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? 🤔

🚨What has happened at Texas A&M this week should concern every Texan. Not only has the integrity of academic freedom come under fire, but the due process rights of a faculty member have been trampled at the urging of state politicians + the governor himself. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Universities must be bastions of open inquiry, not battlegrounds for partisan intimidation. Please sign & share.

A new episode of our special series Academic Freedom on the Line with the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom focuses on university governing boards & academic freedom! Raquel Rall and Demetri Morgan join us to explain governing boards and strategies for decision-making. Check it out👇

Here's a really handy "Back to School" toolkit from @aaup.org @aft.org with resources for campus organizing, defending academic freedom, promoting racial justice, and supporting international communities. Great go-to guide, and includes several resources created by #CDAF. Solidarity.

From historian & AAUP Academic Freedom Committee member Joan Scott: “…the stakes we have in a democratic system of education are always under threat. For those of us who value it, the fight for its preservation is an urgent, if never-ending, challenge.” #DefendHigherEd

another day and another professor in Texas is fired. This time it is a historian from Texas State fired for comments he made at a conference. If you are a faculty member protect yourself. Join @texasaaup.bsky.social in Texas and @aaup.org nationwide www.president.txst.edu/communicatio...

🚨🚨A second public university professor, this time tenured, has been fired immediately by Texas State University following political pressure. This cannot continue. www.president.txst.edu/communicatio...

“As we consider how to ‘defend’ academic freedom, I think it is important to admit when it has been lost. Perhaps one day it may return, but at least for now, academic freedom is no longer present at one of the largest public institutions in the country.” ⬇️⬇️

Remember this: It was never about antisemitism. It has always been about taking control of higher ed institutions and bending them to the will of authoritarians. #DefendHigherEd

Our president out in the streets for Labor Day! Join @aaup.org and let's organize together.

Happy Labor Day to All Workers Everywhere! Now is the Time to Organize! Fight! & Win! #LaborDay #WorkersDeserve

Celebrate labor day by joining a union! If you are a faculty member, join @aaup.org.

The AAUP believes that unions provide the best way for higher education workers to fulfill our duty to the wider public to ensure higher education contributes to the common good. Happy Labor Day! #DefendHigherEd

From Durham, NC to Washington, LA, Chicago, Boston, & dozens of cities in between, higher ed workers stood up today for the freedom & independence of higher education, because the future of our democracy depends on it. #LaborDay #DefendHigherEd #WorkersOverBillionaires @ncaaup.bsky.social

“There is a huge disconnect between Trump’s pro-worker rhetoric and the policies he’s putting in place. The gulf is enormous. In his second term, he’s been absolutely, brazenly anti-worker.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

We Out Here! AAUP & @aft.org members from coast to coast are out in the streets this #LaborDay standing on business & raising the voices of higher ed workers as we continue to resist an unprecedented wave of attacks. Join Us! #DefendHigherEd ✊🏼✊🏾✊🏻✊🏿✊🏽

If you're unionized: join your union. If you've already joined: go to a meeting, or organize one with your coworkers. If you're not unionized: talk to a group of workers on your campus who is, or a friend at another campus who is and help you make connections. Get moving.

This. This. This. We need a lot more faculty to take this step: prioritize organizing to defend higher ed. Higher ed isn't going to defend itself. Writing a really angry letter or signing a petition won't either. You need to join @aaup.org & start organizing w/ us to build political power.

If we are going to beat back Trump admin's attack on higher ed & remake our sector to be even better, we need many more faculty like Terence Tao who make the hard decision to put career advancement on the back burner & commit to organizing & fighting for higher ed. Join @aaup.org & get organizing.

AAUP President @proftwolf.bsky.social in the @theguardian.com: "This is obviously the most intense assault on higher education by the federal government in the history of the United States...We’re going to need to politicize this fight... it’s a political strike around the future of the sector."

"You’re basically knee-capping that younger generation" @isaackamola.bsky.social on widespread job dissatisfaction in academia. Faculty working conditions are student learning conditions! hechingerreport.org/a-great-defe...

The University of Oregon faculty collective bargaining agreement explicitly requires that the president must follow "university procedures providing for faculty…input. Regardless of their specific role, all workers who stand to be adversely affected should have the right to be heard. 5/

Trump's Dept of Ed has released the preordained findings of its "investigation" into GMU, which we predict they will use to supplant our successful president with a Trump/Youngkin ally. This is our statement in response. We will fight for the integrity of GMU. drive.google.com/file/d/1Joog...

International students are struggling to obtain visas or declining acceptance due to fears stoked both by the govt’s ideological deportation policy & by the seemingly arbitrary detention of students. The long-term impacts of these trends on the vitality of US higher education cannot be understated.

“Our diversity efforts are designed to expand opportunity and build inclusive excellence — not to exclude or advantage any group unlawfully."

AAUP President Todd Wolfson denounces planned academic cuts at the University of Oregon, laying out several concerns. @uauoregon.bsky.social 🧵

Exactly. We, as faculty, need to build power and fight. Join @aaup.org and get in touch if you want organizing support! Let's do this together.