"We’re bringing this lawsuit because we feel a moral obligation to use our voices to protect children whose educations are being disrupted.
We’re also doing it for educators who just want to return to teaching happy, curious, rambunctious students again. My goodness, we miss that." #iceoutschools
Will Jones, president UMN Twin Cities AAUP, said many people had hoped the event would provide a space to express the outrage they felt about Pretti’s death. “The university chose to ignore those pleas and to impose restrictions on the way community members could express their grief."
The UMN Twin Cities AAUP calls on the university to reduce operations on Friday, January 23rd to allow members of the university community the time and space to exercise their fundamental right to free speech on a day of deep importance to our community.
www.umn-tc-aaup.org/day-of-truth...
Text of statement on shooting of Renee Nicole Good from UMN Twin Cities AAUP.
www.umn-tc-aaup.org/in-anger-and...
Members of the UMN Twin Cities AAUP voted unanimously to endorse this Statement of Solidarity with Somali and Immigrant Communities drive.google.com/file/d/1WDWq...
Please share the letter with colleagues and encourage them to sign this petition urging administration to resolve the conflict. The university administration has until midnight on Tuesday to change course and avoid a strike.
teamsterslocal320.salsalabs.org/UMNWidePreSt...
The Executive Committee sent the following letter urging President Cunningham and the Board of Regents to avoid a strike by settling a fair contract with Teamsters Local 320.
www.umn-tc-aaup.org/letter-regar...
Our Twin Cities AAUP chapter has signed on to an amicus brief in support of the the plaintiff's request for a preliminary injunction in AAUP v. Rubio. Read more here: www.umn-tc-aaup.org/amicus-brief...
Please consider signing the UMN-TC AAUP Standing with Non-Citizen and Immigrant Students and Colleagues letter to President Cunningham. You can find it here: docs.google.com/document/u/2...
(UMN folks, I think @umn-tc-aaup.bsky.social is our best vehicle for organizing this. I’m talking to people; let me know if you want to contribute…)
"Rejecting the...advice of shared governance bodies and neutering the faculty’s ability to collectively speak up, particularly at a moment when senior leaders may lack the courage or willingness to do so, would be not just wrong and misguided but a betrayal of their obligations to the institution."
This is what obeying in advance looks like. The NSF fires 10% of its total staff in a move that went beyond what was requested by the current regime. The NSF is the flagship of US basic research infrastructure. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋 www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
No time like now to join the AAUP! Just this decision alone makes your dues worth every penny.
@biblioracle.bsky.social and fellows at @aaup.bsky.social's Center for the Defense of Higher Education have published the first issue our newsletter "Academic Freedom on the Line." Come check it out. And subscribe. academicfreedomontheline.substack.com/p/introducin...
In a 30-page opinion granting the challengers' request to block the funding freeze, AliKhan wrote that a review of the programs that should or should not receive federal dollars "could be conducted without depriving millions of Americans access to vital resources."
It is always is a good time to join the @aaup.bsky.social and @umn-tc-aaup.bsky.social. But it seems especially important do so now. Click the "Join the AAUP" link at www.umn-tc-aaup.org to join the University of Minnesota Twin Cities chapter.
An important statement from the AAUP. Read and share widely. Demand that your administrators read this too.
"We need continually to assert academic freedom, not just as a free speech right but also as a professional norm, as a defense of the value of knowledge, & as the only acceptable form of the scholarly community’s self-governance."
New from Michael Meranze in the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
BREAKING: The AAUP condemns today’s faculty arrests at NYU.
“This crackdown on NYU faculty is part of a distressing pattern of repression of pro-Palestinian speech on college campuses nationwide.” — AAUP President Todd Wolfson.
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www.aaup.org/news/aaup-co...
Education, good jobs, and strong unions empower people to take charge of their lives. In her latest column, @rweingarten.bsky.social explains how these tools can build a brighter future for all.
Read it here: www.aft.org/column/how-m...
Congratulations to the UMN Graduate Labor Union-UE for ratifying its first collective bargaining contract--a historic victory and a model for higher ed unions. Now they need the Board of Regents to move quickly and approve the contract. See their webpage for details on how to support them umnglu.org
The AAUP stands w/@texasaaup.bsky.social in expressing concern over the reported censorship of more than 200 academic courses at the University of North Texas including the removal of words such as “race,” “gender,” “class,” & “equity” from course titles & descriptions.
www.aaup.org/news/univers...
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey's Assault on Academic Freedom Harms Us All. www.umn-tc-aaup.org/statement-on...
“The removal of words such as ‘race’, ‘gender’, ‘class’, & ‘equity’ from courses titles & descriptions appears to represent a troubling departure from widely accepted standards of academic freedom & shared governance.”
- Todd Wolfson, AAUP president
www.universityworldnews.com/post-mobile....
Since there seem to be a lot of new professors on Bluesky, I'll re-share this link to the AAUP's "Organize Every Campus" campaign. This is a critical time for faculty to organize in defense of our students, ourselves and co-workers, and the institutions we believe in. Join us!
Hi Bluesky folks - any starter packs out there for AAUP chapters?
🚨NEW: Our press release on the censorship of academic course content regarding race, class, and gender inequality at the University of North Texas (UNT) in Denton. This is a troubling sign for the state of #HigherEd in Texas.
aaup-texas.org/blog/f/unive...
“The @UNT administration conducted a campaign of censorship of content in more than 200 courses,” said Brian Evans, president of the TX conference of the AAUP. “In order for students to have the freedom to learn, faculty need to have the freedom to teach.”
www.texastribune.org/2024/11/19/t...
