Yet another reason to fight where we stand! We cannot escape the attack on higher ed. Join your AAUP chapter or start one on your campus. ✊ connect.aft.org/app/memberfo...

"The secrecy & force of the changes are akin to the massive disappearances of immigrants that are happening in our streets & to the history of forced disappearances of people around the world who are hunted & targeted for their knowledge & beliefs." — Mariela Nuñez-Janes, VP, UNT AAUP

Check out this episode of @fairmediawatch.bsky.social's Counterspin featuring Karma Chávez, President of UT Austin AAUP, discussing the assault on academic freedom in TX & why faculty & student solidarity is key to fighting back. @texasaaup.bsky.social @utaustinaaup.bsky.social @texasaft.org

The New School's buyout offer is “yet another attempt to intimidate faculty into resigning, to save the university further scrutiny regarding the elimination of programs & firings & to force some full-time faculty to give up rights afforded them by the Faculty Handbook.” @newschoolaaup.bsky.social

The New School's buyout offer is “yet another attempt to intimidate faculty into resigning, to save the university further scrutiny regarding the elimination of programs & firings & to force some full-time faculty to give up rights afforded them by the Faculty Handbook.” @newschoolaaup.bsky.social

As the recent cyber ransom threat by hackers via the Canvas learning management system illustrated, digital security is a real and growing concern. Check out the AAUP and Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom's resources on digital security and a short video here ⬇️

Just want to make sure we’re getting this right: WHO is indoctrinating students?? 🤨 www.kcrg.com/2026/05/20/i...

"When manufactured budget cuts result in the elimination of gender and ethnic studies, academia dies. ... When professors are forced to overcomply with state regulations and university policies in fear of being prosecuted, academia dies. But we will not let it die quietly". #AcademicFreedom

"The secrecy & force of the changes are akin to the massive disappearances of immigrants that are happening in our streets & to the history of forced disappearances of people around the world who are hunted & targeted for their knowledge & beliefs." — Mariela Nuñez-Janes, VP, UNT AAUP

These civic schools are designed to deal a final death blow to faculty governance in general and the humanities in particular, moving teaching and hiring out of departments and into ideological silos. And they’re being aided by taxpayer $ through the Trump NEH.

Expanding ScILL's impact = cratering UNC's reputation even further. Release the report already, Chancellor Roberts! www.chronicle.com/article/gop-...

The US Department of Education is currently overhauling federal accreditation rules for colleges & universities. The April 6, 2026, Proposed Changes to Initial Draft Regulations unacceptably seek to narrow & control what can be taught, learned, & researched on college & university campuses. 🧵 1

The US Department of Education is currently overhauling federal accreditation rules for colleges & universities. The April 6, 2026, Proposed Changes to Initial Draft Regulations unacceptably seek to narrow & control what can be taught, learned, & researched on college & university campuses. 🧵 1

“We need a powerful people’s movement to fight for the strong safeguards that American workers, the American public & the world will need to protect against the vast potential dangers of AI.”

“We need a powerful people’s movement to fight for the strong safeguards that American workers, the American public & the world will need to protect against the vast potential dangers of AI.”

“‘The university and its spirit of academic freedom is survived by those who still insist on asking difficult questions,’ wrote the organizers of the Texas Tech protest. Good for them. Keep asking, and keep fighting. And academic freedom will live another day.” thehill.com/opinion/educ...

Our 1.8M members have at least $29B in retirement assets invested in Apollo via pension funds & additional exposure through funds’ public equity allocations. Why is its CEO using company resources for a private political campaign attacking colleges & universities? giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

This is a critically important article Trump did this to us here at Duke as well (@michaeldgreen.phd and I wrote about it here: www.bmj.com/content/391/...) His war on diversity in medical education & training will worsen the health of Americans

I really love this piece by @profjulies.bsky.social published in @msmagazine.com about the right-wing attack on the teaching about gender. @aaup.org Authoritarians are scared of GWSS because it "teaches students they deserve to live their true, autonomous selves." msmagazine.com/2026/04/03/t...

Don't let California bankroll attacks on higher ed! Send a letter urging California’s public pension & university investment leaders to make no new commitments to Apollo Global Management whose CEO, Marc Rowan, helped develop the Trump’s "loyalty oath" compact ⬇️ @aft.org @cfaunited.bsky.social

A sprint to erase Black political power. “The NAACP will not watch the same institutions that depend on Black athletic prowess to fill their stadiums & their bank accounts remain silent while their states strip Black communities of their voice.”

Ohio HB 698 threatens to strip labor protections from higher ed workers. “It would create a system where Ohioans who were doing perfectly legal jobs in good faith would be placed on a watch list & monitored by the government in perpetuity." —Steve Mockabee, Ohio AAUP @ohaaup.bsky.social

“An AI voice reading names at commencement? Would you like to have an AI voice officiate at your wedding? Or at the funeral of a family member?” — Michael Thaddeus, Columbia AAUP @aaupcu.bsky.social

"When the state decides which questions may and may not be researched, it is doing more than shaping curriculum. It is regulating the boundaries of knowledge itself by determining what future scholars may study and what universities are permitted to discover."

More higher education for the public good, more higher education for more people. A good example of $$ follow the money $$ to shat it can do. @higheredlabor.bsky.social @aaup.org

The AAUP is committed to a higher ed system where universities are the engines of democracy & human flourishing—not silent partners in a reckless technological arms race that burns through public resources & weakens the very institutions needed for democratic society. ➡️ www.aaup.org/news/aaup-ba...

