Join us and @jvp.bsky.social for a seminar on the university and the fight against fascism tonight at 7 pm!

See you at 5! Still time to register for anyone who wishes to attend ⬇️

Today at 2 pm! Register via the link below.

This May Day, join higher ed workers across the nation and fight for an affordable and safe education that serves the common good. Learn more and register at www.labor4highered.org #HandsOffHigherEd #MayDayHigherEd #HigherEdOverBillionaires #DefendHigherEd

“Pro: Not a politician. Years of leadership experience at TAMU Con: No academic experience. Never taught students, spent time in a lab or produced research Will she support the goals of a higher ed institution or continue to remake TAMU into a high school?” — Leonard Bright, TAMU AAUP President

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New event just dropped! The Right to Learn: Building a United Student Front with Dr. Shamell Bell. April 16th, 7-8pm Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Join us this Thursday! Register in advance here: bit.ly/unicomplicit...

Today, the AAUP & @aft.org launched our national policy platform to win back an American higher education system that protects the freedom to teach & learn & strengthens our democracy. Read it in full here: www.aaup.org/blueprint-st... 🧵

RIGHT NOW: UT Austin professors & students are marching to the Texas Capitol to demand an end to classroom censorship & course consolidation. @aft.org @texasaaup.bsky.social @utaustinaaup.bsky.social

“They tried to weaken higher education, but instead they built a movement to fight for the future... They can attack our institutions, but they cannot stop our movement….We will not stop until we have the higher education system and the democracy we all deserve.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

New event just dropped! The Right to Learn: Building a United Student Front with Dr. Shamell Bell. April 16th, 7-8pm Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Day of Action Event Roundup /🧵 Join us on April 16 and 17 as we fight back against Trump's attacks on higher education! We have a packed slate of organizing workshops and conversations. Bring a friend, bring a colleague. Find all the details and registration links below ⬇️

📆 ❗Join us on April 16 & 17 for our third annual #DayofActionforHigherEd This is a call for free higher ed in every sense: - Make public schools tuition free - Erase all student debt - Ensure schools remain bastions of free thought for a better world www.dayofactionforhighered.org/day-of-actio...

"According to the data, academic freedom is now declining in more countries than it is improving across all five dimensions." Another day, another reminder that organizing in higher ed has never been more urgent. al-fanarmedia.org/2026/04/acad...

NEW: Preliminary findings released today from the AAUP’s annual Faculty Compensation Survey reveal that real wages for full-time faculty decreased & remain below pre-pandemic levels. The FCS is the largest independent source of data on faculty salaries. Check out preliminary findings below. ⬇️

Columbia must move beyond performative listening & commit to a true shared governance model where student & faculty voices carry real weight in shaping the university’s future. True institutional stability requires leadership to be accountable to its community, not just a closed circle of trustees.

Money for wars but not for science, research, and education… 😒

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“There is a better way, a more collaborative way, a more humane way to address our current challenges & the deficit. We need to work together with faculty, unions & the whole community as genuine partners" —Isabel Jaén, Portland State University AAUP @psuaaup.bsky.social

"Eliminating tenure based on misunderstandings and misinformation will have far-reaching consequences, and it will negatively impact our students, our institutions of higher education, and ultimately our state’s economic growth."

RIGHT NOW: PSU AAUP members are rallying outside final board of trustees meeting before the worst layoffs in PSU history. The cuts are expected to target 200 workers, decimate 19 programs, & severely impact hundreds of students This could all be avoided. It’s time to fight. @psuaaup.bsky.social

Julie Minich, AAUP UT Austin chapter executive committee member: “This timeline is really detrimental for students’ education..[It] effectively means that the primary consideration here is politics and not the education of students." www.kut.org/education/20...

NEW: “While the PSU board & administrators point to a "structural deficit," these cuts are not a financial necessity; they are a political choice that prioritizes administrative bloat & capital projects over the livelihoods of dedicated public servants.” — Todd Wolfson & Randi Weingarten @aft.org

“They want to do things which tend to be illegal. They have a penchant for illegality. They can be as thorough as they want, but if they want to stop freedom of speech, they're going to have a problem.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President on the Trump admin's recent fondness for launching lawsuits.

Full-time salaries for most categories of faculty have remained about the same since 2002, adjusting for inflation, while admin pay soars. Faculty have had enough. We’re fighting back nationwide. ✊🏽✊🏻✊🏿 www.chronicle.com/article/amid...

"Together, our institutions have helped to build the freedoms now under attack. Reclaiming those freedoms, & the responsibilities they entail, begins with a respectful, democratic knock on the board-room door." New op-ed in the @chronicle.com by Columbia AAUP leaders.

