“The response was quite different. It’s not clear whether this reflects the difference in the public stands these students have taken or a fundamental change in the university’s approach...I hope it will prove to be the latter.”
—Michael Thaddeus, Columbia AAUP
@aaupcu.bsky.social
Texas is on the front lines of the fight against government suppression of academic inquiry. We must continue to hold the line against those who wish to control the range of topics that can be taught in the classroom.
Keep fighting. Our democracy depends on it.
@texasaaup.bsky.social
@texasaft.org
“Academic freedom —the ability to research, teach, & learn without interference is essential to the quality of education we offer in North Carolina.
Do we want UNC to go in the direction of Texas or Florida or we do we want to uphold the reputation, standards & quality that it has for decades?”
Dr. Temu speaks at on the unjustifiable terminations of the Fired Six.
JUSTICE NOW FOR THE FIRED SIX!
We’re out here at Virginia State University demanding the immediate reinstatement of the Fired Six! These tenured & TT faculty members were abruptly removed from VSU’s Agricultural Department without notice & in clear violation of basic due process.
More to come…
JUSTICE FOR THE FIRED SIX NOW!
We will not stop until these wrongfully terminated professors are reinstated with full back pay.
Please Sign & Share the petition:
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We will fight this Virginia State. Your treatment of these faculty was reprehensible. We love our HBCUs, but @aaup.org & @aft.org will not stand for disrespectful treatment of members! Solidarity @ucwva.bsky.social ❤️ www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
25.02.2026 14:27 — 👍 22 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 1
Hands Off St. John’s Faculty!
Crowd gathers
Powerful rally at St. John’s University today against unprecedented union busting tactics by President Father Shanley who, after 56 years, is refusing to recognize SJU’s two longstanding faculty unions.
SJU faculty have been working without a contract for 239 days!
Union busting is disgusting.
Brad Lander: “It’s pretty outrageous…once people think that they don’t have to follow the law because the president doesn’t, workers suffer, our universities suffer, students & faculty suffer.”
St. John’s University can’t just UNrecognize faculty unions after 56 years. That’s not the law works.
I want to be clear, @aaup.org stands with our HBCUs. At the same time, what Virginia State University did by laying off 6 tenured/tenure-stream faculty, for NO CAUSE, & threatening them with trespass breaks every norm. It is shameful. Reinstate the Fired Six! SIGN & SHARE
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What is being labeled “controversial” today is the very knowledge Texas will need to survive tomorrow.
The question is no longer whether higher education can be saved as it is.
The question is whether we are ready to imagine—and build—what comes next.
Important op-ed in the @texasobserver.org.
Reinstate the Fired Six at VSU!
Six tenured & tenure track faculty members were abruptly fired at Virginia State University without cause or any semblance of due process.
Sign this petition to demand their reinstatement & a public commitment from VSU to honor tenure & end arbitrary dismissals.
The assault at OSU underscores the contentious role of OSU's Chase Center, an "intellectual diversity" center forced onto OSU by Ohio lawmakers. The Chase Center has been widely criticized for its limited accountability in hiring & curriculum & lack of responsibilities to the university.
21.02.2026 19:51 — 👍 21 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 2
“Abolishing gender programs & the lessons they have taught, will, Trump & his acolytes hope, undermine our ability not just to condemn, but also to critically analyze the policies & practices they want to impose.”
Must Read by Joan Scott, member of the AAUP’s Committee on Academic Freedom.
The AAUP condemns the attack of a journalist at OSU.
This incident is a predictable consequence of the dismantling of widely accepted practices of academic shared governance.
How?
The assailant is an employee of the Chase “intellectual diversity” center which has limited accountability to OSU.
AAUP President Todd Wolfson issued the following statement in response to Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt's Executive Order issued today immediately eliminating academic tenure at the state’s public regional universities and community colleges.
06.02.2026 00:39 — 👍 119 🔁 95 💬 0 📌 14
Reminder: Never capitulate to tyrants.
Fight Back.
#DefendHigherEd
#AcademicSky
An important post by Michel DeGraff in Academe blog about the failure of some AAUP chapters to adequately defend their members on Pal-related speech/research. This is a terrible, shameful problem at too many AAUP chapters. academeblog.org/2026/01/30/t...
30.01.2026 19:43 — 👍 0 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 2
“A central premise of freedom in the United States is freedom to speak our minds, to engage in critical debate or conversation without fear of state reprisal.”
— Veena Dubal, AAUP General Counsel
Education is a public good for all.
When politicians censor classroom teaching in order to narrow the field of topics that students can engage in, they rob them of a stellar world class education.
This is what is happening at Texas A&M & other institutions in the state.
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Register here: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
26.01.2026 21:27 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
AAUP President Todd Wolfson on the killing of Alex Pretti:
"This moment demands a unified, bold, and powerful response from the labor movement. We are uniting across sectors to organize, mobilize, and wield our full collective power to confront ICE."
Full statement:
"As students, parents, alumni, faculty, staff, and community members, we believe that if Texas A&M truly believes in Aggie values of leadership, integrity, and service, it must defend academic freedom and protect student learning."
Please sign & share!
This quote.
24.01.2026 14:43 — 👍 14 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
“Judge Young affirmed unequivocally, without a doubt, that non-citizens lawfully present here in the US have the same free speech rights as everyone else. He established that the federal government clearly & unconstitutionally pursued a policy of discrimination against pro-Palestinian speech.”
23.01.2026 23:29 — 👍 51 🔁 23 💬 0 📌 0
📢📢 On this MLK Day, a reminder that faculty at Texas public colleges and universities are now uncertain whether or not they can legally teach Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter From Birmingham Jail.” ⬇️
thebarbedwire.com/2026/01/19/w...
"This is happening. It is real. Universities will be targeted and brought to heel. Republican politicians want to ensure that the next generation of college graduates — if they graduate at all — will quickly and uncomplainingly administer the Gilded Age fantasies of our billionaire class."
14.01.2026 20:23 — 👍 19 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0
Amazing and important news in Ohio #OSU @aaup.org @osuaaup.bsky.social www.acluohio.org/press-releas...
14.01.2026 23:14 — 👍 30 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 0
"As we approach the start of the new semester it falls to us to do whatever we can to keep one another safe. Please remember: while ICE agents may enter public areas of the campus, they require a subpoena or a valid judicial warrant to enter private or restricted spaces."
– @umn-tc-aaup.bsky.social
In the light of ICE's unjustifiable murder of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, AAUP President Todd Wolfson has released a statement urging that ICE should suspend all operation in American cities.
Read full statement at link below 👇 and at the graphic in this thread 🧵
#AbolishICE
#AcademicSky
