Trump’s H-1B Visa Fee Could Strain Universities and Schools “It’s not patriotic,” Dr. Botstein said. “It harms the economy and has nothing to do with excellence.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... “The carrots serve to lure institutions of higher learning into a dark alley where, rather than just waiting with a big stick, the government can put a gun to their heads at any time.”

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NO LOYALTY OATHS IN HIGHER ED! Trump's attacks on our universities are an attempt to consolidate power. This loyalty oath directly undermines our right to academic freedom & goes against every democratic principle our country should uphold. Please click below, sign, & share. #DefendHigherEd

Great piece @insidehighered.com by Robert Post and Tom Ginsburg about the considerable threats posed by Trump's (extortion) "compact" with 9 universities. @aaup.org www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

"We are living through a multi-decade moral panic that’s been manufactured against higher education." @aaup.org @isaackamola.bsky.social

Michel DeGraff, a tenured professor of linguistics at MIT, discusses how his proposal to teach a class on language & decolonization in Haiti, Israel, and Palestine was denied. He faced significant repercussions: he was removed from his department, had a pay raise withheld, and his salary frozen.

Danny Shaw, formerly a professor at John Jay College, reveals that he was fired after being targeted by the ADL, StopAntiSemitism, and Canary Mission. He explains how these organizations orchestrated a doxxing campaign land attempted to discredit his scholarship due to his advocacy for Palestine.

As states like Florida and Texas gut tenure protections for university faculty, many assume the greatest loss is to academic freedom. But tenure is not just about academic freedom. It also is, and has always been, about labor protection. @aaup.org @afthighered.bsky.social @lawcha.bsky.social

AAUP President Todd Wolfson unpacks the dangerous consequences of the Trump administration’s compact, which aims to exert ideological control over universities and colleges. As Wolfson makes clear, this partisan incursion into higher education affects ALL sectors. @proftwolf.bsky.social

“Trump’s restrictions on H-1B visa applications will lead to less lifesaving research, reduced innovation, & diminished competitiveness. This short-sighted policy will hurt every American by slowing research breakthroughs, weakening our economy & putting our global leadership at risk.” —Todd Wolfson

Dwayne has his job back because we organized for it. We fight or we die. Join AAUP today www.aaup.org/join

✊🏼✊🏾✊🏻✊🏿 When we fight, WE WIN!

AAUP President Todd Wolfson and AFT President Randi Weingarten on Trump’s Loyalty Pledge for Colleges and Universities. Now is the time to unite in defense of democracy and higher education! Read full statement below 👇 @aft.org @proftwolf.bsky.social @rweingarten.bsky.social

Say NO to Trump’s loyalty oaths and extortion of our universities! We will NOT throw our students, faculty, and staff under the bus to comply with undemocratic and partisan ideological agendas.

Check out me & @chenjerai.bsky.social & Lorena Grundy of @aaup-penn.bsky.social break down the new Trump compact for higher ed…. Otherwise known as loyalty oaths. This is AAUP TV. @aaup.org @aft.org @higheredlabor.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/RB1FLkR...

Huge win for us! It is your support that enables these victories. Become an @aaup.org member today & help us carry on the fight against the Trump admin's attacks on higher ed.

This is really important. Be sure to check it out!

I joined AAUP because I saw they were one of the few organizations taking a stand. They also organized the lobbying trip I took to DC a couple of weeks ago. If you’re an academic, supporting them is good use of our money.

⬇️ NEWS: “This is a historic ruling that should have immediate implications for the Trump administration’s policies. If the First Amendment means anything, it means the government can’t imprison people simply because it disagrees with their political views." knightcolumbia.org/content/in-l...

Goes without saying that it’s a very good day to join @aaup.org. In light of the amazing work our organization does at defending bedrock democratic values and institutions that are under attack, the monthly dues pay for themselves many times over.

Again and again over the past six months, the AAUP has shown that the key to fighting back against injustice and executive overreach is ... fighting back! There has never been a better time to join AAUP and help protect free speech at all US Universities. When we unite and fight, we win.

WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"

If Harvard bows down to this lawless president, it will cover itself in shame and betray its motto “Veritas.” Don’t pretend to stand for truth if you’re going to surrender to this bully. Appeasement only feeds the beast and puts us all at greater risk.

UNC CH Chapter & NC AAUP statement re Prof. Dwayne Dixon: @aaup.org AAUP NC and UNC-Chapel Hill AAUP condemn the egregious violation of Professor Dwayne Dixon's First Amendment rights to free speech and free association, his Fourteenth Amendment right to due process, and his academic freedom. 1/

Introducing “Faculty on the Frontlines,” a new series from the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom that documents the stories of AAUP members! Over the next 2 weeks, we will spotlight the stories of 10 AAUP members fighting to defend academic freedom. Check out our teaser 🔥

Huge win for us! It is your support that enables these victories. Become an @aaup.org member today & help us carry on the fight against the Trump admin's attacks on higher ed.

