Petition to the Georgia Board of Regents to demand a reversal of the requirement for system faculty to post syllabi publicly. Georgia folks please sign on defend academic freedom and oppose state surveillance of our teaching and scholarship. actionnetwork.org/petitions/de...

TONIGHT: We’re hosting an organizing call about how to keep ICE off college campuses — and how you can help. Together, we can make sure students and campus communities stay safe.

This is Rice's international students' office's policy on student's rights on campus to be free from federal immigration enforcement. We are asking questions of our administration with the aim of getting these reassurances. Does your school have a policy? oiss.rice.edu/immigration-...

Emory AAUP all-member meeting tomorrow (Fri 2/27) at 1 PM. Check your email for the video call link. See you there!

“I came to the United States for freedom of speech and freedom of scientific inquiry,” she said. “To be repressed like this here too has shaken me to my core.” www.nola.com/news/busines...

Reinstate the Fired Six at VSU! Six tenured & tenure track faculty members were abruptly fired at Virginia State University without cause or any semblance of due process. Sign this petition to demand their reinstatement & a public commitment from VSU to honor tenure & end arbitrary dismissals.

The abrupt revocation of a job offer to the University of Arkansas’ incoming law school dean prompted a student-led protest on the Fayetteville campus Tuesday and calls for the school to adopt a policy to prevent undue influence on personnel decisions. #arpx #arleg

This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence. The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:

“There's not a single existing textbook on the market that could be used that would qualify under state law?” Mind blowing interview with FIU @grundrza.bsky.social about the insanity going on at Florida universities. 🤯

cz.boell.org/en/2023/05/1... Where else were professors stripped of tenure? That would be in right-wing authoritarian Hungary. Make no mistake Gov. Stitt's removal of tenure at Oklahoma regional & community colleges & universities is an authoritarian attack on ideas presented in college classrooms.

When Texas Tech faculty sought clarification on new restrictions limiting how race, gender and sexuality can be discussed in classrooms, administrators said they could offer little guidance, according to two internal emails reviewed by The Texas Tribune.

New: Former Texas A&M lecturer Melissa McCoul is suing the university months after Texas A&M fired her over a gender identity lesson. McCoul alleges that administrators knowingly violated her free speech and due process rights to appease political critics.

Emory AAUP members, hope the semester is off to a good start! Please check your emails for info about goings-on and the upcoming meeting (Jan 30).

The college at which I'm employed, which has signed a contract with the AI firm that stole books from 131 colleagues & me, paid a student to write an op-ed for the student paper promoting AI, guided the writing of it, and did not disclose this to the paper. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...

Excellent explanation of why you should care about the effort to undermine independent accreditation, from our colleagues at @higheredlabor.bsky.social higheredlaborunited.org/2026/01/26/a...

Decided to go and drive direct from campus rather than finagle bike & MARTA - let me know (DM or email) anyone interested in carpooling. @emoryaaup.bsky.social

AAUP Emory stood with students calling on university admin to take a stance against the rising presence of ICE and to support community members affected by raids. “The Emory community, this campus, is our state, our pocket of democracy. ICE isn’t welcome here.” @emoryaaup.bsky.social

Emory Walkout Jan 20 12 PM Asbury Circle

Emory AAUP members, hope the semester is off to a good start! Please check your emails for info about goings-on and the upcoming meeting (Jan 30).

Clemson Settles With Professor Fired for Kirk Comments www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

Emory Professor’s opinion column in supporting funding of science published in AJC www.ajc.com/opinion/2026...

Still a little time for last-minute syllabus tweaks!

More than just Plato is being censored.

More detail on the absurd and infuriating censorship of a philosophy class, “Contemporary Moral Issues”, at Texas A&M.

best news of the year so far

From an email to one of our faculty members.... Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!

What is happening at the University of Oklahoma is an outrageous violation of due process. "They hide behind vague statements & assertions of ‘trust us.’ At this point, they need to show us and not tell us." — OU AAUP

The fight against austerity at The New School is connected to other fights in higher ed challenging admins that hire Huron, a consulting firm that offers data to justify budget cuts & faculty layoffs. Ujju Aggarwal of AAUP-TNS says that solidarity across AAUP chapters & unions is the way forward.

