IT.IS.OFFICIAL. Our bill—giving 9K faculty across MD collective bargaining rights—was signed into law today! Huge thanks goes to @govwesmoore.bsky.social @senbillferg.bsky.social @mdhousedems.bsky.social @aaup.org @aft.org @aftmaryland.bsky.social @afthighered.bsky.social @local6741.bsky.social!

An essential report documenting assault on academic freedom. Join @actioninhighered.bsky.social

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📆 ❗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...

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On Saturday, come out with your fellow @aaup.org- @aft.org United Academics Local 6741 colleagues from across the country to say: No Kings. No Wars. No ICE! Find your local protest and a toolkit here: docs.google.com/document/u/0... Why "No Kings! No Wars! No ICE!"? Read 🧵 👇

Pls read the 161 page opinion. I want to highlight some information that came out in discovery & at trial that folks might have missed. (1) Asst Director Hatch, is the senior director in the Office of Intelligence. He oversees intelligence reports known as Reports of Analysis (ROA)....

Sure feels great to approach a USCIS officer with a tweet as rationale not to detain you

In case you've been wondering about the moral and intellectual crisis in Holocaust studies, here's exhibit A. It also illustrates why we felt the need to found the Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network: www.ghscn.org/home

A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.

“If the DOJ can investigate faculty governance bodies for citing a university's own strategic plan, then no campus is safe. "Let's call this what it is: a gross misuse of federal power to chill speech, silence faculty, & undermine shared governance.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

❌AN AGREEMENT THAT SETTLES NOTHING❌ "Far from being legal settlement, the Agreement fulfills the Trump administration’s desire to dominate a prominent university, to diminish autonomy & to silence critical speech." Columbia AAUP for Academe Blog @aaupcu.bsky.social @academemagazine.bsky.social

The @aaup.org submitted a letter to @cuny.edu leadership supporting the academic freedom & constitutional rights of Prof Ramzi Kassem in response to the outrageous suggestion by Rep. Stefanik that he be disciplined for representing Mahmoud Khalil. Read it here: www.aaup.org/news/aaup-le...

Join us THIS FRIDAY 8/1 for a Day of Action in Merten Hall (ffx campus) during the BOV meeting, 8:30am - 1pm. Tell the BOV to Stand up for Mason and Protect GMU President Washington! Pack the BOV mtg in the morning. Join our community assembly and press event at 12noon!

Taner Akçam, Marianne Hirsch, and I introduce the Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network and call for immediate concrete measures to prevent further atrocity crimes and to protect civilians in Gaza.

Some of 6741's leadership team spoke at @aaup.org & @aft.org Summer Institute at Morehouse College in Atlanta this past weekend. When we organize and fight, we win! Reach out if you want help organizing! We are here to help. #OrganizeFightWin

Hell yeah! We are at @aaup.org Summer Institute to #OrganizeFightWin with co-sponsors @aft.org @afthighered.bsky.social!

“Advocacy chapters can act like unions! We need to act like fighting, organized unions.” “United faculty for the common good!” — Leadership of AAUP-AFT United Academics Local 6741, Summer Institute 2025, #OrganizeFightWin

@local6741.bsky.social-amplify to help build toward densely organized spaces!

"If you destroy higher education in this country, you harm the ability of every day kids to build a better life, you kill innovation, & you undermine democracy because higher ed gives us the skills to create a critical, thriving democracy...I think that's part of the intention." — Todd Wolfson, AAUP

@scholarsforsj.bsky.social tv news round up of @actioninhighered.bsky.social April 17, not a protest, a movement! #dayofactionforhighered

Thank you to everyone who participated in the #DayofActionforHigherEd yesterday! What an incredible day of advocacy and action! 👏👏👏 Don’t forget to tag us in your pics, and stay tuned for next steps!

PROFESSORS ARE INSISTING THEIR CAMPUSES STAND UP FOR DEMOCRACY AND HIGHER EDUCATION. Today, we are releasing letters - most organized in under a week - with over 5000 signatures calling on campus leadership to stand up to Trump & fight for our values & our students. bit.ly/CampusLettersTally

On this day of action, faculty from around the country have one message for our boards and presidents: it's time to join together and fight back! scatter.wordpress.com/2025/04/17/5...

“On Thursday afternoon, hundreds of students and faculty members rallied on the steps of Memorial Church in Harvard Yard to condemn the Trump administration for demanding that Harvard turn over detailed information about the academic and disciplinary records of the international student body.”

An incredible collection of images from #DayOfActionforHigherEd protests across the country yesterday!! ❤️❤️ apnews.com/article/educ...

⭐️⭐️TODAY is the #DayofActionforHigherEd! 👏👏 We couldn’t be more excited! With more than 175 events across the country and a slate of online events there are SO many ways to participate. Join us as we fight to #FreeHigherEdNow! 👊 www.dayofactionforhighered.org/events