The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, American Civil Liberties Union, and pro bono counsel Yetter Coleman LLP have filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Texas A&M University  Sys...

The decision comes after university officials consolidated seven ethnic studies departments into two earlier this year. Faculty within the College of Liberal Arts were told most majors could be consol...

Great colleges and universities prepare students for the future by teaching them how to think — not what to think. That’s why public institutions must firmly uphold academic freedom and First Amendmen...

Texas A&M University ranks 192 out of 261 schools in the 2027 College Free Speech Rankings with a score of 57 and an F speech climate grade, dropping 145 pla...

Tim Bakken brought the suit in 2025, claiming the academy's policy violated his constitutional rights.

Courses on women and gender, climate, and Black and Latino history were removed from the core, though many can still be taken as electives or major requirements.

Today I testified before the Texas A&M Board of Regents in opposition to Agenda Item 4.1, which seeks to remove courses addressing race, gender, multiculturalism, and contemporary social issues from t...

More than 200 courses, including those on LGBTQ literature, cultural studies and climate change, could no longer count toward core degree requirements at 11 Texas A&M universities.

Wednesday, September 2 through Friday, September 4, 2026  Executive Sessions – Board Meeting Room, Board of Regents Annex, 100 Gene Stallings Boulevard Other Meetings – Bethancourt Ballroom, Memorial ...

Know Your Rights University (KYR-U) is an animated series that teaches kids lessons about civics, constitutional rights, and free expression! KYR-U makes learning fun, and comes at a time when being a...

A federal judge reasserted his 2023 ruling that the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals sent back for reconsideration. The law went into effect in March as the case proceeded.

Faculty have been instructed to remove educational materials — like the film “Moonlight” and writings by Plato — from syllabi following policy banning race, gender, and sexual orientation related topi...

A group of Texas Tech students and faculty is circling a petition calling on the Board of Regents to remove Chancellor Brandon Creighton.

The denial of tenure to Dr. Chaar López has become a national concern because it raises questions that extend far beyond one faculty member or one institution. Scholars across disciplines depend upon ...

The opposition to a potential deal with the government reveals a strategy that Yale groups have spent a year honing.

The institution joins other universities that have worked to limit conference funds for professors due to anti-DEI pressures.

The AAUP and Texas AAUP-AFT sued Texas Tech University System Chancellor Brandon Creighton and members of the board of regents over two system memoranda that stifled debate, undermined students’ educa...

The “Stop W.O.K.E.” Act was signed into law in 2022 and prohibited teachers and professors from discussing topics related to race and gender in the...

One at-large member and five regional members were elected to the AAUP's governing Council at the 2026 AAUP Biennial Association Meeting.

At the first biennial since President Donald Trump retook office, faculty members strategized about how to resist increasing political interference in their work and on their campuses.

An organization of college professors held a virtual press conference on Tuesday to announce it would make a “committee of inquiry” to examine attacks on academic freedom at Texas&#8217…

An American Association of University Professors committee is investigating academic freedom and shared governance violations across Texas, where public university leaders have restricted what faculty...