Chapter meeting planned for June 26 - members please check your email for details!

"The faculty vote comes on the heels of graduate students voting in November 2025 to unionize. It also comes amid sweeping changes at Penn State, including the decision to close seven campuses, and hire McKinsey & Company to conduct a review of the university's operational and academic operations."

Judge orders Dr. Idris Robinson reinstated at Texas State University. “Professors do not give up their constitutional rights when they accept a job at a Texas public university,” said Dr. Aimee Villarreal, President of the Texas State University chapter of Texas AAUP-AFT. 👏👏

Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

Come join fellow AAUP members from across Atlanta today! #MayDay

“This chilling effect created by unregulated 24/7 Flock mass surveillance on campus is absolutely anathema to the free and open exchange of ideas and participation in events and assemblies.” — Stanford AAUP

Two years after pro-Palestine protests rocked Emory University’s campus, three professors filed a complaint against the institution, alleging wrongful arrests and prosecution, negligence and a breach of free expression policies by the university.

#MayDayHigherEd is about building a healthy society, not about tearing it down

www.emorywheel.com/article/lett... Emory AAUP members’ letter saying “Protect our community from ICE!” published in Emory Wheel student newspaper.

The @emoryaaup.bsky.social showed up at the DeFlock walkout on Friday at #Emory. They demand that #Flock cameras be removed from the campus. @aaup.org @decaturish.bsky.social #gapol @ajc.com

Reminder - Emory AAUP Chapter meeting Friday 3/27 1-2 PM - please check your email from last Friday for zoom link.

FUN STORY! When I started @standupforscience.net Emory leadership instructed the Wheel not to cover me or the protests we led around the WORLD. I asked for support & Emory sent General Council to meet with me and then refused to allow the NYT photographer onto campus...BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE...

Boston University, where I teach, has been taking down Pride Flags from faculty and office windows because of a new “content neutral” ban on public-facing flags and banners. This is a bad policy that infringes on free speech. Faculty are protesting. Today the President defended these actions. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Teach-in Wednesday 3/25 about Flock cameras on Emory campus. 5 PM in Math/Sci 502.

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.