Brown's AAUP chapter, along with Brown Rise Up and Brown Stand Strong, calls on the Brown University administration to protect campus trust, safety, and academic freedom. www.brownchapteraaup.org/statements
Register here for a webinar hosted by Stand Strong Brown on organizing rapid-response networks, defending immigrant workers, supporting legal challenges, and building the community infrastructure needed to protect vulnerable people. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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AAUP President Todd Wolfson issued the following statement in response to Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt's Executive Order issued today immediately eliminating academic tenure at the state’s public regional universities and community colleges.
Tom Alter was a tenured professor at Texas State University until September 2025 when he was fired after a pressure campaign led by a right-wing agitator who had secretly recorded and edited comments he made at an online socialist conference.
Listen to his story.
Come one, come all.
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Leonard Bright, president of the Texas A&M Chapter of the AAUP said faculty were not consulted on the proposed changes, which he called “a direct violation” of their expertise + freedom to teach. “If that’s the case, there’s just going to be a further black eye on higher education here in Texas.”
Teach-in November 7th at Noon Come One, Come All!
Brown folks:
Friday 10/16
Rally at noon
Teach-in at 1:00
Hoping President Paxson at Brown University takes a page from Sally Kornbluth.
Brown Chapter of the AAUP's Statement Urging the University to Reject the Federal Government's “Compact”
www.brownchapteraaup.org/statements
"Our very mode of conduct as academics is counter-authoritarian. Authoritarians want fixity, and they project it onto their opponents, but we remain open to change, self-critique, and revision. This is why we are seen as a problem."
-- Amanda Anderson
A petition from StandStrongBrown. If you're a member of teh Brown University community, please consider signing.
standstrongbrown.org/reject-trump...
UPenn professors have responded forcefully to the Trump administration's that colleges sign a "compact" in order to secure funding:
"When an invitation is accompanied by consequences for not accepting it, it is in fact a threat, not an invitation." aaup-penn.org/statement-by...
"Signatories commit ... to revising governance structures as necessary to create such an environment, including but not limited to transforming or abolishing units that purposefully
punish, belittle, and even spark violence against conservative ideas." acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...
Academic freedom will not survive by encouraging professors to censor themselves more.
“Too much of the response to the Trump admin’s repression has been driven by fear & cowardice. We need to fiercely support #academicfreedom as a fundamental right for all.”
— @johnkwilson.bsky.social
"Declining international student enrollment is a piece of the larger puzzle undermining the financial health of higher ed. [We see] programs shut down, campuses shut down, smaller public or private institutions closing & a curtailment of opportunities for students."
— Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
