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isaackamola.bsky.social
I'm really proud of this academic freedom syllabus language that the @aaup.org CDAF fellows developed. Having language like this opens up an opportunity to talk with your students about what academic freedom is (and is not). If you add it to your syllabus this semester let me know how it goes!
biblioracle.bsky.social John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 3d
The Center for Academic Freedom has developed some recommendations and language around academic freedom that you can make part of your semester syllabus. Check out this post by CDAF director @isaackamola.bsky.social for details and links. open.substack.com/pub/academic...
Your Syllabus and Academic Freedom
Making an affirmative case for the values that underpin our work.
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January 8, 2026 at 1:27 AM
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aaup.org
Connecticut state senator and professor at Quinnipiac University, Sujata Gadkar-Wilcox, calls for the rejection of Trump's loyalty oath compact!

Reject the compact and defend the democratic right for higher ed workers to dissent!

@aftct.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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aaup.org
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
November 7, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Tomorrow is our third anniversary of our ongoing strike against the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Journalists hold power to account and that includes the boss.

I'm so proud of our strikers sticking through it as we wait for our court ruling.

POST-GAZETTE STRIKERS WILL WIN
pghguild.com Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh @pghguild.com · Oct 17
Tomorrow, our unfair labor practice strike against @post-gazette.com marks it's third full year. Three years of fighting the most lawless union-busting campaign can be tiring, but we're never going to quit fighting.

Last night, we were uplifted to see a new sign adorning the Pittsburgh skyline...
Three banners, two black with white text and one red with white text, that read POST-GAZETTE STRIKERS WILL WIN hang from a yellow bridge with the Pittsburgh skyline in the background.
October 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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aaup.org
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
University Administrations: Reject Trump's "Loyalty Oath" Compacts
The Trump administration is trying to blackmail schools to let him and his unqualified bureaucrats run our schools. They want to dictate what schools teach, who they admit and hire, what researchers s...
actionnetwork.org
October 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
Two people very much worth listening to, in an important conversation.
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Transcript: Chris Murphy’s Dark and Unnerving New Warning about Trump
The Democratic senator has taken the lead in drawing attention to Trump’s authoritarianism. In an interview, he offers a stark new warning that should galvanize his fellow Democrats before it’s too la...
newrepublic.com
October 4, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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alabamareflector.com
First in a series from @kelciemmorris.bsky.social and @sofiaresnick.bsky.social on how a new rule stripping Medicaid funding from organizations proving abortion care is upending reproductive health around the country.
Texas advocates see familiar health care turmoil brewing as 'defunding' rule hits rest of the US | Alabama Reflector
When a Republican supermajority in the Texas legislature gutted the state’s family planning budget in 2011 and then in 2015 kicked Planned Parenthood out of its Medicaid family planning program, repro...
alabamareflector.com
September 29, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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altnps.bsky.social
Two civil rights attorneys who had spoken out against the Trump administration’s efforts to weaken enforcement of the Fair Housing Act were dismissed from their posts. Their work enforcing the Fair Housing Act (a cornerstone of U.S. civil rights) involved investigating and prosecuting landlords,
September 29, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
My book "On Freedom," the case for the value of freedom and a proposal for a better future, with a new foreword accounting for where we are today, will be out in paperback October 28th.
timothysnyder.org/on-freedom
Image of the book's cover. It is a plain cover simply with the words "On Freedom" and "Timothy Snyder"
September 20, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Read the full story:
The “Invasion” Invention: The Far Right’s Long Legal Battle to Make Immigrants the Enemy
The Trump administration is using the claim that immigrants have “invaded” the country to justify possibly suspending habeas corpus, part of the constitutional right to due process. A faction of the f...
www.propublica.org
June 3, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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peiferlabunc.bsky.social
@aaup.bsky.social & @unc-ch-aaup.bsky.social act for faculty. Below is the letter we sent to the UNC-CH Board of Trustees today about their shocking decision to delay action on tenure & promotion recommendations except those from the Health Affairs schools. Join us to advocate for academic freedom.
Dear UNC-CH Board of Trustees Chair Preyer and members of the Board: We are writing as concerned members of the UNC-CH chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). AAUP has a 100-year commitment to academic freedom. Ten days ago, faculty learned from Faculty Chair Moracco that at your May meeting the Board of Trustees (BOT) decided not to consider pending tenure and promotion recommendations other than those in Health Affairs schools. Further, no personnel actions have been approved from the College of Arts and Sciences this year, something that is highly unusual. Every continued delay threatens the very heart of our mission to “serve as a center for research, scholarship, and creativity,” denies students’ the enriching collegiate experiences they deserve, and erodes faculty trust in a fair and timely tenure process. We urge the BOT to reconsider its decision and move forward now with pending tenure and promotion actions. Promotion and tenure are central pillars of our university and universities around the nation. As you know, each promotion and tenure decision has been carefully vetted, with external letters obtained from experts in the faculty members field, followed by review at many levels. Faculty here are hired with an explicit expectation that if their teaching and scholarship meet the high standards of their Department, their College, and the Provost, they will be granted tenure. Students at UNC-CH and people across the state expect that our flagship university will recruit the best faculty in the nation. These actions threaten the bedrock foundations of Carolina and our status as a leading public university. Tenure is not something unique to Carolina but is the norm at virtually every college and university across the nation. Each time we search for a new faculty member, UNC-CH is competing with top universities across the nation, like our peers at Duke, Berkeley, or the University of Michigan. Further, tenured faculty members up fo…
June 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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cwaunion.bsky.social
Congratulations to @wapotechguild.bsky.social! 🥳
wapotechguild.bsky.social The Washington Post Tech Guild @wapotechguild.bsky.social · May 23
It's official: the ballots have been counted and we have officially been recognized as the Washington Post Tech Guild by the NLRB! In a 171-38 BLOWOUT vote, we voiced loudly that our union is important to us. That's 81%!
May 23, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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tadstoermer.bsky.social
American Authoritarianism: Connecting Reconstruction's Collapse to Today
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The Roots of American Authoritarianism: Connecting Reconstruction's Collapse to Today
YouTube video by Tad Stoermer
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May 23, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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altnps.bsky.social
offered a powerful response showing how institutions should act when fascism takes over:“No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.”– President Alan Garber
April 15, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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altnps.bsky.social
Fascism is when a leader uses the power of the state to control or coerce private institutions—like Trump has tried to do with universities and private companies such as Apple. His attempts to dictate what schools can teach or how businesses should operate are textbook authoritarianism. Harvard
April 15, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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ramccandless.bsky.social
BOOK 3! When the Archangel Michael orders an accounting, it can ruin your day. Del thought everything was going great. Finally. She had safety, support, and a small army of immortals to help her banish rogue demons. She should have known better.
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April 14, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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50501movement.bsky.social
TODAY WE MOBILIZED OVER 3 MILLION PEOPLE ACROSS THE NATION!!!

