"These programs have proven themselves to be a successful means for improving access, retention and graduation rates for all students #TheCTDifference

As the court fight over DACA picks up later this month, advocates hope public pushback can protect the Dreamers again.

www.chronicle.com/article/part... The moral of the story, as Dr. Bright of TAMU AAUP points out: Stick to your principles!

The ACLU of Indiana filed a federal lawsuit against a state university president, alleging he unconstitutionally fired an employee over her private social media post. @bsuaaup.bsky.social #academicfreedom #academicsky #freespeech

Looks like the UNC BOT's illegal efforts to break tenure and the public meetings law were too much for their hand-picked provost. And surprise, surprise (not): SCILL Dean Jed Atkins abetted this effort and the purge of Clemens. www.theassemblync.com/education/hi... #highered @aaup.org 1/2

⭐️Rally for fired Texas State history professor Dr. Tom Alter and for #FreeSpeech this Thursday, September 25th, 11am at the Hays County Courthouse, San Marcos. ✊

This Wed 9/24 4:00PT / 7:00ET with @AAUP and Critical Legal Collective SERIES: Higher Ed, Forgotten Pasts and Alternative Futures TOPIC: Indigenous Nations and Higher Ed <<<<<< >>>>>> @lawcha.bsky.social @rooseveltinstitute.org @rooseveltforward.org @sanders.senate.gov @jayapal.house.gov

"With the mission of democratic education itself at stake, I expected resistance, even from those who were administering the neoliberal university as a corporate autocracy, treating education as an enhancement of human capital." www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...

Voting YES to strike sends a clear message to UC: we are prepared to do whatever it takes to win a contract that lets us continue delivering world-class healthcare, doing world-class research, and providing world-class education: upte.org/vote #union

Organizing for Power "Power Up" Four-part Course on Fundamentals of Organizing 11/18 and 20 to 12/2 and 4 Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

California UC workers are standing up and fighting back. #DefendHigherEd

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.

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

@nytimes.com reports on the state of our vaccine policy – with the addition of five NEW advisors to the ACIP, 8 out of 12 appointees on the ACIP are openly vaccine-skeptic.

“The atmosphere of scarcity reduces our field of vision, decimates departments, and leaves researchers scrambling.” Leslie Bary writes in #Academe about the implications of shrinking departmental budgets and the proliferation of “minigrants” in #highered. @lesliebary.bsky.social

Drawing inspiration from the movement to establish mutual academic defense compacts, Shawn Gilmore highlights how #highered faculty can “act together, building new coalitions and alternative power structures that are necessary for our moment.” @gipperfish.bsky.social

Faculty, advocacy groups fear Texas A&M firing threatens academic freedom. “It’s one of the most chilling stories I’ve seen in recent years,” said PEN America's @jonfreadom.bsky.social. www.texastribune.org/2025/09/15/t...

Tomorrow the UC regents are meeting at UCSF to discuss Trump's extortion attempt. This is a defining moment for the UC system, for public education, and for the university as an institution. We demand no concession, no capitulation, no cuts.

Higher Ed: Forgotten Pasts and Alternative Futures Wed 9/24 7:00ET/4:00PT @aaup.org @afthighered.bsky.social @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social

"The University and Democracy" Fr 11/14, 9-5 Boston University School of Law - coordinated by @sfndhe.bsky.social and @aaup.org and Critical Legal Collective - Universities are meant to be bulwarks against authoritarianism. Yet many of our universities have enabled the Trump administration

Close races for House. Fight now, flip Congress 2026. Solid: races not competitive Likely: races not competitive but have the potential * Lean: races competitive races but one party has advantage *** Toss Up: races are most competitive; either party has a good chance of winning @sfndhe.bsky.social

today in books received! thanks to @andyhines.bsky.social for this indispensable resource for gen ed classrooms, how to be a freshman classrooms, critical university studies research, and labor education!

Historian & philologist Brendan Cook joins Scott Ferguson for the first installment of their 3-part mini-series devoted to Plato’s Republic.

Extreme gerrymandering. Nationalizing voter suppression. Weaponizing law enforcement. Occupying Democratic cities. Trump is pulling out all the tricks in the authoritarian playbook to rig the next election.

More local cops than ever before are signing up to work with ICE. At the end of the Biden presidency, ICE had just 135 287(g) deals in place; now there are 1,001—a 641 percent increase.

