The Fight to Defend Pro-Palestine Speech on Campus Isn’t Over Targeted for pro-Palestine speech, these academics are refusing to back down.

“You have this confluence of this right-wing attack machine that had been focusing on #HigherEd for two decades that now is able to move away from the language of race and gender and also weaponize accusations of antisemitism.” #DefendHigherEd @aaup.org @isaackamola.bsky.social

Reality of cuts to UConn research funds emerges. ‘There’s just this aura of awfulness’: professor. In addition to funding availability, the federal government has limited the ability of researchers to receive reimbursement for indirect costs.

“The rippling effect…is going to affect the research apparatus downstream for years and years, even if things got better today.” #DefendHigherEd @uconnaaup.bsky.social

Roughly 100 faculty members gathered on Tuesday to launch a campaign that calls for Yale to add academic freedom protections to its faculty handbook. #defendhighered #AcademicFreedom @aft.org @afthighered.bsky.social @aaup.org

Aggies stood up in full force to challenge government censorship of course materials and to protect academic freedom last week.

You can follow @tamu-aaup.bsky.social's Substack, "Unmuzzled," for updates about their ongoing efforts to defend higher ed in Texas.

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Trump Drops Demand for Cash From Harvard After Stiff Resistance

Reminder: Never capitulate to tyrants.

Fight Back.

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A CT university decided to admit fewer grad students. Here’s why despite a $44.1B endowment. The university is expected to pay $300 million per year due to the increase in the federal tax, the university administration said in a recent memo.

“It is going to have longer term impacts about the role of academia and higher ed in this country.” #DefendHigherEd @yaleaaup.bsky.social

Legalize Plato at Texas A&M.

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UConn faculty union calling for action on $1.5M salary equity fund STORRS — The UConn-AAUP Executive Committee is calling for UConn to take immediate action on the salary equity fund.

"The administration did not communicate this change to the #union or to faculty who applied for salary adjustments." #DefendHigherEd @uconnaaup.bsky.social

“Rather than lying low and hoping to fly under the radar, we are proposing a strategy of strength in numbers. It is all the more urgent now to work in solidarity to safeguard higher education in this country.”

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“It didn’t have to unfold this way.”

Northwestern could have resisted these illegal & unconstitutional demands and sued the Trump administration, as Harvard did. Instead, they capitulated, & turned over Northwestern’s policies to federal law enforcement. Why? 🧐
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🙏 Please consider donating to a PAC created by the American Association of University Professors to fight back against Trump's attacks on academic freedom.

Spread the word! AAUP is a great organization and has been critical in this fight.

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Wealthy People Have Always Shaped Universities. This Time Is Different.

Billionaires, who quite often do not see education as a common good, should not be guiding higher education policy.

“I kind of yearn,” Mr. Nassirian said, “for the gilded age when billionaires satisfied their extracurricular interests by collecting Fabergé eggs and prized ponies.”

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“If there is a message to be heeded in the legislative assault on governance bodies, it is that the enemies of higher education, nonetheless, still fear faculty authority. Why else would they be so insistent on silencing faculty members?”

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LTTE: Support UConn Faculty’s Reasonable Contract Demands For months now, the UConn-AAUP negotiating team has made minimal progress at the bargaining table across from the UConn administration’s negotiators.

“UConn professors get zero days of guaranteed paid family leave,” as our colleague Prof. Sarah Hird recently wrote. That’s why we have proposed a new agreement of 16 weeks of guaranteed paid family leave.” #DefendHigherEd @uconnaaup.bsky.social

Judge Orders Trump Not to Threaten University of California’s Funding

"This represents saving higher education, saving public research and the standing up of faculty, staff and students,"

— Veena Dubal, AAUP General Counsel & law professor at the University of California, Irvine.

