BREAKING: WE WON!!! 💥 💥 💥 Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment. Full ruling here:

Dr. Sarah Vitale, secretary of our chapter, delivers some excellent comments and insight in this article by the NYT. See our petition in the comments. We are up to at least 352 signatures and still collecting them. @aaup.org @sarahvit82.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...

I have lots of nitpicks about this article, but I'm glad this is getting national attention and that the reporter spent several days in Muncie working on this piece: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...

Three-year VAP in Medieval Middle East/Islamic History at Colby's History Department jobs.chronicle.com/job/37887745...

Read our statement on Freedom of Expression at Ball State University signed by hundreds of BSU faculty, staff, students, alumni, and community members from across the political spectrum. You can add your name too, using the form at the bottom of this page: bsuaaup.com/aaup-public-...

How's your week been? Indiana Educator Sues After Firing Over Charlie Kirk Posts share.google/0PBkW2iIvvhd...

“People do not forfeit their First Amendment rights when they are hired by government institutions. Public employees are free to speak on matters of public concern, so long as they are speaking as private citizens..."

Please see our official statement regarding the termination of BSU employee Suzanne Swierc. Click the following link for the full statement: bsuaaup.com/response-to-... @aaup.org

I graduated in 2024 with two bachelor degrees: Religious Studies and Social Work. I’m finishing up my master degree in Social Work. I will graduate next July. It is strange to think that in just over a year, there is no longer a Religious Studies program. It has been dissolved. There is a-

LinkedIn advertising that Texas A&M is hiring Associate Professors is darkly hilarious

@partpartisan.bsky.social , another day…another perfect moment to drop the meme.

Protesters were tear gassed, shot with pepper spray bullets and some detained by ICE officers outside of a facility in suburban Broadview Friday morning. blockclubchi.co/3VslkAr

It’s going to break your heart how many people you know, love, and respect will turn out to be cowards. Prepare yourself as best you can. You are not alone, but you are your own center. Be a strong center.

The @aaup.org just shared guidance for academic workers on how to protect themselves online www.aaup.org/news/advisor...

Is your university using EAB for student tracking? Would you like to track their eye movement, heart rate, circadian rhythms and create a corporate go-between for all their educational, social, emotional, and professional needs? EAB has you covered. And your uni is probably considering adopting it.

A glimpse into BSU's future. Next week, Mearns will start hosting forums and surveys on how to cut $20 mil from the budget next year. As with the strategic plan update and core revision, they already know the desired outcome and these info gathering sessions will mostly be performative.

Number of majors = wrong metric👇

the whole thread, but especially this. especially this. students need basic religious literacy to make sense of all *this* and how we got here.

AAUP-HARVARD, AAUP, & UAW WON THE HARVARD CASE!!!! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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

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 ✊🏼✊🏾✊🏻✊🏿✊🏽

📰hot off the press, a piece by English professor and IUB AAUP Exec member Purnima Bose, outlining the ways in which recent legislation in Indiana has been deployed as a direct assault on the autonomy and academic freedom of the state's public universities againstthecurrent.org/atc238/india...

Update on the shadowy media group that requested millions of syllabi across the US. Here are stories from their own sites about the national August 6th request, likely thousands of requests to schools in Alabama, California, New York, Pennsylvania likely all 50 states: www.google.com/search?hl=en...

Looks like I'm gonna have to tap the sign again today

@aaup.org Youtuber Hank Green (with 3.94 million followers) has made a video about Trump and higher ed. He's provided a link to the AAUP. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQwh...

This is a great read, one of the more truly thoughtful takes I’ve come across👇

Whether you're a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident (LPR), or visiting on a visa, it's important to understand your rights at the border, what to expect, entry requirements, how to secure your devices, and who to contact. Stay informed and travel safe!

Excited for this forthcoming volume from @sunypress.bsky.social. @drjags.bsky.social, myself, and 2 co-authors not on Bluesky have a chapter about the SB 202 fight at BSU. Full of lessons and strategies for handling shenanigans coming soon to a university near you. sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-...

"Ziplines is renting the brand equity of regionalized public higher education in the aggregate" but "the evolution of education which companies like Ziplines imagine is not one of mutual flourishing with their university partners, but one in which those partners can be retired and replaced."

And it will be on the @sunypress.bsky.social website and available for preorder next week/in early August. Stay tuned! Really excited to get this into the world and readers’ hands.

IT HAS A COVER! Pleased to announce that _The Campus Crisis Toolkit: Strategies and Solidarity For the Rest of Us_ is coming from @sunypress.bsky.social in Feb. With 25 chapters from over 40 contributors, the book tackles everything from anti-DEI laws to consultants and cuts to campus violence (1/2)

Ohio State and Indiana are ruining themselves and what used to be the jewel in the #Midwest crown, #BigTen academics. Cutting over 50 programs from humanities to data science for...this. Embarrassing

Please share this CFP for the second Gods and Monsters conference at Texas State.

@aarweb.bsky.social has sent a letter regarding the elimination of Religious Studies at BSU, IUI, and IU-B. Thankful for their swift action on this and for my Midwest AAR colleagues who helped me to bring this to their attention.

religious studies at Ball State and IU Bloomington on the chopping block once more, with feeling: religiondispatches.org/the-universi...

Some of the defenses I've seen of those cuts include "but these programs have 0 students enrolled!" This makes people think some profs are collecting checks to do nothing. Here is why that misleading and an unhelpful way to look at this. 1/4

Indiana and the US are weaker and less prepared for the world now and still to come www.ipm.org/news-section...

And this is why it's sad, but predictable, that the state of Indiana seems to be eliminating the field entirely with HB 1001.

BSU AAUP is collecting data on HB 1001's impact at BSU. Could lead to the loss of 90 programs, including Religious Studies, Math, Meteorology, Philosophy, Physics, International Business, Landscape Architecture, and Parks & Rec Facilities Management. How can you eliminate Parks and Rec in Muncie??

Ahead of the BoT meeting on 6/13, we sent them an initial report with findings from our spring survey. This one focused on compensation and its link to morale. We are more than disappointed that they chose to ignore this data and suspend raises. Read the report here: bsuaaup.com/bsu-faculty-...

Bloody hell

The BSU AAUP Chapter strongly condemns the April 17th resolution closing the Office of Inclusive Excellence at Ball State. In our statement, we critique this decision by the Board on legal, ethical, and procedural grounds. Read the full statement here: bsuaaup.com/statement-co...

Proud of our students for organizing to oppose BSU's announcement that they are ending all inclusion policies and activities and scrubbing our documents and website of all mention of its existence.

Harvard capitulates to Trump, because, it says otherwise it will lose federal funds. But Trump is eliminating those funds anyway! He’s reducing the NIH etc to nothing! It’s so stupid to give in!

Potential revised Muslim Ban coming. @aaup.bsky.social