Holiday Gifts that Help Refugees & Immigrants Thanks to a ton of creativity and initiative from Pierre Wolfe, Meredith Benson and SJ Sevell, we have a fun fundraiser for CRIS! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

ready, set, go: real schools seeing real market advantage in real classes with real brains “Artificial Intelligence may be able to write you a song, develop a presentation or help you write a script...But MSU is real experts with real answers. No AI needed.” bridgemi.com/quality-life...

“We’ve tried to not have to do it, but we've got direct orders,” the masked ICE agents told them www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/i...

Spotify is helping ICE recruit more agents to infringe our rights and terrorize our communities. Stop paying for or using the app until Spotify stops running ads for ICE: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky

Ryan Skinner, Director of OSU’s Humanities Institute, celebrates the work of faculty and units in the arts and humanities in this open letter. Ryan serves as Vice-President of AAUP-OSU. humanitiesinstitute.osu.edu/news/praise-...

"As a historian of drugs, I can tell you that this argument is wrong in almost every way. There is no wholesome, traditional drug-free America that we can return to." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/o...

"Any proposed agreement should have been presented to the University Faculty & other governing bodies...The Cornell administration’s acceptance of this agreement without any faculty governance involvement is a betrayal of shared governance structures. " - AAUP Cornell @cornellaaup.bsky.social

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

House Republicans could force a vote on this deadly, gun lobby-backed bill as soon as the government reopens—we can’t let that happen. Text GUT to 644-33 to tell your lawmakers in Congress: Don’t gut our gun safety laws. Oppose a federal concealed carry mandate.

Higher education is a public good, not a political football. It's time to make our voices heard and demand our elected officials protect this vital institution. Add your voice to ours! Tell Congress to invest in our future. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAKJ... @AFTHigherEd.bsky.social @AAUP.org

Seems like a good day for big ideas.

The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout: Humanities majors killed on the job market 1) Mamdani- Africana Studies 2) Spanberger -French 3) Sherill - Global History

You African Studies majors out there: you too can become mayor of New York City!!!

"Department of Defense (DOD) officials told Democratic lawmakers in a brief on the U.S. military’s strikes against boats off the coast of northern South America that the military is not identifying the occupants of the boats before they bomb them."

Apropos of nothing, let me celebrate Anna More's fantastic Norton Critical Edition of Sor Juana's Selected Works. Terrific edition and a great selection of the recent scholarship on a complex figure. wwnorton.com/books/978039...

🚨BREAKING: On the 44th anniversary of Ohio’s death penalty law taking effect, elected officials who initiated it are fighting for its repeal. 20+ former lawmakers sent a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee urging them to pass SB 133 and abolish capital punishment in Ohio. ⚖️

"Spanish remains my language for alarm and stress, and this is a moment for both." Excellent and moving piece by Carlos Lozado about language, belonging, and what the Constitution should be doing for us all. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/o...

#NoKings #NewHaven @maddow.msnbc.com @hcrichardson.bsky.social

No Kings in Lansing, MI!

A Chicago-style No Kings Day. #NoKings

UVA has rejected the compact! And on the heels of a 1000 person rally today. When we organize we win!!! First public university to reject Trump’s poisonous loyalty oath. ❤️❤️ cvillerightnow.com/news/208802-...

Jairo Fúnez is a professor of curriculum studies at Texas Tech University. He was suspended after a campaign by rightwing media & a weaponized Title VI complaint over private social media posts. He received overwhelming outside support, offering key lessons on collective organizing & solidarity.

That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

In town near me, a 13 yo was abducted by ICE and sent to a facility in Virginia. He is sleeping on a concrete floor with an aluminum sheet for a blanket, and is being held with adults. He calls his mother crying. I can’t imagine how traumatized this child is. 1/ www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Trump’s “Loyalty Oath” would let him and his unqualified bureaucrats run our colleges and universities. We must demand that our schools reject the regime’s blackmail attempts by committing to uphold freedom of speech and provide an affordable, safe education for all. 👇

Over 100 Brown U students & 20 faculty members gathered outside the campus today to demand that the university reject Trump’s loyalty oath compact. Professors & students taped their mouths shut to symbolize the compact’s threat to free speech, #academicfreedom & diversity of thought. #DefendHigherEd

Glad to see we’re united against the “compact.” For one, I love USC’s cosmopolitanism. I’m proud to have directed dissertations by students from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the U.S., and every term I love having awesome students from China, India, and many other places. Fight on!

