaup.org/news/institu...

“Saving ourselves is an important first thing, but making it our business to save America is everything.” President of Trinity Washington University Patricia McGuire discusses the vital role higher ed must play in defending democracy. www.aaup.org/article/high...

Friends, we are disappointed to report that our NEH grant was terminated overnight. The same was true for thousands of other projects. Please join us in protesting these outrageous actions by the Trump administration. aaslh.org/take-action-...

Tufts University petitions a federal judge to release student Rümeysa Öztürk, who was grabbed off the street by immigration officials. The move is some of the strongest public pushback by a school against the Trump administration's arrests of foreign students.