This garbage bill would: --remove research from the review of non-STEM faculty, making tenure decisions based exclusively on teaching --require a 3-3 teaching load --prioritize “American Constitutionalism and Western Civilization” --give politicians and political appointees oversight of research

Happening now: #union members join ‪ @blumenthal.senate.gov to denounce fed @dol.gov's move to deprofessionalize RN degree programs, escalate #StudentDebt crisis. #CodeREDCT @aft.org @afthealthcare.bsky.social @afthighered.bsky.social @aaup.org @seiu.org @democrats.senate.gov‬

AAUP is livestreaming the rally and press conference against extreme austerity measures and the proposed termination of 40% of full-time faculty at The New School right now. Watch here: www.youtube.com/live/iT2HhjU...

“I think it’s even more important for UConn to be a place of free exchange of ideas, to live up to its ideal as a higher education institution” -- Chen Chen (UConn AAUP) @uconnaaup.bsky.social

"Many faculty feel kind of in the dark about these processes" --Daniel Martinez HoSang (President of Yale AAUP), calling for more participation from faculty, students, and staff in budget priorities, as Yale considers potential layoffs @yaleaaup.bsky.social

The AAUP Ad Hoc committee on AI and Academic Professions & colleagues will discuss ongoing strategy building in the movement for tech justice and freedom from surveillance. We also want to hear from you – what you are thinking about, your needs & how you engage with the topic of AI in education.

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👇

Hey UConn, protect academic freedom now! @aaup.org #adminsofragile

"At the end of the day, defending academic freedom is defending democracy. UConn must be a marketplace of ideas, not a walled garden for the ivory tower." @uconnaaup.bsky.social

Curtailment of faculty authority in governing higher education institutions today will not only undermine professional freedoms--it will spoil the fruits of those freedoms: an independent, intellectually rigorous, and incorruptible education for future generations -- Afshan Jafar (Conn AAUP)

"An important lesson we can draw from the new report is that our failure in higher education to defend, without giving any ground, pro-Palestinian speech has proven to be not just costly, but nothing less than an existential threat." Dan Segal on the AAUP-MESA Report. wp.me/p8xr4h-dit

UConn professors get ZERO days of guaranteed paid family leave 🤯 UConn AAUP is negotiating for paid family leave as well as better safeguards for academic freedom and more robust protections for faculty working on contracts. Read more about their contract demands here👇 @uconnaaup.bsky.social

Faculty senates are under attack from new legislation that sidelines faculty voices and undermines academic freedom. The latest AAUP report defends independent, representative governance as essential to higher ed’s integrity. @aaup.org academeblog.org/2025/11/18/i...

The unity of students, faculty & staff powered our legal victories against the Trump admin! Administrators & elected officials are not the ones filing the lawsuits against the Trump admin when our universities are under attack. Rather, faculty, students & staff are the ones defending higher ed.

“It’s not inconceivable to me why they haven’t been more vocal; I just challenge the idea that people haven’t paid a price. I think faculty have paid a price, and students have paid a price.” #AcademicFreedom @yaleaaup.bsky.social @aaup.org

AAUP members qualify for liability insurance and other legal resources, including protection for charges brought by students or a parent claiming an AAUP-AFT member denied their Constitutional rights or committed libel, slander, invasion of privacy, or a criminal act. Check out our webinar👇

UConn-AAUP calls for quality, humane working conditions: "It is time for President Maric’s negotiators to agree to our important contract proposals on academic freedom, paid family and caregiver leave, and job security for clinical, in-residence and extension (CIRE) faculty" @uconnaaup.bsky.social

“We wanted to address a frustrating narrative we’ve been hearing more frequently—that Yale has somehow been exempted from the funding freezes and disruptions affecting other institutions” -- Daniel HoSang, President of Yale AAUP @yaleaaup.bsky.social

"What we need to work on is preserving and protecting the freedom to express all ideas — that’s what makes for a good university." -- Christel Manning, President of Sacred Heart University AAUP www.shuspectrum.com/archives/new...

Just out: In Defense of an Independent and Representative Faculty Voice: The Case of Faculty Senates

Read the latest posts on the AAUP’s Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom’s Substack! Subscribe to get this newsletter straight to your inbox. @aaup.org

WE WON!!! The US District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a preliminary injunction in AAUP et al v. Trump et al (the wall to wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of Title VI to reshape the University of California system. Read the order here:

"We want to make sure that everyone on campus is prepared to resist" -- Jeffers Lennox @wesleyanaaup.bsky.social

"We are calling on our institutional leadership, our governor and our state officials to stand up, speak up, and have the courage to protect academic freedom and reject the federal administration so called compact for higher education" --Neena Qasba, vice president of UCHC-AAUP

"Besides risking some of its best part-time faculty to burnout and the kind of bone-deep frustration that comes with being consistently undervalued, taking advantage of contingent adjuncts has a cost" in terms of student retention -- Katy Mulvaney, member of CSU-AAUP @csuaaup.bsky.social

“If you’re willing to say it privately, say it publicly" Daniel HoSang, President of Yale AAUP @yaleaaup.bsky.social, urging the University to take a stronger public stance in defense of higher education

