ALL IN for Higher Ed: Indiana State Conference, AAUP

University Administrations: Reject Trump's "Loyalty Oath" Compacts The Trump administration is trying to blackmail schools to let him and his unqualified bureaucrats run our schools. They want to dictate what schools teach, who they admit and hire, what researchers s...

Sign-on letter to oppose Trump's (extortion) "compact" for higher ed institutions. actionnetwork.org/petitions/un...

Empathy + Action = A Better World

Thank you, Jane Goodall

“People do not forfeit their First Amendment rights when they are hired by government institutions. Public employees are free to speak on matters of public concern, so long as they are speaking as private citizens..."

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."

In good news, the Trib picked the correct front-page photo today:

Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.

The thing about epic record-breakers is that they’re memorable. Firing the greatest # of people whose jobs are to preserve accurate historical memory and to think critically about the future? Maybe not the brightest idea this regime has presented to the world.

www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Since returning to office, Trump admin has aggressively cut live-saving federal science programs, medical research, and grants.

Today, the AAUP & AFT launched a new campaign to halt these cuts and to support the bipartisan commitment to funding scientific research that saves lives!

Is your university using EAB for student tracking? Would you like to track their eye movement, heart rate, circadian rhythms and create a corporate go-between for all their educational, social, emotional, and professional needs? EAB has you covered. And your uni is probably considering adopting it.

What kind of speech is not protected under the First Amendment? Incitement to violence, fighting words, obscenity, defamation, true threats, forms of harassment, speech integral to criminal conduct, and sexual content of minors are all examples of speech that is not protected.

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UC employees, not waiting on leaders, sue Trump for 'financial coercion' over UCLA cuts University of California faculty, students and staff on Tuesday sued President Trump over a $1.2-million penalty against UCLA and federal demands over campus changes. They argued that the actions camp...

BREAKING:

A historic coalition of national & California labor unions led by the AAUP filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging the illegal & coercive use of civil rights laws to attack the University of California system & the rights of their members.

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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Save the Languages at IU! IU prides itself on teaching “over 70 languages—that’s more than any university in the United States.” For nearly two centuries, foreign languages have been an integral part of Indiana University’s id...

Indiana University's historic leadership in language education is under threat. Please sign and share the form to help Save the Languages at IU!

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#academia, #research, #HigherEd, #langsky

The Watchlist That Terrorized Academia Charlie Kirk’s Professor Watchlist wasn’t about free speech. It was about fear. Here’s how it turned professors into targets — and why the national eulogies ignore the damage he left behind.

Charlie Kirk’s Professor Watchlist wasn’t about “free speech.” It was about fear.
Professors were doxxed, harassed, even assaulted and now America is rewriting the story.
www.virginmonkboy.com/p/the-watchl...

#AcademicFreedom #ProfessorWatchlist #CharlieKirk #FreeSpeech #PoliticalViolence #HigherEd

We are deeply concerned about this unfolding case. Academic freedom, which Texas A&M endorses, refers to instructors’ right to teach in their area of expertise free from government interference.

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GUEST COLUMN: We made this happen: Restoring freedom of speech on the IU Bloomington campus IU freedom of speech was restored by protesting faculty, staff and student “curfew breakers.”

IUB AAUP chapter members and leaders on curfew breaking and the fight to restore freedom of speech on our campus: "Credit for the victory of restoring freedom of speech at IU belongs to those who showed up and refused to be silenced." www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

Congratulations and appreciations, Harvard and AAUP!