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Avoid healthcare premium increases! Come to a Coalition of Rutgers Unions town hall tomorrow 10/7 at 6:30pm to learn how to avoid large cost increases coming in many state health care plans. Click here to register for the Zoom link: https://loom.ly/roa1s8g

🗞️📰 “Our unions and associations are fighting for our rights, while higher ed institutions are failing to do so. It’s a sad state of affairs when a ruling that merely affirms all of our First Amendment rights feels like a tremendous victory.” https://loom.ly/6yyJw-k

The Trump administration is trying to blackmail higher ed so they can dictate what schools teach, who they admit and hire, what researchers study, and who's able to be safe at school. Sign on to this petition to reject Trump's "Loyalty Oath" compact! https://loom.ly/GGoLaDI

The Trump administration’s attempt to deport students for their political views is an assault on the Constitution and a betrayal of American values. @knightcolumbia.org, @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social Harvard & NYU AAUP, MESA & @aaup.org. All praise to @veenadubal.bsky.social

Judge Rules Campaign Against Noncitizen Protesters Unlawful The lengthy ruling chastises two federal departments for their “invidious” efforts to chill pro-Palestinian speech and declares unequivocally that noncitizens in the U.S. are entitled to the full protection of the First Amendment.

📰Read of the day🗞️ “If the First Amendment means anything, it’s that the government cannot imprison you because it doesn’t like the speech that you have engaged in, and this decision is really welcome because it reaffirms that basic idea[...]” Read here: https://loom.ly/GjFfp48

Judge excoriates Trump in blistering decision calling efforts to deport pro-Palestinian academics illegal The Reagan-appointed judge decried Trump’s “great threat to Americans’ freedom of speech.”

NEW: A federal judge excoriated Trump in a blistering decision calling the president's efforts to deport pro-Palestinian academics illegal.

Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #261 in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-10685) – CourtListener.com Judge William G. Young: ORDER entered. FINDINGS OF FACT AND RULINGS OF LAW, PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(Sonnenberg, Elizabeth) (Additional attachment(s) added on 9/30/2025: # 1 Main Document) (J...

BREAKING: WE WON!!!
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Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.

Full ruling here:

The ruling itself is remarkable, but it closes with something I've never seen: a 12-page assessment of Trump himself as an ignorant bully, braggart and threat to free speech and the republic writ-large. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

An enormous legal victory for @aaup.org, MESA, and the Rutgers, NYU, and Harvard chapters of AAUP, in a case that Judge Young describes as "perhaps the most important ever to fall within the jurisdiction of this district court."

In Landmark Ruling, Federal Court Says Trump Administration Violated First Amendment By Deporting Foreign Citizens for Pro-Palestinian Advocacy BOSTON—Judge William G. Young of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts today ruled that the Trump administration’s policy of arresting, detaining, and deporting noncitizen students and faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the First Amendment.

📰📢Breaking News! In landmark ruling, federal court says Trump administration violated first amendment by deporting foreign citizens for pro-Palestinian advocacy. Our union is one of the plaintiffs in this case. https://loom.ly/zGJYyRU

Tell Congress: No book bans in military schools Schools run by the Department of Defense on military bases have banned hundreds of books and altered curricula that the Trump administration doesn't agree with. Take action.

The Department of Defense is banning books, changing lesson plans, and canceling history month celebrations in schools on military bases to comply with President Trump’s anti-DEI executive orders.

Congress must act now and protect the right to learn.

Tomorrow at 7:30pm!
✊📣 YOU are the union! Join us 9/30 for an all-union Town hall. We can overcome the challenges we face & win a strong new contract if we ALL get involved. We'll discuss the path forward & what we need to do to safeguard & build on what we won in 2023.✊
Register: loom.ly/2A_cWC8

Fired Texas State professor to be reinstated while lawsuit against school proceeds On Friday, a Hays County judge ruled that a fired Texas State University (TXST) professor will get his job back while his lawsuit against the school proceeds, according to the professor’s att…

📣 📰 A little good 🗞️ for today:
“This has been a unifying moment for free speech and democratic rights, not only here in San Marcos, across Texas, but across the entire country."
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Lovely coverage of my India book over the weekend.

www.deccanherald.com/features/boo...

