@proftwolf.bsky.social and I hosted a webinar for Virginia members this afternoon to discuss our new higher ed framework, share the latest on our advocacy for expanded collective bargaining rights, and urge people to get out and vote for the redistricting ballot measure.

On MayDay higher ed workers and students are marching under one banner. We are fast becoming one of the most organized blocs in US society. JOIN US!
@aaup.org @aft.org @seiu.org @uaw.org @higheredlabor.bsky.social @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social @cwaunion.bsky.social @neatoday.bsky.social

On May Day 2026 higher ed workers and students will come together across the country to march under one banner! "Fund Education Not War and Deportation"
JOIN US

Philadelphia school district launches early hiring push to recruit and retain teachers The School District of Philadelphia is launching a campaign aimed at recruiting new teachers and retaining current ones.

The District's efforts to improve recruitment & retention are appreciated, but as I told @6abcactionnews.bsky.social, the chaotic & confusing plan to close/move/merge schools threatens to drive current educators away. SDP must pause the facilities master plan.
6abc.com/post/philade... #PhlEd

This is very exciting! @aaup.org @afthighered.bsky.social

SIXERS 🏀🔥

Restructuring of university curriculum could result in professors leaving Texas A national association of university professors expects the brain drain of college faculty from public universities to have multiple consequences for Texas.

@proftwolf.bsky.social is right. Texas has some of the strongest public universities in the world. Texas A&M's changes to curriculum and loss of faculty & staff will mean fewer opportunities for students and fewer pathways to a better life for Texans. spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-tex...

“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

This was a fantastic launch for @aft.org @aaup.org and @afthighered.bsky.social in Austin with Texas AFT-AAUP! LFG. College4All

Earthquake in Hungary: Orbán defeated after 16 years in power It's a stunning rebuke to one of the Western world's most entrenched populist leaders.

See ya later, fascist!

www.axios.com/2026/04/12/h...

AFT’s Weingarten and AAUP’s Wolfson on The University of Illinois Springfield Faculty Strike SPRINGFIELD, Ill.—AFT President Randi Weingarten and American Association of University Professors President Todd Wolfson issued the following statement:“Faculty at the University of Illinois Springfield are on strike because their administration is failing to invest in the core mission of higher education: teaching, learning and student success.

@rweingarten.bsky.social and @aaup.org @proftwolf.bsky.social issued a statement on the faculty strike at UIS:

“Stop hiding from… faculty and students and come to the table with a fair contract that reflects the value of their work and the needs of the campus community.”
www.aft.org/press-releas...

Whether or not Trump’s threat against Iran that "a whole civilization will die tonight” proves to be one more empty bluff, the very fact that a President of the United States could speak such words is sickening.

We stand with @psuaaup.bsky.social and the students, faculty and staff at Portland State. @aaup.org @aft.org @rweingarten.bsky.social

❤️❤️🔥🔥 CFUUAW

Statement from AAUP President Todd Wolfson and AFT President Randi Weingarten Kentucky House Bill 490 poses a direct threat to students, faculty, high quality college education, and the prosperity of the people of Kentucky. The bill would allow political appointees on universit...

Kentucky HB 490 poses a direct threat to students, faculty, high quality college education, & more. If passed, it would replace academic stability with political volatility. The @aft.org & @aaup.org urge KY lawmakers to reject it. My statement with @proftwolf.bsky.social: www.aft.org/press-releas...

Statement from AAUP President Todd Wolfson and AFT President Randi Weingarten Kentucky House Bill 490 poses a direct threat to students, faculty, high quality college education, and the prosperity of the people of Kentucky. The bill would allow political appointees on universit...

"Removing faculty from the decisions about the curriculum will not strengthen public higher education in Kentucky. Instead, it will diminish educational attainment for students and development for all of Kentucky."

Read @rweingarten.bsky.social & @proftwolf.bsky.social's statement on KY HB 490 ⬇️

“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!

If you are in Oklahoma, join us as we fight for the future of tenure in the state!!! @aaup.org

CFU IS ON STRIKE!

The AAUP is standing with Contract Faculty United - UAW 7902 on the picket line today.

CFU is on strike to fight for a fair contract.

Faculty at NYU deserve fair wages and dignity.

New York is a union town!

‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large

I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.

Arrest the goddamn president

I should have noted that I appreciate the Coaches for Campus Freedom campaign and the leadership of @democracyhouse.bsky.social

Check out Steve Kerr demanding academic freedom and an end to Trump's attempts to ideologically control our campuses! ❤️

Virginia State University ignored tenure & procedural protections when they abruptly fired 6 faculty from the university's Agricultural Research Station.

In this episode of AAUP TV, @chenjerai.bsky.social and @proftwolf.bsky.social speak with two of VSU's Fired Six about this egregious decision.

VA Dems ran on a pro-worker agenda, yet are leaving workers behind @aaup.org @aaupmason.bsky.social @aft.org

Don’t cut higher ed workers out of collective bargaining!
@abigailspanberger.com @donscott757.bsky.social @senlouiselucas.bluesky.bot @ssurovell.bsky.social

"Let me be clear: we will not tolerate these attacks on our communities and the weaponization of the Constitution against us." - @evelyndejesus.bsky.social at the #March4Communities event in Houston, TX. @texasaft.org @texasaflcio.org

The @aaup.org & @aft.org stand with @nihfellowsunited.bsky.social. We will join them to make sure the research scientists at the NIH do not lose their collective bargaining rights! The Trump administration hates workers, hates research, hates higher education and hates UNIONS.

Trump Administration Live Updates: President Ousts Noem as Homeland Security Secretary

Noem was awful. Americans have been less secure due to her cruelty, corruption & incompetence —glad even the president now sees she must go. Let’s hope things truly improve. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

Keep March Madness Free From Deportation Flights When universities transport our student athletes with the same charter companies that send our families and neighbors into detention or deportation, that university is complicit in a system that tears...

At @aaup.org & @aft.org we are partnering with @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social, @higheredlabor.bsky.social & others to demand that our universities don't do business with companies supporting ICE! @seiu.org launched a campaign to keep March Madness free of Deportation flights. act.seiu.org/a/de-ice-the...

Stand with the VSU Fired Six!!!