Should the University of North Carolina system obey right-wing think tanks like the Heritage Foundation & require faculty to make syllabi public? 🤔 Sign this petition & say NO! Academic integrity everywhere is at stake. We're almost at 3,000 signatures—help us get there by signing & sharing.

"...defending one’s right to speak is the essence of our democracy. You don’t lose your constitutional rights when you decide to become a teacher—the Constitution, for it to have any meaning at all, has to work for all Americans, not just some." - @rweingarten.bsky.social @texasaft.org

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Over 2,800 people have signed on to the AAUP petition challenging the requirement for faculty across universities in the North Carolina System to make syllabi publicly available. The petition is still taking signatures: add yours today and say no to political pressure from right-wing think tanks 👇

“We need a higher ed system that’s not rooted in students as customers, but in critical inquiry and the development of smart, thoughtful citizens in a democracy who can see through the lies and stand up for the kind of society we want to build.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

(UNC faculty: Just don't put it in your syllabus.)

Our petition is still up and the number of signatures is growing. Please sign and share with your NC networks! actionnetwork.org/petitions/pr...

It's January 2026. Welcome to the UNC system, where you can soon expect an army of Nick Shirleys to show up in classrooms and harass faculty and students thanks to their dimwitted misunderstanding of publicly searchable syllabi. Or as Peter Hans puts it, this is how we rebuild public trust!

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"The policy is meant to prevent students from learning about topics the current administration deems unacceptable. This will deprive students of a robust education and put targets on the backs of faculty who choose to teach such content, despite the risks." www.citizen-times.com/story/opinio...

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Bari Weiss's censoring 60 Minutes in the name of "building trust" is of a coin with Peter Hans's imposing a pro-doxxing syllabus policy in the name of "rebuilding public trust." They are both the gaslighting actions of political operatives sent to destroy the institutions they lead.

Paper linked below. The grading criteria, given to students in advance, was based on whether the student demonstrated they read the article and if they provided a reaction to some aspect of it. The student made no effort to do either; they blathered about the Bible. drive.google.com/file/d/1qxnV...

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Protect the academic freedom of faculty at the UNC system, and challenge the unreasonable demand of admin to require instructors to publicly post their syllabi, by signing on to the petition below👇 @unc-ch-aaup.bsky.social @uncgaaup.bsky.social @ncaaup.bsky.social

"Providing public access to syllabi during a period of heightened partisanship and rising political violence looks like partisan pandering with a cost." — North Carolina AAUP Link to petition challenging this dangerous decision in thread. Sign on and support faculty at the UNC system!

Excellent essay by Michael Schwalbe on the problem of UNC System Office now asserting that syllabi are works for hire. @aaup.org ncnewsline.com/2025/12/23/c...

iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.

The cuts at the New School in the @nytimes.com. It’s not too late to cut the cuts and stop the clock on this cruel timeline for staff and 40% of full-time faculty www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...

“‘My most daring idea is to refuse,’ she said to applause.”

Restructuring with a hard r

It’s the entire point. There’s no plan to make this meaningful for students. No plan to use it administratively. Its design and implementation signals its only real intent. It’s best and easiest use case is for systematic harassment and to scare faculty into complying in advance.

The fact that the System Office have spent the most time talking about the need to expose syllabus contents to public scrutiny and have offered only nominal arguments about student convenience is really telling. Recall Peter Hand's op-ed, and the blathering about "the public's trust"

“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

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.

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

The UNC System has published the new syllabus policy. It's every bit as bad as you would expect, & as we warned. Poorly thought out. An invitation to bad actors to dox faculty. And serves no educational purpose that could not already be met with existing tools. www.northcarolina.edu/apps/policy/...

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

This will be exacerbated by the new UNC system policy on syllabi as public records

ICYMI: A House vote on the extension of the enhanced premium tax credits is coming in January—but preventing 2026 premium spikes will ultimately depend on Senate action. Learn more: www.americanprogressaction.org/article/prev...

🚨New ep of Unruly Subjects w/ @chenjerai.bsky.social! Featuring an interview about the report, “Discriminating Against Dissent: the Weaponization of Civil Rights Law to Repress Campus Speech on Palestine”, published by @aaup.org & Middle East Studies Association. Listen: pod.link/1849696769/e...

Follow the $$$$$. Where are all the millions going at UNC??? Where are the big allocations? What is being lost with this so-called "efficiency" of expenditures. Get budget savvy. Demand transparency with the budgets and follow that $$$$. @ncaaup.bsky.social

All the centers they’re cutting add up to less than $7 million in spending. UNC athletics budget is $185.4 million for the 2025-26 fiscal year.

This is like the DOGE bros destroying USAID - thinking they're cutting waste while actually inciting cataclysmic harm.

"We can’t build the vision of higher ed that we all want without first standing up to fascism. We are going to have to scale up our organizing to build with other sectors, all under attack in different ways. We need to make militant moves if we’re going to win in this moment." — Todd Wolfson

Sign this petition to support AAUP - Portland State University to convince the governor to invoke a higher ed emergency & use 5% of the $1.2 billion Education Stability Fund to stop the cycle of systemic crisis and mass layoffs at PSU and in Oregon’s public universities. @psuaaup.bsky.social

Earlier this month, HELU Leadership convened in Detroit to connect, reflect, and strategize. We left feeing energized and ready for the work ahead. HELU is building a wall-to-wall, coast-to-coast higher ed labor movement. Join us!!!

WATCH: Adjunct faculty typically aren’t offered employer-sponsored health insurance, leaving many to rely on the Affordable Care Act for coverage. With subsidies set to end, professor Thomas Moomjy & others may face sharply higher premiums - or be forced to go without.

For those working on next semester's syllabi: www.aaup.org/about/progra...

AAUP NC President Belle Boggs has written this powerful essay in response to both the Brown shooting and developments in the UNC system, with an urgent call to action for all of us in NC. Excerpts and action link in thread: 1/ @aaup.org frogtroubletimes.substack.com/p/things-can...

Newest memo demonstrating the claims of financial exigency can‘t be taken seriously drive.google.com/file/u/1/d/1...

Link for supporters to write to the New School administration: actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...

Last week, the New School issued voluntary separation & early retirement offers to 40% of the full-time faculty & the majority of non-union staff. These cuts to the bone are an ideological attempt to decimate historic spaces of critical inquiry & social justice. Share our statement tr.ee/qQBIDCpIuj

In our most recent AAUP TV episode, Jeremy Varon, Prof of History and AAUP The New School Leadership Council member, discusses the university administration's proposal to terminate up to 40% of full-time faculty. The proposed layoffs will be catastrophic for faculty, students, and staff.

Higher ed workers at The New School are rejecting the admin's strategies of divide and conquer to mount a unified challenge to austerity. In this AAUP TV episode, Laura Liu of AAUP-TNS talks about how faculty, students & staff come together despite weaponized employment contracts that divide them.

We need to flood them with letters now. Write today!