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“I received a consistent message…Both the faculty and the administration are anxious to have AMC removed from the censure list, and both report the atmosphere to be excellent with regard to academic freedom.” 🙌 Albertus Magnus College has been removed from the AAUP censure list!

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“Campus leaders need to understand that their capitulations and concessions only further empower the greatest threat to higher education since the Red Scare, if not earlier.” (The AAUP contends that this moment is far worse.) Act Now. Never Cave. #DefendHigherEd

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“Climate research must end. History teaching must be propagandistic. Political science must be apolitical. Literature must die. Biology must consider unscientific nonsense. Cancer research must end. Brilliant international students should find other countries to go to. Black people need not apply.”

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Like Erdoğan, Trump is deciding who leads universities. Who leads the Fed. The Supreme Court. Power grabs are ends and means for authoritarians. Each individual and institutional grab facilitates the next. Transnationally too, via diffusion of ideas, tactics, funds. A new “Turkish model” of sorts

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This is naked authoritarianism. It is exactly what happened in Turkey. There is nothing to stop this regime from demanding that faculty be purged too. Everyone must stand up and push back. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...

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NC Republicans think they're being clever when they claim they're legislating against "division, exclusion, and indoctrination." But they're actually signaling their own agenda. @aaup.org www.theassemblync.com/education/hi...

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a crowd has gathered at the UVA rotunda in response to the forced resignation of president jim ryan

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Bingo. 👇🏽

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During McCarthyism, they went after individuals to force their agenda, now they're going after entire institutions. The Trump administration is doing everything they can to reverse all progress toward creating a higher education system assessable to all. We must fight back. #DefendHigherEd

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@aaup.org released its Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession this month, chock full of info and key economic trends related to US higher education. 👀 fulltime faculty salaries in all CT institutions: public.tableau.com/app/profile/... full report: www.aaup.org/reports-publ...

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The Pontifical Academy calls for coordinated action from political leaders, scientists, educators, the media, religious figures. and international organizations to defend evidence-based inquiry and discourse. Any other science orgs want to step up? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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“The Trump administration has no credibility when they announce these kinds of investigations. This is part of their broader attack on higher ed and democratic institutions.” — Risa Lieberwitz, former General Counsel for the AAUP & member of the AAUP's Committee on Academic Freedom.

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Boston-area folks, mark your calendars for 7/7! Rally at 1:30 PM outside the federal courthouse following day 1 of arguments in AAUP v. Rubio:

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Federal judge orders NIH to restore grants, including grants on vaccine hesitancy, LGBTQ+ health, and DEI, calling the termination “void and unlawful." Researchers are still waiting for funds as NIH appeals the ruling. Science and equity hang in the balance. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

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"As the Trump administration’s attacks on higher education have escalated, this brief stands as a clear signal: University leaders must understand that an attack on one university’s autonomy and existence is a threat to all."

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"They’re testing the waters for prosecuting places that tolerate trans women. Part of the point is to force accommodation or to scare other higher ed institutions. This is bigger than just trans athletes.” — Joan Wallach Scott, gender historian & member of AAUP's Committee on Academic Freedom

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Can we stop pretending any of this was about government efficiency?

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The 2025 Summer Institute presents a crucial opportunity for AAUP & AFT members to learn how to fight back against attacks on higher ed while continuing to advance our shared vision for the future. Attendance is FREE for AAUP & AFT members! Join us! Register Here! ⬇️ www.aaup.org/event/2025-a...

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Trump’s war on science has universities reeling. But while administrators cave to NIH cuts, campus unions are leading the resistance. https://trib.al/zPZX5PM

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Thursday, July 17, 2025 to Sunday, July 20, 2025 (all day) 💕

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“Plaintiffs have raised serious questions under the First Amendment that warrant further litigation,” adding that the unions have shown they would face “a strong likelihood of irreparable harm from the loss of their collective bargaining and allied rights.”

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💥💥💥 This is a major win for federal employees against the depraved attacks on working families coming from this administration.

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It’s great to see judges confirming what we already knew, which is most of what they’ve done to decimate science has been unlawful

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Important interview with UNC-AAUP President Michael Palm: “There is widespread reluctance to come to UNC due to political interference…There’s unquestionably a chilling effect when faculty are less confident in freely researching the subjects of their choosing.” 👇👇👇

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All power to ADAPT, who saved Medicaid last time and of course got us the ADA many years ago. Probably the most serious contemporary American direct action outfit.

