“We urge OSU to stop criminalizing free expression and to create an intellectual civic space that befits a university. We call on university leaders to explicitly commit to defending our community against lawless intimidation by ICE, CBP, and related agencies.”
A federal judge has ruled that U.S. officials cannot place Kilmar Abrego Garcia back into immigration custody because the government has not shown a credible plan for deporting him.
Amazing and important news in Ohio #OSU @aaup.org @osuaaup.bsky.social www.acluohio.org/press-releas...
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!
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
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
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
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
Two people very much worth listening to, in an important conversation.
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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.
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,
Image of the book's cover. It is a plain cover simply with the words "On Freedom" and "Timothy Snyder"
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
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…
@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.
Congratulations to @wapotechguild.bsky.social! 🥳
American Authoritarianism: Connecting Reconstruction's Collapse to Today
youtu.be/gsHShkjsbZs
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
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
Time for a second reading!
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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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
CWAers across the country come together to say: Hands off our rights, our unions, and our future!
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...
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.
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...
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.
We join this call 👊
My take on Trump’s assault on Columbia academeblog.org/2025/03/08/a...
“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.
“By firing us, you’re going to cut down on how much revenue the country brings in,” Nershi said in an interview. “This was not about saving money.”