"Outsourcing our flagship state university’s future to drop-in budget consultants is not the way forward" -- Jeffrey Dudas, President of UConn AAUP @uconnaaup.bsky.social

Truth is resistance. Join us for a 2-hour training to learn how to share your higher ed story through op-eds, social media, and media interviews. Together we can #ReclaimTheNarrative. Learn more www.standtogetherhighered.org#reclaim #AcademicSky #Academia

"Conservative strategists seem to understand that their agenda on higher education, including defunding universities, intimidating international students and privatizing loans, has little public support." -Yale AAUP President Daniel HoSang on the AI-fueled propaganda campaign against higher ed

"I laughed at the AI version of myself standing in a darkened room before a fake slide with a fake headline. But the laughter stops quickly" -- Daniel HoSang (president of @yaleaaup.bsky.social)

“We consider these protections essential given the ongoing climate of threats to academic freedom” -- Jeffrey Dudas (President of @uconnaaup.bsky.social)

register now: The Right-Wing Attack on Higher Education: Palestine as Crucible Monday 27 October, 5:30—7:30pm ET featuring: Isaac Kamola Heather Ferguson Judith Butler Lara Deeb Sherene Seikaly

Proud of my union @uconnaaup.bsky.social hittin’ the boss where it hurts … in the press. www.courant.com/2025/10/23/u...

Everyone from across the political spectrum must unite against Trump’s loyalty oaths! The community power we build on & across our campuses is key to protecting our freedoms. Listen to AAUP General Counsel Veena Dubal from our recent AAUP TV update👇 @veenadubal.bsky.social #DefendHigherEd

Building the power to #DefendHigherEd; local #union & chapter activists came away from our nat'l @afthighered.bsky.social & @aaup.org #2025SummerInstitute equipped to meet the moment: aftct.org/2025/09/23/l... #OrganizeFightWin @aft.org @aftacademics.bsky.social ‬ @higheredlabor.bsky.social

💥💥💥 DEFEND HIGHER ED STARTER PACK! We are building a movement to defend US higher education & have created a starter pack of AAUP chapter & ally accounts to follow. Please Share! (This list is not exhaustive. If you have suggestions, please shoot us a DM!) #DefendHighEd ⬇️⬇️⬇️ go.bsky.app/3YidJ7k

👊LEARNING TO RESIST! The latest episode of the podcast AAUP Presents, featuring contributors to the volume University Keywords (2025), including CAHE steering committee members Andy Hines (editor of the volume) and Jennifer Ruth. Thanks @aaup.org! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

TONIGHT AT 7:30PM ET / 4:30 PM PT! Join AAUP President Todd Wolfson & AAUP General Counsel Veena Dubal for an update on universities MASS REFUSAL of Trump’s loyalty oath compact & how it violates the US Constitution. Live on both IG & YouTube Link: www.youtube.com/live/h-H-ETa...

tomorrow!

Over at "Academic Freedom on the Line" we pulled together some resources for those who might want to organize teach-ins, write op-eds, etc. regarding Trump's extortion HE compact. @aaup.org academicfreedomontheline.substack.com/p/want-to-ho...

UConn professors are guaranteed ZERO WEEKS of PAID FAMILY LEAVE (meaning maternity, paternity & adoptive child leave). Over 6 months ago, the union gave UConn their proposal that professors should get 16 weeks paid family leave. There has been literally no response to date from UConn.

Happening now: #union members join @indivisiblect.bsky.social in #NHV to say #NoKings = no waiting for someone else to protect immigrant students & defend #AcademicFreedom. @aft.org @aftteach.bsky.social @afthighered.bsky.social @aaup.org @ctforall.bsky.social

W/ @genevievelakier.bsky.social, the @aaup.org today released a letter to the Offices of the General Counsel at US colleges & universities. We detail why the Compact violates the Constitution & urge that no one signs it. www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...

“Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” is “a severe threat to academic freedom and to the students and faculty at Yale.” #AcademicFreedom @aaup.org

Happening now: @uconnaaup.bsky.social members & fellow colleagues in #UConnLabor stand together to shift the balance of power in current #union contract negotiations. #TheCTDifference @aft.org @aftacademics.bsky.social‬ @afthighered.bsky.social @aaup.org @higheredlabor.bsky.social‬

UConn professors get zero days of guaranteed paid family leave

Editorial Board of the UConn Daily Campus to Admin: "negotiate with transparency and fairness." "All UConn employees deserve to know where they stand on concerns such as pay and working conditions."

"Kennedy & Company is a part of a higher education consulting sector that is notorious for developing and implementing cost-cutting measures that have had devastating impacts" on students, faculty, and the core academic mission -- Jeffrey Dudas, President of @uconnaaup.bsky.social

Yale AAUP urges University administration to reject a potential federal compact as “a severe threat to academic freedom and to the students and faculty at Yale.” @yaleaaup.bsky.social

This is how unions win; we show up, we demand change and we stand together” -- Sam Sommers @uconnaaup.bsky.social UConn-AAUP rallies for stronger academic freedom protections; multi-year contracts for clinical, in-residence, and extension faculty; and guaranteed paid family leave.