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This is Rice's international students' office's policy on student's rights on campus to be free from federal immigration enforcement. We are asking questions of our administration with the aim of getting these reassurances. Does your school have a policy?
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Emory AAUP all-member meeting tomorrow (Fri 2/27) at 1 PM. Check your email for the video call link. See you there!

Professor removed from research team after revealing Lake Maurepas pollution awaits decision A Southeastern Louisiana University professor removed from a research project after revealing pollution in Lake Maurepas now awaits a decision on whether she can return to her role after a

“I came to the United States for freedom of speech and freedom of scientific inquiry,” she said. “To be repressed like this here too has shaken me to my core.”
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Reinstate the Fired Six at VSU On December 16, 2025, Dr. Harbans L. Bhardwaj, Dr. Adnan Beker Yousuf, Dr. Vitalis W. Temu, Dr. Maru K. Kering, Dr. Toktam Taghavi, and Dr. Molla Fentie Mengist were abruptly removed from Virginia Sta...

Reinstate the Fired Six at VSU!

Six tenured & tenure track faculty members were abruptly fired at Virginia State University without cause or any semblance of due process.

Sign this petition to demand their reinstatement & a public commitment from VSU to honor tenure & end arbitrary dismissals.

University of Arkansas students protest reversal of law school dean’s job offer | Arkansas Advocate The abrupt revocation of a job offer to the University of Arkansas’ incoming law school dean prompted a student-led protest on the Fayetteville campus Tuesday and calls for the school to adopt a…

The abrupt revocation of a job offer to the University of Arkansas’ incoming law school dean prompted a student-led protest on the Fayetteville campus Tuesday and calls for the school to adopt a policy to prevent undue influence on personnel decisions. #arpx #arleg

Trump administration drops appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlement The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked its $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. It will...

This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence.

The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:

What's the Matter with Florida? An Interview with Zachary Levenson A discussion about Florida's censorship of sociology and teaching under authoritarianism

“There's not a single existing textbook on the market that could be used that would qualify under state law?”

Mind blowing interview with FIU @grundrza.bsky.social about the insanity going on at Florida universities. 🤯

Hungary’s “revenge bill” against teachers, students and parents | Heinrich Böll Stiftung | Prague Office - Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary The Hungarian Interior Ministry (because there has been no Education Ministry in Hungary since 2010) is planning to apply stricter, more detailed disciplinary rules as a result of a new bill on teache...

cz.boell.org/en/2023/05/1... Where else were professors stripped of tenure? That would be in right-wing authoritarian Hungary. Make no mistake Gov. Stitt's removal of tenure at Oklahoma regional & community colleges & universities is an authoritarian attack on ideas presented in college classrooms.

Texas Tech struggles with new policy on gender, race The system’s chancellor meant to instill clarity and accountability, but three weeks into the spring semester, some instructors say the standards have led to “censorship.”

When Texas Tech faculty sought clarification on new restrictions limiting how race, gender and sexuality can be discussed in classrooms, administrators said they could offer little guidance, according to two internal emails reviewed by The Texas Tribune.

Fired after gender lesson, former professor sues Texas A&M Melissa McCoul, arguing she was fired to appease political critics, is seeking to get her job back and other restitution.

New: Former Texas A&M lecturer Melissa McCoul is suing the university months after Texas A&M fired her over a gender identity lesson.

McCoul alleges that administrators knowingly violated her free speech and due process rights to appease political critics.

Emory AAUP members, hope the semester is off to a good start! Please check your emails for info about goings-on and the upcoming meeting (Jan 30).

College approached and paid student to write op-ed in The Dartmouth The Dartmouth ran the article on Nov. 17 without knowledge that the College had been involved. 

The college at which I'm employed, which has signed a contract with the AI firm that stole books from 131 colleagues & me, paid a student to write an op-ed for the student paper promoting AI, guided the writing of it, and did not disclose this to the paper. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...

