Sharing. Because we need to know. Also because “John Brown Gun Club”.

The Cornell AAUP executive committee calls on Cornell to revise their "Fighting Antisemitism" webpage to clarify the distinction between criticism of Israel or Zionism and antisemitism & remove all mentions of disciplinary action taken against students who were not accused of antisemitism.

Really need to emphasize that the faculty Senate committee reviewed the case, determined he should not be punished, and the admin unilaterally overrode that decision. De-democratization of the university inevitably leads to erosion of academic freedom

In today's "fighting antisemitism" news, Cornell has suspended a Jewish professor and cancelled his classes because they disagreed with his political views

Think of this as equivalent to removing the merit system from government employment. Your tax dollars deployed to serve the goals of a personalist authoritarian system. All the talk about banning DEI because of merit shown to be nonsense when they also remove merit-based processes.

Yes, we are alarmed about unlawful, transphobic censorship in the Texas Tech System. Join AAUP and AFT in the fight for academic freedom and free speech! ✊🏽 #LetTeachetsTeach #LetStudentsLearn

“There is no state or federal law that prohibits instruction on gender identity in college classes.“ This sentence is essential. They aren’t even bothering to pass laws now. The SB17 law in Texas specifically exempts instruction! They are just making things up and calling it law.

@utaustinaaup.bsky.social President Pauline Strong: “At a time when the University is promoting civics education, it is shocking that the University is instituting such an undemocratic form of governance. What message does this give our students? We strongly urge President Davis to reconsider…” 🔥

Richard Kahlenberg, who’s argued to realign affirmative action away from race and towards social class, helped devise a race-blind College Board tool to identify prospects in low-income, high-crime neighborhoods. But the Trumpies shut that down, too. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/09/24/t...

The thing regular people don’t often grasp about ‘academic freedom’ is that if you don’t allow experts to research & teach in their fields of expertise, guided by their professional judgment & decades of training, you have effectively given up on the concept of knowledge & shut down your university

Texas is limiting the discussion regarding transgender people in 5 universities. It is now banned to acknowledge trans people exist in the classroom. www.texastribune.org/2025/09/26/t...

hoping this sets important precedent for the apparently SIX faculty in Florida so far who have been fired

Important and illuminating new @aaup.org report on the administration’s weaponization of Title VI: www.aaup.org/news/new-aau...

The individual cases may vary, but the pattern of attacks on our freedoms is clear. We should condemn both political violence and political interference on free speech and academic freedom. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/u...

“If the leaders of these universities, charged with defending academic freedom, and the leaders of our state, charged with defending the Constitution and its free speech guarantees, cannot find a fraction of [Homer] Rainey’s courage, then all of us must do so.” ✊

Grateful to my colleagues next door at Barnard, Professors Castelli and Callahan of the Barnard @aaup.org, and brilliant writer Jhumpa Lahiri for these clear and principled words. We all know what it means to support real freedom of speech on and off campus. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/o...

This is an absolutely terrific piece from @texastribune.org and reinforces my belief that the best coverage of right-wing cancelations occur at the local level, after years of the national media focusing on threats from the left. www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/t...

Do any of the professors or journalists or teachers also get their jobs back or nah

The federal government has censored the work of dozens of scientists, including work by my lab, on the impacts of climate change on Acadia National Park. Signs have been removed from Cadillac and Great Meadow. They’re also removing signs about the Wabanaki’s sacred connections to Cadillac.

Walsh is a retired four star general, former member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, held a senior position in the CIA, and was on the board of a major defense contractor. That is who is being accused of "leftist ideology." If it wasn't clear the target is not "leftist ideology" it's higher education.

In miserable times, people ask: what can I possibly do as an individual? The answer: not a lot, except join other individuals. Solidarity is where power is to be found. Join a union. @cornellaaup.bsky.social

🔔 Texas A&M AAUP statement on the firing of a senior lecturer following a lecture on gender identity: “The appearance of these actions suggests a clear disregard of the rights of faculty + sends a chilling message to the entire academic community in TX.” aaup-texas.org/blog/f/aaup-...

