We have one more week in which to submit comments opposing the proposed changes to OMB rules governing scientific research funding. If you have not submitted a comment, please do so! And please invite your colleagues to do so as well!

The AAUP is at the forefront of key fights against faculty layoffs at St. John's University and contract wins at Rutgers and other universities nationwide. Read more at @insidehighered.com's Labor Watch report.

📣 BREAKING (GOOD) NEWS!‼️ The 2024 lawsuit against Rutgers AAUP-AFT, Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union, AAUP-BHSNJ, AFTNJ, and AFT over the 2023 faculty strike was dismissed with prejudice—affirming public sector unions’ rights to free speech & collective action. Press release: https://loom.ly/xVmkrVA

Union busting....it's disgusting!

📣 BREAKING (GOOD) NEWS!‼️ The 2024 lawsuit against Rutgers AAUP-AFT, Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union, AAUP-BHSNJ, AFTNJ, and AFT over the 2023 faculty strike was dismissed with prejudice—affirming public sector unions’ rights to free speech & collective action. Press release: https://loom.ly/xVmkrVA

“SB 461 requires Ohio’s universities to fund the five new civic centers before anything else — even if they aren’t offering courses that help students graduate or don’t have students enrolled in their programs or courses." —Jennifer Price, Ohio Conference of the AAUP Executive Director

“Have we thought about what we’re doing to our students? This is an uncommonly bad idea because at a time when there are calls for critical thinking, calls for more knowledge about civics…what we’re doing is reducing the amount of time that students have to get that in.” — Kenneth Mash, @apscuf.org

The University of Tennessee at Knoxville reached a $1.9 million settlement with Tamar Shirinian, a former professor who was fired after she criticized Charlie Kirk. Shirinian claimed that the school violated her constitutional rights.

1/ Important new investigative report from my colleague @jbeowulf.bsky.social about "Maestro," advertised as "the AI University" on TikTok, that turns out to be a chatbot bolted onto a failing for-profit business school in order to illegally harvest Pell grants. www.newamerica.org/insights/the...

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Data suggest that it's not a lack of trust in science so much as polarization + a general lack of trust in institutions. When we consider counterfactuals, scientists are actually quite highly trusted. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"An attack on the core values of any Alabama institution of higher education is an attack on the integrity of all, particularly when legislators imply that the funding of constitutionally created universities may also be at risk if they do not comply." —U Alabama AAUP @alabamaaaup.bsky.social

In our & @aaup.org's Blueprint for Strengthening and Transforming Higher Education, we call for robust investment in expanding student support systems to improve retention, completion and basic needs security. www.aft.org/sites/defaul...

Many thanks to everyone we cited who has led the way on this! @standupforscience.net @alliancehighered.bsky.social @elizabethginexi.bsky.social @gregggonsalves.bsky.social @beebrookshire.bsky.social @aaup.org Too many professional and disciplinary associations and advocacy groups to list here.

Prof Danielle Dickens of Spelman College speaks on organizing against white supremacy at HBCUs. #SummerInstitute2025 #OrganizeFightWin

Faculty Unions Slam 3-Year Degrees The @aaup.org and @aft.org came out against three-year degrees after Massachusetts announced plans to adopt them. https://bit.ly/3Re90oO #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

In the face of this shameful ruling on the final day of Pride month, we stand in support of trans athletes at Rutgers & across the country. New Jersey, thankfully, has some of the strongest protections for trans rights in the country. If you would like to learn more: www.aclu-nj.org/app/uploads/...

“Have we thought about what we’re doing to our students? This is an uncommonly bad idea because at a time when there are calls for critical thinking, calls for more knowledge about civics…what we’re doing is reducing the amount of time that students have to get that in.” — Kenneth Mash, @apscuf.org

Compressing or reducing curriculum threatens to narrow students' education at precisely the moment when society needs graduates with stronger critical thinking, communication skills, scientific literacy, & civic understanding. @ProfTWolf.bsky.social @AAUP.org bsky.app/profile/aaup...

“Uncivil, a consortium of scholars and researchers… found that 20 out of the 23 foundations most active in the pluralism and depolarization space also fund conservative policy networks or pro-Israel organizations.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Todd Wolfson & Randi Weingarten on 3-year degrees: "A bachelor's degree should both prepare students for the workforce & provide deep learning, broad intellectual development, & sustained engagement with faculty & peers—not simply the fastest possible route to the labor market." Full Statement:

UMN Board of Regents approves tuition hikes, academic cuts for second consecutive year: “One of the things that we’ve learned year after year is that there is quite a gap between those of us on the front lines, and the people making the decisions about the budget.” —Emma Molls, UMN AAUP VP

Todd Wolfson & Randi Weingarten on 3-year degrees: "A bachelor's degree should both prepare students for the workforce & provide deep learning, broad intellectual development, & sustained engagement with faculty & peers—not simply the fastest possible route to the labor market." Full Statement:

The Trump administration is trying to undermine the process for receiving federal funding for scientific research by using political appointees—instead of independent scientists—to approve research proposals. The @aaup.org and the AFT are mobilizing to fight back.

