Please share the letter with colleagues and encourage them to sign this petition urging administration to resolve the conflict. The university administration has until midnight on Tuesday to change course and avoid a strike.
teamsterslocal320.salsalabs.org/UMNWidePreSt...
19.08.2025 16:43 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Amicus Brief in AAUP vs Rubio
University of Minnesota Twin Cities Chapter AAUP v. Rubio
Our Twin Cities AAUP chapter has signed on to an amicus brief in support of the the plaintiff's request for a preliminary injunction in AAUP v. Rubio. Read more here: www.umn-tc-aaup.org/amicus-brief...
10.04.2025 13:46 — 👍 44 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 0
STANDING WITH NON-CITIZEN AND IMMIGRANT STUDENTS AND COLLEAGUES
Please consider signing the UMN-TC AAUP Standing with Non-Citizen and Immigrant Students and Colleagues letter to President Cunningham. You can find it here: docs.google.com/document/u/2...
17.03.2025 15:44 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
(UMN folks, I think @umn-tc-aaup.bsky.social is our best vehicle for organizing this. I’m talking to people; let me know if you want to contribute…)
16.03.2025 14:26 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
U Board of Regents must not fold on defense of academic freedom
Talking about it is one thing. Actually standing for it is another.
"Rejecting the...advice of shared governance bodies and neutering the faculty’s ability to collectively speak up, particularly at a moment when senior leaders may lack the courage or willingness to do so, would be not just wrong and misguided but a betrayal of their obligations to the institution."
12.03.2025 02:04 — 👍 34 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 1
‘Cowardliness at the top’: Science agency staff revolt over cuts
At an emotional meeting, foundation officials announced layoffs for about 10 percent of their workforce and warned of more firings to come.
This is what obeying in advance looks like. The NSF fires 10% of its total staff in a move that went beyond what was requested by the current regime. The NSF is the flagship of US basic research infrastructure. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋 www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
22.02.2025 12:33 — 👍 386 🔁 137 💬 10 📌 7
No time like now to join the AAUP! Just this decision alone makes your dues worth every penny.
22.02.2025 17:50 — 👍 55 🔁 21 💬 0 📌 1
Introducing Academic Freedom on the Line
A newsletter published by fellows at the AAUP's Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom
@biblioracle.bsky.social and fellows at @aaup.bsky.social's Center for the Defense of Higher Education have published the first issue our newsletter "Academic Freedom on the Line." Come check it out. And subscribe. academicfreedomontheline.substack.com/p/introducin...
04.02.2025 14:34 — 👍 21 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 1
In a 30-page opinion granting the challengers' request to block the funding freeze, AliKhan wrote that a review of the programs that should or should not receive federal dollars "could be conducted without depriving millions of Americans access to vital resources."
04.02.2025 15:29 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
UMN-TC-AAUP
University of Minnesota Twin Cities Chapter
It is always is a good time to join the @aaup.bsky.social and @umn-tc-aaup.bsky.social. But it seems especially important do so now. Click the "Join the AAUP" link at www.umn-tc-aaup.org to join the University of Minnesota Twin Cities chapter.
24.01.2025 03:55 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
An important statement from the AAUP. Read and share widely. Demand that your administrators read this too.
24.01.2025 02:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Reclaiming Academic Freedom | Los Angeles Review of Books
Michael Meranze reviews David M. Rabban’s “Academic Freedom: From Professional Norm to First Amendment Right.”
"We need continually to assert academic freedom, not just as a free speech right but also as a professional norm, as a defense of the value of knowledge, & as the only acceptable form of the scholarly community’s self-governance."
New from Michael Meranze in the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
08.01.2025 21:10 — 👍 20 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
Education, good jobs, and strong unions empower people to take charge of their lives. In her latest column, @rweingarten.bsky.social explains how these tools can build a brighter future for all.
Read it here: www.aft.org/column/how-m...
