"Nice federal science grant you got there, shame if someone cut it off because you didn't swear your ideological allegiance like we told you to...👀

"What I found most encouraging in the ruling was the rejection of Florida’s claim that paying faculty members’ salaries gave the state the right to control their classroom speech. The opposite decision would have fundamentally changed public higher education."

“A settlement with this administration does not get them off your back." “It’s strange to students, faculty, and alums: Why are you so eager to settle?” 🤔 @yaleaaup.bsky.social

“Whatever these definitions are, they need to be followed in a way that is extremely literal and by the book. And we will be quite vigilant with our administrators about not doing anything extra to try to please politicians.” — Michael Smith, Emporia State University AAUP President 🔥🔥🔥

“The odious whiff of Jim Crow.” — Dr. Daniel HoSang, president of Yale AAUP on the Trump administration’s bogus investigation into Yale admissions. #defendhighered @yaleaaup.bsky.social

Please join us on Thursday for Democratizing Knowledge: Creation Beyond the University, hosted by @debtcollective.bsky.social Every crisis is a hinge point. What does the future of scholarship look like? When: Jul 16, 2026 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm ET Register here: debtcollective.org/event/colleg...

Important thread on the most recent threats to academic freedom ⬇️

Nothing says "intellectual diversity" quite like a mandatory law dictating forced enrollment in a bureaucratic safe space for policed thought. Ohio lawmakers want you to think freely, or else. 👀

Remember this?

If the proposed OMB rules pass, the Trump admin could strip funding for scientific researchers at any time if they decide a project no longer fits the "national interest.” Have you filed a comment yet? The deadline is Monday, July 13. #AcademicSky

Today, the AAUP & Texas AAUP sued Texas Tech Chancellor Brandon Creighton over directives he gave that mandated the censorship & thought policing of thousands of faculty & students leading to the suppression of academic freedom & the pursuit of knowledge. More Here: www.aaup.org/news/aaup-te... 🧵

⏰ Meet the July 13 deadline!

Quick reminder about tonight's event with Timothy Kaufman-Osborn & Constance Penley! Hosted in solidarity with @debtcollective.bsky.social Register here: debtcollective-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Who rules the academy? Join us for a virtual strategy session tomorrow, July 9, at 8 pm ET, hosted by the good folks of @debtcollective.bsky.social Learn how we can exploit university debt dependency to reshape the future of higher ed. Register here: debtcollective-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

“Have we thought about what we’re doing to our students? This is an uncommonly bad idea because at a time when there are calls for critical thinking, calls for more knowledge about civics…what we’re doing is reducing the amount of time that students have to get that in.” — Kenneth Mash, @apscuf.org

Todd Wolfson & Randi Weingarten on 3-year degrees: "A bachelor's degree should both prepare students for the workforce & provide deep learning, broad intellectual development, & sustained engagement with faculty & peers—not simply the fastest possible route to the labor market." Full Statement:

Are the many “Intellectual Freedom Centers” being placed on college campuses nationwide really just mandatory ideological indoctrination centers? 🤔 #AcademicSky

Trump has politicized research & scientific communication, making it harder for researchers to work & communicate their findings. This culture of fear & self-censorship leaves us all sicker & less safe. We must stand up 4 researchers #HigherEdBenefitsEveryone www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

AAUP members came together @ the Higher Ed Summit & Biennial to approve a package of critical proposals that will serve as a sweeping strategic blueprint for our Union to build structural power & go on the offensive against the political & economic threats to higher ed in this moment. 🧵

ICYMI: the AAUP’s Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession is out! It’s a doozy. Key points in the 🧵below:

www.commondreams.org/news/stanfor.... Incredibly proud of these students. Third year in a row they’ve walked out, to join People’s Commencement organized by SJP

“I want faculty to leave here recognizing that for us to transform our situation—whether it’s in our classrooms, in our departments, on our campuses, in our states or nationally—we have everything we need to do it. We can play a role in transforming our democracy.” — AAUP President Todd Wolfson

TODAY!

That’s a Wrap! What a POWERFUL Higher Ed Summit this week in Chicago centering the work of building a strong movement to defend the quality & promise of higher ed & our democracy in this pivotal moment. LET’S GO! #AAUP2026 👊🏽👊🏿👊🏻👊🏼👊🏾

“We’re seeing the unfolding of a decades-long effort by right-wing think tanks to weaken the accreditation system..at stake is a systemic effort to make higher ed more vulnerable to political interference & to cost-cutting, quality reducing measures.”