The Challenges We Face, the Campaign We Need All-UNION Town HallMeeting Tuesday, September 30th - 7:30 pm on Zoom Logos of RUAAUP-AFT, the Adjunct faculty union, and AAUP_BHSNJ

✊📣 YOU are the union! Join us 9/30 for an all-union Town hall. We can overcome the challenges we face and win a strong new contract if we ALL get involved. We'll discuss the path forward & what we need to do to safeguard & build on what we won in 2023.✊
Register: https://loom.ly/2A_cWC8

Calling all Rutgers postdocs!📢 We are holding listening sessions for postdocs to get to know your union. What would make your life as a Rutgers postdoc better? Let's fight for it in the next contract! Visit our events page to RSVP: https://rutgersaaup.org/events/

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Is the AAUP Too Partisan? Its President Doesn’t Think So. Todd Wolfson has taken heat for some of the organization’s political stances during his tenure. Here’s what he makes of the criticism.

"@aaup.org...believes that higher education should be a common public good for everyone. We align ourselves with the vast majority of Americans of any political stripe who need education for their kids, their families, in order to move forward in this country." www.chronicle.com/article/is-t...

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AFT is working to defend our institutions from this administrations disastrous funding cuts & program eliminations and advance a vision of higher education as a democratic, accessible, & transformative public good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAKJoEgBEG4

Learn more about the impacts of the Trump attacks on higher ed for NJ here: aftvotes.aft.org/sites/defaul...

YouTube video by AFT Attacks on Higher Ed are Attacks on ALL of Us.

@aft.org is working to defend our institutions from this administrations disastrous funding cuts & program eliminations and advance a vision of higher education as a democratic, accessible, & transformative public good.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAKJ...

It’s not an exaggeration to say that higher ed saves lives. So many of the cures, medications, treatments, and technologies we depend on to thrive are the result of federal investment in higher education. #HigherEdBenefitsEveryone @aaup.org @AFTHigherEd.bsky.social

🎥 Members at our recent "Welcome Back BBQ" told us why being in the union matters to them. Stronger together, we can win more for everyone!
👉 Join today and talk to your coworkers!
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The AAUP notes with great alarm the rash of recent administrative actions to discipline faculty, staff, & student speech in the aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk.

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AAUP Condemns Terrorist Threats to HBCUs The AAUP condemns unequivocally the recent and recurring bomb and terroristic threats against multiple HBCUs. Threats targeting HBCUs are attacks not only on individuals but on the legacy of resilienc...

The AAUP stands in full solidarity w/HBCU faculty, staff, students, admin, & alumni. We call on law enforcement & governmental authorities to treat these threats w/ the seriousness they deserve, investigate thoroughly, hold responsible parties accountable, & strengthen preventive measures on campus.

Students and faculty want to learn and teach without fear, threats, and violence, and the obvious racist pattern of threats against HBCUs is particularly chilling. bsky.app/profile/aaup...

Flyer for an event titled Higher Education: Forgotten Pasts and Alternative Futures: Indigenous Nations & Higher Education. Organized by Critical Legal Collective, Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Education, and AAUP’s Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom. Event date: Wednesday, September 24, 2025, at 4 PM PT / 5 PM MT / 6 PM CT / 7 PM ET. Featured speakers: Megan Bang (Northwestern University), Bryan Brayboy (Northwestern University), Eva Flying (Chief Dull Knife College), Sandy Grande (University of Connecticut), Amanda Tachine (University of Oregon), and Jeremiah Chin (University of Washington). Includes registration link and QR code.

📢 Wed, Sept 24 @ 7pm come to Higher Education: Forgotten Pasts & Alternative Futures: Indigenous Nations & Higher Education. Hosted by @sfndhe.bsky.social, the @aaup.org Center for Defense of Academic Freedom & the Critical Legal Collective. us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Flyer for an event titled Higher Education: Forgotten Pasts and Alternative Futures: Indigenous Nations & Higher Education. Organized by Critical Legal Collective, Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Education, and AAUP’s Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom. Event date: Wednesday, September 24, 2025, at 4 PM PT / 5 PM MT / 6 PM CT / 7 PM ET. Featured speakers: Megan Bang (Northwestern University), Bryan Brayboy (Northwestern University), Eva Flying (Chief Dull Knife College), Sandy Grande (University of Connecticut), Amanda Tachine (University of Oregon), and Jeremiah Chin (University of Washington). Includes registration link and QR code.

📢 Wed, Sept 24 @ 7pm come to Higher Education: Forgotten Pasts & Alternative Futures: Indigenous Nations & Higher Education. Hosted by @sfndhe.bsky.social, the @aaup.org Center for Defense of Academic Freedom & the Critical Legal Collective. us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...