🚀 Together, let's shape what’s next for libraries. Submit your program or poster proposal for a chance to present at the ALA 2026 Annual Conference & Exhibition. bit.ly/4mGqdS0

Challenges to our democracy intensified over the summer. Will the rule of law hold? How will the 2026 election be affected? Join experts as they break down what’s happened and what will come next in the fight to uphold democratic values. Learn more in our new podcast episode: bit.ly/4mZL5Ek

>> Due 10/15 NCPH + AASLH Providence, RI 9/16-19 2026 marks 250th anniversary of US, and theme of conference, "The Work of Revolution," asks us to reflect on the work of revolutions past and the work that lies ahead. For all those who “put history to work in the world.”

“Immigrants are not a threat to safety, security or employment. We refuse the narrative and will not allow for immigrants to be used as scapegoats for larger systemic problems.” — UNC Charlotte AAUP

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

The University of Minnesota should listen to Willie Nelson and settle with workers striking for a small wage increase and a fair contract.

"I think the advice I would offer is to remember that leadership is a service role. Your job as a leader is to support the people who work for you, to protect them, to listen to them, & prioritize them." ARL Views with John Unsworth, UVA University Librarian 2016-2025 www.arl.org/blog/john-un...

Signed. More coming. c.org/bfZT4FScwh

Money on the Left is proud to publish a remastered version of our third episode with Fadhel Kaboub, now with a new transcript and art.

The Prairie Island Indian Community brought home 59 ancestral remains and nearly 500 funerary items that were taken from burial mounds around southeast Minnesota. The remains had been held at the Science Museum and by the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council at a repository at Hamline University.

New on Academe Blog: academeblog.org/2025/09/12/t...

“The survey shows what Texas lawmakers and Texas officials are doing to higher education in Texas is really pushing a lot of people lo leave or consider leaving." – @matthewboedy.bsky.social #DefendHigherEd

📍EVENT: On 10/3, join @aclu.org, @knightcolumbia.org, and @nyclu.org for a discussion with legendary civil liberties and human rights advocate Aryeh Neier. In-person in NYC and online. Reception to follow event. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/defending-...

"IU could have complied with state law without overturning shared governance." “BOT-25 goes further than what the law actually demands [...]This is state legislators and IU administrators working collectively to enact fundamental changes to the way IU operates.” www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

In AAUP v. Rubio, “The Trump admin has been arguing that…foreign citizens don't have the same First Amendment rights as citizens.” This is a “huge challenge to our conception of the First Amendment and of the work that the First Amendment is supposed to do in our democracy.”  the.ink/p/watch-will...

FALL 2025 LAW REVIEW SYMPOSIUM | THE UNIVERSITY AND DEMOCRACY Universities meant to be guardians of democracy and bulwarks against authoritarianism. Yet many of our most powerful universities have enabled the Trump administration’s open effort on our institutions and our communities. @aaup.org

New on Academe Blog:

The AAUP staunchly oppose “campus carry” laws such as those permitted at Utah’s public university & college campuses. The presence of weapons on campus violates fundamental principles of academic freedom & inhibits the free exchange of ideas & critical inquiry.

Happy to return to my other home and chop it up at the UChicago Center for Contemporary Theory and also build with @uchicagoaaup.bsky.social All my Chicagoland peoples, please come thru on September 30...this Higher Ed crisis is deeper than "corporatization." ccct.uchicago.edu/events/beyon...

"Even the unitary executive theory doesn’t fully capture the radicalism of where this Court has gone." We're pretty far down a bad path.

The disruption of funding for science and medicine, even if it is somehow overturn, halted, refunded... the impacts aren't going to go away for a long time. 6 months. That's all it took to upend everything. #medlibs magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/ear...

Before, reductions in number of tenured and tenure-track faculty were to be achieved through “voluntary reassignment or attrition,” new policy allows university to reduce faculty numbers through “reassignment, which may involve transfer of tenure home, transfer to a different campus, or attrition."

PEN America: “We are witnessing the death of academic freedom in Texas." https://pen.org/press-release/swift-removal-of-academic-leaders-at-texas-am-signals-the-death-of-academic-freedom-in-the-state-warns-pen-america/

“President Trump’s deployment of the military in Los Angeles chilled political protest and disregarded the First Amendment," says @knightcolumbia.org staff attorney Jennifer Jones. We just filed a brief in Newsom v. Trump with @aclu.org & other partners. Read more: knightcolumbia.org/content/knig...

Workers’ Labor Day was an INCREDIBLE week of action where America’s unions – and working people all across the country – rallied, protested, trained and mobilized at 1000+ events to make sure ALL workers get the freedom, fairness and security we deserve.