NEW: Preliminary findings released today from the AAUP’s annual Faculty Compensation Survey reveal that real wages for full-time faculty decreased & remain below pre-pandemic levels. The FCS is the largest independent source of data on faculty salaries. Check out preliminary findings below. ⬇️

Columbia must move beyond performative listening & commit to a true shared governance model where student & faculty voices carry real weight in shaping the university’s future. True institutional stability requires leadership to be accountable to its community, not just a closed circle of trustees.

RIGHT NOW: PSU AAUP members are rallying outside final board of trustees meeting before the worst layoffs in PSU history. The cuts are expected to target 200 workers, decimate 19 programs, & severely impact hundreds of students This could all be avoided. It’s time to fight. @psuaaup.bsky.social

“They want to do things which tend to be illegal. They have a penchant for illegality. They can be as thorough as they want, but if they want to stop freedom of speech, they're going to have a problem.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President on the Trump admin's recent fondness for launching lawsuits.

Full-time salaries for most categories of faculty have remained about the same since 2002, adjusting for inflation, while admin pay soars. Faculty have had enough. We’re fighting back nationwide. ✊🏽✊🏻✊🏿 www.chronicle.com/article/amid...

#aaup taking the lead in resistance to the authoritarian attempts to destroy US education.

"Together, our institutions have helped to build the freedoms now under attack. Reclaiming those freedoms, & the responsibilities they entail, begins with a respectful, democratic knock on the board-room door." New op-ed in the @chronicle.com by Columbia AAUP leaders.

You don't say...👀

“What you’re seeing there is that universities are spending the more university administrators are spending the money on themselves. They pay themselves more, and they hire more people to do less work.”

Now, that's a nice shirt!

Oscar-winner Ryan Coogler recalling how a college writing professor pushed him to become a screenwriter & the possibility of #Sinners being taught in film curriculums someday: “I have so much respect for professors…for dedicating their life to future generations & making sure their minds are solid.”

All evidence to date suggests that the CPHE is a partisan political body aiming to transform higher ed in a manner desired by Republican extremists & the donors who back them…a Trojan horse determined to use any power awarded it to bend public higher ed to their ideological agenda.

Stand with the VSU Fired Six!!!

RIGHT NOW: The VSU ‘Fired Six’ are standing w/ the Virginia Public Sector Labor Coalition calling for all public service workers, including higher ed & home care workers, to be included in historic collective bargaining legislation being debated at the Virginia General Assembly. ✊🏾✊🏽✊🏻 #academicsky

The VSU ‘Fired Six’ takes the Virginia State Capitol to demand their jobs back & for the General Assembly to pass full collective bargaining rights for all higher ed workers. www.courthousenews.com/home-care-an...

Today, the VSU Fired Six brought the fight to the Virginia Capitol to advocate for higher ed workers to be included in collective bargaining legislation so that VA workers can be empowered to negotiate for workplace protections so illegal terminations without due process end. #reinstatethefiredsix

VA Dems ran on a pro-worker agenda, yet are leaving workers behind @aaup.org @aaupmason.bsky.social @aft.org Don’t cut higher ed workers out of collective bargaining! @abigailspanberger.com @donscott757.bsky.social @senlouiselucas.bluesky.bot @ssurovell.bsky.social

The majority of faculty on campus work on semester contracts w/no job security. Even those with tenure can be denied due process. Don’t cut us out of collective bargaining. The higher ed lobbyist agenda is NOT pro-worker! @donscott757.bsky.social @senlouiselucas.bluesky.bot @ssurovell.bsky.social

Collective bargaining means stronger families, stronger communities, and a stronger VA economy. We need a CB bill that includes ALL workers, including higher education AND home health care workers. Faculty need CB too - read: drive.google.com/file/d/1ItRS...

An Invitation: Get to know your Governing Board. Academic governing boards exercise significant & often final legal authority over the colleges & universities they rule. We need a rebalance of this power. #sharedgoverance #academicsky @actioninhighered.bsky.social See below. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Brad Lander: “It’s pretty outrageous…once people think that they don’t have to follow the law because the president doesn’t, workers suffer, our universities suffer, students & faculty suffer.” St. John’s University can’t just UNrecognize faculty unions after 56 years. That’s not the law works.

Reinstate the Fired Six at VSU! Six tenured & tenure track faculty members were abruptly fired at Virginia State University without cause or any semblance of due process. Sign this petition to demand their reinstatement & a public commitment from VSU to honor tenure & end arbitrary dismissals.

“Two powerful teachers’ unions that have committed at least $27.5 billion to Apollo wrote a letter to the SEC this week calling for federal regulators to investigate Apollo’s “apparent lack of candor” over its relationship with Epstein.” Let’s get this investigation going NOW. #academicsky @aft.org

“Abolishing gender programs & the lessons they have taught, will, Trump & his acolytes hope, undermine our ability not just to condemn, but also to critically analyze the policies & practices they want to impose.” Must Read by Joan Scott, member of the AAUP’s Committee on Academic Freedom.

