www.statesman.com/news/educati... “It is a clear sign that a community asset as important as KUT shld not be in the hands of an institution that doesn’t have any sense of accountability or concern for the community…My hope wld be that the university would relinquish the licenses to the community.”

Proud to have UT Austin professor @Lina Maria Murillo as a colleague. 👏👏👏 I Became a Feminist Historian, and Why It Matters Now More Than Ever msmagazine.com/2026/06/09/f...

SB37 in Texas infringes on faculty rights & control of core curricula in universities. "Faculty are completely in the dark on the process...That’s a concern because faculty are no longer in control of the core curriculum at a research university." —Daniel Morales, University of Houston AAUP

🚨On the recent Vanderbilt report on the humanities: “the committee takes a…disturbing direction toward endorsing academic authoritarianism—the use of administrative power to seize control of academic departments + impose ideological standards on them in order to purge leftist scholars.”

This year’s Annual Report does more than publish annual salary figures. It links compensation to tenure, shared governance, transparency, and the broader educational mission of higher education. Please give it a read. 5/5

The report finds that factors including declines in public funding, drops in enrollment, and the growth in noninstructional costs have contributed to stagnating wages for full- and part-time faculty members, even as compensation for administrators climbs... 4/

Admin compensation remained another major story. Median presidential salaries ranged from ~$275K at public institutions w/out ranking systems to $850K at private-independent doctoral universities. Presidential compensation ranged from ~3 times to more than 5 times average full professor salary. 3/

Gender-based salary inequity also remained a central finding. Across all full-time faculty ranks combined, women earned an average of $21,386 less than men (or 83.6% of men’s average salary). The widest within-rank gap remained at the full professor level: a salary-equity ratio of 87.3. 2/

Today, the AAUP released the Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, 2025–26. It is sobering. Full-time faculty salaries are down about 0.4% in real, inflation-adjusted terms. Average full-time faculty salaries remain 9.5% below fall 2019 & about 5.8% below fall 2008. 1/

ICYMI: John Oliver’s hilarious & thorough takedown of the dysfunctional “complete shit show” hostile takeover of New College of Florida that led to the most corrupt, financially inefficient public university in the state. 👀 ➡️ @newcollegeoffl.bsky.social youtu.be/jFMc07F1UUU?...

How do you control unruly academics? Through their trustees, of course. This right-wing group has a national network to push their agendas on universities across the USA. @aaup.org www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...

The Governor of Florida is a corrupt individual who has appointed his friends as presidents of the universities in the state. And they are now requiring every professor in the state to submit to them for oversight what they will be teaching in the classroom. - @andrewspar.bsky.social #AFLCIO26

⭐️Please join with AAUP, AFT, and Stand Up for Science to stop OMB’s proposed “Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance” rule by adding your feedback and comments to the Federal Register during the public comment period, open until July 13, 2026.⭐️ fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/164...

🔔”The issues in Texas have been piling up over the last number of years, but they’ve accelerated in the last, I’d say, nine months,” AAUP national president Todd Wolfson said at a news conference Tuesday. He added that “because of that rapid acceleration…we felt like we had to act.” 👏👏

Prof. Lina-Maria Murillo: “In August, the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality at the University of Texas at Austin will close. I’ve been a member of this department since last year…I’m just one faculty member among hundreds across the country who are facing elimination of their programs.” 😡

The AAUP is doing what SACSCOC apparently will not. Thank God! Faculty across Texas have raised concerns about censorship, political interference, program closures, and attacks on shared governance. Those concerns deserve independent scrutiny. If accreditors won't act, someone must. bit.ly/4okOu1R

Reinstate Laid-Off Faculty at The New School. Sign our petition here 👉 forms.gle/NB9DCgVoonAg... @aaup.org

Palestinian activist and green card holder Mohsen Mahdawi, who was targeted by the Trump administration last year as part of a crackdown on pro-Palestinian campus activism, faces a new deportation threat.

The AAUP chapter called for laid-off faculty to be reinstated or offered a phased retirement. Rather than saving money, the layoffs “will instead destroy lives and fundamental structures of the academic institution that have been built over years.“ www.highereddive.com/news/the-new...

Last week, one of New York's most iconic universities, The New School, laid off 19 full-time faculty and 68 staff members. Along with coerced "voluntary" separations and early retirements since December 2025, these mass firings constitute a major gutting of The New School's full-time faculty.