This movement has entered the next chapter: the people will mobilize again, and again, until we make a difference.

It only takes 3.5% of the population in a sustained resistance in order to make a difference.

#50501movement
April 5, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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cwaunion.bsky.social
CWAers across the country come together to say: Hands off our rights, our unions, and our future!
April 6, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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aaup.org
In response to reports that OCR is requesting names and nationalities of people who may have been involved in alleged Title VI violations, the AAUP has written college general counsels to clarify that they are under no legal compulsion to comply and should NOT comply

www.aaup.org/news/institu...
Institutions Should Not Provide Student and Faculty Info To Enable Deportations
In response to news reports that the Office for Civil Rights in the US Department of Education has requested the names and nationalities of students and faculty who may have been involved in alleged T...
www.aaup.org
April 2, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
March 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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tadstoermer.bsky.social
And do not miss the explanation: “Multiple Voice Of America Reporters Have Posted Anti-Trump Content On Social Media.”

The implications are clear and should stop every American in her, his and their tracks.

www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
March 17, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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altnps.bsky.social
Elon Musk’s staffers visited the U.S. Institute of Peace, accompanied by two FBI agents. They were met at the door by a lawyer who informed them that the institute holds “private and independent status as a non-executive branch agency.” Following this, the staffers left.
March 15, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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aaupmason.bsky.social
We join this call 👊
March 11, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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hankreichman.bsky.social
My take on Trump’s assault on Columbia academeblog.org/2025/03/08/a...
Another Case of Anticipatory Obedience?
BY HANK REICHMAN As an alum of Columbia University (CC ’69) I received an email yesterday from the university’s interim president Katrina Armstrong responding to the Trump Administratio…
academeblog.org
March 8, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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nhannahjones.bsky.social
“Given the First Amendment’s protection of a university’s freedom to determine its own curriculum and how to deliver it, the constitutional violation behind this threat is clear, as is the attack on the University’s mission as a Jesuit and Catholic institution,” Treanor wrote.
Georgetown law dean rebuffs DEI warning from top federal prosecutor for DC
Georgetown Law School’s dean has rebuffed an unusual warning from the top federal prosecutor for Washington, D.C., that his office won’t hire the private school’s students if it doesn’t eliminate dive...
apnews.com
March 8, 2025 at 8:08 PM