Higher ed labor is out in force this May Day! Guru Shabadi is celebrating @getupgrads' first contract at @Penn with higher ed union comrades from across the Philadelphia (& NJ!) area. Solidarity!
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This May Day, join higher ed workers across the nation and fight for an affordable and safe education that serves the common good. Learn more and register at labor4highered.org/
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The resistance to Trump’s loyalty oath compact is growing.
✅MIT
✅Penn
✅Brown
✅UVa
✅Dartmouth
✅USC
✅Arizona
Organized higher ed workers are leading the fight.
#DefendHigherEd
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University of Texas AAUP urges admin to join seven other universities in rejecting Trump’s ‘loyalty oath’ compact.
@aaup_utAustin
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We will continue to fight those who want to limit faculty’s right to teach and students’ right to learn. Limiting perspectives on gender, race, religion, politics, and other topics is the real indoctrination. #DefendHigherEd
19 Sep 2025
“Rep. @brianeharrison has called for Welsh's termination since January...He called the resignation a ‘historic victory’ that would not have happened without him and warned Texas universities he wasn't done with his pressure campaigns against ‘leftist indoctrination.’” @lilykepner
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Op Ed by President of AAUP chapter at UT Austin. Let teachers teach, let students learn. #AcademicFreedom #DefendHigherEd
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“We will not allow authoritarians to dismantle higher education. We will not allow billionaires to profit while communities suffer. And we will not allow fear to silence students and workers who speak out.”
— Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
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A&M policy: "Each faculty member must be free from the corrosive fear that others, inside or outside the academic community, because their vision may differ, may threaten the faculty member's professional career or the material benefits accruing from it” houstonchronicle.com/news/ho…
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👀Important @AAUP faculty survey highlighting serious concerns about political climate & academic freedom among faculty in the Texas & across the South.
In Texas, this reflects the impact of state legislation & overcompliance as well as national politics. #DefendHigherEd
4 Sep 2025
The 2025 @AAUP Faculty in the South Survey of 4,000 professors in 12 states has revealed the significant impact of political attacks on faculty work and recruitment. The findings show a widespread climate of fear & ongoing desire by some to leave the region for other jobs.
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As our statement in this article indicates, we continue to stand for academic freedom, shared governance, and due process in Texas public universities. These time-honored practices have helped to make Texas universities great. Texas students deserve nothing less. #DefendHigherEd
2 Sep 2025
Creighton's prospective nomination is the latest shakeup in Texas higher education. Glenn Hegar, a former state comptroller and representative, became chancellor of the Texas A&M University System on July 1. On Aug. 20, @utsystem appointed former state Rep. John Zerwas chancellor
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✊🏽Happy Lanot Day! It’s a great day to #DefendHigherEd and join the AAUP-AFT chapter at UT Austin. We fight for faculty, students, and quality higher education. Join here: connect.aft.org/app/memberfo…
Labor Day honors the collective power of working people. Through our unions, we fight for opportunity, dignity, and a better life for all. That’s the promise we carry into every classroom, workplace, and community. ✊ #LaborDay #WorkersDeserve
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"These deals came with significant policy concessions that compromise academic freedom, institutional autonomy and shared governance.”
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Fallout for universities that struck deals with Trump raises questions, concerns trib.al/3zNzhh2
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“This is obviously the most intense assault on higher education by the federal government in the history of the United States. Everyone is coming into fire, said Todd Wolfson, AAUP President.
We have no choice but to fight back.
#defendhighered
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“As higher ed goes, so goes democracy. But the converse isn’t absolutely true. Higher ed alone cannot save democracy, but we’re a critical part. We need a broader societal movement to save our country.”
— Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
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“Faculty, students, & staff are leading the fight back against Trump’s outrageous attacks on higher education…we will continue to lead & move our universities to stand up with us.”
— Todd Wolfson, AAUP President on @CNN.
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Today @UConnAAUP & @UCPEA3695members teamed up w/colleagues at @UConn to denounce harmful policies targeting #HigherEd students & faculty; stepping up to #DefendHigherEd: facebook.com/aftct/videos/66… #CampusSolidarity @AFTunion @AFTHigherEd @AAUP @HigherEdLaborUnited
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International students are under attack by the Trump and Musk Administration.
We won’t stay silent.
Join us April 17 & 19 as we rise up for academic freedom, civil liberties, and the right to speak freely.
#DefendHigherEd #HandsOffOurDemocracy #PACollegeDems
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Today activists at 2 regional meetings w/#CTGeneralAssembly lawmakers & our @CTconfAAUP's annual #DefendHigherEd conference echoed demands of 1000s of #union siblings marching & rallying across CT. #HandsOff @AFTunion @AFTHigherEd @AAUP @AFLCIO @ConnAFLCIO
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Happening now: #HigherEd professionals gather at @wesleyan_u for @CTconfAAUP's '25 #DefendHigherEd conference; features keynotes & panels on faculty #union organizing, maintaining #AcademicFreedom & upholding #FreeSpeech. #HandsOff @AFTUnion @AFTHigherEd @AFT_PE @AAUP
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“These executive orders function as trial balloons from the Trump administration to see which areas of our civil society will be compliant & which areas will not.”
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