@uam-umd.bsky.social with @senbillferg.bsky.social we need him to lead on passing our bill for collective bargaining rights for ALL faculty across Maryland. #highereducation #laborrights

read about why our bill is important! pls. read & share! @uam-umd.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/uam-...

This is what we have been saying for years!!!

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

🚨🚨🚨 NEW AAUP Report Analyzes Trump Admin Weaponization of Title VI to Undermine Civil Rights Protections. #Academicfreedom #AcademicSky #DefendHigherEd

United Academics of Maryland (UAM) was in the house at the @mddems.bsky.social Prince George's - Talk-Back Tour last week. We were there to tell ALL MD dems we need them to lead on passing our bill for collective bargaining rights for ALL MD faculty. We hope you will make that commitment. 1/2

United Academics of Maryland (UAM) was in the house at the campaign launch of Delegate Mark Edelson last week. We were there to tell him we need him to lead on passing our bill for collective bargaining rights for ALL faculty across Maryland. We hope you will make that commitment, Del. Edelson 1/1

United Academics of Maryland (UAM) was in the house at the campaign launch of @senbillferg.bsky.social last week. We were there to tell him we need him to lead on passing our bill for collective bargaining rights for ALL faculty across Maryland. We hope you will make that commitment, Senator. 1/2

We are expanding our fight this year to get our collective bargaining bill passed in the MD legislature. As part of this expanded campaign, we will be showing up wherever our politicians show up in the community to let them know they need to do much better in supporting our bill this year. 1/2

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👇

Our president, @karinrosemblatt.bsky.social, and member, Matthew Miller, make a brief appearance in this new ad by @aft.org & @aaup.org marking the launch of their joint campaign to protect higher education from the Trump admin’s attacks.

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!

“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.”

Colleges and universities save lives, build futures, and power our economy. Our campaign with @AAUP.org is to strengthen higher education for everyone, regardless of ideology, because #HigherEdBenefitsEveryone. spectrumnews1.com/wi/milwaukee...

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

"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...

“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

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 researchers on federal funding are getting hammered right now, for the crimes of tracking CO2 or making medicine. At UMD, thats hundreds of NTT workers. This week @uam-umd.bsky.social demanded our prez and provost provide money and resources for these folks. 'No' is not an option.

advisory to academic workers from @aaup.org @uam-umd.bsky.social www.aaup.org/news/advisor...

Wild crowd for a Friday afternoon membership meeting. We're gonna win. If you're at UMD, join @uam-umd.bsky.social. If you're elsewhere in the state, DM me and I'll hook you up with organizers on your campus.

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.

“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...

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

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? 🤔

🚨🚨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...

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...

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

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.

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...

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.

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

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 ✊🏼✊🏾✊🏻✊🏿✊🏽

“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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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.

Todd Wolfson, AAUP President, warned of a more “militant” response on campuses in the fall – including possible mass strikes. “We’re going to need to politicize this fight. It’s not an economic strike on our job conditions – it’s a political strike for the future of the sector.” #DefendHigherEd