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An American citizen and Los Angeles native, @seiucalifornia @seiuusww President David Huerta was injured and detained when ICE terrorized a working neighborhood. We demand his immediate release!

SEIU California President David Huerta Injured, Detained at ICE Raid in Los Angeles Los Angeles - David Huerta, President of SEIU California and SEIU- United Service Workers West was injured and detained at an ICE raid in Los Angeles today while exercising his First Amendment right to observe and document law enforcement activity. Tia Orr, Executive Director of SEIU California, made the following statement: "SEIU California members call for the immediate release of our President, David Huerta, who was injured and detained at the site of one of today's ICE raids in Los Angeles. He is now receiving medical attention while in custody. "We are proud of President Huerta's righteous participation as a community observer, in keeping with his long history of advocating for immigrant workers and with the highest values of our movement: standing up to injustice, regardless of personal risk or the power of those perpetrating it. "We call for an end to the cruel, destructive, and indiscriminate ICE raids that are tearing apart our communities, disrupting our economy, and hurting all working people. Immigrant workers are essential to our society: feeding our nation, caring for our elders, cleaning our workplaces, and building our homes."

BREAKING

The President of California’s largest union has been detained during an ICE raid.

SEIU California | SEIU California President David Huerta Injured, Detained at ICE Raid in Los Angeles We are proud of President Huerta’s righteous participation as a community observer, in keeping with his long history of advocating for immigrant workers and with the highest values of our movement…

Let’s be clear: ICE injured and detained the president of SEIU California for peacefully observing.

ICE picked the wrong side. The wrong state. The wrong person. and the wrong union. David Huerta stood up. And now 750,000 SEIU workers are standing up behind him.

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AAUP President Todd Wolfson calls on the Penn State Board of Trustees to reject proposed campus closures and go back to the drawing board to develop a plan that will serve all Pennsylvanians.

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Indiana University Investigation of Tenured Professor for “Intellectual Diversity” Law an Egregious Threat to Academic Freedom - PEN America Indiana University investigation of tenured professor is weaponizing intellectual diversity undermining autonomy of the state's public universities.

We support PEN America's condemnation of the Indiana University investigation of Dr. Ben Robinson after IU chose to file an anonymous complaint about his in-class example as an SB 202 "intellectual diversity" violation
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Hope as US universities find ‘backbone’ against Trump’s assault on education Anxious Americans find solace as university leaders start to mount more muscular defense of academic freedom

“The workers and the unions, faculty, students, staff are leading and developing the fight in how to respond to the Trump administration, and we’re sort of dragging the universities along with us, slowly,” said Todd Wolfson, the president of the AAUP.

Help a Gazan Girl Pursue Her Dream Of A Masters In Ireland | Saja Alkhayyat By the Grace of God, I Am Thrilled to Announce My Acceptance to Trinity Business School-Ireland for My Master's Program It is both a profound privilege and a heartfelt responsibility to be admitt...

Thanks to Saja for sharing her story with AAUP members at this week's discussion hosted by our Committee on Race & Solidarity. We heard first-hand testimonies about how the destruction of universities and schools has impacted lives.

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John Fetterman needs to resign.

It’s time for academics to organize. We’re stronger together ✊

Penn State AAUP calls on administration to keep commonwealth campuses open “Penn State AAUP finds the administration derelict in its duty to the students, faculty, staff, and community members of the Commonwealth when it announced statewide campus closures.”

The Penn State administration's decision to close commonwealth campuses is a dereliction of its duty.

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Trump’s executive order on accreditation is yet another attempt to dictate what is taught, learned, & said by college instructors & students.

Threats to remove accreditors are transparent attempts to consolidate power in the hands of the administration in order to stifle teaching & research.

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Ohio colleges mum on details as dozens of international students face visa revocations At least 56 students across 12 Ohio colleges have had visas revoked, with one OSU student filing a lawsuit against the Trump administration claiming First Amendment violations.

They don't have much of anything to say these days, do they?

Institute of Education Sciences cuts imperil high-quality research, lawsuits allege Two separate complaints say the U.S. Department of Education’s downsizing of IES was unlawful and will erode data collection and analysis.

