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USC-AAUP supports our non-tenure-track faculty colleagues' right to unionize! (Statement here if you scroll down past the top)

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#aaup taking the lead in resistance to the authoritarian attempts to destroy US education.

STAND UP FOR SCIENCE Science activists and allies mobilizing to save science, health and democracy itself from the Trump administration's dismantlement and privatization.

The game is to destroy academia and take control of universities. Throttling science funding is just one more move in the broader assault against #highered.

Fight back. Don't give in. Don't give up. #AAUP #Standupforscience

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Tell Chancellor Gooch to Bargain a Fair Contract with UIS Staff and Faculty! For 10 months, UIS staff and faculty chapters of UPI Local #4100 have been in negotiations for new labor contracts with the university administration. Due to administrative foot-dragging, there has be...

I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Tell Chancellor Gooch to Bargain a Fair Contract with UIS Staff and Faculty!

#UPI #AAUP

Peoples250: Greg Afinogenev, president of the Georgetown chapter of the AAUP, talks about the importance of union organizing in higher education.
#Peoples250 #america250 #americanhistory #highereducation #aaup

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#AcademicFreedom

#AAUP is standing up for academic freedom and more. If you're a college or university professor now is the time to join while we still have free speech!

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"The response has to come from labor." 🎙️
Todd Wolfson, President of AAUP, breaking down how decades of divestment pushed higher ed into a corporate model — and what it's going to take to fight back. Secure, dignified, long-term work for faculty isn't a wish. It's a demand.
#AAUP #ContingentFaculty

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Richard L. Hester: Lessons from the Faculty of a Small Denominational Seminary on Defending Academic Freedom. How one #AAUP chapter organized resistance to a fundamentalist takeover.

#history #Baptist #NorthCarolina #Protestant #academia #resistance […]

UNC-CH scraps 'surreptitious' recording policy; some faculty still have concerns • NC Newsline University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chancellor Lee Roberts drew applause Friday when he announced that the university would rescind its policy of recording faculty without their knowledge.

UNC-CH scraps ‘surreptitious’ recording policy; some faculty still have concerns ncnewsline.com/2026/03/02/u... #ncpol #AAUP

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Update. For a good history of US efforts to classify support for #Palestinians and criticism of #Israel as #antisemitism, see the Nov 2025 report from the Middle East Studies Association (#MESA) and the American Association of University Professors (#AAUP), "Discriminating Against Dissent: The […]

Texas professors flock to join teachers' union amid academic freedom concerns The union's rapid growth comes as federal and state lawmakers target classroom instruction and personal speech in higher education.

Workers know where to go for help - their union

www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston... #txlege #1u #aaup

St. John’s faculty, students rally after university ends union recognition – QNS On Feb. 19, St. John's University President Rev. Brian Shanley informed faculty via email that the university would no longer represent two unions formed in

Heartened to see St. John's faculty and students pushing back against the university's anti-union actions. @SJU-AAUP

#AAUP #UnionStrong

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Faculty leader addresses critics as UNC System defines 'academic freedom' • NC Newsline The UNC System Board of Governors wasted little time on Thursday in approving a definition for academic freedom that has been a year in the making. The policy protects the rights of all faculty to eng...

The policy protects the rights of all faculty to engage in teaching, research and scholarly inquiry without undue influence. But it also spells out that academic freedom is not absolute. ncnewsline.com/2026/02/26/f... #ncpol #AcademicFreedom #AAUP

No one dreams of earning a college degree under wiretap conditions • NC Newsline At UNC-Chapel Hill, vague administrative threats to secretly record lectures are already changing the tenor of its classrooms.

"This type of intrusive action is ending careers and diminishing teaching and learning across the state." ncnewsline.com/2026/02/26/n... (commentary) #ncpol #aaup

Ohio republicans plan to target university staff who have worked on DEI in the past. This is McCarthyite persecution.

#Ohio #Cleveland #Columbus #AAUP #AFT

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#Apollo #Investigate #EpsteinFiles

#AAUP & #AFT pursue important matter.

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Academic freedom matters.

