The Texas Way: UT faculty group issues new definition of 'academic freedom' www.statesman.com/news/educati... And AAUP chapter raises concerns.

My department, Cornell BME, is hiring! This tenure-track faculty position is a great opportunity to join a vibrant community that values research, teaching, and entrepreneurship. 📝 academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30816

"Avoid any fairy tales that frame wealth redistribution as heroic, such as those involving theft from lawful property owners via beanstalks."

Indiana University Alumni Pull Donations Over Student Newspaper Censorship https://bit.ly/3LvA0ge #AcademicSky #EDUSky #HigherEd

FACTS: 86% of all SNAP benefits go to households that include a child, an elderly person, or a person with disabilities And, almost 40% of SNAP recipients are children. SNAP feeds America. In the land of plenty, no one should go hungry. #saveSNAP #feedveterans #feedchildren #usetheemergencyfund

📌This Ontario, Canada, commercial is the truth, sheer brilliance, and should spread like wildfire across the United States.

None of the CEO’s urgent priorities are related to the reason I stopped shopping at Target. 🤔 “Target is eliminating 1,800 corporate jobs as it looks to reclaim its lost lustre” apnews.com/article/targ...

NASFAA, along with 30 other higher education organizations, released a statement opposing the Trump administration’s higher education compact, outlining concerns that the proposal threatens “to undermine the very qualities that make our system exceptional.” Learn more: https://ow.ly/3EIx50Xh5GK

University of Texas AAUP urges admin to join seven other universities in rejecting Trump’s ‘loyalty oath’ compact. “The Compact reflects a grave threat to the mission of the University of Texas at Austin.” @utaustinaaup.bsky.social #DefendHigherEd

The Defense Department banned nearly 600 books from schools on military bases — but in a win for free speech, a federal judge just ordered those books back to the shelves.

@UT Austin Blocks Grad Student Assembly Political Speech https://bit.ly/4nhfsFE EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

UT Austin students protest Compact outside investiture of President Jim Davis.

Thank you, Daily Texan editors, for taking this stand Thank you, @thedailytexan editors, for taking this stand. thedailytexan.com/2025/10/16/a...

University of Arizona declines to sign onto Trump administration 'compact' reut.rs/4nfM3f6

Five of the six private universities invited to join Trump's "Compact" have rejected it: Brown, Dartmouth, MIT, Penn, and USC. Vanderbilt is the only private university still considering selling academic freedom and civil rights in exchange for an unfair advantage in competing for federal grants.

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We are hiring! Come work with me! Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University of Alaska Fairbanks 2 courses/semester + research & service careers.alaska.edu/jobs/531493 We have a great department, and Fairbanks is actually a pretty great place to live. #mathsky #statsky

Last week, the Indiana University administration asked their student newspaper not to print any news stories in the Homecoming edition. When the faculty advisor refused, IU fired him and ended paper printing. So students at the Purdue paper printed the IU edition and drove it down to Bloomington!

If you're heading out to protest this weekend, know your rights so you can make your voice heard. Learn more at ACLUMaine.org/KnowYourRights

Reminder for UT Austin AAUP colleagues ... please check your personal email account for a message from the AAUP Chapter at UT Austin from the address "[email protected]" which is an opportunity to vote on the AAUP Chapter at UT Austin Resolution on the Trump Administration “Compact”.

Four down. Five to go. Let’s go. Join our National Teach-In on Trump’s Loyalty Oaths. Register Here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #DefendHigherEd

Nearly three years after leaving his post as Chicago Board of Education vice president, former teacher and Chicago Public Schools parent Sendhil Revuluri is vying to return, announcing his candidacy for school board president Wednesday.

Former Columbia Provost Jonathan Cole asks the university to bravely admit where it was wrong: www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...

UT Austin AAUP members... please watch your personal email account for a message from the AAUP Chapter at UT Austin from the address "[email protected]" which is an opportunity to vote on the AAUP Chapter at UT Austin Resolution on the Trump Administration “Compact”.

SATURDAY Stand Up. Fight Back. #NoKings Find an event near you. www.nokings.org#map

"In the case of land acknowledgements, the ban on factual information is a troubling example of overcompliance to SB1 & a transparent attempt to appease & cower in an anti-DEI moment." — AAUP OSU Teaching Indigenous history and practicing academic freedom are inseparable! @osuaaup.bsky.social

When students, faculty, and our communities are united to fight for our universities, for the common good, and for our democracy, nothing can stop us! WHEN WE FIGHT, WE WIN! @aft @higheredlabor.bsky.social #DefendHigherEd

thedailytexan.com/2025/10/13/s... Do Not Sign!

Our executive committee, the only elected faculty body remaining at UT, urged the President and Board of Regents to reject Trump’s ultimatum. www.chronicle.com/article/dart...

“A federal judge in Austin has temporarily blocked key parts of Texas' new law limiting expression on campuses, halting the University of Texas System's enforcement of a ban on overnight expression and limits on speakers, amplified sounds and drums during the last two weeks of the semester.”

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

I have been trying to get this published as an op-ed, but I am going to post it here since I think it is timely in light of the "consent" extortion events. Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... 1/14

The Trump admin’s offer to give preferential treatment to institutions that toe the party line reeks of bribery in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological agenda. This is corruption. Adherence to ‘loyalty oaths’ would usher in a new era of thought policing in American higher education.

The legendary Jane Fonda “has relaunched the Committee for the First Amendment, the McCarthy-era initiative started by her father, Henry Fonda ...” www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

"Data manipulation by the US Gov...makes crucial datasets untrustworthy and unusable. If the US Government secretly changes datasets for political reasons, researchers relying on the data might erroneously recommend ineffective or counterproductive interventions." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

ICE Agents Hurl Pregnant Immigrant Over Mexican Border To Prevent Birth On U.S. Soil