Sign the petition linked below to support higher ed workers at the UNC System in their fight against the requirement to create a searchable repository of all university syllabi, which will endanger students and instructors by inviting political actors to attack free inquiry across UNC campuses.

The University of North Carolina System may require all instructors to publish syllabi starting next year. “Calling instructors 'work for hire' & stripping them of copyright is a surefire way to turn creative thinkers into widgets." - Abigail Hatcher, AAUP UNC-Chapel Hill

It's over. Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut. www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...

AI is not inevitable: A conversation with educators, unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience! Join your colleagues from across pre-K-12 and higher ed for a webinar on exercising worker power in the age of AI. December 11, 4-5 p.m. ET on Zoom Link to register below👇

Alice Magazine is a fashion and wellness magazine that primarily covers women. Nineteen Fifty-Six covers Black student life and culture. “Hood said that the University made the decision and had not been spurred by a complaint about the magazines.“ thecrimsonwhite.com/125358/news/...

UNL AAUP are fighting tooth & nail to stop the Board of Regents from cutting $27.5 million from UNL's budget. "There hasn’t been enough time for faculty to respond...We want shared governance, which means we have a voice that actually matters.” — Theresa Catalano, UNL AAUP.

"The university’s Committee on Academic Freedom, Responsibility and Tenure voted 8-0 that Texas A&M 'had no justification for dismissing' McCoul and 'failed to follow required procedures at multiple stages,' according to a Sunday statement from the Texas A&M chapter of the AAUP."

The Indiana Commission for Higher Education's new policy is threatening shared governance and academic freedom. "This policy is the latest effort by Indiana's politicians to take power away from faculty & cheapen the education students have access to in Indiana." - @iubaaup.bsky.social

Our legal victory in AAUP v. Trump ensures that the Trump administration cannot use civil rights laws to pull federal research funds from universities, which undermines our 1st and 10th amendment rights. AAUP General Counsel Veena Dubal explains why this is a major victory for higher ed workers.

“For the first time, we are delivering a united message to the Regents: We will not accept a lack of transparency, the exclusion of faculty from decision-making, or the erosion of our university’s 156-year-old mission to educate Nebraska’s students.” – UNL AAUP President Sarah Zuckerman

Two Florida Atlantic University professors suspended after posting comments about conservative commentator Charlie Kirk’s death have been cleared and reinstated following an outside review. www.wpbf.com/article/flor...

One reason why elite schools (Columbia, Brown, Cornell) caving to Trump’s illegal impoundment and extortion is so galling — a betrayal, really — is that they would have won had they fought. By giving up, they guaranteed every other school will have to fight harder.

Time after time we see that capitulation to the administration doesn’t work, but when we stand up to the bullies, we can win. This is a huge win for academic freedom and free expression. www.latimes.com/california/s...

More on the situation at #Emory, where the firing of a med school colleague & other activities by the admins appear to violate our Open Expression Policy. We either have a policy or we do not. @emoryaaup.bsky.social @aaup.org #AAUP @academic-chatter.bsky.social www.emorywheel.com/article/2025...

aaup-utaustin.org/2025/11/03/p... Our press release on UT’s new academic integrity statement.

For the night owls and early birds: this is a war on the American Dream. My statement on ICE’s detention of two Upstate Medical University employees on Wednesday in Syracuse. dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/server/api/c...

Open letter from many #Emory faculty re the firing of a med school colleague. We asked that only tenured faculty who are citizens sign it. Many people worked hard on our Open Expression Policy, only to have it violated at least 3x in less than 3 yrs. www.emorywheel.com/article/2025...

Please understand that the only reason this has been released is because of the UCLA faculty association who filed a request and challenged the refusal in court. If you are a UC faculty member, join your FA!

Higher ed's rush to adopt AI is about so much more than AI: defector.com/higher-eds-r...

Shocked reactions flooded in on Wednesday after a major university announced a deal with the Trump administration in what a college professor called "another shakedown."