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Letter to the Editor: Emory, protect our community from federal agencies University faculty voice concern about the potential for federal immigration operations on campus, and call for administration to take a stronger protective stance.

www.emorywheel.com/article/lett...

Emory AAUP members’ letter saying “Protect our community from ICE!” published in Emory Wheel student newspaper.

A group of faculty and students gathered behind a dark blue and white banner that says: “Emory AAUP Defending Academic Freedom.” Many students and faculty hold signs condemning ICE and Flock.

The @emoryaaup.bsky.social showed up at the DeFlock walkout on Friday at #Emory. They demand that #Flock cameras be removed from the campus. @aaup.org @decaturish.bsky.social #gapol @ajc.com

Reminder - Emory AAUP Chapter meeting Friday 3/27 1-2 PM - please check your email from last Friday for zoom link.

FUN STORY!

When I started @standupforscience.net Emory leadership instructed the Wheel not to cover me or the protests we led around the WORLD.

I asked for support & Emory sent General Council to meet with me and then refused to allow the NYT photographer onto campus...BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE...

Following outcry, BU president defends removing pride flags Gilliam’s remarks come days after several faculty members sent her a letter decrying the removal of pride flags from several windows, including one at the Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies departmen...

Boston University, where I teach, has been taking down Pride Flags from faculty and office windows because of a new “content neutral” ban on public-facing flags and banners.

This is a bad policy that infringes on free speech. Faculty are protesting. Today the President defended these actions. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Flyer with photo of protestors. "Flock Cameras Spy for ICE. Deflock Emory! Teach in: Wednesday March 25 5 PM, Math & Science Center 502. Emory has installed at least 7 Flock ALPR cameras around its campus and hospitals. These can cameras track vehicle and pedestrian movement. Flock data is recorded in a national database accessible by ICE and law enforcement. Fight Back. Sign the Petition (QR code)." Graphic of a bird with a camera head.

Teach-in Wednesday 3/25 about Flock cameras on Emory campus. 5 PM in Math/Sci 502.

Demand the BOR Revoke the Posting of Public Syllabi and Curriculum Vitae Policy Faculty, staff, students, alumni, and community members: The Georgia Board of Regents passed a policy in May 2025 requiring all institutions within the University System of Georgia (USG) to make avai...

Petition to the Georgia Board of Regents to demand a reversal of the requirement for system faculty to post syllabi publicly. Georgia folks please sign on defend academic freedom and oppose state surveillance of our teaching and scholarship.

actionnetwork.org/petitions/de...

ICE Off Campus: Alumni & Higher Education Organizing Call · Indivisible Since Trump’s return to office, higher education has been under attack – with schools facing pressure from the administration to curtail free speech and academic freedom, eliminate DEI policies as part of admissions, and limit the number of international students. And now colleges and universities are facing yet another pressing threat: ICE enforcement on campus. We’ve seen ICE terrorize our communities, use intimidation tactics on innocent bystanders, and deploy chemical weapons at schools - this dangerous agency has no place on our campuses. Join Indivisible, Stand For Campus Freedom, the Emergency Campaign to Support Higher Education, and other partners to learn what you can do to keep ICE off campuses. "Everyone has a role to play in ensuring colleges and their communities are safe from ICE. This call is specifically meant for folks who may not have a presence on campus — including alumni, concerned neighbors, and loved ones of someone on campus — but anyone is welcome to attend and take action.

TONIGHT: We’re hosting an organizing call about how to keep ICE off college campuses — and how you can help. Together, we can make sure students and campus communities stay safe.

This is Rice's international students' office's policy on student's rights on campus to be free from federal immigration enforcement. We are asking questions of our administration with the aim of getting these reassurances. Does your school have a policy?
oiss.rice.edu/immigration-...

Emory AAUP all-member meeting tomorrow (Fri 2/27) at 1 PM. Check your email for the video call link. See you there!

Professor removed from research team after revealing Lake Maurepas pollution awaits decision A Southeastern Louisiana University professor removed from a research project after revealing pollution in Lake Maurepas now awaits a decision on whether she can return to her role after a

“I came to the United States for freedom of speech and freedom of scientific inquiry,” she said. “To be repressed like this here too has shaken me to my core.”
www.nola.com/news/busines...

Reinstate the Fired Six at VSU On December 16, 2025, Dr. Harbans L. Bhardwaj, Dr. Adnan Beker Yousuf, Dr. Vitalis W. Temu, Dr. Maru K. Kering, Dr. Toktam Taghavi, and Dr. Molla Fentie Mengist were abruptly removed from Virginia Sta...

Reinstate the Fired Six at VSU!

