What I really want in a lawyer is a bad negotiator

White supremacy isn’t going down easy in America. Pentagon to Curb Ties With Top Universities and Think Tanks www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...

Every worker deserves paid sick days and guaranteed job security while recovering from illness or a catastrophic personal event. But 58% of @csuaaup.bsky.social courses are taught by part-time workers, who have none of that. -- Tim Parrish on expanding paid leave benefits to part-time faculty

The rate of destruction of U.S. science is just senseless. It's willful, still senseless.

775 signatures over the past day. Let's make it at least 1000. It's a small thing but it matters. We have to keep pushing for some semblance of accountability. Thanks for the support to those who’ve circulated and signed already

Congrats to @ncaaup.bsky.social & all who fought against this surveillance policy that would've allowed admin to hijack microphones in the classroom for secret recordings. This move would've chilled classroom discussion & suppressed students' willingness to ask questions & take intellectual risks.

NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26) Directorates to follow 1/10

What DHS did at Columbia is outrageous. Universities must not become extensions of immigration enforcement or sites of intimidation. The AAUP & AFT stand with students, faculty and campus communities demanding accountability and the protection of fundamental rights. www.aft.org/press-releas...

NYT: Immigration Agents Arrest Student Inside Columbia Building, School Says By Sharon Otterman Claire Shipman, the university’s acting president, said that the federal officials had misrepresented themselves to gain access. GIFT LINK!

BREAKING: Columbia student kidnapped by DHS! Early this morning, DHS agents entered a Columbia Residential building under the guise of searching for a “missing person” and abducted a student without any intervention. This took place just one day after our ICE off Campus rally. 🧵

@dorfonlaw.bsky.social on why Kansas' new anti-trans law should be tossed out as unconstitutional animus. www.dorfonlaw.org/2026/02/kans...

Update: They passed it. We witnessed and walked out.

“The level of fear mongering is at a fever pitch,” said Lina-Marie Murillo, a professor in reproductive health. “They’re going to lose a deeply engaged and educated citizenry, but I think that’s what they want.” 💯 www.statesman.com/news/educati...

"This shameful attack on the St. John's faculty union betrays the university's history and most deeply-held Catholic values. It's outrageous that religious leaders are joining in the assaults on higher education that are happening nationwide." — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

New York City nurses get a deal, end strike, ratify contract. “The largest nurses strike in New York City history ended this weekend when the last holdouts in the 41-day labor action overwhelmingly voted to ratify a contract and agreed to return to work, officials said." abcnews.com/US/largest-n...

Feel like it should be a big deal that the part of the government that is growing most quickly is teaching its new hires to violate the constitution. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/u...

Today would be a great day to join @aaup.org and fight to defend our sector from radical right-wing ideology! Join AAUP here: www.aaup.org/join Sign and share

Our UT colleagues have the same questions we do.

“Scholarship that challenges white supremacy, colonialism, or state violence is labeled as divisive. Programs rooted in Indigenous, Latinx, and Black knowledge are consolidated, put under review, or dismantled. The result is not balance—it is containment.“ 🔥 www.texasobserver.org/ut-system-ne...

From AAUP NC President Belle Boggs's blog, an explanation of the importance of academic freedom and a call to sign our petition to the UNC BOG not to pass the proposed Code revisions frogtroubletimes.substack.com/p/academic-f...

The University of Texas system has voted to limit 'controversial topics' in class. Where's the academic freedom? "A faculty member is not going to be able do talk about current events without risking being fired. What kind of education is this?" —Brian Evans, President of @texasaaup.bsky.social

February break, so not many people are around Cornell's campus. This is what they missed yesterday. @cornellaaup.bsky.social

Cornell appears to be one of the 14 holdouts. Pleasantly surprised by that! www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

URGENT PETITION: As students, parents, alumni, staff, faculty, and community members, we call on the UNC System Board of Governors to protect academic freedom as defined by the 1940 @aaup.org Statement. BOG: Vote against revisions to Chapter VI of The Code. actionnetwork.org/petitions/pr...

