Indiana Professor Removed From Class Over White Supremacy Lesson

Black history is being erased, antisemitism is embedded in groyper movement, the fed’l govt is deploying armed agents in cities. Yet a US senator pressured a university to censor a professor who raised white supremacy? Campus academic freedom must be honored www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

Court Blocks Trump’s Attempt to Gain Leverage and Political Control Over University of California System - Democracy Forward

This order is a major win for students & academic freedom. The Trump–Vance admin tried to strong-arm the UC system and its faculty and staff into giving up their free speech rights — and they were stopped. Proud that AFT was part of the coalition that stood up
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Texas AAUP-AFT Calls on the Texas A&M University System Not to Muzzle Faculty, Students in the Classroom A Union of Professionals

Reminder that college students are *adults* who can handle complex information!
"The Texas A&M Board of Regents is caving to political pressure in this crucial moment and damning our future in the process." -Zeph Capo @texasaft.org
Read more: www.texasaft.org/membership/h...

Good morning NYC! Are you ready?

Philly! On Friday, Nov. 7th at 12pm
Noon, join higher ed workers and students at 20th and Market to protest Senator McCormick’s co-signing of billionaire attacks on Higher Education in Pennsylvania. Despite writing a book about leadership, is nothing but a fool follower of bad actors.

Higher Ed Feels “Cumulative Exhaustion” of Longest Shutdown Worries about access to health care, food, research funding and tuition assistance are mounting on college campuses as the record-breaking government shutdown persists.

Higher ed workers are struggling with rising prices & economic security. The shutdown's making it worse.

This is why we fight for good-paying jobs with real security of employment for all academic workers! #HigherEdBenefitsEveryone @afthighered.bsky.social @aaup.org

“If conservatives..wanted to fight (antisemitism)they would turn first to their own camp..Data shows the radical right committed the majority of extremist-related murders in the last decade,while”the epicenter of antisemitic attitudes is young adults on the far right” thehill.com/opinion/whit...

This game…

@nickfleisher.bsky.social

Dammit!

Tell me you’re watching the game without telling me you’re watching the game! 😉

Please give whatever you can to your local food bank right now.

I guarantee they need it. 🥪

When we fight we win! Way to go, MIT! @aft.org @afthighered.bsky.social @aaup.org

Save American Higher Education (video) A petition that you can sign, which I read aloud

Thank you @TimothySnyder.bsky.social for joining @AFT.org & @AAUP.org in calling on university leaders, faculty, staff and students to reject Trump's proposed compact and to defend the principle that no president has the right to buy obedience or sell off freedom. snyder.substack.com/p/save-ameri...

Higher Education Reporter, National New York City, United States

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We are hiring a reporter to cover higher education — the best beat there is. 🏫

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AAUP’s Wolfson and AFT’s Weingarten on Trump’s Loyalty Pledge for Colleges and Universities WASHINGTON—AAUP President Todd Wolfson and AFT President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement slamming the Trump administration’s ideological litmus test for higher education. The two affil...

Acquiescing to a Mailman compact would be a profound betrayal of your students, staff, faculty, the public, higher education, and our shared democracy www.aft.org/press-releas...

Read the full statement here: www.aft.org/press-releas...

I've been saying this for two weeks!

AOC: Trump is weaker than he looks. They double down in public to overcompensate for it. They rely on the 'perception' of strength. They rely on the 'perception' of inevitability.

They want you to give up!

We can't give up. We have to be their consequence."

Lawmakers must defend academic freedom, healthcare access, and research in CT Recent White House executive orders and federal legislation threaten academic freedom, higher education, healthcare, and Connecticut’s economy.

Important op-ed on how federal chaos has local impact. Connecticut will suffer from the attacks on science and free speech. Read it in full: ctmirror.org/2025/09/19/d...

ICYMI: Yesterday, @afthighered.bsky.social and @aaup.org launched our "Saving Lives, Building Futures, Powering the Economy" campaign to strengthen higher education in the US.

Learn more about the campaign here: aft.org/HigherEdBenefitsEveryone #HigherEdBenefitsEveryone

YouTube video by AFT Attacks on Higher Ed are Attacks on ALL of Us.

WATCH & SHARE: College & university faculty teach classes that transform students’ lives and run labs that result in lifesaving medical research. They create opportunity and strengthen communities. We must defend higher education, not defund it.

Learn more: aft.org/higeredbenefitseveryone

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We Out Here!

AAUP & @aft.org members from coast to coast are out in the streets this #LaborDay standing on business & raising the voices of higher ed workers as we continue to resist an unprecedented wave of attacks.
Join Us!
#DefendHigherEd
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So telling that Trump is willing to turn over big parts of Ukraine, but not even little bits of the Epstein files.

Huge win for our colleges & universities, our students, and our communities. Our diversity is what makes our system of higher ed—and this nation—great.