"The federal government should not, under any circumstances, dictate who goes to college, what can be researched, or learned, and what can or can’t be the subject of critical academic inquiry." - AFT President @rweingarten.bsky.social & @aaup.org President @proftwolf.bsky.social

This case … squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us.” “The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally ‘yes, they do’. — Judge William G. Young #AAUPvRubio

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

“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.”

The #Ohio Democrats' proposed maps are very impressive They follow all aspects of our state Constitution (novel concept) but would also create districts that are ACTUALLY FLIPPABLE by BOTH PARTIES! We could hold our legislators accountable! 🥹 Read more: ohiohouse.gov/news/democra...

VICTORY: The City of Chicago, represented by Everytown Law and co-counsel, will proceed to discovery in its case against Glock. Glock has been selling pistols that are especially easy to convert into illegal machine guns for decades. This is a major step forward in holding Glock accountable.

Ohio State University must permit students to think critically, speak boldly, and dissent without fear of expulsion, even if the viewpoints expressed are offensive to the Trump administration, or to the sensibilities of the majority. See you in court. abc6onyourside.com/news/local/a...

The rampant violations of academic freedom and intrusions on extramural speech are escalating rapidly. Faculty members have the right to speak or write as citizens, free from institutional censorship or discipline. Expression of opinion as a citizen does not constitute grounds for dismissal.

Today, VP Vance told Americans to get their neighbors fired for speaking negatively about #CharlieKirk The government can't (yet) arrest you for #FreeSpeech, so they're pressuring your employers & neighbors to punish you instead Their goal is to create a culture where we're afraid to speak freely

Here’s the question for Ohio: 👉 Why haven’t Mike Carey, Mike Turner, or Warren Davidson signed the petition yet? If they believe in transparency and accountability, there should be nothing stopping them from joining.

If you are fired or punished for expressing your opinion:

You need to know what might be coming. Trump could have brought the nation together to confront political violence after the murder of Charlie Kirk. Instead he appears to be preparing to use the shooting as a pretext to destroy his political opposition and consolidate power.

“41 states allow permitless open carry, and nearly 30 allow permitless concealed carry. This trajectory leads to a society where firearms could be everywhere, and where neither officers nor ordinary citizens can tell the difference between a law-abiding gun owner and the next shooter.”- Nick Suplina

"President Walsh should reconsider and reverse course, reinstate the campus leaders he sidelined, and reassure all faculty that their ability to teach will not be sacrificed to political whims." #AcademicFreedom #DefendHigherEd www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

The AAUP notes with great alarm the rash of recent administrative actions to discipline faculty, staff, & student speech in the aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk. 1/4

These firings, with zero due process, are violations of widely accepted principles of academic freedom & are completely unacceptable. College & university administrators MUST NOT exploit these shocking events to censor protected speech & concentrate their own power. www.wsmv.com/2025/09/12/t...

I know there’s a lot going on but just days ago our government dropped a bomb on a boat killing everyone on board. They said a whole lot of stuff about why they did it without producing any evidence. And now no one is talking about it. That’s messed up. We can’t let them sweep this under the rug.

We have failed our children.

Todd Wolfson, AAUP President, echoing the position of his organization, said guns should not be permitted on college campuses. It impedes efforts to have productive discussions on important & controversial issues when “somebody’s got a weapon on their hip,” he said.

"It is appalling that a university professor, her dean, & her department chair have been removed from their positions based on viral video clips & an online outrage machine stirred by state politicians & the governor himself."

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

Our colleague and AAUP-OSU member Elissa Washuta, director of American Indian Studies, spoke to WOSU about OSU’s ban on land acknowledgements and why it has a “chilling” effect on our teaching. Link to article follows.

ICE is a very poorly regulated militia using guns to terrorize people in service to government tyranny. SCOTUS refusing to recognize that is beyond infuriating.