We stand with our colleagues in Texas and applaud the courage of their convictions, laid out clearly in their letter to admin.

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GENERAL STRIKE U.S.

3.5%

NATIONAL SHUTDOWN

JAN 30, 2026

ABOLISH ICE

NO WORK. NO SCHOOL.
NO SPENDING.

General Strike U.S.
linktr.ee/generalstrikeus

These Utah businesses will close — or donate from their sales — Friday to protest Minnesota immigration crackdown One Salt Lake City bookstore will be closed Friday, but will reopen in the evening so people can gather to write letters or make safety kits. Another will stay open and donate a portion of its sales to a west-side school.

A nationwide strike is an attempt to show solidarity "however we can," one organizer said. If you know of a business that is participating today, tag them and let us know.

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It’s a beautiful day to show your solidarity!

Texas A&M University professors now need approval for some race and gender topics Texas A&M University System regents on Thursday adopted a new policy requiring professors to first get approval to discuss some race and gender topics.

A dangerous new policy requires a campus President's approval for profs to teach race & gender topics in Texas.

"It strikes at the heart of what education means...which is circulate the exchange of knowledge without fear of retaliation.”

— Rana Jaleel, AAUP Chair of Committee on Academic Freedom

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Tomorrow’s a Faculty Union Friday! Need to grab a sticker or pin? Give us a shout!

Join us tomorrow at 1 pm (mountain time) for a watch party: “Navigating Choppy Waters - Key Legal Issues Faculty Need to Know,” hosted by @rhetsoc.bsky.social! LNCO 2110.

Image of a crown crossed out in red. Logos for Texas Conference of the AAUP and Texas AFT. “No Crowns. No Thrones. No Compact.” Written in bold black text and highlighted in yellow.

Hey, Texas Higher Ed workers, meet us at Capitol today! We’ll be at the African American Memorial beginning at 1:45. “No Crowns. No Thrones. No Compact.” ✊

Here we have a giant frog man holding a sign reading AAUP. 🐸

Ladies and Gentlemen:

WE ARE OUT HERE!

Send us your pics & videos!

#NoKings
#NoKingsAAUP
#DefendHigherEd

We reject the compact.

Large crowd gathered in protest

Big crowd with signs reading “Don’t Fold” “Don’t Surrender”

BOOM!

After over a thousand students, faculty, & workers gathered on campus to demand a rejection of Trump’s bribe,

UVA SAYS NO LOYALTY OATH!

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M.I.T. ☑️
BROWN ☑️
PENN ☑️
USC☑️
UVA ☑️

This is People Power in Action.

#DefendHigherEd

Pink on yellow text over the University of Utah AAUP chapter logo: Faculty Union Fridays! Show your solidarity: Wear your AAUP pins, stickers, or shirts every Friday!

University of Utah faculty: Get ready for Faculty Union Fridays! Wear your AAUP stickers, shirts, or pins today and every Friday!

We’re tuned in!!

We hope @utah.edu’s leaders will have the insight and resoluteness necessary to reject this compact. In Utah, we do not trade away our independence and autonomy.

@sltrib.com @thechrony.bsky.social

A Compact for Control (opinion) No self-respecting institution of higher education should accept the Trump administration’s unconstitutional terms, Robert Post and Tom Ginsburg write.

Great piece @insidehighered.com by Robert Post and Tom Ginsburg about the considerable threats posed by Trump's (extortion) "compact" with 9 universities. @aaup.org

www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

Universities Must Reject Trump Admin "Loyalty Oath" Compacts The AAUP and AFT warn that the Trump administration’s offer to give preferential treatment to colleges and universities in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological agenda is entirely corrupt.

Check out AAUP’s statement denouncing the Trump admin’s compact and undemocratic loyalty oaths here👇

Say NO to Trump’s loyalty oaths and extortion of our universities!

We will NOT throw our students, faculty, and staff under the bus to comply with undemocratic and partisan ideological agendas.

In Landmark Ruling, Federal Court Says Trump Administration Violated First Amendment By Deporting Foreign Citizens for Pro-Palestinian Advocacy

⬇️ NEWS: “This is a historic ruling that should have immediate implications for the Trump administration’s policies. If the First Amendment means anything, it means the government can’t imprison people simply because it disagrees with their political views."
knightcolumbia.org/content/in-l...

Opinion | When Universities Become Informants A practice from the McCarthy era makes an ugly return.

Opinion | It is time to resist the injustice that now threatens to be normalized by those who capitulate, sometimes in advance, to powers that are clearly willing to destroy the basic principles that protect the university’s independence.

Artificial Intelligence Report and Discussion Join members of the AAUP’s ad hoc Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Academic Professions for a discussion of ed-tech, including artificial intelligence (AI), as it continues to become more…

AAUP members are invited to join the Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Academic Professions for a discussion of member-based research, recommendations & resources for building faculty power over ed-tech decisions at their institutions, including AI!

August 27, 4-5pm on Zoom

Register here👇

Faculty Support of George Mason’s President Draws Federal Investigation

Faculty who wrote to defend their president and object to a DOJ investigation of their university...are now being investigated by the DOJ.
The most banal defense of free speech and academic freedom will trigger the full wrath of the US government now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...

U of Utah Partners With Institution in Occupied West Bank Faculty have criticized the agreement with Ariel University, located in a settlement on Palestinian territory. An Israeli consul general called it “a new chapter in academic cooperation between Israel...

U of Utah Partnership With Institution in Occupied West Bank Draws Opposition

Local 6741 Visit the post for more.

Local 6741 is in the BlueSky house!

We are an @aaup.bsky.social & @aft.org local, composed of all non-collectively bargaining AAUP chapter & at-large members of AAUP.

Follow us for news on & organizing resources for faculty in pre-majority union contexts.

Check out our website too! local6741.org

Hey, the AHA, ACLS, and MLA are still suing the NEH and DOGE. Still the best way to support this is by joining as members or by donating. Links below! 🗃️

Scientists, tell your story in a LOCAL HOMETOWN PAPER op-ed, to publish on June 16! #McClintockLetters #saveNSF We have to reach folks who don't read NYT & WaPo.

Fight this attack by sharing how we serve the public with fed dollars, & insights into fed funded research. tinyurl.com/McClintockLetters

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We love to see it: faculty senates across institutions resolving to stand up for one another as members of one community, dedicated to higher education in service of the common good. 👏👏👏

Trump administration to restore foreign students' legal status, for now The Trump administration said on Friday that it is restoring the student visa registrations of potentially thousands of foreign students in the United States whose legal status had recently been abruptly terminated, according to a court filing.

Celebrate every win! www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...