I particularly love the "In Oklahoma, we will continue to put students before political indoctrination agendas." at the end of a document promising to punish anyone who did not participate in a political indoctrination mandated by the state

LMAO WUT

Cancelling Disney+ and boycotting Target are excellent. But nothing will do more than what we can do together. Join a union. Solidarity is the power we really have as individuals. Nothing could be weaker than the feeble might of one. It’s the union makes us strong. @cornellaaup.bsky.social

Today in our national political horse race between rapidly consolidating authoritarianism & the "normal" laws of American political gravity. 14 months to 2026. Still unclear which horse wins. But it's hard to consolidate personalist authoritarian rule when you are this wildly unpopular.

"Enough is enough. Texas must allow faculty and college students to explore freely the breadth of human knowledge, and administrators must support us in that time-honored quest." – Pauline Strong, President @utaustinaaup.bsky.social #AcademicFreedom #AcademicSky @texasaaup.bsky.social

The American Federation of Teachers is seeking a preliminary injunction that would force the department to resume student loan forgiveness.

IU's administration deemed a Palestinian art exhibit a security risk, yet allowed and promoted a vigil for Kirk, a controversial figure. This inconsistency raises questions about whether university resources are used to protect free expression or are instead privileging some viewpoints over others.

www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/t... More detailed, extremely troubling account of the debacle at Texas A&M

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Virtual Power Lunch: Join us, Wed, Sept 1-2 on Zoom. Topic: Contingent Faculty Advocacy. Registration link here: www.aaup-sc.org/single-post/... 🧵 1/5

Loyola Marymount just declared its faculty union doesn’t exist anymore. Non-tenure track professors say the Catholic university walked away from bargaining talks using a religious exemption to avoid federal labor laws—something labor advocates say has never happened before.

NEW: I tracked three dozen teachers, professors and other school staff who've been forced from their job or stepped away due to their comments on Charlie Kirk and his killing Republican lawmakers are increasingly getting involved, pushing for firings www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Yes there will be a NO KINGS Event in Ithaca. No we are not on the map yet. We are still in the middle of getting the necessary permits and this time around the NO KINGS organizers will not let us put an event on the map until we can disclose the address. So please save the date and stay tuned.

I was asked to speak about the Bill of Rights by my friends at @tcplny.bsky.social, Ithaca's great public library. I agreed-- because apparently now I'm a legal historian. 🙄 The audience kept me on my toes and up at the front of the room for nearly 2 hours, so watch/listen at your own risk.

Thousands call out UC leaders following UC Berkeley’s ‘capitulation’ to federal government www.dailycal.org/news/campus/... @dailycal.bsky.social

A&M and Texas higher ed solidly in the situation that Florida is in after MAGA nixed the former U Michigan President for a job. Unlikely that credible academic leaders who believe in academic freedom will apply for positions. Being conservative is not enough. They want MAGA die-hards.

Welsh's predecessor Jennifer Bank resigned after regents effectively cancelled the hire of a journalism professor for being seen as too supportive of DEI, and a health expert was suspended for criticizing state policies. Banks lost the confidence of faculty. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-demise...

President of Texas A&M resigns. This is the second Texas A&M President chased out of College Station in two years as a result of right wing politicians and activists attacks on academic freedom. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

The administration has offered no credible evidence that Khalil is a threat. He was a barely visible actor voicing views that ran contrary to the government and that is why he is being deported.

UAW 4811 Statement on Disclosure of Names to Trump Administration

Today, a small but mighty group of @aft.org and @aaup.org higher ed workers are on the Hill for the budget our communities deserve: no cuts to research, no cuts to student aid 💪

Want to weigh in yourself for fair funding? Send a letter to Congress here and join our fight to save student aid and research funding

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!