The decision to censor teachings of Plato at Texas A&M University…

1️⃣ goes far beyond what is required by Senate Bill 37 and TAMU policies

2️⃣ is an academic absurdity and textbook violation of academic freedom

3️⃣ suppresses scholarly discussion around race, gender, and sexuality

Syllabi review policies at Texas A&M invite censorship & harm student's education.

“Texas A&M is going to serve as an example of what happens when a university turns back on its commitment to higher ed, to providing a broad deep knowledge to our students.”

— Leonard Bright, AAUP TAMU President

“Plato does not agree with the narrative that there are two biological sexes and that everyone should be heterosexual. So it is controversial. But that's the whole point of including him in the syllabus.”

— Martin Peterson, Texas A&M

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So, the University of Nebraska - Lincoln somehow finds the money to pay the outgoing chancellor $1.1 million in a severance package immediately after closing 4 academic programs and announcing a $27.5 million budget deficit...🤔

The AAUP UNL chapter condemns this irresponsible decision.

"Can professors teach without unwarranted intrusions and political interference, even if the concept is controversial yet has been upheld by academic and scientific standards in every field?"

- Michael Givel, President of AAUP University of Oklahoma

This is how you stand up for educators against politically motivated attacks on teaching.

Please sign OU AAUP’s petition demanding that OU protect the freedom to teach & learn, & stand up against targeted harassment & intimidation.

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The fight against austerity at The New School is connected to other fights in higher ed challenging admins that hire Huron, a consulting firm that offers data to justify budget cuts & faculty layoffs.

Ujju Aggarwal of AAUP-TNS says that solidarity across AAUP chapters & unions is the way forward.

Higher ed workers at The New School are rejecting the admin's strategies of divide and conquer to mount a unified challenge to austerity.

In this AAUP TV episode, Laura Liu of AAUP-TNS talks about how faculty, students & staff come together despite weaponized employment contracts that divide them.

In our most recent AAUP TV episode, Jeremy Varon, Prof of History and AAUP The New School Leadership Council member, discusses the university administration's proposal to terminate up to 40% of full-time faculty.

The proposed layoffs will be catastrophic for faculty, students, and staff.

The AAUP chapter at Oklahoma University released a statement demanding that the President and Board of Regents defend Mel Curth, the instructor put on administrative leave after the viral fallout for failing Samantha Fulnecke’s essay, from death threats and targeted harassment.

Massive turnout of organized higher ed workers to protest the brutal austerity measures proposed by The New School management ✊

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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!

AAUP University of Nebraska - Lincoln is countering
the threats to cut around $25 million in funding and to close four academic programs with music and grassroots energy!

The creative solidarity among faculty, students, and staff energize powers the fight against these disastrous budget cuts!

Today, UNL AAUP held a jazz funeral procession through the UNL campus to mourn the “deaths” of multiple program degrees & 120 faculty positions if UNL’s Board of Regents votes to cut $27.5 million from the budget on Friday.

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The AAUP chapter at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln is organizing a week of action to fight devastating budget cuts!

UNL is proposing to slash around 27 million dollars and to close 4 programs at the university.

These cuts will be disastrous.

Let's stand with AAUP - UNL and stop the cuts!

The unity of students, faculty & staff powered our legal victories against the Trump admin!

Administrators & elected officials are not the ones filing the lawsuits against the Trump admin when our universities are under attack. Rather, faculty, students & staff are the ones defending higher ed.

Our legal victory in AAUP v. Trump ensures that the Trump administration cannot use civil rights laws to pull federal research funds from universities, which undermines our 1st and 10th amendment rights.

AAUP General Counsel Veena Dubal explains why this is a major victory for higher ed workers.