Six tenured & tenure track faculty members were abruptly fired at Virginia State University without cause or any semblance of due process.

Sign this petition to demand their reinstatement & a public commitment from VSU to honor tenure & end arbitrary dismissals.

University of Arkansas students protest reversal of law school dean’s job offer | Arkansas Advocate The abrupt revocation of a job offer to the University of Arkansas’ incoming law school dean prompted a student-led protest on the Fayetteville campus Tuesday and calls for the school to adopt a…

The abrupt revocation of a job offer to the University of Arkansas’ incoming law school dean prompted a student-led protest on the Fayetteville campus Tuesday and calls for the school to adopt a policy to prevent undue influence on personnel decisions. #arpx #arleg

Trump administration drops appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlement The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked its $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. It will...

This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence.

The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:

What's the Matter with Florida? An Interview with Zachary Levenson A discussion about Florida's censorship of sociology and teaching under authoritarianism

“There's not a single existing textbook on the market that could be used that would qualify under state law?”

Mind blowing interview with FIU @grundrza.bsky.social about the insanity going on at Florida universities. 🤯

Hungary’s “revenge bill” against teachers, students and parents | Heinrich Böll Stiftung | Prague Office - Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary The Hungarian Interior Ministry (because there has been no Education Ministry in Hungary since 2010) is planning to apply stricter, more detailed disciplinary rules as a result of a new bill on teache...

cz.boell.org/en/2023/05/1... Where else were professors stripped of tenure? That would be in right-wing authoritarian Hungary. Make no mistake Gov. Stitt's removal of tenure at Oklahoma regional & community colleges & universities is an authoritarian attack on ideas presented in college classrooms.

Texas Tech struggles with new policy on gender, race The system’s chancellor meant to instill clarity and accountability, but three weeks into the spring semester, some instructors say the standards have led to “censorship.”

When Texas Tech faculty sought clarification on new restrictions limiting how race, gender and sexuality can be discussed in classrooms, administrators said they could offer little guidance, according to two internal emails reviewed by The Texas Tribune.

Fired after gender lesson, former professor sues Texas A&M Melissa McCoul, arguing she was fired to appease political critics, is seeking to get her job back and other restitution.

New: Former Texas A&M lecturer Melissa McCoul is suing the university months after Texas A&M fired her over a gender identity lesson.

McCoul alleges that administrators knowingly violated her free speech and due process rights to appease political critics.

Emory AAUP members, hope the semester is off to a good start! Please check your emails for info about goings-on and the upcoming meeting (Jan 30).

College approached and paid student to write op-ed in The Dartmouth The Dartmouth ran the article on Nov. 17 without knowledge that the College had been involved. 

The college at which I'm employed, which has signed a contract with the AI firm that stole books from 131 colleagues & me, paid a student to write an op-ed for the student paper promoting AI, guided the writing of it, and did not disclose this to the paper. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...

Excellent explanation of why you should care about the effort to undermine independent accreditation, from our colleagues at @higheredlabor.bsky.social
higheredlaborunited.org/2026/01/26/a...

Decided to go and drive direct from campus rather than finagle bike & MARTA - let me know (DM or email) anyone interested in carpooling. @emoryaaup.bsky.social

‘ICE isn’t welcome here’: SFS holds anti-ICE walkout, community members protest amid nationwide turmoil The Emory Wheel is the only independent, student-run newspaper of Emory University, since 1919.

AAUP Emory stood with students calling on university admin to take a stance against the rising presence of ICE and to support community members affected by raids.

“The Emory community, this campus, is our state, our pocket of democracy. ICE isn’t welcome here.”

@emoryaaup.bsky.social

Poster: One Year of Trump 2.0 -- Emory Walkout -- Stop ICE Terror -- Join the Nationwide Shutdown. January 20, 12 PM, Asbury Circle. Red background with images of ICE violence.

Emory Walkout Jan 20 12 PM Asbury Circle

Emory AAUP members, hope the semester is off to a good start! Please check your emails for info about goings-on and the upcoming meeting (Jan 30).

Clemson Settles With Professor Fired for Kirk Comments Clemson University has agreed to rescind the termination of Joshua Bregy, an assistant professor in the department of environmental engineering and earth sciences, nearly four months after dismissing…

Clemson Settles With Professor Fired for Kirk Comments www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

Despite Trump Cabinet member’s claim, taxpayer-funded science pays dividends Trump administration Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick claims taxpayers get no return from federal investment in university research. Here's why he's wrong.

Emory Professor’s opinion column in supporting funding of science published in AJC

www.ajc.com/opinion/2026...

Still a little time for last-minute syllabus tweaks!

More than just Plato is being censored.