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Y'all, this past week for science funding lawsuits has been 🔥🔥🔥 ✅ Major recent wins regarding: 1. U of California researchers 2. NSF indirects 3. NIH terminations 4. EPA terminations Plus: 5. Brand new NSF lawsuit (about terminations & slowdown of new awards) 🧵 Let's break it down

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North Carolina will be part of the 2025 AAUP Faculty in the South Survey come August. And turning down job offers will be a question again

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Those of us in states/at universities where our administrations don't care about us or our work... time to join or start a labor union, @campusworkers.bsky.social chapter or @aaup.org chapter, organize, and turn up the goddamn heat. 😤

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Under the Senate’s budget bill, 16 million people would lose their health insurance and health care costs could increase by $485 a year for everyone else. Working people need their health insurance more than billionaires need another tax cut.

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This is an accurate headline. SB37 is an undemocratic attack on faculty’s voice in university policy-making & operations, including in academics, where faculty have distinctive expertise & experience. Gov’t overreach, overregulation & micromanagement. We continue our fight for shared governance.✊🏽✊✊🏾

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This isn’t just a bad bill—it’s a war on working families. We’re saying HELL NO.

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The big, ugly bill will gut our healthcare, slash food & housing programs, & hand even more power to greedy corporations & the ultra-rich. Today, we are joining our allies @debtcollective.bsky.social, @seiu.org, @ppact.org, @standupalaska.bsky.social & others to kill the bill before it kills us!

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Important interview with UNC-AAUP President Michael Palm: “There is widespread reluctance to come to UNC due to political interference…There’s unquestionably a chilling effect when faculty are less confident in freely researching the subjects of their choosing.” 👇👇👇

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It's true and it's the law but we still need to fight against any anticipatory obedience and over compliance. If you are faculty in Texas join @texasaaup.bsky.social and if you are faculty anywhere join @aaup.bsky.social

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Morehouse and Spelman AAUP chapters are proud to host the Summer Institute on our campuses in Atlanta this year. First time the meeting will be held at an HBCU. And on the heels of new AAUP-AFT leadership committing REAL RESOURCES to organizing HBCU campus workers. Let’s go!

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This will be in Atlanta. Something for my Academic friends to consider.

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In these challenging times we need faculty leadership on our campuses & around the nation. @aaup.bsky.social has stepped up. Locally @unc-ch-aaup.bsky.social is working to hold the UNC-CH Board of Trustees accountable with regard to tenure & promotion. Join us! chapelboro.com/news/unc/no-...

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I’m going!! See you all in Atlanta!!

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EXCLUSIVE: ACC board to join lawsuit over Texas Dream Act repeal 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 www.statesman.com/story/news/e...

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"The laws are often written in the kind of vague language that the U.S. Supreme Court has cautioned doesn’t give a person of ordinary intelligence reasonable notice of what is banned" This leads to faculty avoiding important topics altogether. www.chronicle.com/article/a-ba...

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The 2025 Summer Institute presents a crucial opportunity for AAUP & AFT members to learn how to fight back against attacks on higher ed while continuing to advance our shared vision for the future. Attendance is FREE for AAUP & AFT members! Join us! Register Here! ⬇️ www.aaup.org/event/2025-a...

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Ohio activists, faculty, students, admins, alumni, citizens to submit repeal petitions Thursday in the effort to repeal a bill's sweeping attack on & micromanagement of higher education in the state #SB1 @osuaaup.bsky.social @aaup.bsky.social #WOSU @npr.org www.wosu.org/2025-06-23/o...

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Over the weekend, the AAUP Governing Council voted to censure Muhlenberg College for the suspension & dismissal of Dr. Maura Finkelstein, a tenured associate professor & chair of the Department of Sociology & Anthropology, over a social media repost that was critical of Zionists & Zionism. 🧵

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Labor demands an end to the Trump administration’s assaults on immigrant workers, freedom of speech, and the right to organize and collectively bargain.

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It's all horrific, but maybe the worst is how they ask him to inform on people he knew at Columbia.

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