Reminder: Never capitulate to tyrants. Fight Back. #DefendHigherEd #AcademicSky

Education is a public good for all. When politicians censor classroom teaching in order to narrow the field of topics that students can engage in, they rob them of a stellar world class education. This is what is happening at Texas A&M & other institutions in the state. 🧵

"As we approach the start of the new semester it falls to us to do whatever we can to keep one another safe. Please remember: while ICE agents may enter public areas of the campus, they require a subpoena or a valid judicial warrant to enter private or restricted spaces." – @umn-tc-aaup.bsky.social

In the light of ICE's unjustifiable murder of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, AAUP President Todd Wolfson has released a statement urging that ICE should suspend all operation in American cities. Read full statement at link below 👇 and at the graphic in this thread 🧵 #AbolishICE #AcademicSky

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...

Student activists working in solidarity with AAUP organizers, faculty & staff across the nation has powered key victories over Trump's authoritarian agenda! We are just getting started 🔥 2026 will be the year of mass coalitional action demanding safe, affordable, and democratic campuses for all!

AAUP University of Nebraska - Lincoln is packing the Board of Regents meeting RIGHT NOW to say no to a $27.5 million budget cut and to the closure of 4 academic programs! Catch the livestream of the meeting and the testimonies of organized UNL higher ed workers here👇 nebraska.edu/news-and-eve...

"Restrictions in Texas, Florida, Hungary & elsewhere are not isolated. They're part of a long battle over what truths will shape the next generation. When universities choose openness, societies move forward. When they choose silence, societies fracture."

Fantastic win in Maryland. As the Trump admin attempts to destroy vital research, @uam-umd.bsky.social is fighting back & winning...& they're not done yet. As they celebrate this win, they're pushing for greater transparency, support for faculty & an academic freedom fund. Faculty, join your union!

Billionaires, who quite often do not see education as a common good, should not be guiding higher education policy. “I kind of yearn,” Mr. Nassirian said, “for the gilded age when billionaires satisfied their extracurricular interests by collecting Fabergé eggs and prized ponies.” #DefendHigherEd

“From attacks on academic freedom to the defunding of life-saving scientific research to arresting peaceful student protesters, Trump’s higher ed policies have been catastrophic for our democracy. We’re excited to build a coalition of workers & students fighting back." – AAUP president Todd Wolfson

For @aaup.org’s podcast, I had the pleasure of speaking with Vineeta Singh, Jennifer Ruth, and Ellen Schrecker about academic freedom and about the work we have to do (organize) to translate writing and thinking and teaching into action. aauppresents.buzzsprout.com/1837772/epis...

💥💥💥 DEFEND HIGHER ED STARTER PACK! We are building a movement to defend US higher education & have created a starter pack of AAUP chapter & ally accounts to follow. Please Share! (This list is not exhaustive. If you have suggestions, please shoot us a DM!) #DefendHighEd ⬇️⬇️⬇️ go.bsky.app/3YidJ7k

The resistance to Trump’s “loyalty oath” compact is growing and growing! ✅MIT ✅Penn ✅Brown ✅UVa ✅Dartmouth ✅USC ✅Arizona 🟩 Vanderbilt 🟩 Texas Organized faculty and workers in higher ed will lead us to victory and towards a better world for our students! #NoLoyaltyOaths #NoKings #DefendHigherEd

Public universities that sign onto Trump's "Loyalty Oath" will violate the constitutional rights of their students.🤯 AAUP General Counsel Veena Dubal breaks down why in this clip from our recent AAUP TV update. @veenadubal.bsky.social #DefendHigherEd

One adjunct professor put it bluntly: “When your next contract depends on staying in bounds, watching what you say is survival.” theconversation.com/college-facu...

🔥 WashU in STL rejects Trump’s loyalty oath compact! 🔥 The resistance cannot be stopped! AAUP chapters and organized higher ed workers across the nation are unified in spearheading this fight—let’s keep it up!

TONIGHT! Join AAUP president Todd Wolfson & AAUP General Counsel Veena Dubal for an update on the AVALANCHE of universities rejecting Trump’s loyalty oath compact & how the compact violates the US Constitution. 7:30PM ET / 4:30 PM PT Live on both IG & YouTube. Link: youtube.com/live/h-H-ETa...

And now there are SEVEN. UofA president Suresh Garimella announced today that the school will reject Trump’s loyalty compact. “Principles like academic freedom, merit-based research funding & institutional independence…must be preserved." Vanderbilt, TX: all eyes on you. 👀 #DefendHigherEd

Scenes from Tampa, Florida today. #nokings @utaaup.bsky.social

Hell yes, Pittsburgh. Love Yinz. No Kings.

The snake is growing. ✊🏽✊🏻✊🏿✊🏾✊🏼 Vanderbilt, Texas, AZ…now’s the time. The world is watching. The resistance is here. #NoLoyaltyOaths #NoKings #DefendHigherEd

Ladies and Gentlemen: WE ARE OUT HERE! Send us your pics & videos! #NoKings #NoKingsAAUP #DefendHigherEd

BOOM! After over a thousand students, faculty, & workers gathered on campus to demand a rejection of Trump’s bribe, UVA SAYS NO LOYALTY OATH! ✊🏼✊🏿✊🏻✊🏾 M.I.T. ☑️ BROWN ☑️ PENN ☑️ USC☑️ UVA ☑️ This is People Power in Action. #DefendHigherEd

⭐️⭐️ Scholars of academic freedom agree: “To immunize ideas based on political standards is to impose an unacceptable test of ideological conformity. Nothing could be further from the spirit and ideals that we, despite our differences, seek for American higher education.” ⬇️

Four down. Five to go. Let’s go. Join our National Teach-In on Trump’s Loyalty Oaths. Register Here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #DefendHigherEd