15.12.2024 15:00 — 👍 21 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
UMN Graduate Labor Union
UMN-GLU: UE Local 1105
Congratulations to the UMN Graduate Labor Union-UE for ratifying its first collective bargaining contract--a historic victory and a model for higher ed unions. Now they need the Board of Regents to move quickly and approve the contract. See their webpage for details on how to support them umnglu.org
16.12.2024 02:48 — 👍 70 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 0
University of North Texas Should Reverse Course Censorship
The AAUP stands with Texas faculty associations in protesting the reported censorship of more than 200 courses at the University of North Texas. The reported removal of words such as “race,” “gender,”...
The AAUP stands w/@texasaaup.bsky.social in expressing concern over the reported censorship of more than 200 academic courses at the University of North Texas including the removal of words such as “race,” “gender,” “class,” & “equity” from course titles & descriptions.
www.aaup.org/news/univers...
20.11.2024 15:15 — 👍 53 🔁 26 💬 1 📌 0
Texas university faculty resist ‘vague’ anti-DEI censorship
A senate meeting at the University of North Texas provided more heat than light about the scrubbing of course content related to diversity, equity and...
“The removal of words such as ‘race’, ‘gender’, ‘class’, & ‘equity’ from courses titles & descriptions appears to represent a troubling departure from widely accepted standards of academic freedom & shared governance.”
- Todd Wolfson, AAUP president
www.universityworldnews.com/post-mobile....
27.11.2024 01:27 — 👍 42 🔁 24 💬 0 📌 4
Organize Every Campus
The AAUP is excited to be kicking off a new organizing campaign, Organize Every Campus. The program will help hone and develop member and leader organizing skills so that we can stand together, fight ...
Since there seem to be a lot of new professors on Bluesky, I'll re-share this link to the AAUP's "Organize Every Campus" campaign. This is a critical time for faculty to organize in defense of our students, ourselves and co-workers, and the institutions we believe in. Join us!
11.11.2024 03:04 — 👍 592 🔁 273 💬 6 📌 8
Hi Bluesky folks - any starter packs out there for AAUP chapters?
19.11.2024 19:13 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
University of North Texas Censors Course Content
Texas AAUP-AFT Raises Faculty Concerns Over Course Censorship at the University of North Texas (Denton)
🚨NEW: Our press release on the censorship of academic course content regarding race, class, and gender inequality at the University of North Texas (UNT) in Denton. This is a troubling sign for the state of #HigherEd in Texas.
aaup-texas.org/blog/f/unive...
19.11.2024 15:02 — 👍 11 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1
Hello Blue Sky community, we are new here.
Since our founding in 1915, the AAUP has helped to shape American higher ed by developing the standards that maintain quality in education, academic freedom, and ensure higher education's contribution to the common good. We look forward to connecting!
12.11.2024 18:27 — 👍 34 🔁 17 💬 3 📌 5
Higher Education Labor United – Higher Education Labor United (HELU) is a national organization founded in 2021 to unite workers throughout U.S. higher education.
If you work in higher ed:
Join your local @aaup.bsky.social chapter.
If your campus does not have an AAUP chapter or you are not represented by a bargaining unit, join AAUP Local 6741:
www.aaup.org/chapters/aau...
Join Higher Ed for Labor United (HELU): higheredlaborunited.org
12.11.2024 03:41 — 👍 28 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 2
Flyer for Dr. Maura Finkelstein, "Activism and Academic Freedom in a Time of Genocide," UMN Twin Cities, Friday, November 22nd, 6-8 pm, Bruininks Hall, Room 220
14.11.2024 17:24 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Administrative Interference in CLA Hiring
There is an urgent matter related to the recent search for a director of CLA’s Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (CHGS). In a series of events reminiscent of the Steven Salaita case ,...
Call to action! UMN admin unilaterally withdrawal offer to esteemed historian Raz Segal to direct the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Read our letter to the administration and write your own! More details can be found here: www.umn-tc-aaup.org/administrati...
13.06.2024 00:05 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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