AAUP at Old Dominion University

ICYMI – ODU AAUP in the News (again)

On February 4th, WAVY 10 ran a follow-up news story on faculty and AAUP pushback against FFDTI. A summary of the story: Old Dominion University's "Forward Focused Digital Transformation Initiative," which involves AI integration and compressing 16-week online…

"Renee Good, who was known as Renee Macklin while attending ODU, graduated with an English degree in 2020. The creative writing student and U.S. citizen won a poetry award from the university the same year."

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Tracking AI -replaced jobs in Virginia: How will AI affect ODU’s workforce? Guest Post, ODU-AAUP ally How will AI affect academic labor, especially given its rapid integration into areas of research, teaching, and learning here at ODU? Michael Feggans97th DistrictD - City of Virginia Beach Virginia Beach Delegate Michael Feggins has proposed a bill requiring state agencies, starting in 2028, to report how many jobs “are eliminated, left vacant, altered or newly created each year because of AI.” …

Tracking AI -replaced jobs in Virginia: How will AI affect ODU’s workforce?

Guest Post, ODU-AAUP ally How will AI affect academic labor, especially given its rapid integration into areas of research, teaching, and learning here at ODU? Michael Feggans97th DistrictD - City of Virginia Beach…

Can’t make sense of the “Accelerated Course Conversions Roadmap”? ODU-AAUP “partners” with Chat-GPT to offer translation services.

Dear ODU-AAUP Colleagues: I thought you might be interested to see one of the documents recently shared by DTT about the FFDTI (Accelerated Course Conversions…

Questions continue to be asked about FFDTI: This time by the Chroncile

This morning (February 2, 2026), The Chronicle of Higher Education published a story on the rapid changes unfolding at our university, titled “Can a University Transform Itself This Fast?” This is essential reading for anyone…

Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJanuary 21, 2026 ODU Faculty Senate Executive Committee responds to WAVY 10 report on Forward Focused Digital Transformation Initiative NORFOLK, VA — The Old Dominion University (ODU) Faculty Senate Executive Committee is issuing this response following the…

ODU-AAUP on the move after a big media win!

From WAVY 10 – ‘ODU professors raise concerns about AI initiative’

With a recent news story from Hampton Road's #1 TV website WAVY-10, concerned faculty at Old Dominion University have brought some media attention to their struggle. The story reports significant faculty alarm over the…

What your colleagues think of FFDTI

Dear AAUPers and allies: Our Faculty Senate survey gathered 558 responses, a response rate of roughly 43%. For those familiar with survey research, this is exceptionally high—far above typical rates for faculty surveys. This point matters. Senior administrators…

AAUP National Responds to ODU President

"The particular authority and primary responsibility of the faculty in the decision-making processes of the academic institution in these areas derive from its special competence in the educational sphere. It follows from this proposition that the faculty…

An Open Letter from Former Civil Rights Division Employees On the 68th anniversary of the Civil Rights Division, former employees share an open letter decrying the near-destruction of the division’s mission and expressing the hope to one day rebuild it.

Today is the 68th anniversary of the creation of the DOJ Civil Rights Division, and over 200 recent employees have shared an open letter decrying the near-destruction of the division’s mission and expressing the hope to one day rebuild it.

The New School faces identity crisis amid planned layoffs, reorganization The storied leftist university faces a $48 million deficit.

New School AAUP president Jeremy Varon called the cuts “an ideological attempt to decimate historic spaces of critical inquiry & social justice.” He said the humanities & social sciences would be “purged” under the plan.

Great piece out today on the crisis at The New School in the @gothamist.com:

The Conservative Overhaul of the University of Texas Is Underway

The claim that UT Austin is depoliticizing education is absurd. Telling faculty what they can & cannot teach, disempowering a world-class faculty, attacking the humanities & skewing the core curriculum towards Western Civ: all forms of politicization. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...

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