Cuts to federal research funding hurt colleges, slow innovation, and undermine public knowledge. Attacking higher ed is an attack on America’s future. #HigherEdCrisis

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National Day of Action for Higher Education 9-10 AM (Sie 1020): Protecting International and Noncitizen Students *10-11 AM (Sie 1020): Free Speech, Gaza, and Campus Repression 11-Noon (Sie 1020): The CAHE (Council for Action in Higher Education) Day of Action: Organizing for Higher Education Noon-2 PM (Maglione Hall): Legislation for Unions in Colorado 2-3 PM (Sie 1020): Higher Education Under Attack: DEI and Academic Freedom 3-4 PM (Sie 1020): AAUP No Confidence Vote and Discussion *4-5 PM (Sie 1020): Financial Analysis of the University of Denver (pt. 1)

We are thrilled to be participating in the @actioninhighered.bsky.social National Day of Action for Higher Education this Thursday April 17th! We have a packed day of teach-ins and we're fired up 💪

Over Eighty Universities File Amicus Brief in Case Challenging Trump's Speech-Based Deportations of Non-citizen Students In a previous post, I urged universities to band together to file a lawsuit challenging Donald Trump's policy of speech-based deportation of foreign

In this post, I commend universities that filed amicus brief in AAUP case challenging speech-based deportations of foreign students, but also explain why this isn't adequate substitute for universities bringing a case of their own: reason.com/volokh/2025/...

Faculty, Students to Hold Nationwide Day of Action Defending Higher Education Faculty, students, and higher education workers across the country are preparing to participate in a National Day of Action this Thursday, April 17, to defend academic freedom and advocate for higher ...

Mark your calendars! This Thursday, April 17, faculty, students, and higher ed workers across the U.S. are uniting for a National Day of Action to defend academic freedom, fight for tuition-free education, and advocate for higher ed as a public good. www.diverseeducation.com/faculty-staf...

The UNC-CH chapter of the AAUP strongly and unequivocally condemns the targeting of international students and scholars.

In light of the April 8 revocation of six UNC student visas, we call on UNC-CH to take concrete steps to support students and scholars at risk:

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Finally joined @aaup.bsky.social today after checking in with my local chapter about my eligibility. The AAUP has done more for academic freedom in these last two years than any university administration has. Seems like a good investment in the Trump era.

Hoping to steel Harvard’s resolve against Trump demands, Cambridge officials will host a rally - The Boston Globe It's an unusual move, officials say. But these are unusual times.

“The Trump administration’s illegal campaign against universities isn’t just an attack on the people who work and study at them. It’s an attack on the local communities that thrive alongside them.”

– Nikolas Bowie, Harvard law professor and Harvard AAUP member

everyone at a university who is not in AAUP and/or a union should fix that ASAP

Educators, health care workers call on Rep. Thompson to come out against Trump funding cuts A group of educators, health care workers and supporters delivered a petition to U.S. Rep. Glenn “GT” Thompson’s Bellefonte office Tuesday, calling on him to come out against cuts in federal funding f...

Yesterday we delivered a letter do Rep. Glenn Thompson with over 300 signatures from the Penn State community, telling him to #KillTheCuts to research and higher education.

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Trump Is Trying to Deport Students Who Show Up in a ‘Criminal Records Check.’ But Many Have Never Been Convicted What began with Mahmoud Khalil has now expanded into widespread immigration status revocations with no explanation and little apparent recourse.

NEWS: It began with Mahmoud Khalil. Now the Trump admin is trying to deport *hundreds* of students by vaguely saying they have criminal records—making them guess why.
Some have traffic violations. Some didn't even commit a crime.

One's "criminal record"? Apparently being a domestic violence victim.

Right Now across the nation: scientists, educators, students, & healthcare workers are STANDING UP to #KILLTHECUTS.

Every life-saving breakthrough in healthcare starts w/research.

No research, cures.

Trump’s cuts to NIH are a direct attack on our health, our families, & our future.

Thousands of @uawregion6.bsky.social members and community members are gathering across the University of California (UC) campuses to #KillTheCuts!

📸 from UC Santa Barbara, UCLA, UC Berkeley, and UC San Diego

Rally to "Kill the Cuts" to Research, Healthcare, and Higher Education YouTube video by AFT

Hello from Newark, NJ! We’re joining our union family from @aaup.bsky.social, @afscme.bsky.social, @cwaunion.bsky.social, @seiu.org, @neatoday.bsky.social, and more to call for an end to the cuts to medical research. #KillTheCuts www.youtube.com/live/pFU0Lvo...

UCLA standing up to #KillTheCuts!

Thousands of research, healthcare, & education workers across the country are out on campuses & in the streets today to demand that our elected officials #KillTheCuts to lifesaving research.

UE and other unions demand an end to the assault on the right to organize and protest

UE has joined 8 other national unions, including @uaw.org & @seiu.org, in issuing a statement calling for the release of abducted union members & political organizers who are being swept up in the Trump Administration’s campaign of terror against working people.

Trump Admin Broadens Scope of Student Visa Terminations Immigration officials are rapidly revoking hundreds of student visas. Many more are going unreported at small colleges anxious to avoid federal scrutiny.

Never before have so many of our sources requested—or been granted—anonymity to share their stories of being detained by ICE and/or having their student visas revoked. And no one is following the story more closely than @liamknox.bsky.social.
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