Excellent explanation of why you should care about the effort to undermine independent accreditation, from our colleagues at @higheredlabor.bsky.social
higheredlaborunited.org/2026/01/26/a...

Decided to go and drive direct from campus rather than finagle bike & MARTA - let me know (DM or email) anyone interested in carpooling. @emoryaaup.bsky.social

‘ICE isn’t welcome here’: SFS holds anti-ICE walkout, community members protest amid nationwide turmoil The Emory Wheel is the only independent, student-run newspaper of Emory University, since 1919.

AAUP Emory stood with students calling on university admin to take a stance against the rising presence of ICE and to support community members affected by raids.

“The Emory community, this campus, is our state, our pocket of democracy. ICE isn’t welcome here.”

@emoryaaup.bsky.social

Poster: One Year of Trump 2.0 -- Emory Walkout -- Stop ICE Terror -- Join the Nationwide Shutdown. January 20, 12 PM, Asbury Circle. Red background with images of ICE violence.

Emory Walkout Jan 20 12 PM Asbury Circle

Emory AAUP members, hope the semester is off to a good start! Please check your emails for info about goings-on and the upcoming meeting (Jan 30).

Clemson Settles With Professor Fired for Kirk Comments Clemson University has agreed to rescind the termination of Joshua Bregy, an assistant professor in the department of environmental engineering and earth sciences, nearly four months after dismissing…

Clemson Settles With Professor Fired for Kirk Comments www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

Despite Trump Cabinet member’s claim, taxpayer-funded science pays dividends Trump administration Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick claims taxpayers get no return from federal investment in university research. Here's why he's wrong.

Emory Professor’s opinion column in supporting funding of science published in AJC

www.ajc.com/opinion/2026...

Still a little time for last-minute syllabus tweaks!

More than just Plato is being censored.

More detail on the absurd and infuriating censorship of a philosophy class, “Contemporary Moral Issues”, at Texas A&M.

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Austin Peay State University in Tennessee will pay one of its professors $500,000 after initially firing him for a social media post made in the wake of conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s death. Darren Michael, an associate professor of acting and directing at APSU, was fired by the institution last year after comments on Kirk’s death. In September, APSU moved Michael to suspension before fully bringing him back into the classroom last month.

best news of the year so far

From an email to one of our faculty members....

Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!

Instructor who gave U of Oklahoma student a zero on anti-trans paper removed from teaching Graduate assistant Mel Curth found Samantha Fulnecky's paper unscientific and offensive in referring to trans people as "demonic."

What is happening at the University of Oklahoma is an outrageous violation of due process.

"They hide behind vague statements & assertions of ‘trust us.’ At this point, they need to show us and not tell us."

— OU AAUP

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.

Protect Academic Freedom, Our Faculty, Our Communities Faculty, staff, students, alumni, and community members: The UNC System is preparing to cave to political pressure from the Heritage Foundation, the Oversight Project, and the James Martin Center by ...

Sign the petition linked below to support higher ed workers at the UNC System in their fight against the requirement to create a searchable repository of all university syllabi, which will endanger students and instructors by inviting political actors to attack free inquiry across UNC campuses.

UNC System may require all instructors to publish syllabi, course materials next academic year The drafted regulation, obtained by The Daily Tar Heel, states the policy would go into effect come the 2026-27 academic year. Some instructors said publishing syllabi would invite outside scrutiny th...

The University of North Carolina System may require all instructors to publish syllabi starting next year.

“Calling instructors 'work for hire' & stripping them of copyright is a surefire way to turn creative thinkers into widgets."

- Abigail Hatcher, AAUP UNC-Chapel Hill

BREAKING: ‘This hurts’: UNL eliminates 4 programs despite faculty, student pleas The University of Nebraska-Lincoln eliminates the Earth and atmospheric sciences 8-0, educational administration 7-1, statistics 7-1, textiles, merchandising and fashion design 7-1 programs.

It's over.

Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.

www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...

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AI is not inevitable: A conversation with educators, unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience!

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