This is really important. Be sure to check it out!

Give some love to the @uam-umd.bsky.social & other MD @aaup.org chapters at Towson, UMBC, Coppin, Frostburg, UMES, UBaltimore, Morgan State (prob missed some!) who have been fighting to pass legislation in MD to grant them collective bargaining rights! 1/5

Exactly.

"Look, we are a labor union. We’re going to fight & respond to this moment...We're standing for what we always stood for...a powerful higher-education sector that leads to innovation & social mobility & is a bedrock of our democracy." —Todd Wolfson, AAUP President #DefendHigherEd #AcademicSky

BREAKING: A historic coalition of national & California labor unions led by the AAUP filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging the illegal & coercive use of civil rights laws to attack the University of California system & the rights of their members.

A coalition of higher ed unions jointly filed a lawsuit against the Trump admin for the threats to the University of California including @uaw4811.bsky.social @afscme3299.bsky.social @uptecwa.bsky.social @ucaft.bsky.social @teamsterslocal2010.bsky.social @aaup.org @aft.org @uaw.org and CUCFA.

President Trump’s actions “have caused a pervasive sense of fear and intimidation among UC faculty, students, academic employees, and staff employees,” the lawsuit claims.

Join the AAUP and the AFT in advocating for a better world—one where scientific advancements allow us to overcome treatable issues and to thrive. Contribute by participating in our letter campaign that urges members of Congress to preserve federal funding for science and research. Link below👇

“We will not allow authoritarians to dismantle higher education. We will not allow billionaires to profit while communities suffer. And we will not allow fear to silence students and workers who speak out.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President #DefendHigherEd #HigherEdBenefitsEveryone @aft.org

The new reality that is emerging in Texas is that certain topics or ideas are simply off the table in the classroom. The censorship of academic speech and entire fields of knowledge in service to an ideology poses an unprecedented danger to the future of higher education. #AcademicFreedom

“What’s so striking here...is that this is allegedly all about antisemitism, & almost nothing in the demand letter is actually about addressing antisemitism nor does it even reference or discuss all the things that universities have done to address alleged antisemitism.”

Since returning to office, Trump admin has aggressively cut live-saving federal science programs, medical research, and grants. Today, the AAUP & AFT launched a new campaign to halt these cuts and to support the bipartisan commitment to funding scientific research that saves lives!

WATCH & SHARE: College & university faculty teach classes that transform students’ lives and run labs that result in lifesaving medical research. They create opportunity and strengthen communities. We must defend higher education, not defund it. Learn more: aft.org/higeredbenefitseveryone

University of Chicago AAUP is in the Bsky house! Give them a follow @uchicagoaaup.bsky.social

Featuring Ian Gavigan of @higheredlabor.bsky.social on how the bipartisan neoliberalization of higher ed laid the groundwork for Trump’s all-out assault. Workers must unite on every campus, articulate an alternative vision for the university, and fight to win it.

An important listen on the current state of higher ed and how to both defend it & build a better system in the future! TL;DR: Things are really bad, getting worse, & the only way we are going to change that is to unionize & build power together as a sector. Come organize w/ us & join @aaup.org.

Trump is waging war on higher ed to advance his project to construct a fascist authoritarian regime. Campus workers are uniquely positioned to articulate an alternative vision and wage a united struggle to win it. New Dig w @higheredlabor.bsky.social’s Ian Gavigan www.thedigradio.com/podcast/clas...

“We stand determined to see that Mason—the largest public institution of higher education in Virginia with one of the most diverse student bodies in the United States—remains a university of, by, and for the people.” #DefendHigherEd @aaupmason.bsky.social @bletiecq.bsky.social

IU's new post-tenure review guidelines are a blatant attack on tenure. As professor and AAUP member Jeffrey Isaac points out, the policy is not just poorly designed, but a tool to turn faculty into contract employees, threatening anyone who dissents. jeffreycisaacdesign.wordpress.com/2025/09/06/i...

“Land acknowledgments are not statements on behalf of an issue or cause. Acknowledging the historical and contemporary realities of the university on Indigenous land is not an activist act. It’s a factual statement.”

We can only resist this together. Join AAUP! #DefendHigherEd

The attack on our freedom on campus can't be avoided, it has to be confronted and defeated

www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston... “Gov. Greg Abbott urged Texas A&M to fire the professor seen in the video because they acted “contrary to Texas law,” although he did not say which law the professor had violated.” Could that be because the prof didn’t violate any TX (or federal) law? 🤔