NEW: Preliminary findings released today from the AAUP’s annual Faculty Compensation Survey reveal that real wages for full-time faculty decreased & remain below pre-pandemic levels. The FCS is the largest independent source of data on faculty salaries. Check out preliminary findings below. ⬇️

The @emoryaaup.bsky.social has a banner! Look for it at campus events and esp the DeFlock Emory Walk Out later this week. #emory #AAUP #academicfreedom @academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicsky @aaup.org

This is what we're fighting against. Join us. www.chronicle.com/article/proj...

NEW: Preliminary findings released today from the AAUP’s annual Faculty Compensation Survey reveal that real wages for full-time faculty decreased & remain below pre-pandemic levels. The FCS is the largest independent source of data on faculty salaries. Check out preliminary findings below. ⬇️

"University leaders may have believed they were creating a buffer against further retaliation. Instead, the lesson appears to be that there is no payment high enough to sate the president’s protection racket. There never was." - @rweingarten.bsky.social (an @cornellilr.bsky.social alum!)

I encourage every faculty member to join your local @aaup.org chapter and get involved. Support those fighting the good fight for shared governance & academic freedom. I reupped my membership with @texasaaup.bsky.social & @texasaft.org last week.

Columbia must move beyond performative listening & commit to a true shared governance model where student & faculty voices carry real weight in shaping the university’s future. True institutional stability requires leadership to be accountable to its community, not just a closed circle of trustees.

"Put plainly: the chief academic officer told the faculty’s elected representatives that their unanimous vote would not change his course of action. This disregard for shared governance has been a pattern throughout Provost Wormley’s tenure—first as interim, now as permanent Provost."

Columbia faculty are proposing to reform Columbia's Board of Trustees with "competitive direct elections" to increase transparency & to reinforce shared governance. Columbia AAUP's Jean Howard claims it is necessary to amend this "unusually insular & inward facing" Board. @aaupcu.bsky.social

BU President reverses position on Pride flags removal without discussing broader censorship on campus. “The statement did not address the larger pattern of free speech suppression...the admin either does not see those issues as important or does not plan to address them." —Joseph Harris, BU AAUP

“We’re a university of researchers. If I want to do a single study, I have to show my data but we’re being asked on faith to trust the university’s decisions that affect our everyday lives without any specific data to back up the circumstances.” 🤔

Boston University made headlines for removing Pride Flags. But those censorship chops were honed where censorship chops are often honed: Palestine. @aaup.org dailyfreepress.com/04/06/19/219...

"In 2024, the AAUP-Penn chapter criticized the Penn administration for repression of free speech, and many on Penn’s campus have expressed concern that these principles seek to codify that repression and further restrict free expression at Penn while mockingly pretending to adore the concept."

PSU-AAUP members are voting no confidence due to a lack of "real investment in growth, real investment in recruitment, real investment in connections to employers that allow students legible pathways to employment and internships. We can do that work but we have to have the resources"

Join AAUP for these two discussions of the future of our university this week and next

Join the Emergency Campaign to Support Higher Education's Distributed Organizing Training on April 8 at 7pmET. This training explores the foundations of base-building, what makes teams strong and scalable, and how to coach teams to succeed. Sign up at link below ⬇️

"We can grow, but we have to put the resources into it and we have to do with work at the administrative level with strategy and with the commitments that requires." —Bill Knight, President of Portland State University AAUP @psuaaup.bsky.social

“If we want to be considered a flagship university where top researchers want to come, where students think they’re going to get a great education, then we have to maintain that breadth. And breadth requires programs small and large.” —Jeremy Pressman, @uconnaaup.bsky.social

KOIN coverage of our rally which began a confidence vote in President Cudd's leadership. "Faculty leaders argue the administration is relying on artificial intelligence to assess departments. while failing to model how these cuts will impact students."

Portland State University is threatening to cut the entire Gen Ed program in addition to laying off 200 faculty & raising tuition by 5%. “We are asking trustees to pause these cuts & to work with us this year in the long session to create solutions." —Bill Knight, PSU AAUP @psuaaup.bsky.social

Money for wars but not for science, research, and education… 😒

“We’re a university of researchers. If I want to do a single study, I have to show my data but we’re being asked on faith to trust the university’s decisions that affect our everyday lives without any specific data to back up the circumstances.” 🤔

Despite federal court rulings overturning anti-DEI mandates, UVA is sticking to DEI cuts. 👀 @aaupvirginia.bsky.social

Today, outside of the Board of Trustees meeting, PSU-AAUP members began a vote of no confidence in PSU President Cudd’s leadership.

PSU working conditions are PSU learning conditions. The Cudd administration's layoffs, program eliminations, and institutional contraction threaten teaching, advising, student pathways, and the broader educational mission of the university.

Ben Cushing, @pccffap.bsky.social President and PCC strike leader, explaining how from PSU to PCC managed decline by administrators making $300,000-$700,000 per year is unacceptable. Calls for statewide academic labor to undertake a combined campaign to remake higher education.

