DOGE was A LOT less likely to cancel contracts from companies that donated money to Republicans than companies that donated to Democrats.

"no statistically or substantively significant bias against conservative students in efforts to establish politically-oriented registered student organizations (Study 1) or secure campus space for a guest speaker to lecture on political issues (Study 2)" link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Trump offering states a "deal" like the higher ed compact that would vastly and unconstitutionally expand the federal government's powers (in this case, over election administration)

Kudos to @djpressman.bsky.social of the UConn AAUP who is quoted. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.

Today we, a supermajority of Registered Nurses at Cayuga Medical Center, are proud to announce that we are forming a union with @CWAUnion and have formally requested voluntary recognition.

I think it’s important to insist on recalling, at all available opportunities, that this was specifically an attack on a trans instructor over an assignment about gender. Neither of those details are incidental; they are the center of the story

They’re not perfect, but golly, public universities are one of the best engines of economic mobility we have

“Today’s rushed appointment of Scott Beardsley as University of Virginia president by UVA’s Board of Visitors, with little meaningful faculty input, is an affront to the entire UVA community in a time of crisis.” — joint statement from @proftwolf.bsky.social & @rweingarten.bsky.social

Please continue to sign our petition actionnetwork.org/petitions/pr...

It’s now a thing that when your institution gets shot up, largely because one political party refuses to limit firearms, that same political party will then seize the opportunity to come for you viciously with lies and try to destroy the institution

The New School owns about a billion dollars worth of art, most of which is not on display. They could sell the two Warhols they own and raise $100 million tomorrow. But they’d rather close academic departments.

Rather than heeding calls for a fair and transparent process, the UVA Board of Visitors rushed the appointment of a new university president with little meaningful faculty input. It's an affront to the entire UVA community. Read my & @proftwolf.bsky.social's statement ⬇️ www.aft.org/press-releas...

It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines. It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States. And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).

“OU’s decision to place an instructor on administrative leave following a routine grading dispute—& subsequent failure to defend her from harassment & discrimination…raises serious concerns about the University’s commitment to educational standards, academic freedom, & instructor safety.”

Sending love and solidarity to all our colleagues at Brown. Gun control is an education issue. How can we teach and expect our students to learn with the specter of mass shootings hanging over classroom?

We're finally here. We all thought that surely some other effort would already be under way (remember "Cornell Matters"?) Late start. Deal was just around the corner. Even the petition group was too late. Don't think it would've swayed them. We're now stepping up to make sure things don't get worse.

Note that it was the @aaup.org and faculty standing up for themselves, not UCLA as an institution, that successfully went to court to arrest Trump’s overreach here.

This -- a model bill to effectively decimate non-STEM research by requiring 3-3 teaching loads outside of "STEM or Americanism and western civilization" -- seems...extremely bad but also quite plausible.

NEW: Trump’s DOJ Pressured Lawyers to “Find” Evidence That UCLA Had Illegally Tolerated Antisemitism An investigation by ProPublica and @chronicle.com reveals how the U.S. government ignored due process to gin up its attack on the University of California.

Sign on to this petition demanding that management at The New School stop the devastating budget cuts, which propose a massive layoff of 40% of full-time faculty⬇️ @newschoolaaup.bsky.social

Massive turnout of organized higher ed workers to protest the brutal austerity measures proposed by The New School management ✊ @newschoolaaup.bsky.social

"Hundreds rallied outside the New School during a board meeting today to protest sweeping faculty and program cuts that many say will be devastating to the century-old institution’s progressive social research mission." @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/hundreds-ral...

One theme here is the speed of American institutional collapse. “It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”

If you've noticed that ChatGPT is improving, it's probably because I've spent so much time grading its work.

“We are sold the myth that the language of legality is preferable to the language of morality because it is impartial and fixed. But as this whole dispute makes plain, that is least apt to be true precisely when it matters most.” Joseph Margulies on Trump’s murders in the Caribbean:

On Florida's DOGE request to review course materials: “Faculty members are demoralized and scared because it’s not just this one thing. They also feel like they need to catch up with these draconian restrictions on their speech on a weekly basis now." — @uff-fsu.bsky.social President Robin Goodman

AAUP University of Nebraska - Lincoln is demanding that UNL Leadership and Board of Regents stop proposed cuts to academic programs and vote NO on December 5! Program closures put key industries at risk, threaten students' futures and harm us all. Sign the petition below to stop the cuts! 👇

Professors have launched a Political Action Committee! We are going to fight for the legislation that all faculty, students, staff, and higher ed workers deserve. A new future for higher education is possible. Join us in the fight!

It sucks that meeting a new class now involves not just going over the syllabus, setting expectations, and trying to establish a rapport, but also trying to deduce whether any of your new students are vigilante right wing operatives out to seek viral controversy at the expense of your job

The AAUP chapter at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln is organizing a week of action to fight devastating budget cuts! UNL is proposing to slash around 27 million dollars and to close 4 programs at the university. These cuts will be disastrous. Let's stand with AAUP - UNL and stop the cuts!

“We encourage concerned alumni to withhold from NU money to pay off Trump’s extortion and to donate to the AAUP Foundation, which is successfully supporting litigation in defense of academic freedom” academeblog.org/2025/12/01/s...

Agree that it's a debasement of academic standards, but a minor correction: the instructor who was put on administrative leave is a graduate student, not a professor. In some ways this is worse. This one incident could derail their academic career before it even starts.

The grading seems beside the point, to Turning Point, which says in their statement on X, "We should not be letting mentally ill professors around students." So, no trans staff, period. (Link with "paper" and grading response: x.com/TurningPoint...)

Fuck, Northwestern just caved. Reading the deal now. ( www.northwestern.edu/president/do... )

ICYMI AAUP is starting a PAC news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...

“After one full year of negotiations, Penn administrators have failed to agree to a contract that includes fair wages, improved benefits, and strong support for international workers." ow.ly/whj050XxuqI

ICYMI: Staff of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, NY, Petition NLRB for a Union Vote uaw.org/staff-of-the...

NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research. Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪

“We were hopeful that the UC system would defend itself legally,” says Veena Dubal, general counsel to the AAUP. After UCLA published the administration’s 27-page list of demands in August, she says, the AAUP decided it couldn’t wait any longer: “We couldn’t not sue, they were so outrageous.”

The Trump administration is demanding, in effect, a list of Jewish faculty, staff, and students at Penn. So far, Penn is resisting the subpoena. Please sign this petition in support of their resistance! actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...

"In its pursuit of a Jewish professor teaching a course on Gaza, Cornell mirrored the tactic that Trump used to extort Cornell: treat criticism of Israel as discrimination and use the language of civil rights to punish views the institution finds inconvenient."

AAUP-TAMU-CS statement regarding BOR gender and race restrictions. This fight is not over! We will continue to speak the truth, continue to defend our students, and continue to resist political efforts to distort education at Texas A&M.

BREAKING: A federal judge ordered public schools in Texas to remove displays of the Ten Commandments in their classrooms.

WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)

Cornell alums (and others) are encouraged to sign a petition organized by the recently-formed Cornell Courage: cornellcourage.fillout.com/letter1

Cornell has released a FAQ addressing concerns about the recent deal. The reassurance here is… not very reassuring. The real answer is “nothing.” info.cornell.edu/executive-or...

"An important lesson we can draw from the new report is that our failure in higher education to defend, without giving any ground, pro-Palestinian speech has proven to be not just costly, but nothing less than an existential threat." Dan Segal on the AAUP-MESA Report. wp.me/p8xr4h-dit