"Look, we are a labor union. We’re going to fight & respond to this moment...We're standing for what we always stood for...a powerful higher-education sector that leads to innovation & social mobility & is a bedrock of our democracy." —Todd Wolfson, AAUP President #DefendHigherEd #AcademicSky

Read this dispatch from Right2Edu in Birzeit. Birzeit Uni in the West Bank Under attack AGAIN. right2edu.birzeit.edu/birzeit-univ...

Bondi’s rhetoric is a particularly “alarming threat” given her status overseeing American law enforcement, said Veena Dubal, general counsel of the AAUP. It is also “a signal that not only does this administration not care about the first amendment, they don’t seem to really understand it.”

🚨🚨🚨 NEW AAUP Report Analyzes Trump Admin Weaponization of Title VI to Undermine Civil Rights Protections. #Academicfreedom #AcademicSky #DefendHigherEd

Hard agree @debtcollective.bsky.social.

Let's have each others' backs. Solidarity with @uchicagoaaup.bsky.social

Great resources from our friends @critzstudies.bsky.social

“We will not allow authoritarians to dismantle higher education. We will not allow billionaires to profit while communities suffer. And we will not allow fear to silence students and workers who speak out.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President #DefendHigherEd #HigherEdBenefitsEveryone @aft.org

Statement in Solidarity with the Intern. Assoc. of Genocide Scholars by the Genocide & Holocaust Studies Crisis Network: We condemn attacks on the IAGS Gaza genocide resolution & abhor the denialism & bad faith that persist among some in the fields of Holocaust & Genocide Studies.

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The Head of Trumps's Combatting Antisemitism Task Force Leo Terrell celebrates the corrupt ruling to deport Mahmoud Khalil. If the ruling combined with this clown's social media post don't sum up the incredibly sorry state of affairs of this country, I don't know what does.

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This is ridiculous. DEI for conservatives already exists — it’s called the status quo. The default in this country — the hegemonic order — is built on conservatism.

"We are insisting that public school administrators or officials not take actions that validate accusations by extremists against educators." massteacher.org/news/2025/09...

Suddenly "hate speech" is bad. Suddenly "dehumanizing" people is bad. Suddenly "cancel culture" is good. Suddenly words have consequences. The modern American right in 2025, folks.

The rampant violations of academic freedom and intrusions on extramural speech are escalating rapidly. Faculty members have the right to speak or write as citizens, free from institutional censorship or discipline. Expression of opinion as a citizen does not constitute grounds for dismissal.

These firings, with zero due process, are violations of widely accepted principles of academic freedom & are completely unacceptable. College & university administrators MUST NOT exploit these shocking events to censor protected speech & concentrate their own power. www.wsmv.com/2025/09/12/t...

The AAUP notes with great alarm the rash of recent administrative actions to discipline faculty, staff, & student speech in the aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk. 1/4

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick appears to believe in free speech...if you agree with him. 👀 1/3

Beloved History professor and Socialist Horizon member Tom Alter was summarily fired on September 10th by Texas State University President Kelly Damphousse for expressing his ideas at a virtual conference. We Demand Texas State University Give Tom Alter His Job Back chng.it/Lr8fkLfy via @Change

CAHE on the (ab)use of antisemitism by the House Education and Workforce Committee to attack organized labor. Who will speak out? Please read and share! academeblog.org/2025/09/12/t...

The AAUP stands in full solidarity w/HBCU faculty, staff, students, admin, & alumni. We call on law enforcement & governmental authorities to treat these threats w/ the seriousness they deserve, investigate thoroughly, hold responsible parties accountable, & strengthen preventive measures on campus.

The AAUP calls on Texas A&M & Texas State to reverse the ideological firings of faculty members. We condemn the removal of the dean of the College of Arts & Sciences & the chair of the English department at Texas A&M for supporting the academic freedom of an instructor as a draconian abuse of power.

Rashid Khalidi's course at the People's Forum! Don't live in NYC? You can still take it. "This course starts from the premise that this is . . . a systematic, if intermittent, war that has lasted for over a century, aimed at dispossessing the Palestinian people." peoplesforum.org/events/guest...

