Super fucked up, @propublica.org - extremely wild that a newsroom based on public trust would be unwilling to take these basic steps in bargaining

Higher ed workers at the University of Virginia demand: Democratize the campus! Out with the Rector and Vice Rector! In with student, faculty, and staff power! Collective bargaining and a living wage NOW!

TODAY! 4-6pm at Two Locals! Join us there for AAUP Happy Hour

Workers can regulate AI with strong contract language. Full stop. Unionized journalists just proved this at POLITICO. @pen-guild.bsky.social

JOIN US! End-of-term happy hour with Drexel AAUP this Thursday 12/4 4-6pm at Two Locals

“After one full year of negotiations, Penn administrators have failed to agree to a contract that includes fair wages, improved benefits, and strong support for international workers." ow.ly/whj050XxuqI

every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades

Absolute debasement of academic standards *student submits opinion in psych class *gets bad grade *instructor says she can make whatever arguments she wants but must draw on empirical sources *student & Turning Point says her religious freedom & first amendment rights violated *professor suspended

ICYMI AAUP is starting a PAC news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...

A crucial first step. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...

UT Regents move forward with 'ultimate' power to oversee hiring, curriculum www.statesman.com/news/educati...

Among the crucial points we learned from @akalhan.bsky.social this week: shared governance is part of academic freedom

This will be catastrophic for an already worsening crisis in healthcare, particularly in primary care.

This is the incredibly disturbing letter the U.S. House Committee on Education & Workforce sent to UC Berkeley in September, in which the committee demands outrageous and detailed information about staff & students. A colleague obtained it via a Public Records Act request. pdfhost.io/v/4VaaH4PvJP...

Yesterday, our union was proud to join public higher ed workers across PA. Our coalition is unprecedented and growing. Community college and PASSHE, and Pitt, Temple and Penn State workers are calling on Harrisburg to fully fund public higher ed. Let’s go from the bottom 10 to the top 10.

“When a school’s own administrators intend to throw away every one of the uni’s depts in so much of the sum total of human knowledge…maybe the onus should be on them to explain their mad plan to leave intellectually immiserated & stifled the students’ lives they ought to be committed to enriching.”

Less than half an hour away! See you there!

TOMORROW! Looking forward to seeing folks at our Academic Freedom Summit. Register here: bit.ly/43Z8ZYW

This order is a major win for students & academic freedom. The Trump–Vance admin tried to strong-arm the UC system and its faculty and staff into giving up their free speech rights — and they were stopped. Proud that AFT was part of the coalition that stood up democracyforward.org/updates/cour...

Enjoy your weekends, and THEN: join Drexel AAUP and @akalhan.bsky.social for our Academic Freedom Summit! 11/12 4-5:30 Hagerty L33 | Registration: bit.ly/43Z8ZYW

NEXT MONDAY (11/12 4-5:30pm) join Drexel AAUP’s Freedom Summit led by @akalhan.bsky.social, Professor of Law & member of @aaup.org's Committee on Academic Freedom & Tenure. Register here: bit.ly/43Z8ZYW

Happy to report that the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign academic senate overwhelmingly passed a resolution against the federal “compact” all of us in higher ed have been offered, encouraging our administrators to keep opposing it. #MADC www.senate.illinois.edu/2025-2026/20...

“The importance...is to demand that we not only protect higher education from the kinds of threats posed by the Trump administration, but also to insist that higher education is accessible financially, culturally and in every way to all members of society.” - Mary Van Buren, CSU AAUP President

Once these freedoms go away we no longer have universities. Real learning will be pushed underground.

Great to see so many Philadelphia hire ed folks at yesterday’s Day of Action! Cross-union organizing makes us stronger in the fight for academic freedom and the soul of our schools @aaup-penn.bsky.social @afscme590.bsky.social @aft.org @apscuf.org @fsfccp.bsky.social

The City of Brotherly Love is turning out to defend academic freedom and fight for higher ed for all! Thank you @fsfccp.bsky.social, @apscuf.org, @aaup-penn.bsky.social TAUP, UAP, and the Philadelphia AFL-CIO for turning out for today's higher ed day of action. #HigherEdBenefitsEveryone

A coalition of AAUP chapters in Atlanta stood up today for the future of higher education and marched from Morehouse College to Clark Atlanta University! @neatoday.bsky.social #defendacademicfreedom

“Students, faculty and staff at more than 100 campuses across the US rallied against the Trump administration’s assault on higher education on Friday – the first in a planned series of nationwide, coordinated protests.” 👏👏👏

Chapter members, officers, and UT alumni met to share information and write letters to the Tower opposing the Compact and academic downsizing and consolidation. What are y’all doing for the National Day of Action?

No compact! No tyrants! Hands off higher ed!