“There is a better way, a more collaborative way, a more humane way to address our current challenges & the deficit. We need to work together with faculty, unions & the whole community as genuine partners" —Isabel Jaén, Portland State University AAUP @psuaaup.bsky.social

City Councilors Mitch Green, Tiffany Koyama Lane, and Candace Avalos calling on the Cudd administration to stop the worst layoffs in PSU history and fight for funding outside PSU's Board of Trustees

🚨“A new state office with the power to investigate whether public universities in TX are violating laws on diversity, curriculum and campus decision-making has no written policies explaining how those investigations work, even after accepting complaints...” www.texastribune.org/2026/04/03/t...

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"Eliminating tenure based on misunderstandings and misinformation will have far-reaching consequences, and it will negatively impact our students, our institutions of higher education, and ultimately our state’s economic growth."

RIGHT NOW: PSU AAUP members are rallying outside final board of trustees meeting before the worst layoffs in PSU history. The cuts are expected to target 200 workers, decimate 19 programs, & severely impact hundreds of students This could all be avoided. It’s time to fight. @psuaaup.bsky.social

Julie Minich, AAUP UT Austin chapter executive committee member: “This timeline is really detrimental for students’ education..[It] effectively means that the primary consideration here is politics and not the education of students." www.kut.org/education/20...

NEW: “While the PSU board & administrators point to a "structural deficit," these cuts are not a financial necessity; they are a political choice that prioritizes administrative bloat & capital projects over the livelihoods of dedicated public servants.” — Todd Wolfson & Randi Weingarten @aft.org

Your professors care about you, even if the administration does not. The sentiment yesterday at Boston University as community protested BU leaders who removed Pride Flags from faculty windows. Proud of my colleagues and students. @aaup.org #TerrierCourage www.bostonglobe.com/video/2026/0...

“They want to do things which tend to be illegal. They have a penchant for illegality. They can be as thorough as they want, but if they want to stop freedom of speech, they're going to have a problem.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President on the Trump admin's recent fondness for launching lawsuits.

NEW: “While the PSU board & administrators point to a "structural deficit," these cuts are not a financial necessity; they are a political choice that prioritizes administrative bloat & capital projects over the livelihoods of dedicated public servants.” — Todd Wolfson & Randi Weingarten @aft.org

"There will always be a struggle to defend education, which is about defending people. An increasing number of people are up to the challenge. We’ve seen a rise in AAUP membership & more faculty no longer feel it’s enough to stay silent." —Pranav Jani @redguju.bsky.social, @osuaaup.bsky.social

Student & staff protests against Boston University's coercive removal of Pride flags call attention to the "myth of institutional neutrality." “They’re not neutral in where they invest money, they’re not neutral when taking down the pride flags when American flags are still up all over campus.”

Reinstate the CUNY Fired Fourth! "The fight against repression and the fight to reinstate the CUNY Fired Fourth only highlights that the wrong people are running the university. It is those of us who work and study at CUNY that should run the university." @psc-cuny.org

“They want to do things which tend to be illegal. They have a penchant for illegality. They can be as thorough as they want, but if they want to stop freedom of speech, they're going to have a problem.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President on the Trump admin's recent fondness for launching lawsuits.

Full-time salaries for most categories of faculty have remained about the same since 2002, adjusting for inflation, while admin pay soars. Faculty have had enough. We’re fighting back nationwide. ✊🏽✊🏻✊🏿 www.chronicle.com/article/amid...

WATCH: When topics like Plato are censored, it highlights a critical threat to academic freedom in Texas. See how affiliating with Texas AFT has empowered faculty, providing robust resources and full-time legal support. @afthighered.bsky.social @texasaaup.bsky.social

Full-time salaries for most categories of faculty have remained about the same since 2002, adjusting for inflation, while admin pay soars. Faculty have had enough. We’re fighting back nationwide. ✊🏽✊🏻✊🏿 www.chronicle.com/article/amid...

“For some Texas professors, the overhaul of higher education, spearheaded by conservative state leaders, has taken an emotional toll. Some professors are making drastic career choices, leaving the profession or…fleeing the state.” www.dallasnews.com/news/educati...

“Board members at religiously affiliated institutions are heavily weighted to the financial sector, which sees unions as a nuisance. But the moral principles of the church have a clear message about workplace justice. These colleges need to be asked how they reconcile their actions w/ their values.”

“It’s the bedrock for our student-driven mission. When we focus on our strengths in shaping academic freedom and civic discourse within the university, we also point our students toward a future they will inherit and shape for themselves with the ideas and tools we teach them.”

"As faculty, we believe quality of instruction is a crucial pillar of what we are doing here at @uconn.bsky.social." #TheCTDifference @uconnaaup.bsky.social

A federal judge orders Penn to hand over lists of Jewish groups. “We will oppose government action that compels the identification of individuals based on religion & will defend the rights of faculty, staff, & students to work and learn without fear of surveillance or targeting.” —Todd Wolfson

Students' freedom to learn depends on faculty's freedom to teach. Texas AAUP Conference President Brian Evans on the power of unions & organizing in the fight against censorship & attacks on academic freedom in Texas 🔥 @texasaaup.bsky.social @texasaft.org @aft.org @afthighered.bsky.social