“If we aren't free to pursue research and teaching based on wherever the knowledge leads us, we are not truly working in the service of the public.”

— Rana Jaleel, associate professor at UC Davis & Chair of the AAUP’s Committee A on Academic Freedom & Tenure

NO LOYALTY OATHS IN HIGHER ED!

Trump's attacks on our universities are an attempt to consolidate power. This loyalty oath directly undermines our right to academic freedom & goes against every democratic principle our country should uphold.

Please click below, sign, & share.

#DefendHigherEd

Outrageous

If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

UVA is one of nine schools to receive Trump's letter offering "preferred" funding status in exchange for, well, their souls and their dignity. Interim President Mahoney: under no circumstances can you accept this corrupt bargain.

“Trump’s restrictions on H-1B visa applications will lead to less lifesaving research, reduced innovation, & diminished competitiveness. This short-sighted policy will hurt every American by slowing research breakthroughs, weakening our economy & putting our global leadership at risk.”
—Todd Wolfson

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When we fight, WE WIN!

The Trump admin’s offer to give preferential treatment to institutions that toe the party line reeks of bribery in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological agenda.

This is corruption.

Adherence to ‘loyalty oaths’ would usher in a new era of thought policing in American higher education.

Today I am especially happy to be an @aaup.org member.

UNC CH Chapter & NC AAUP statement re Prof. Dwayne Dixon: @aaup.org

AAUP NC and UNC-Chapel Hill AAUP condemn the egregious violation of Professor Dwayne Dixon's First Amendment rights to free speech and free association, his Fourteenth Amendment right to due process, and his academic freedom. 1/

BREAKING: WE WON!!!
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Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.

Full ruling here:

So, at the very least, we all need to be joining or starting an AAUP chapter:

www.aaup.org/chapters/fin...

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NEW AAUP Report Analyzes Trump Admin Weaponization of Title VI
to Undermine Civil Rights Protections.

#Academicfreedom
#AcademicSky
#DefendHigherEd

The AAUP & @aft.org are fighting back to remind our elected leaders that higher education & public health research are transformative public goods.

We must keep life-saving NIH research fully funded & stop the Trump admin’s devastating funding cuts that are halting medical breakthroughs.

Dr. Leonard Bright, VP of @texasaaup.bsky.social on the resignation of Texas A&M president Mark Welsh.

(Watch to the end for a report on how politicians are being appointed to lead university systems in Texas.)

#DefendHigherEd
#AcademicFreedom
#AcademicSky

“We will not allow authoritarians to dismantle higher education. We will not allow billionaires to profit while communities suffer. And we will not allow fear to silence students and workers who speak out.”

— Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

#DefendHigherEd
#HigherEdBenefitsEveryone
@aft.org

The AAUP notes with great alarm the rash of recent administrative actions to discipline faculty, staff, & student speech in the aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk.

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The AAUP stands in full solidarity w/HBCU faculty, staff, students, admin, & alumni. We call on law enforcement & governmental authorities to treat these threats w/ the seriousness they deserve, investigate thoroughly, hold responsible parties accountable, & strengthen preventive measures on campus.

"At George Mason University in Virginia, faculty successfully rallied to the defense of university president Gregory Washington, who came under fire as the Trump administration opened four investigations into the school’s diversity practices."
#handsoffgmu #academicfreedom
@aaupmason.bsky.social

Texas’s SB 37 codifies into law the obsessive desire to control all aspects of curricula in Texas.

If the conservative majority doesn’t like it, it must be banned!

@texasaaup.bsky.social
#academicfreedom
#DefendHigherEd

“We stand determined to see that Mason—the largest public institution of higher education in Virginia with one of the most diverse student bodies in the United States—remains a university of, by, and for the people.”

#DefendHigherEd

@aaupmason.bsky.social
@bletiecq.bsky.social

Important & hilarious deconstruction of Trump & the authoritarian far right's absurdly dangerous attacks on American higher education featuring a cameo from Michael Thaddeus, acting president of @aaupcu.bsky.social.

#DefendHigherEd #Academicsky

The Resistance Is Inevitable.

We’re sick & tired of ICE & FBI agents profiling, harassing, & violently arresting our neighbors.

#wearealldc

Incredible turnout in DC yesterday, including a strong AAUP contingent.

@aaupmason.bsky.social
@gwaaup.bsky.social
@afthighered.bsky.social