🔔PRESS RELEASE: UT System Board of Regents to vote on new course content restrictions just days after UT Austin collapses ethnic and gender studies departments. 👇 aaup-texas.org/blog/f/ut-re...

Huge win… for UCLA educators and students and elsewhere. It’s important to keep up the fight against this administration’s illegal attempts to censor curriculum and restrict educational opportunity. www.latimes.com/california/s...

As the clock ticks on GETUP-UAW’s strike deadline, administrators are trying to intimidate dep’t chairs into strikebreaking, demanding “continuity plans” for courses. Hundreds of Penn faculty and staff are saying no by signing AAUP-Penn’s no-strikebreaking pledge [1/2]

Every single time a story like this is reported, we must assume that there are many many more that do not.

One reason why public servants have for cause job protections is exactly to protect against this: an expert public servant with years of training fired from their job because they failed to satisfy the personal whims of egotists.

There must be a dozen fireable offenses listed in this piece: *Noem firing civil servants without cause *Her boyfriend using govt resources to boost her profile, punishing officials who would not give him a gun *Massive waste on ads, planes, delayed contracts, pushing favored firms

Important piece on the history of the US government's ideological deportation policies in light of the outcome in AAUP v. Rubio, including crucial quotes from the courtroom testimony of AAUP-Harvard member Bernhard Nickel:

Congratulations to the newly formed AAUP chapter at Williams College! “An overwhelming number of faculty decided that it would behoove us to have more independent organization & to try to stand up for faculty governance, for having our voice heard in the governance of this institution."

Endless legal calvinball making a mockery of the rule of law and the human rights of those being detained

Check out Corinna Mullin's full interview for "Faculty on the Front Lines," a series that documents the stories of AAUP members who share their experiences with partisan interference and violations of academic freedom in higher education. @psc-cuny.org

From the @academemagazine.bsky.social archives: Hank Reichman's "Eight Myths About Tenure." "Tenure, for nearly a century the strongest bulwark in defense of academic freedom, protecting independent scholarship from shifting political winds & whims of scholarly fashion, is under withering assault."

cz.boell.org/en/2023/05/1... Where else were professors stripped of tenure? That would be in right-wing authoritarian Hungary. Make no mistake Gov. Stitt's removal of tenure at Oklahoma regional & community colleges & universities is an authoritarian attack on ideas presented in college classrooms.

Texas A&M ends its women's & gender studies program while hundreds of syllabi remain flagged and censored under top-down review policies. “I have never seen anything like this.” — Dr. Leonard Bright, @tamu-aaup.bsky.social President @texasaft.org @texasaaup.bsky.social @cwa-tseu.bsky.social

The college at which I'm employed, which has signed a contract with the AI firm that stole books from 131 colleagues & me, paid a student to write an op-ed for the student paper promoting AI, guided the writing of it, and did not disclose this to the paper. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...

ICE out of Ithaca! Join us tomorrow at the Bernie Milton Pavilion at 4pm.

Families dig deep to pay for the rising cost of college. They expect an education that prepares them to think critically & lead in a changing world. Professors must defend the student learning experience from politicians that wish to limit classroom learning to a narrow ideological viewpoint.

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. 🧵

More than a year in this has mostly gone as I feared, and in some ways has been worse. But there have been two contrasting surprises: -- The speed and breadth of institutional capitulation -- The courage, ferocity, and resolution of regular people Our strength isn't our institutions. It's us.

I will simply never recover from reading this sentence: "Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."

𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐃𝐨𝐰𝐧, 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐆𝐨! Three of the CUNY Fired Four have been reinstated. We celebrate this victory but will keep fighting until all four PSC members dismissed have been rehired. Send this 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐋𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 to Management today! --> psc-cuny.org/issues/reins...

Tomorrow, we stand together and demand an end to censorship at Texas A&M. No more bans. Students deserve to learn without uncertainty, and faculty deserve to teach without retaliation. Join us. @tamu-aaup.bsky.social @texasaaup.bsky.social @texasaft.org