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AAUP Rallies Students, Faculty, and Community Members Against Trump Attacks on Academia – The Wesleyan Argus

"Although they have not hit Wesleyan yet, they will come for us. And we want to make sure that everyone on campus is prepared to resist what those attacks look like.” #DefendHigherEd @wesleyanaaup.bsky.social @aaup.org

Stanford Teach-In: A thread... 👇🏼🧵 #DefendHigherEd

Solidarity to all students & higher ed workers across the country standing up to build a better future today!

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North Carolina students, faculty, staff, and community:

Here are some ways you can join the National Day of Action for Higher Ed!

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Higher Ed Must Take Action on Immigration Policy (opinion) Higher ed must take decisive action to counter the Trump administration’s harmful immigration policies.

"When we sound the alarm, we call others to take action alongside us. The time for urgent response is here. Together, higher education can take coordinated steps to defend our institutions & community members."

Now is the time to speak out and build coalitions on our campuses!

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We demand an end to student debt!

We're disrupting business as usual on Nov 7 to demand college affordability, the freedom to teach & learn, and safety for the most vulnerable on our campuses.

Signs made by Josh MacPhee 🔥 grab one when you protest this Friday!

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Heard loud and clear, fellow staffers...
We *are* stronger together in the fight to #DefendHigherEd

Guest Essay: NYU must reject Trump’s coercive ‘compact’ - Washington Square News Zachary Samalin is the president of NYU’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors and an associate professor of English. NYU senior leadership should unequivocally reject the “Com...

“All across NYU, students and colleagues have been undeterred in their organizing. NYU leadership should follow the example of their courage and tell the Trump administration and grifters like Rowan to keep their hands off higher education.”

— @zachsamalin.bsky.social,
NYU AAUP

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"...we will have strong grounds to sue any university potentially that signs on to this compact for undermining the First Amendment rights and constitutional rights of our members on that campus...Any university that accepts...must be made into a pariah in the academic community.” #DefendHigherEd

‘Students Are Terrified’: How Trump’s Higher Education Compact Puts Queer Students at Risk The heavy-handed document promises federal funding in exchange for ideological compliance. So far, it's unpopular.

“Trump’s compact is the greatest single incursion into the freedom & autonomy of higher education to ever happen in this country.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

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Movie Poster for Free Screening for The Librarians. 11/07/25 | CSU | 6:30 Behavioral Sciences Building A101 Free with Registration As an unprecedented wave of book banning is sparked in Texas, Florida, and beyond, librarians under siege join forces as unlikely defenders fighting for intellectual freedom on the front lines of democracy. Join the CSU chapters of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and the Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA) for this free screening. Learn about local efforts to support academic freedom and resist partisan attempts to control research, teaching, and student support at CSU. Register at: https://tinyurl.com/aaupcsu

AAUP-CSU is collaborating YDSA to co-host a free screening of the acclaimed film #TheLibrarians at 6:30pm on 11/7/25. Registration is free, but required. Tickets available at: tinyurl.com/aaupcsu. Learn more about AAUP-CSU at aaupcsu.org. #DefendHigherEd.

Transcript: Elite Colleges Reject Trump’s Authoritarian “Compact” Harvard’s Ryan Enos explains the importance of colleges working together to combat Trump’s attempts to shake down universities.

Harvard AAUP's Ryan Enos explains the importance of colleges working together to combat Trump’s attempts to shake down universities.

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Building the power to #DefendHigherEd; local #union & chapter activists came away from our nat'l @afthighered.bsky.social & @aaup.org #2025SummerInstitute equipped to meet the moment: aftct.org/2025/09/23/l... #OrganizeFightWin @aft.org @aftacademics.bsky.social ‬ @higheredlabor.bsky.social

UConn professors union calls for stronger protections for academic freedom. Why they are worried. Union officials say they are looking for stronger protections for professors to be able to “teach, research, and express ideas freely.”

“We are all concerned about the people who have federally funded research... A lot of these people don’t do political work at all. We are talking about Alzheimer’s research. They were the first ones to get hit.” @aft.org @aaup.org @uconnaaup.bsky.social #DefendHigherEd #AcademicFreedom

THIS is what solidarity looks like in higher ed! ✊

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