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AAUP @aaup.org · 02/10/2026
Let's get this party started. #DefendHigherEd Starter Pack:
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AAUP @aaup.org · 16/09/2026
TODAY: 6:30PM ET! Join NEA Higher Ed for an extended preview of 'First They Came for My College,' a documentary about the fight for academic freedom at the New College of Florida. Register Here! 👇👇👇 www.nea.org/professional... @neatoday.bsky.social
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AAUP @aaup.org · 14/09/2026
The Trump admin is afraid of educated critical thinkers which is why they are doing everything they can to bend higher education to their will. We can’t let them. The AAUP & AFT have responded to McMahon’s ‘Compact 2.0’ letter w/ our own “National Call to Action to the Secretary of Education.” 1
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AAUP and AFT Respond to Trump's "Compact 2.0"
AAUP President Todd Wolfson and AFT President Randi Weingarten demand that the Trump administration immediately cease weaponizing taxpayer funds and civil rights enforcement to politically coerce coll...
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AAUP @aaup.org · 09/09/2026
How are we going to fight back against Trump’s Compact 2.0? Join the AAUP & AFT for a webinar tomorrow: Thursday, September 10, at 7PM ET, to learn how you can help to block the Trump admin’s efforts to assert political control over higher education. Register here: aft.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
STOP TRUMP'S
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ACADEMIC FREEDOM IS NOT
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RSVP NOW
September 10, 7 p.m. ET
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AAUP @aaup.org · 08/09/2026
“VSU used this false reorganization as a pretext to terminate respected members of the VSU academic community, marching them out without time to pack up their offices, say farewell to their colleagues, or transition their research.“ Reinstate the Fired Six Now!
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Fired Virginia State University professors file civil rights complaint with AG’s office • Virginia Mercury
Ahead of a Friday board meeting, six former instructors allege discrimination by school, after faculty leaders call for their reinstatement
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AAUP @aaup.org · 05/09/2026
"The AAUP is not going to stand by & watch President Trump once again attempt to destroy the greatest system of higher education in the world that gives opportunity to a diverse set of students for a diverse country. Yes, emphatically, yes. We are going to fight this." – Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
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IRS targets private schools that help racial minority students
The Trump administration has said it will end the tax-exempt status for universities with programs that help racial minority students.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 02/09/2026
“You can’t be lecturing us about democracy and refuse to even take meetings with faculty." – Yale AAUP President Daniel HoSang @aaupyale.org www.courant.com/2026/09/02/w...
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Why some Yale students, faculty and alumni are condemning its Board of Trustees, others
A large crowd of blue-shirted students, faculty and alumni gathered at Yale University’s Cross Campus to protest.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 31/08/2026
In an era of relentless authoritarian attacks on higher education and our democracy, neutrality is not an option. The AAUP is fighting back. Join us.
chronicle.com
Is Todd Wolfson Destroying the AAUP — or Saving it?
His partisan, combative style has remade the century-old organization. Not everyone is pleased.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 28/08/2026
“We need to address the problem at its root. Reinvest massively in higher education and build a free public higher-education system that gives every student access to a full, high-quality college education without taking on crushing debt.” – Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
washingtonpost.com
More states pilot 3-year college degrees, seeking to address rising tuition
Texas joins national push for accelerated programs, even as some critics warn the trend could devalue diplomas.
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Sean Johnson Andrews @skjandrews.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Thanks again to @proftwolf.bsky.social for taking the time to talk about all the important work @aaup.org and @aft.org are doing in their fight for academic freedom in Texas and elsewhere and to strengthen and transform U.S. higher education as a whole. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrO3...
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Breaking Culture Live - Higher Ed update with Todd Wolfson, AAUP president and AFT Vice president
YouTube video by Breaking Culture Live
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United Academics @local6741.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Amen! J.O.I.N (or start!) Y.O.U.R U.N.I.O.N! Are you a campus worker? Join @aaup.org today: www.aaup.org/join And get organizing with us.
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Joining the AAUP says that you’re concerned about academic freedom, and about the way that basic freedom protects your teaching and research. Join today.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 26/08/2026
The AAUP & AFT condemn the recent directive from the War Dept that publicly places 30 universities under suspicion & gives them 2 weeks to investigate years of academic activity. The directive represents another threat of funding-based coercion that undermines scientific research & innovation.
