@texasaaup.bsky.social
We are an association of all AAUP members in Texas #HigherEd. Join us as we advocate for faculty and instructors through the state. Become involved in a local chapter or start one! https://connect.aft.org/app/memberforms/8041A/JoinTheFight
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“Though often justified as required by state law… Governor-appointed Boards of Regents at public university systems are adopting policies that censor classes in ways that the Texas Legislature refused to pass… violat[ing] the freedom to teach and the freedom to learn protected by the 1st Amendment”
"Across Texas, students and faculty at all seven public university systems face efforts to censor student learning and faculty teaching...."
#LetStudentsLearn
#LetUsTeach
Professors do not indoctrinate students in class but teach them how to think critically and openly.
In the wake of SB 37, University of Houston has introduced syllabi "checklists" and "certifications" to prevent so-called indoctrination in the classroom. This clearly threatens academic freedom.
Correction: Indoctrination IS happening at UT.
It's just the Board of Regents that's doing it.
“The American Association of University Professors and its faculty, staff, and student members across Texas are committed to defending the freedom to teach so that students have the freedom to learn, and maintaining the excellence of the state’s public colleges and universities.”
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every damn public university in the state is operating under a censorship regime
Academic freedom is under dire threat in Texas - we (in Texas) and all (across the US and world) must stand up for this.
As someone who could only afford to go to the in-state flagship cool in my state, the targeting of UT Austin for destruction by the legislature-governor-provost makes me so sad.
⭐️📢PRESS RELEASE: Across Texas, students and faculty at all seven public university systems face efforts to censor student learning and faculty teaching. See below for an overview of the ways AAUP members and leaders are fighting back! Join us! ✊
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AAUP members are rejecting the Commission for Public Higher Education accreditation standards, which threatens to introduce unprecedented partisan influence over universities.
Check out this thread and graphics explaining what is at stake nationally, especially at southern universities⬇️
"My Degree is Being Ruined"
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"We’re all bearing witness to the institutionalization of intellectual violence at a university that should be free from aggressive political interference."
“Our vision for a fully-funded public education, where a professor can write and teach freely, and can challenge every vapid, cruel argument federal and state governments make, sustains us. It’s what we’re fighting for.”
—Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
All Texas universities are under attack.
ALL universities are under attack.
#LetStudentsLearn
Please sign this petition from PEN America. End Academic Censorship at Texas A&M University!
It's true.
#BTHOcensorship
TAMU BOR Chair Albritton’s dismissal of Jon Hagler’s defense of academic freedom as merely ‘his opinion’ ignores an obvious reality: his commitment to Texas A&M is measured not just in words, but in millions of dollars invested in the university’s future.
www.kbtx.com/2026/02/06/t...
