AAUP Texas A&M-College Station Chapter

AAUP (@aaup.bsky.social) The American Association of University Professors champions academic freedom, advances shared governance, and organizes faculty to ensure higher education's contribution to the common good. aaup.org

🔔 For over a century, AAUP has stood for the freedom of faculty to teach in their areas of expertise without government censorship. We also stand for faculty’s role in the governance of universities. These principles have made Texas universities great. 👏👏

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Texas Senate approves bill that could reshape how history and race are taught in state universities An overhauled version of Senate Bill 37 would also allow anyone to file complaints that could lead schools to lose funds.

I have a suspicion that SB 37 was never about improving higher ed, but to inflict retribution and punishment for a petty dispute between Texas LT Gov and a group a university faculty at one university.

www.texastribune.org/2025/04/10/t...

Boards and Administrators Won’t Defend Higher Ed From Trump. It’s Up to Us. To fight fascism, university faculty, staff and students must show our power.

Thanks to Jennifer Ruth for these powerful words + for highlighting our April 17 Day of Action: “Between the Trump team’s attacks and higher education’s appeasement, we must reclaim our universities for ourselves. Academic freedom is not Trump’s to take or boards’ to give away.” 🔥👏👊

A flyer you can distribute on how to handle ICE if they come to your campus:

At the TX Senate Education K-16 committee hearing the other day, one of the Senators made this comment about Jack Welch’s take on “shared leadership” in an attempt to diminish the importance of “shared governance” in faculty senates.  

Jack Welch never said nor wrote this!

Here is my public testimony against SB 37, a bill that seeks to threaten faculty, silence our voices, and punish us for having the courage to speak truth to power.

Funny how "erasing history" only applies to tearing down Confederate monuments, emphasizing the role of enslavement in the development of the U.S., & renaming military bases named after Confederates, but not to acknowledging historical Black, Brown, queer, and trans folks

We need much more of this. We must hold the line.

Visiting the Texas Legislature and grading papers, as I wait to give public testimony against SB 37. I consider the bill to be an example of authoritarianism in higher education.

White House Cancels $400 Million in Grants and Contracts to Columbia The Trump administration blamed the university’s failure to protect Jewish students from harassment during protests last year over the war in Gaza.

The AAUP wholly condemns this punitive weaponization of federal grant funding. This attempt to discipline & control a university campus is a transparent hallmark of authoritarian rule & harshly violates the central mission of education to serve the public good.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/n...