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Department of War Directive Undermines Scientific Innovation. It Should Be Rescinded.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 21/08/2026
“The ever-increasing reliance on faculty members holding contingent appointments & grad student employees — all of whom have less job security, remuneration, & institutional support — weakens academic freedom, faculty governance, & the integrity of faculty work.” —Glenn Colby, AAUP Senior Researcher
highereddive.com
Colleges made deep staff cuts while adding tenure-track faculty last year
The latest survey of higher education employees from CUPA-HR found the biggest spike in tenure-track professors since at least 2016.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 21/08/2026
“I would be surprised if this agreement is enforceable, given the way that we now know it was arranged on the side of the federal government. This is essentially a blackmail operation.” – Rob Newton, Columbia AAUP #academicsky
insidehighered.com
Whistleblower Allegations Might Not Affect College Settlements
Former Justice Department lawyers say investigations into Brown and Columbia over alleged antisemitism were politically motivated. But it’s unclear whether federal officials will investigate the whist...
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SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Thank you, @proftwolf.bsky.social ! This is a great case for speaking and acting on our principles, values, missions, and analyses. Now is the time to build coalitions to fund, price, staff, and govern higher education as an indispensable public good. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
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Who Really Politicized Higher Education? (opinion)
It wasn’t the AAUP.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 20/08/2026
“Academic workers did not create this crisis. But we intend to fix it by building a system of higher education worthy of this country—affordable & accessible to every qualified student, governed once again by those who teach & learn within it.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP president #academicsky
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Who Really Politicized Higher Education? (opinion)
It wasn’t the AAUP.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 18/08/2026
No faculty input. No mechanism for feedback of any kind. “The new Western civilization requirement is a direct response to what right-wing think tanks like the Heritage Foundation & the Manhattan Institute have been calling for in terms of transformation of higher education." #academicsky
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AAUP @aaup.org · 18/08/2026
"Professors didn’t choose the battlefield, but we’re no longer willing to pretend we aren’t standing on one." — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
washingtonpost.com
Opinion | What professors gained by winning with El-Sayed
The American Association of University Professors' endorsement, back to school advice and more.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 08/08/2026
Trump’s Compact 2.0 announced by Linda McMahon this week should be placed in the context of their failed 2025 “loyalty oath” compact that was defeated by students & faculty at every institution they offered it to. Organizing & collective pressure works. 1 🧵 www.aaup.org/issue/winter...
Trump's Compact 2.0
Universities should not be made answerable to the political program of a particular administration.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 07/08/2026
“A lot of things in the new compact are red herrings for conservative priorities. Reform needs to happen through the channels of faculty governance...We’re disappointed in the lack of transparency in President Daniels involvement." – Ahmed Ragab, Hopkins AAUP chapter vice-president
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Johns Hopkins president helped craft Trump’s new higher education framework
Ron Daniels, the longtime leader of Johns Hopkins University, helped the Trump administration craft its new higher education call to action
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AAUP @aaup.org · 04/08/2026
“If faculty are constantly looking for the exit door, that’s going to have devastating effects on the quality of teaching and research that takes place at that institution.” — Isaac Kamola, director of the AAUPs’ Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom.
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Professors Notch Court Wins Over States Banning ‘Woke’ Teaching
Courtroom victories for public university professors over state teaching restrictions on race, gender, and unconscious bias are beginning to define the bounds of unlawful political oversight of higher...
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AAUP @aaup.org · 29/07/2026
“Genuine intellectual diversity requires time for reflection, institutional independence, historical depth, ethical questioning, & the freedom to pursue research unconstrained by immediate market demands. These conditions cannot flourish where knowledge itself has become increasingly commodified.”
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Higher Ed Can’t Be Neutral in an Age of Brutality. It Must Choose Democracy.
Contemporary proponents of “institutional neutrality” fail to grasp that universities have never been outside politics.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 22/07/2026
OUT TODAY, the AAUP just released the first comprehensive account of how the Trump administration has taken the same playbook it's used on law firms & foreign governments & turned it on American universities. US higher ed has, in effect, become a target of a massive extortion racket. 🧵
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New Report on Extorted Compliance Charges “Massive Extortion Racket” Against Higher Ed
A new AAUP report, "Extorted Compliance: A Threat to Institutional Autonomy, Academic Freedom, and Shared Governance," exposes how the Trump administration has extended its pay-to-play approach to gov...