“As authoritarians attempt to tear it down, we must fight for a fully funded education system in service of a robust democracy. And that’s what we will do. Full stop.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President #AAUP2026

“We must build solidarity with the clarity of what we need collectively to survive.” — CTU President Stacy Davis Gates today at the #AAUP2026 Higher Ed Summit @ctulocal1.bsky.social @iftaft.bsky.social

The Energy is ELECTRIC on Day 3 of the #AAUP2026 Higher Ed Summit in Chicago! #DefendHigherEd @local6741.bsky.social @unac4996ak.bsky.social @cfaunited.bsky.social

“If this kind of austerity can happen at The News School, it can happen everywhere. Faculty all over the country need to be on guard. We need strong labor unions.” — Jeremy Varon, New School AAUP President on @democracynow.org today. 👊🏾👊🏿👊🏼 @newschoolaaup.bsky.social @higheredlabor.bsky.social

Last week, one of New York's most iconic universities, The New School, laid off 19 full-time faculty and 68 staff members. Along with coerced "voluntary" separations and early retirements since December 2025, these mass firings constitute a major gutting of The New School's full-time faculty.

“Power is always found in organized coalitions. The common cause is survival. Build organized force.” — Stacy Davis Gates, President @ctulocal1.bsky.social #AAUP2026 Higher Ed Summit 👊🏽👊🏼👊🏿👊🏾

Powerful plenary to start day 2 of the #AAUP2026 Higher Ed Summit on who controls the future: democratic institutions & workers or authoritarians & corporate power? 💥💥💥 w/ @democracynow.org’s Juan Gonzalez, Mohsen Mahdawi, @hellobrittparis.bsky.social, & @ncaaup.bsky.social’s @belleboggs.bsky.social

ICYMI: John Oliver’s hilarious & thorough takedown of the dysfunctional “complete shit show” hostile takeover of New College of Florida that led to the most corrupt, financially inefficient public university in the state. 👀 ➡️ @newcollegeoffl.bsky.social youtu.be/jFMc07F1UUU?...

The AAUP Higher Ed Summit & Biennial in Chicago is in full effect! Let’s Go! 👊🏽👊🏼👊🏾👊🏻👊🏿 #AAUP2026

“What happens in Texas does not stay in Texas. The policies being implemented there are increasingly being proposed and replicated elsewhere.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

Exciting week ahead at the AAUP Higher Ed Summit in Chicago! 💥 👊🏽 🔥💥 👊🏼 📕 #AAUP2026

Dr. Charles Toombs, immediate past-President of the California Faculty Association, remarking at the AAUP Higher Ed Summit on how easily the commitments made in 2020 to racial justice & equity have been so easily tossed aside for political expediency. @cfaunited.bsky.social #AAUP2026

Excited to announce new confirmed guest speakers for the AAUP Higher Ed Summit this week in Chicago! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 👊🏼👊🏽👊🏾👊🏻👊🏿 @rweingarten.bsky.social @chenjerai.bsky.social @stacydavisgates.bsky.social @ctulocal1.bsky.social #AAUP2026

Today, the AAUP released the Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, 2025–26. It is sobering. Full-time faculty salaries are down about 0.4% in real, inflation-adjusted terms. Average full-time faculty salaries remain 9.5% below fall 2019 & about 5.8% below fall 2008. 1/

AAUP President Todd Wolfson: “We stand in solidarity with New School workers amid corporate takeover of the University.“

Days before the largest-ever layoffs at Portland State, faculty & students rallied to demand an alternative: “President Cudd: the worst of this can be avoided. There’s still time to stand with the PSU community & save this university.” @psuaaup.bsky.social

The AAUP is battling Trump’s attacks on higher education on multiple fronts: on campus, in the courts, and in the streets. “We’re only getting stronger. I can promise you that we will fight them tooth and nail.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President Join us.

"The massive demonstrations, student occupations, & unified faculty strikes across Argentina are an inspiration to educators & workers everywhere. Public higher education belongs to the people—not oligarchs, financiers, or authoritarian politicians." — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President #AcademicSky

We stand with CONADU

This is absurd. The administration's proposal would sacrifice the post-war American research system that sparked unprecedented scientific advancement in favor of an ideological loyalty test that would reduce groundbreaking scientific discovery to a game of bureaucratic compliance. #academicsky

Brad Lander joined higher ed workers at The New School this May Day to stand up against ongoing admin attempts to dismantle shared governance & eliminate over 20 academic programs. Stand Up! Fight Back! @bradlander.bsky.social @newschoolaaup.bsky.social #DefendHigherEd #MayDay2026

“The message I keep trying to send is that when you hear about one high-profile case, you know there are a thousand more that we never hear about, not to mention those instances where a professor just avoids teaching on a certain topic altogether.” – Lorena Grundy, VP, @aaup-penn.bsky.social

Delaney Hall must be shut down immediately. These inhumane conditions and horrifying reports of mistreatment are not who we are as a country. Thank you to the elected leaders who have shone a light on these atrocities. jeffries.house.gov/2026/05/31/l...

"Higher education has been one of the most powerful engines of opportunity, innovation & democracy in our nation’s history. It can be again. The task now is not simply to defend it. It is to rebuild it so it truly serves the public." —Todd Wolfson & Randi Weingarten

Today, the AAUP Yale Chapter releases our report on The State of Academic Freedom at Yale. Uncertain that university leaders will protect academic freedom when tested, Yale faculty are managing risk alone and making changes that narrow what Yale teaches, researches, and communicates to the world.