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UCLA Faculty Beat the Trump Admin. Other Schools Should Take Notes. Trump's DOJ drops appeal of court order blocking massive UCLA settlement that would have banned diversity programs and declared transgender people don't exist.

#MADC #CADHE #standupforUC #AAUP organized pressure works.

It is now 600 days since our union began bargaining. Management continues to refuse to discuss compensation adjustments in year two, which begins in 137 days. #UAKU #AFT #AAUP

Ohio University racks up legal fees amid faculty union negotiations – Athens County Independent OU spent $200k in one year to challenge the certification of the faculty union election and engage in contract negotiations.

@athensindy.bsky.social reporter Dani Kington has some great coverage of the university's continued spending on law firms while they delay and draw out our contract negotiations #aaup #aft #unionizing #highered #ohiouniversity athensindependent.com/ohio-univers...

Professor of History Suzanne Kauffman introducing the event to get things started. Against thinking about conditions as abstract. The Trump administration's many threats shift the concrete reality of learning and teaching on not just Loyola's campus, but campuses everywhere @aaup.org #AAUP #HigherEd

A half-page ad in a newspaper reads “Lawrence is a union town. Tell KU: Stop Union-Busting! A fair contract for faculty is an investment in our community. Email KU Chancellor Girod today. United Academics of the University of Kansas, AFT, AAUP, AFL-CIO, @weareku, uaku.org.” A QR code leads to https://tinyurl.com/writeDoug to contact the chancellor.

Our ad in the Sunday paper. Campaign to contact the chancellor at tinyurl.com/writeDoug #UAKU #AFT #AAUP

AAUP President on the Elimination of Tenure at Oklahoma Regional Universities and Community Colleges. WASHINGTON—AAUP President Todd Wolfson issued the following statement in response to the Governor of Oklahoma’s signing of Executive Order 2026-07, which immediately eliminates the conferral of academ...

"This decision must also be understood in a broader national context of democratic backsliding. When political leaders use executive power to weaken independent institutions, silence professional expertise, and punish those who produce inconvenient knowledge, democratic norms erode."
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KU faculty union still without contract nearly two years in; city commissioner urges progress Contract negotiations between KU’s administration and faculty union remain stalled after more than 600 days of bargaining, and a Lawrence city commissioner has joined those urging KU to end the delays...

Some good coverage of our contract fight. Yesterday marked one year since we passed our first compensation proposal. We are waiting for admin's latest counter after we corrected their math in the budget, and for their bargaining availability after they canceled on us twice. #UAKU #AFT #AAUP

Duke’s budget and employee cuts called into question by audit An analysis of the private North Carolina institution’s finances found ample reserves and resources, drawing a rebuke from faculty.

"Pointing to the audit, the Duke #AAUP in a press release last week slammed the administration for employee reductions and budget cuts and plans to rally with university employee unions and campus groups on Friday."

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20-some people of varying ages and genders raise fists and hold signs reading "Fair Contract Now" in a nondescript institutional meeting room.

The second time this month, management canceled a bargaining session, but we show up for each other. That's why it's bigger than a contract. #UAKU @weareku #AFT #AAUP

UNC System moves to define academic freedom • NC Newsline The UNC Systems' Committee on University Governance gave an initial nod Wednesday to a formal definition for academic freedom.

As the UNC System moves to define academic freedom, NC members of the American Association of University Professors say the definition is vague, problematic ncnewsline.com/2026/01/29/u... #ncpol #AAUP #UNC

A white man in a wool cap, scarf, cost and gloves stands in front of a painting of another white man in a business suit. The first person holds a sign reading "A contract is my respect language."

Our union rallied then marched to the chancellor's office. Admin didn't like our noise and cancelled today's bargaining. If they think we're going to fold and take a weak contact, they have misunderstood the assignment. #UAKU #AFT #AAUP

In Fort Collins, 850 protesters lined a busy intersection and later hundreds more rallied in the Old Town plaza - to demand justice for Renee Good. Demand accountability for ICE.

#ICEOutforGood #YDSA #AAUP-CSU