As AAUP NC President Belle Boggs explains, universities are centers of valuable expertise, and run according to procedures that require expertise -- until boards of trustees reject that expertise & damage the universities they were appointed to protect. frogtroubletimes.substack.com/p/how-to-hir...

UChicago Laboratory School's new "viewpoint neutrality" policies represent "sanitized and bureaucratic" procedures that will stifle academic freedom and open inquiry. UChicago AAUP rallied to contest these standards, which “rests ultimately on judgments based on political convenience.”

Laid off faculty and staff at the recently closed Hampshire College were not offered severance or employee benefits. Grassroots organizations and the community are rallying to support them with emergency relief fundraisers.

The AAUP is committed to a higher ed system where universities are the engines of democracy & human flourishing—not silent partners in a reckless technological arms race that burns through public resources & weakens the very institutions needed for democratic society. ➡️ www.aaup.org/news/aaup-ba...

"War, imperialism and militarism impose a serious opportunity cost on American students and educators. Money spent on wars could instead be spent to support our students." —Eastern Michigan University AAUP Solidarity, Labor, Equity, and Justice Committee Fund Education, Not War and Deportation!

Thank you to all who came out yesterday to our two(!) demonstrations in defense of freedom to teach and learn

University of Chicago faculty & parents are pushing back against a new “viewpoint neutral” policy that allows teachers to take a stance on “widely settled historical judgments” like denouncing slavery & the Holocaust, but discourages teachers from taking positions on current debates.

TNS Releases Terms of Involuntary Buy-Out for Fired Faculty. The renewed Buy-Out is a recognition of the effectiveness of our collective fight & an affirmation that we are stronger together. We can & should demand more & better terms. Read our full statement. docs.google.com/document/u/1...

The UNC Trustees have again demonstrated that they are not worthy of our trust. www.theassemblync.com/news/educati...

The AAUP is proud to support the Sanders/AOC AI Data Center Moratorium Act because the future of technology must be governed democratically, sustainably, & in service of working people—not corporate profit. ➡️https://www.aaup.org/news/aaup-backs-data-center-moratorium

An older article but worth a reminder: The Trump administration will always side with corporations over the Labor of the American people.

“The administration is budgeting a deterioration its own results don’t show, and then citing the budgeted deterioration as evidence of crisis." — @psuaaup.bsky.social #AcademicSky

This could have been avoided. Despite 4 votes of No Confidence, PSU president Ann Cudd announced the deepest cuts in university history this week. PSU-AAUP is fighting back to save academic programs targeted for termination & demanding a robust state investment in higher ed. @psuaaup.bsky.social

The AAUP is proud to support the Sanders/AOC AI Data Center Moratorium Act because the future of technology must be governed democratically, sustainably, & in service of working people—not corporate profit. ➡️https://www.aaup.org/news/aaup-backs-data-center-moratorium

“The faculty organizing effort has been years in the making, but seemed to catch critical momentum over the past several years as Penn State has moved to close whole campuses and trim degree programs.” www.pennlive.com/news/2026/05...

We couldn’t agree more. At UT Austin, 4 departments are being consolidated under intense political pressure & a punishing timeline, w/ devastating consequences for students, staff & faculty. African American Studies, Mexican/American Studies, Women’s Gender & Sexuality Studies, &American Studies. 😡😭

This could have been avoided. Despite 4 votes of No Confidence, PSU president Ann Cudd announced the deepest cuts in university history this week. PSU-AAUP is fighting back to save academic programs targeted for termination & demanding a robust state investment in higher ed. @psuaaup.bsky.social

the thing about tenure line professors forming Pennsylvania’s largest public sector union in 50 years is unions are for everybody!! profs are public servants! and we're doing all the big publics! we're doing Urbana we're doing Michigan we're doing California! www.statecollege.com/articles/psu...

“Work with us in Salem to generate a political solution in which the state helps us to invest in enrollment, recruitment, and more. That would put us on a self-sustaining footing from our point of view.” —Bill Knight, Portland State University AAUP President @psuaaup.bsky.social

The right to collectively bargain is foundational to all workers’ rights, and today Gov. Spanberger denied half a million Virginia public service workers that right. The governor failed to listen to workers, and we are deeply disappointed by the betrayal of her promise. www.aft.org/press-releas...

"In recent weeks, Portland State’s faculty union and local high school and college student activists from the Sunrise Movement rallied against the cuts on campus." @aaup.org @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social www.opb.org/article/2026...

" #Academic Freedom survives only when academics actively participate, question, publish, debate and collaborate – because #academicfreedom is not only a #right but also a #responsibility enacted through daily scholarly life". @iucdubrovnik.bsky.social @eua.eu @coimbragroup.bsky.social @aaup.org

The rank & file organizing exemplified by @chenjerai.bsky.social and his comrades is just the kind of movement Unions of Our Own seeks to foster Gratitude @aaup.org @sununion.org @haymarketbooks.org for putting it on Thrilled for this, registration is open events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...

There is too much listening to the powers that be and too little listening to workers going on in the Virginia statehouse. We are deeply disappointed. Worse, workers will once again not have the right to a voice on the job. bluevirginia.us/2026/05/va-g...