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Super fucked up, @propublica.org - extremely wild that a newsroom based on public trust would be unwilling to take these basic steps in bargaining
1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.
December 17, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Super fucked up, @propublica.org - extremely wild that a newsroom based on public trust would be unwilling to take these basic steps in bargaining
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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!
Democratize the campus!
Out with the Rector and Vice Rector!
In with student, faculty, and staff power!
Collective bargaining and a living wage NOW!
December 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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!
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
JOIN US! End-of-term happy hour with Drexel AAUP this Thursday 12/4 4-6pm at Two Locals
December 4, 2025 at 2:19 PM
TODAY! 4-6pm at Two Locals! Join us there for AAUP Happy Hour
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Workers can regulate AI with strong contract language. Full stop.
Unionized journalists just proved this at POLITICO. @pen-guild.bsky.social
Unionized journalists just proved this at POLITICO. @pen-guild.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Workers can regulate AI with strong contract language. Full stop.
Unionized journalists just proved this at POLITICO. @pen-guild.bsky.social
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
December 2, 2025 at 8:13 PM
JOIN US! End-of-term happy hour with Drexel AAUP this Thursday 12/4 4-6pm at Two Locals
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“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."
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Penn graduate student union overwhelmingly authorizes strike as contract negotiations continue
‘After one full year of negotiations, Penn administrators have still failed to agree to a contract that includes fair wages, improved benefits, and strong support for international workers,’ GET-UP wr...
ow.ly
November 26, 2025 at 1:10 PM
“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."
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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
December 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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
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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
*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
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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
*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
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ICYMI AAUP is starting a PAC news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...
Professors Launch PAC to Fight Back Against Trump’s Attacks
The American Association of University Professors, a union whose members are fighting policies from the Trump administration and GOP Congress, launched a PAC this week to spend in federal elections.
news.bgov.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:28 PM
ICYMI AAUP is starting a PAC news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...
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A crucial first step. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
Texas A&M Was Wrong to Fire Professor Over Gender Lesson, Panel Rules
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
A crucial first step. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
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UT Regents move forward with 'ultimate' power to oversee hiring, curriculum www.statesman.com/news/educati...
UT Regents will have 'ultimate' power over college hiring, curriculum
Moving forward, UT Regents will have greater authority over what degrees are offered and who fills key leadership roles at the system's Texas public institutions.
www.statesman.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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
Faculty senates are under attack from new legislation that sidelines faculty voices and undermines academic freedom. The latest AAUP report defends independent, representative governance as essential to higher ed’s integrity. @aaup.org academeblog.org/2025/11/18/i...
In Defense of an Independent and Representative Faculty Voice: The Case of Faculty Senates
BY AFSHAN JAFAR We have recently seen accelerating legislative and political attacks on faculty governing bodies at state institutions, including legislation recently enacted in Indiana, Ohio, Utah…
academeblog.org
November 21, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Among the crucial points we learned from @akalhan.bsky.social this week: shared governance is part of academic freedom
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This will be catastrophic for an already worsening crisis in healthcare, particularly in primary care.
November 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
This will be catastrophic for an already worsening crisis in healthcare, particularly in primary care.
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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...
November 21, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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...
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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.
November 19, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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.
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“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.”
www.wsj.com/opinion/mont...
Another one of my colleagues weighs in on the “restructuring” of our home college. This time in the Wall Street Journal. It’s paywalled, so screenshots to follow.
Another one of my colleagues weighs in on the “restructuring” of our home college. This time in the Wall Street Journal. It’s paywalled, so screenshots to follow.
Opinion | Montclair State’s Inhumanity to the Humanities
Goodbye, English department. Hello, Institute for Complex Systems and Algorithmic Infused Societies.
www.wsj.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:19 PM
“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
November 17, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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
November 17, 2025 at 2:50 AM
TOMORROW! Looking forward to seeing folks at our Academic Freedom Summit. Register here: bit.ly/43Z8ZYW
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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...
democracyforward.org/updates/cour...
Court Blocks Trump’s Attempt to Gain Leverage and Political Control Over University of California System - Democracy Forward
democracyforward.org
November 15, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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...
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
November 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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
November 11, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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
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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...
www.senate.illinois.edu
November 11, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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...
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“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
- Mary Van Buren, CSU AAUP President
November 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
“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
- Mary Van Buren, CSU AAUP President