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AAUP @aaup.org · 20/07/2026
“A settlement with this administration does not get them off your back." “It’s strange to students, faculty, and alums: Why are you so eager to settle?” 🤔 @yaleaaup.bsky.social
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Yale caught between Trump administration pressure and a campus that wants to fight
Leaders are weighing a settlement over reverse discrimination claims amid criticism from students, faculty and alumni.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 17/07/2026
“The odious whiff of Jim Crow.” — Dr. Daniel HoSang, president of Yale AAUP on the Trump administration’s bogus investigation into Yale admissions. #defendhighered @yaleaaup.bsky.social
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AAUP @aaup.org · 09/07/2026
Ohio’s #SB461 forces state universities to fund partisan "civic centers" at record levels—even if students aren't taking the classes. Instead of fixing soaring tuition, lawmakers are wasting tax dollars to force an agenda. Ohio families deserve affordable education, not mandated indoctrination. 🎓❌
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AAUP @aaup.org · 09/07/2026
Today, the AAUP & Texas AAUP sued Texas Tech Chancellor Brandon Creighton over directives he gave that mandated the censorship & thought policing of thousands of faculty & students leading to the suppression of academic freedom & the pursuit of knowledge. More Here: www.aaup.org/news/aaup-te... 🧵
Lawsuit cover page:

TEXAS AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS-AMERICAN
FEDERATION OF TEACHERS and the
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS,
Plaintiffs,
V.
BRANDON CREIGHTON in his official capacity as Chancellor of the Texas Tech University System, and ARCILIA ACOSTA, CODY CAMPBELL, CLAY CASH, TIM CULP, SHELLEY SWEATT, DOUG MCREAKEN, DON SINCLAIR, DUSTIN WOMBLE, and RACHEL MCLELLAND, in their official capacities as members of the Texas Tech University System Board of Regents,
Defendants.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 09/07/2026
If the proposed OMB rules pass, the Trump admin could strip funding for scientific researchers at any time if they decide a project no longer fits the "national interest.” Have you filed a comment yet? The deadline is Monday, July 13. #AcademicSky
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Stand up for Science
Stand up for Science
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AAUP @aaup.org · 29/06/2026
Todd Wolfson & Randi Weingarten on 3-year degrees: "A bachelor's degree should both prepare students for the workforce & provide deep learning, broad intellectual development, & sustained engagement with faculty & peers—not simply the fastest possible route to the labor market." Full Statement:
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Three-year Bachelor’s Degrees Devalue Student Education, Do Nothing to Address Root Cause of Affordability Crisis
The approval of accelerated three-year bachelor’s degrees at Suffolk and Merrimack Universities in Massachusetts threatens academic integrity.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 25/06/2026
Are the many “Intellectual Freedom Centers” being placed on college campuses nationwide really just mandatory ideological indoctrination centers? 🤔 #AcademicSky
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AAUP @aaup.org · 18/06/2026
AAUP members came together @ the Higher Ed Summit & Biennial to approve a package of critical proposals that will serve as a sweeping strategic blueprint for our Union to build structural power & go on the offensive against the political & economic threats to higher ed in this moment. 🧵
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AAUP @aaup.org · 16/06/2026
ICYMI: the AAUP’s Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession is out! It’s a doozy. Key points in the 🧵below:
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Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession Now Available
This year's Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession finds that faculty salaries are still losing ground to inflation and expands data collection on part-time faculty pay.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 15/06/2026
“I want faculty to leave here recognizing that for us to transform our situation—whether it’s in our classrooms, in our departments, on our campuses, in our states or nationally—we have everything we need to do it. We can play a role in transforming our democracy.” — AAUP President Todd Wolfson
insidehighered.com
AAUP Readies for Bigger Political Fight
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.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 11/06/2026
Powerful plenary to start day 2 of the #AAUP2026 Higher Ed Summit on who controls the future: democratic institutions & workers or authoritarians & corporate power? 💥💥💥 w/ @democracynow.org’s Juan Gonzalez, Mohsen Mahdawi, @hellobrittparis.bsky.social, & @ncaaup.bsky.social’s @belleboggs.bsky.social
Britt Paris, AAUP Committee on AI Juan Gonzalez of Democracy Now!Mohsen Mahdawi, Columbia student activistBelle Boggs of North Carolina AAUP
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AAUP @aaup.org · 08/06/2026
The report finds that factors including declines in public funding, drops in enrollment, and the growth in noninstructional costs have contributed to stagnating wages for full- and part-time faculty members, even as compensation for administrators climbs... 4/
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Faculty Wages Are Stagnating. Administrator Pay Is Growing.
A new report captures an accelerating financial divide.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 08/06/2026
Today, the AAUP released the Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, 2025–26. It is sobering. Full-time faculty salaries are down about 0.4% in real, inflation-adjusted terms. Average full-time faculty salaries remain 9.5% below fall 2019 & about 5.8% below fall 2008. 1/
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Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession Now Available
This year's Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession finds that faculty salaries are still losing ground to inflation and expands data collection on part-time faculty pay.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 04/06/2026
The AAUP is battling Trump’s attacks on higher education on multiple fronts: on campus, in the courts, and in the streets. “We’re only getting stronger. I can promise you that we will fight them tooth and nail.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President Join us.
