Great to have @rweingarten.bsky.social and @proftwolf.bsky.social in Austin for the launch of AAUP/AFT’s new platform! Pictured here with Texas AFT’s @zephcapo.bsky.social (left) and @drleonardbright.bsky.social of the @tamu-aaup.bsky.social
This was a fantastic launch for @aft.org @aaup.org and @afthighered.bsky.social in Austin with Texas AFT-AAUP! LFG. College4All
Today, the AAUP & @aft.org launched our national policy platform to win back an American higher education system that protects the freedom to teach & learn & strengthens our democracy.
Read it in full here:
www.aaup.org/blueprint-st...
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Thank you @rweingarten.bsky.social for joining us in Texas and supporting us in the fight to protect public education. Texas students deserve the #FreedomtoLearn! 👏👏
“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
When we fight together, we win! Congrats!
Big news out of Maryland!
Beginning July 1st, thousands of non-tenure-track faculty in Maryland will have collective bargaining rights.
www.aaup.org/news/collect...
Huge thanks to @aaup.org, @aft.org, & @aftmaryland.bsky.social for helping us pass this historic legislation!
WE DID IT!
Our illegal union @uam-umd.bsky.social is a lot less illegal today. 12,000 contingent faculty in MD just won the right to collectively bargain. Life-changing win for teachers and students. Only happened bc thousands of people worked together to beat our bosses in the statehouse.
❤️💯 this whole 🔥 thread!
P.S. Don’t forget to get your AAUP-AFT United Academics Local 6741 swag so everyone knows AAUP-AFT shows up when people are under attack in our local and global communities. Order here: shop.worxprinting.coop/collections/...
One great way to get started is to organize an event on your campus for Coalition for Action in Higher Education’s upcoming “Day of Action” on April 17th. Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Remember, the people united will never be defeated…¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido!
And be sure to tag us on BlueSky or Instagram with any pictures you take and post from the protests!
Then, after this weekend, take the next step and get involved in your union’s organizing efforts to make sure we have “No Kings! No Wars! No ICE!” in the U.S.
If you want to say “enough!”—“¡basta!”—to the dangerous directions Trump and his team are leading our country, come out this Saturday with your fellow AAUP-AFT United Academics Local 6741 colleagues from across the country to say:
No Kings! No Wars! No ICE!
Now, he has launched a disastrous illegal war in Iran while continuing to supply weapons to Israel for its ongoing attacks on Lebanon and Palestine. Free and fair elections seem to be his team’s next target.
....leading to the separation of families, pervasive fear, and numerous deaths—and used his cruel and ironically named “Big Beautiful Bill” to pay for huge tax breaks for the richest Americans and big corporations by slashing funding for healthcare, food assistance, and educational funding.
Since Trump took office, however, all of these trends have been hypercharged. He has weaponized the administrative state and federal funding to attack our universities and DEI programs. He has ordered ICE into our communities to arrest and terrorize our immigrant neighbors...
Even before Trump took office, higher education was under sharp attack, life in most cities was becoming unaffordable, ICE was harassing and deporting large numbers of our immigrant neighbors, and our government was engaged in and/or funding illegal wars throughout the world.
We are at one of those inflection points in our country’s history that future generations will look back on and ask “what did you do when…?”
We should not kid ourselves: many of the odious trends we are fighting back against now were not exclusively Trump’s creation.
On Saturday, come out with your fellow @aaup.org- @aft.org United Academics Local 6741 colleagues from across the country to say:
No Kings. No Wars. No ICE!
Find your local protest and a toolkit here: docs.google.com/document/u/0...
Why "No Kings! No Wars! No ICE!"? Read 🧵 👇
AAUP: Higher Ed Stands Together NO KINGS
freedom to learn, freedom to learn, all these broligarchs hate the freedom to learn
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
There is still time to add your signature to this petition 📝
Demand an end to Texas A&M’s Board of Regents’ policy of auditing syllabi & courses.
Support the fight to end censorship at Texas.
Today, we're calling on the Trump administration to implement a one-year pause on federal student loan debt payment and collection services for all federal student debtors after the Trump admin announced plans to shift the student loan portfolio from Education to Treasury.
Sign the petition to call on the Trump administration to put a 1-year pause on federal student loan debt repayment & collection services.
Servicing the loans of 45 million student debtors who are struggling to pay rent, afford groceries, and keep up with the rising cost of living is unjust.
Just joined the @debtcollective.bsky.social. Already a member of @aaup.org. Time to fight to save this thing we call education. And make it affordable and just.
This is why we organize. This is why we fight.
“You can’t build a world-class university on the backs of exploited faculty and graduate students.”
—Tim Gibson, Virginia AAUP President
@abigailspanberger.com,
Let’s put faculty back in the bill!
@aaupvirginia.bsky.social
If you are in Oklahoma, join us as we fight for the future of tenure in the state!!! @aaup.org
“We know that if you want to show solidarity, there is only one way to do it: you got to do it with your feet. You’ve got to walk on the picket line with your colleagues.”
—Zach Samalin, New York University AAUP
AAUP stands with Contract Faculty United - UAW on strike at NYU!