A professor at Texas A&M included content in her course about gender and sex, a student argued that it was illegal, and now the dean and department head have been fired, and the “case” has been referred to the DOJ. This is a five alarm fire. Video in replies. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...

“Stimson has repeatedly exceeded his authority as Rector. His conflicting leadership role at the Heritage Foundation & his repeated attempts to overreach his authority threaten the foundation of VA's largest public university, endangering its governance, stability, & future.” –@aaupmason.bsky.social

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

We are being met with impossible choices—what some have called "choiceless choices." To get insulin or eat. To pay a student loan bill or rent. To take a sick day or go to work with COVID. Austerity politics is ruining lives. We need economic liberation. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

New #Academe articles are out today! Check out selected articles and book reviews from the forthcoming fall issue and an article from the #Academe archives here:

Important & hilarious deconstruction of Trump & the authoritarian far right's absurdly dangerous attacks on American higher education featuring a cameo from Michael Thaddeus, acting president of @aaupcu.bsky.social. #DefendHigherEd #Academicsky

LDF Strongly Opposes Consideration of Sen. Brandon Creighton for Chancellor of the Texas Tech University System  www.naacpldf.org/press-releas...

We have the nation's first union of debtors. debtcollective.org

And now they're using antisemitism to go after the unions. Shame. www.jpost.com/diaspora/ant...

The 2025 @aaup.org Faculty in the South Survey of 4,000 professors in 12 states has revealed the significant impact of political attacks on faculty work and recruitment. The findings show a widespread climate of fear & ongoing desire by some to leave the region for other jobs. 1/x

“We stand determined to see that Mason—the largest public institution of higher education in Virginia with one of the most diverse student bodies in the US—remains a university of, by, and for the people.” — Bethany Letiecq academeblog.org/2025/09/04/g...

In April, the AAUP & our Harvard chapter sued the Trump admin for demanding that Harvard censor speech & restructure core operations or else face $8.7 billion in funding cuts. We hope this decision clarifies to Harvard’s administration that bargaining w/ tyrannical authoritarians is unacceptable.

Here’s a 🧵 on key points in Judge Burroughs’ order in the AAUP/Harvard AAUP’s lawsuit against Trump’s DOJ for ideological funding cuts at Harvard: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Officially out this coming Tuesday! 🎉

!! Tomorrow !! debtcollective.org/event/right-...

"Our good deans aren’t holding back the worst; they are legitimating it." Ben Robinson on IU's spurious sanction for an anonymous complaint. wp.me/p8xr4h-dcG

"Even as they cracked down on pro-Palestine protesters, UC leadership was quietly making overtures to the Trump administration." Sean Malloy utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/09/why-...

CHICAGO IS IN THE STREETS! #LaborDay #DefendHigherEd #WorkersOverBillionaires

The AAUP believes that unions provide the best way for higher education workers to fulfill our duty to the wider public to ensure higher education contributes to the common good. Happy Labor Day! #DefendHigherEd

From Durham, NC to Washington, LA, Chicago, Boston, & dozens of cities in between, higher ed workers stood up today for the freedom & independence of higher education, because the future of our democracy depends on it. #LaborDay #DefendHigherEd #WorkersOverBillionaires @ncaaup.bsky.social

"Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)". Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Boston AAUP Chapters in the Streets!!! #Solidarity #LaborDay #WorkersDeserve #DefendHigherEd

"Most people believe the system is broken and are looking for someone to fix it. Unions can provide that leadership... Unions should use their power to target President Trump’s war on the working class." #LaborDay

Make a statement for higher ed workers this Labor Day with HELU signs! Easily printable from our website, perfect for any kind of Labor Day action. See you in the streets! higheredlaborunited.org/2025/08/28/h...

TODAY 3 PM EST!! CAHE leaders Bill Mullen, Karim Mattar, and Sherena Razek on Jadaliyya's "The Frontlines of Educator Resistance." 🇵🇸 www.jadaliyya.com/Details/4687...