“As authoritarians attempt to tear it down, we must fight for a fully funded education system in service of a robust democracy. And that’s what we will do. Full stop.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President #AAUP2026

⏰⏰ Today!

“We can play a role in transforming democracy in this country.”

“The report’s final recommendation reads like an attempt at the God trick—a lurch backward to a conception of the university and of social science scholarship that I thought we had long since left behind” utotherescue.blogspot.com/2026/06/a-re...

“We don’t even have amnesia, we have aggressive ignorance.” — PA State Rep. Chris Rabb speaking to higher ed workers at the #AAUP2026 Higher Ed Summit @chrisrabb.com

“Universities continue to push partnerships with AI companies—even as students themselves openly mock AI output & its makers as “clankers.” At graduations across the country students have booed CEOs & industry speakers who boost AI as the inevitable future, & jeered admin who use AI systems.”

@aaup.org kicking it in the courts! academeblog.org/2026/06/15/a...

One of the highlights of the AAUP meeting last week was this report on the org’s legal work. Read it! An incredible snapshot showing that when we fight, we win ✊

“I want faculty to leave here recognizing that for us to transform our situation—whether it’s in our classrooms, in our departments, on our campuses, in our states or nationally—we have everything we need to do it. We can play a role in transforming our democracy.” — AAUP President Todd Wolfson

Your tuition dollars at work….

“We have shown that when the government tries to turn fear into policy, the AAUP will answer with law, with organizing, with solidarity, & with the oldest commitment we have: the defense of academic freedom for the common good.” 💥💥💥

The firing of administrators at UT Austin continues. Faculty with decades of experience at the university have never worked in such an unstable and oppressive environment. 😢😡

“We’re seeing the unfolding of a decades-long effort by right-wing think tanks to weaken the accreditation system..at stake is a systemic effort to make higher ed more vulnerable to political interference & to cost-cutting, quality reducing measures.”

Now is a good time to join AAUP-AFT! We are stronger together! ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽

“What happens in Texas does not stay in Texas. The policies being implemented there are increasingly being proposed and replicated elsewhere.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

✴️ Today is the deadline for comments on new social studies standards!

✴️ Today is the deadline for comments on new social studies standards!

HARPP has released “The Federal Assault on History” the first comprehensive report documenting the Trump administration’s sweeping, coordinated effort since January 2025 to reshape how the American past is recorded, preserved, and shared with the public. Read the report: https://ow.ly/7ab150Zawe5

“Power is always found in organized coalitions. The common cause is survival. Build organized force.” — Stacy Davis Gates, President @ctulocal1.bsky.social #AAUP2026 Higher Ed Summit 👊🏽👊🏼👊🏿👊🏾

🌟 Our Texas labor movement was in the spotlight throughout the 2026 @aflcio.org Convention!  Texans who work for a living will continue showing up, organizing, and building power!

“The [AAUP] committee will expose how [SB 37] centralizes partisan political control over university curricula, weaponizes state-mandated audits to censor classroom teaching, and forces the politicized closure of academic programs.” 👏👏👏 www.kxan.com/news/educati...

That’s a Wrap! What a POWERFUL Higher Ed Summit this week in Chicago centering the work of building a strong movement to defend the quality & promise of higher ed & our democracy in this pivotal moment. LET’S GO! #AAUP2026 👊🏽👊🏿👊🏻👊🏼👊🏾

🤠🤠 She should come visit Texas! Racial, ethnic, gender, and sexuality studies departments across the state are being shuttered because administrative and political leaders don’t like what they study!

⭐️⭐️AAUP + AFT leaders and members met this weekend at the Texas AAUP-AFT Higher Ed Summit! Our numbers in Texas are growing as we fight unprecedented attacks on public colleges and universities. Join us to protect academic freedom, shared governance + due process! connect.aft.org/app/memberfo...

Breaking! What starts in Texas does not stay in Texas!

Trump’s Assaults on Scientific Research Just Got Worse www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/o... Gift article, with link to comment portal.

apnews.com/article/trum... officials went after dozens of colleges. Now they're rewriting the rules for all of academia “The sector is getting its feet under it, and it’s only getting stronger,” AAUP’s Wolfson said. “I can promise you that we will fight them tooth and nail.”