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."

3x in less than 3 years, #Emory violated Open Expression Policy. Faculty, staff, students, admins, & legal office put hours into writing/revising it. Apparently, Emory doesn't think it needs to follow it. www.emorywheel.com/article/2025... @decaturish.bsky.social @ajc.com @emoryaaup.bsky.social

And now there are SEVEN. UofA president Suresh Garimella announced today that the school will reject Trump’s loyalty compact. “Principles like academic freedom, merit-based research funding & institutional independence…must be preserved." Vanderbilt, TX: all eyes on you. 👀 #DefendHigherEd

Many of us at #Emory remember Leslie Harris, who left us abt 11 years ago for #Northwestern. Here she is, speaking at a Northwestern meeting abt the University “Compact.” Still making us proud. @aaup.org @emoryaaup.bsky.social #academicsky #HigherEd www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqLs...

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BOOM! After over a thousand students, faculty, & workers gathered on campus to demand a rejection of Trump’s bribe, UVA SAYS NO LOYALTY OATH! ✊🏼✊🏿✊🏻✊🏾 M.I.T. ☑️ BROWN ☑️ PENN ☑️ USC☑️ UVA ☑️ This is People Power in Action. #DefendHigherEd

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Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

NO LOYALTY OATHS IN HIGHER ED! Trump's attacks on our universities are an attempt to consolidate power. This loyalty oath directly undermines our right to academic freedom & goes against every democratic principle our country should uphold. Please click below, sign, & share. #DefendHigherEd

Analysis of the latest pressure tactics the administration is applying to ensure ideological compliance on campus.

UNC Chapel Hill has reinstated Prof. Dwayne Dixon. Rather than conduct a threat assessment of a faculty member based on spurious accusations, UNC should conduct an assessment of its own administration's threat to First Amendment rights and academic freedom. @aaup.org www.wral.com/news/local/u...

NC ACLU preparing to take legal action against UNC Chapel Hill if Prof. Dwayne Dixon is not reinstated by the end of the week. UNC is violating Dixon's Constitutional rights, and his and his students' and colleagues' academic freedom. @aaup.org www.wral.com/news/local/a...

HIGHER ED EXTORTION: Trump offers “compact” to top universities—including Vanderbilt. Grants in exchange for: fewer foreign students, conservative gender policies, protected GOP ideology & speech limits on staff. Will Vandy to submit to bullying for a bag of cash? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

Georgia AAUP president Matthew Boedy will be in town at Charis Books (Decatur) tomorrow (Tuesday 9/30 7:30 PM) for a reading of his new book.

An AAUP webinar exploring the importance of independent accreditation systems for maintaining professional standards and examining threats a politicized accreditation system poses to academic freedom. October 6 at 7pm www.aaup.org/event/politi...

Powerful piece by #Emory colleague, George Yancy. truthout.org/articles/i-a...