Columbia University Chapter, AAUP

An Invitation: Get to know your Governing Board.

Academic governing boards exercise significant & often final legal authority over the colleges & universities they rule. We need a rebalance of this power.

#sharedgoverance
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A Tale of Two Seasons at Columbia, and Two Responses to Student Arrests

“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
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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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How Wall Street’s Apollo got tangled up again in the Epstein files | CNN Business Jeffrey Epstein is once again haunting one of the most powerful firms on Wall Street: Apollo Global Management.

“Two powerful teachers’ unions that have committed at least $27.5 billion to Apollo wrote a letter to the SEC this week calling for federal regulators to investigate Apollo’s “apparent lack of candor” over its relationship with Epstein.”

Let’s get this investigation going NOW.
#academicsky @aft.org

Following faculty pushback to Customs and Border Protection recruitment listing, SPS removes all external postings from career opportunities website Following faculty pushback for listing an external Customs and Border Protection recruitment event on its career opportunities <a href="https://careerdesignlab.sps.columbia.edu/events/" rel="">web pag...

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Congrats to Columbia AAUP on successfully standing up against ICE recruitment on campus.

Let's keep organizing and go all out to get ICE off our campuses.

@swcolumbia.bsky.social
@aaupcu.bsky.social

Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why

“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.

AAUP President on the Elimination of Tenure at Oklahoma Regional Universities and Community Colleges. WASHINGTON—AAUP President Todd Wolfson issued the following statement in response to the Governor of Oklahoma’s signing of Executive Order 2026-07, which immediately eliminates the conferral of academ...

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.

Trump Drops Demand for Cash From Harvard After Stiff Resistance

Reminder: Never capitulate to tyrants.

Fight Back.

#DefendHigherEd
#AcademicSky

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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If Texas A&M truly believes in the values of leadership, integrity, & service, it must defend academic freedom & protect student learning.

Please sign & share this petition to TAMU leadership demanding an end to all censorship of instruction & retaliation against faculty who refuse to censor.

Boston judge warns Trump officials on changing plaintiffs’ immigration status The ruling from U.S. District Judge William Young follows a prior ruling in which he found the Trump administration violated the Constitution.

“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.”

"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

We need to flood them with letters now. Write today!

Trump’s Attempts to Control Higher Education Follow a Familiar Fascist Playbook Trumpism has been aided by divestment that hollowed higher ed out from the core, AAUP President Todd Wolfson says.

“We need a higher ed system that’s not rooted in students as customers, but in critical inquiry and the development of smart, thoughtful citizens in a democracy who can see through the lies and stand up for the kind of society we want to build.”

— Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

This is how you stand up for educators against politically motivated attacks on teaching.

Please sign OU AAUP’s petition demanding that OU protect the freedom to teach & learn, & stand up against targeted harassment & intimidation.

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TODAY! 4PM!

CUT THE CUTS Rally at The New School!

• SUSPEND “realignment” measures
• RESCIND all “voluntary separation package agreements”
• CAP on salaries over $200,000
• CALL on the Board of Trustees to hold a public meeting with the entire university community

Livestream link below.

AAUP University of Nebraska - Lincoln is packing the Board of Regents meeting RIGHT NOW to say no to a $27.5 million budget cut and to the closure of 4 academic programs!

Catch the livestream of the meeting and the testimonies of organized UNL higher ed workers here👇

nebraska.edu/news-and-eve...

"Restrictions in Texas, Florida, Hungary & elsewhere are not isolated. They're part of a long battle over what truths will shape the next generation. When universities choose openness, societies move forward. When they choose silence, societies fracture."

Wealthy People Have Always Shaped Universities. This Time Is Different.

Billionaires, who quite often do not see education as a common good, should not be guiding higher education policy.

“I kind of yearn,” Mr. Nassirian said, “for the gilded age when billionaires satisfied their extracurricular interests by collecting Fabergé eggs and prized ponies.”

#DefendHigherEd

Solidarity to all students & higher ed workers across the country standing up to build a better future today!

#DefendHigherEd

Happy 11/7 to all who are building a world where students are free to learn. Rise up against billionaires and their loyalty oaths!

Good morning NYC! Are you ready?

“From attacks on academic freedom to the defunding of life-saving scientific research to arresting peaceful student protesters, Trump’s higher ed policies have been catastrophic for our democracy. We’re excited to build a coalition of workers & students fighting back."
– AAUP president Todd Wolfson

Tell Billionaire Marc Rowan: HANDS OFF HIGHER ED! Fri. Nov. 7, @ 11 a.m. Apollo Global Management 9 West 57th St, NYC RSVP QR code link: https://view.page/yDwfT6 Union logos: AAUP, AFT, Debt Collective, NY Metro Coalition for Higher Ed, AAUP NYU, Sunrise Movement, SDS, HIGHER ED LABOR UNITED Columbia AAUP, NYSUT, Fordham AAUP, PSC CUNY, UUP, Frontline for Freedom, AAUP-Penn, CU Stand Up, NYU SDS, Strong Economy for all Coalition

NYC, come out 11/7 and say: Billionaires out of our classrooms! Stand with @aaup.org @aft.org @debtcollective.bsky.social @psc-cuny.org @uupinfo.bsky.social. @higheredlabor.bsky.social @nysut.bsky.social @fordhamaaup.bsky.social @aaupcu.bsky.social, NYU AAUP, SDS, & many more

Transcript: Elite Colleges Reject Trump’s Authoritarian “Compact” Harvard’s Ryan Enos explains the importance of colleges working together to combat Trump’s attempts to shake down universities.

Harvard AAUP's Ryan Enos explains the importance of colleges working together to combat Trump’s attempts to shake down universities.

#defendhighered
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DEFEND HIGHER ED STARTER PACK!

We are building a movement to defend US higher education & have created a starter pack of AAUP chapter & ally accounts to follow. Please Share!

(This list is not exhaustive. If you have suggestions, please shoot us a DM!)

#DefendHighEd

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Public universities that sign onto Trump's "Loyalty Oath" will violate the constitutional rights of their students.🤯

AAUP General Counsel Veena Dubal breaks down why in this clip from our recent AAUP TV update.

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"Conservative strategists seem to understand that their agenda on higher education, including defunding universities, intimidating international students and privatizing loans, has little public support." -Yale AAUP President Daniel HoSang on the AI-fueled propaganda campaign against higher ed

AAUP TV: live update tonight, Tuesday, October 21 at 7:30 PM ET. AAUP president Todd Wolfson and AAUP General counsel Veena Dubal will discuss why Trump‘s university compact is unconstitutional.

TONIGHT!

Join AAUP president Todd Wolfson & AAUP General Counsel Veena Dubal for an update on the AVALANCHE of universities rejecting Trump’s loyalty oath compact & how the compact violates the US Constitution.
7:30PM ET / 4:30 PM PT
Live on both IG &
YouTube.

Link: youtube.com/live/h-H-ETa...