Sign the petition below to challenge the Trump admin’s proposed accreditation policies that threaten free speech, weaken faculty governance, restrict curricular autonomy, & undermine academic freedom. #AcademicSky

Sign the petition below to challenge the Trump admin’s proposed accreditation policies that threaten free speech, weaken faculty governance, restrict curricular autonomy, & undermine academic freedom. #AcademicSky

Must-read essay. Among its key points, it notes "one of the major flaws with the 'human-in-the-loop' model of AI safeguards: by outsourcing their work to an LLM, humans lose the skills necessary to check the LLM’s output." Follow @ncaaupgip.bsky.social and subscribe to their newsletter!

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Sign the petition below to challenge newly proposed accreditation policies that threaten to chill free speech, weaken faculty governance, restrict curricular autonomy, and undermine academic freedom. @emergencycampaign.bsky.social

Defend Scientific Research, Defend Our Universities, and Defend Our Communities! AAUP NC Call to Action on Proposed OMB Rules and on UNC Institutional Neutrality Policy drive.google.com/file/d/1VtEm... Text follows 1/

“Academic freedom is the foundation of open inquiry. Tenure, shared governance, faculty speech, independent research are conditions under which genuine inquiry happens. Neutrality is a strategy that sometimes serves those conditions, but it’s not the source of those conditions.” —Todd Wolfson

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 — passed after years of nonviolent civil disobedience against racial injustice — is now being used to squash political dissent and student speech at colleges and universities. . @aaup.org insightintoacademia.com/aaup-aft-sta...

United Academics of Maryland's agreement at CCBC is a breakthrough for faculty who fought to attain a real voice, job security & dignity at work. Collective action makes it possible to achieve far more together than we ever could alone @aaup.org @afthighered.bsky.social www.aft.org/news/marylan...

Happening now: kicking off day #2 of @ctaflcio.bsky.social’s #CTLabor26 convention, engaging in #Election2026 to strengthen our #union movement & our democracy. #UnionYES @aft.org @aftteach.bsky.social @afthighered.bsky.social @psrp-aft.bsky.social @afthealthcare.bsky.social @aaup.org @aflcio.org

@chenjerai.bsky.social @aaup.org takes on "intellectual diversity" centers. End game? Republican politicians control the content of classes students take...all in the name of "intellectual diversity" www.instagram.com/reels/DZ_V8o...

Are the many “Intellectual Freedom Centers” being placed on college campuses nationwide really just mandatory ideological indoctrination centers? 🤔 #AcademicSky

Happening now: #union delegates join siblings for @ctaflcio.bsky.social’s #CTLabor26 convention, ready for 2 days aimed at strengthening our democracy for all! #UnionYES @aft.org @aftteach.bsky.social @afthighered.bsky.social @psrp-aft.bsky.social @afthealthcare.bsky.social @aaup.org @aflcio.org

“I think people are naive if they think that lawmakers’ political agenda will be limited to just getting rid of DEI and gender studies programs. It’s really an attack on independent learning.” —Hank Reichman, Former Chair of AAUP's Committee on Academic Freedom & Tenure

Are the many “Intellectual Freedom Centers” being placed on college campuses nationwide really just mandatory ideological indoctrination centers? 🤔 #AcademicSky

“Replicating Trumpism’s refusal to engage with people who are directly affected by specific government decisions, UNC’s Republican-appointed Trustees have become increasingly separated from the concerns and expertise of the university community which they represent.”

Landmark court cases have major long-term consequences for working people. In our latest #Union101, we track what these #SCOTUS decisions mean for public sector unions today. #LaborHistory @aft.org @aftteach.bsky.social @afthighered.bsky.social @afthealthcare.bsky.social @aaup.org

"The new agreement gives workers a 12.6 percent raise over the next three fiscal years, with increases coming from both a merit step system and cost-of-living adjustments. Union members will also get just-cause protection—which means CCBC is prohibited from firing employees without proven reason."

“The combination of the legislature’s ideologically-driven attacks on DEI & CRT, combined with the overblown rhetoric used by many of the Center’s champions, has left the impression that [the] Center is the pet project of a few partisan politicians.” —Hope Metcalf, U of Iowa AAUP Co-President

We're a fighting @aaup.org advocacy chapter with our eyes on growing power on the path to collective bargaining. We're helping our members speak up and make our university better as part of @local6741.bsky.social and @nvaflcio.bsky.social.

The newest episode of Academic Freedom on the Line, "Organizing Lessons from Resisting ICE on Campus," addresses why higher education workers must resist ICE and the rising tide of fascism on and off campus, and get organizing lessons from the front lines. Check it out here ⬇️

The ombudsman position is "certainly in the back of everyone's minds as they're teaching. This is hanging over a lot of folks that someone could report them." — Teresa Klein, Texas AAUP President @texasaaup.bsky.social

The newest episode of Academic Freedom on the Line, "Organizing Lessons from Resisting ICE on Campus," addresses why higher education workers must resist ICE and the rising tide of fascism on and off campus, and get organizing lessons from the front lines. Check it out here ⬇️

The new director of the Center for Intellectual Freedom at the U of Iowa (one of many right wing funded “intellectual diversity” centers popping up on campuses nationwide) will make up to $450K & have “sole & exclusive authority” over every hiring/firing decision at the center. 🤔 #academicsky

Western Michigan University recently announced a "Voluntary Early Separation Program" for faculty this academic year due to "budgetary challenges." "It will be incredibly difficult for students and their families to make decisions about degree programs." —Andrew Hennlich, WMU AAUP President