“Faculty members & students continue to speak up & organize to oppose the radical reconfiguration of American institutions launched by the Trump administration & its private-sector allies. Frequently, this has included organizing outside the gates.” — Reinhold Martin & Robert Newton, Columbia AAUP

Higher Ed workers in NYC showed up in FORCE this weekend at #NoKings. @psc-cuny.org @aaupcu.bsky.social @afthighered.bsky.social @newschoolaaup.bsky.social

UVA President Scott Beardsley, himself the result of a rushed, politically skewed job search, has paused the search for a new EVP & provost citing the dizzying number of changes to UVA’s executive leadership & to the composition of the search committee. “You gotta be freaking kidding me.” 👀

Kentucky House Bill 490 is yet another state bill that prioritizes profit over education & partisan interests over academic inquiry & student achievement. Kentucky lawmakers should reject it. Read AAUP President Todd Wolfson & AFT President Randi Weingarten's statement here:

Rebecca Karl of NYU-AAUP breaks down the driving issues behind the Contract Faculty United Strike in @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social. "Restructuring higher education is hugely responsible for this situation...the pivot towards contract faculty away from tenure lines...It is reaping what it sowed."

If HB580 passes in Alabama, it will eviserate academic freedom in the state & shift all control over higher ed curriculum & tenure to partisan politicians. This bill isn't about accountability; it’s about censorship & the dismantling of intellectual independence, innovation & progress.

“Ground zero in an unprecedented nationwide assault on academic freedom & diversity.” A film tracking the conservative takeover of New College of Florida, titled “First They Came For Our College” premiered at SXSW.

Academic freedom concerns spark a surge of professors joining the AAUP. "People are angry, frustrated, but also kind of mobilized." — Ira Dworkin, VP of Texas A&M AAUP

"We urge you to support free speech on campus & to stop selectively targeting speech that the Trump administration does not like..." —Boston University AAUP to admin #AcadmicSky

“The VA General Assembly voted to give over half a million public sector workers collective bargaining rights. But not me. I'm an adjunct faculty member who was just left behind to endure the exploitation of higher education.” @abigailspanberger.com, please correct course & add us back in.

“Removing tenure protection does not make universities more accountable to students or taxpayers. It makes faculty more vulnerable to political interference. For anyone who has watched what politically motivated meddling does to institutions, that should not be a selling point.” #AcademicSky

Oscar-winner Ryan Coogler recalling how a college writing professor pushed him to become a screenwriter & the possibility of #Sinners being taught in film curriculums someday: “I have so much respect for professors…for dedicating their life to future generations & making sure their minds are solid.”

The growth of access to higher ed in the 50s & 60s aimed to produce “a well-informed & democratic citizenry, w/ people who understand the need to participate in society.” The Heritage Foundation is attempting to reverse this. Fighting back is essential, & requires using every means possible.

Despite Portland State faculty & staff securing $311M in higher ed funding, reducing Oregon’s higher ed cuts from 5% to 0%, PSU admin move forward in enacting worst cuts in its history. Why? @psuaaup.bsky.social

Today, the VSU Fired Six brought the fight to the Virginia Capitol to advocate for higher ed workers to be included in collective bargaining legislation so that VA workers can be empowered to negotiate for workplace protections so illegal terminations without due process end. #reinstatethefiredsix

“Our federal government is sending a message that only a narrow definition of humanities can be supported, celebrated and invested in, and that there are only a narrow set of people, culture and experiences that are worth understanding in depth"

The far right's new politicized higher ed accreditor is illegitimate. "Rather than protecting educational quality, the CPHE appears designed to give partisan political actors a powerful new tool to pressure universities to conform to a narrow ideological agenda" — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

All evidence to date suggests that the CPHE is a partisan political body aiming to transform higher ed in a manner desired by Republican extremists & the donors who back them…a Trojan horse determined to use any power awarded it to bend public higher ed to their ideological agenda.

RIGHT NOW: The VSU ‘Fired Six’ are standing w/ the Virginia Public Sector Labor Coalition calling for all public service workers, including higher ed & home care workers, to be included in historic collective bargaining legislation being debated at the Virginia General Assembly. ✊🏾✊🏽✊🏻 #academicsky

The VSU ‘Fired Six’ takes the Virginia State Capitol to demand their jobs back & for the General Assembly to pass full collective bargaining rights for all higher ed workers. www.courthousenews.com/home-care-an...

Florida prohibits universities from using the H-1B program to hire “new employees” until Jan. 5, 2027. The change will not affect existing H-1B holders, according to system Chancellor Ray Rodrigues. @unitedfacultyfl.bsky.social