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Trump officials went after dozens of colleges. Now they're rewriting the rules for all of academia
President Donald Trump's administration put dozens of college campuses under investigation last year and cut federal funding unless they came in line with his Republican agenda.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 26/05/2026
"Higher education has been one of the most powerful engines of opportunity, innovation & democracy in our nation’s history. It can be again. The task now is not simply to defend it. It is to rebuild it so it truly serves the public." —Todd Wolfson & Randi Weingarten
highereddive.com
Higher education must be rebuilt to restore public trust. Here’s how.
The heads of the American Association of University Professors and the American Federation of Teachers lay out their vision for overhauling the sector.
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Yale AAUP @aaupyale.org · 26/05/2026
Today, the AAUP Yale Chapter releases our report on The State of Academic Freedom at Yale. Uncertain that university leaders will protect academic freedom when tested, Yale faculty are managing risk alone and making changes that narrow what Yale teaches, researches, and communicates to the world.
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The State of Academic Freedom at Yale
A Report from the Yale Chapter of the AAUP — SPRING 2026 This report presents findings from a survey of the Yale faculty on the state of academic freedom at the University. The survey was conducted…
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AAUP @aaup.org · 21/05/2026
The US Department of Education is currently overhauling federal accreditation rules for colleges & universities. The April 6, 2026, Proposed Changes to Initial Draft Regulations unacceptably seek to narrow & control what can be taught, learned, & researched on college & university campuses. 🧵 1
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AIM Committee Negotiated Rulemaking Statement
If the regulations developed by the ED’s Accreditation, Innovation, and Modernization (AIM) negotiated rulemaking committee include a definition of academic freedom, it must be the foundational nation...
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AAUP @aaup.org · 15/05/2026
The AAUP is proud to support the Sanders/AOC AI Data Center Moratorium Act because the future of technology must be governed democratically, sustainably, & in service of working people—not corporate profit. ➡️https://www.aaup.org/news/aaup-backs-data-center-moratorium
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AAUP @aaup.org · 12/05/2026
RIGHT NOW! As the SJU Board of Trustees meets, SJU-AAUP is rallying to make clear to Father Shanley, the SJU admin, & the entire Board of Trustees that unlawful attacks on faculty will not be tolerated & faculty are united in their fight. UNION BUSTING IS UNHOLY!
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AAUP @aaup.org · 01/05/2026
“Red states are trying to outdo one another on who can create the most undemocratic, antifaculty legislation.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
insidehighered.com
New State Laws Land Blows Against Shared Governance, Tenure
Many legislatures have wrapped up their regular sessions. Inside Higher Ed provides a rundown of major legislation that passed in nine of these states.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 01/05/2026
HAPPY MAY DAY! Today, from coast to coast, higher ed workers are rising up to demand a system that serves the public good: one that is affordable, protects scientific research, free speech, & academic freedom, & strengthens our democracy. JOIN US! Find an action near you:
labor4highered.org
Labor for Higher Education
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AAUP @aaup.org · 24/04/2026
NEW today in the New York Times: In the face of unprecedented authoritarian attacks, the AAUP is building a powerful and militant resistance movement in defense of American higher education, the freedom to learn, and our democracy. Join Us!
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A Professor Union Grows Fast as It Ramps Up Its Fight Against Trump
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AAUP @aaup.org · 22/04/2026
Two headlines from last week tell an interesting story if you’re paying attention. 👀
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Amy Laura Hall @profligategrace.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
“liberal arts engineering” 👀 www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...
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Faculty Council passes resolutions urging release of SCiLL report and increase in shared governance
The second of two resolutions passed calls for the University to release a redacted version of the recent investigation into the School of Civic Life and Leadership, which was initiated after reports ...
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AAUP @aaup.org · 21/04/2026
We filed suit against the Trump administration (again) today to block the implementation of an unlawful executive order that seeks to undermine inclusion & equal opportunity, threatens government contractors w/ criminal prosecution, & chills protected speech. These are not normal times.
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AAUP Joins Coalition Fighting Latest Trump Anti-DEI Order
The AAUP has joined a coalition challenging a new Trump executive order that seeks to undermine efforts designed to promote inclusion and help ensure equal opportunity.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 14/04/2026
“They tried to weaken higher education, but instead they built a movement to fight for the future... They can attack our institutions, but they cannot stop our movement….We will not stop until we have the higher education system and the democracy we all deserve.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
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