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AAUP @aaup.org · 1d

“We unequivocally denounce any policies that devalue our students’ presence or diminish their contributions to our intellectual & cultural community.

International & non-citizen students bring invaluable & diverse perspectives to our classrooms, labs & campuses.”

— AAUP University of North Texas

Letter to the Editor: Open letter to non-citizen UNT students

To our non-United States citizen students at UNT,

www.ntdaily.com

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AAUP @aaup.org · 5h

"In the case of land acknowledgements, the ban on factual information is a troubling example of overcompliance to SB1 & a transparent attempt to appease & cower in an anti-DEI moment."

— AAUP OSU

Teaching Indigenous history and practicing academic freedom are inseparable!

@osuaaup.bsky.social

Ohio State twice revises university policy on Indigenous land acknowledgements this semester

Ohio State has twice this semester revised its policy on land acknowledgements, including whether professors can include them in course materials.

www.dispatch.com

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Timothy Vollmer @tvol.bsky.social · 2h

U.S. District Court rules the Trump administration cannot delay lawsuit proceedings with AAUP and labor unions because of the Federal government shutdown. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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AAUP @aaup.org · 1h

SATURDAY

Stand Up. Fight Back.

#NoKings

Find an event near you.

www.nokings.org#map

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Matthew Boedy @matthewboedy.bsky.social · 5d

Northwestern faculty are purchasing additional professional liability insurance to protect themselves from complaints and lawsuits, according to president of NU’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors.

dailynorthwestern.com/2025/10/09/c...

Several Northwestern professors turn to AFT liability insurance

Northwestern faculty are purchasing additional professional liability insurance to protect themselves from complaints and lawsuits, according to political science Prof. Jacqueline Stevens, president o...

dailynorthwestern.com

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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 1d

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 1d

Asking again, if you're a UT-Austin grad, to add your name to this open letter. You can also forward it to President James Davis ([email protected]) and the UT Board of Regents ([email protected]).

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

Some select quotes from Texas alumni on the “Compact for Academic Excellence” currently being offered by the Trump Administration.

(Photo by Vivian Arcidiacono on Unsplash)

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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 1d

www.austinchronicle.com/news/republi...

Every faculty member quoted in this piece is active in the AAUP chapter at UT Austin. We are proud of our leaders and members, speaking out when so many are silent. 👏🏽👏🏽

Republicans Continue to Batter UT • The Austin Chronicle

The Texas Republican Party’s ideological transformation of UT-Austin is barreling forward, with new developments coming on a weekly and sometimes daily basis. Last Wednesday, Board of Regents Chairma...

www.austinchronicle.com

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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 1d

🚨Faculty teaching conditions are student learning conditions. Degrading #academicfreedom and free speech affects EVERYONE on campus. This is not the way to build and protect world class colleges and universities!! ⬇️⬇️

Cutter W. González @cutterwgonzalez.bsky.social · 1d

I’m a doctoral student at TXST.

The feeling on campus is worse than you imagine. Faculty afraid to speak, grad students feel like they could lose their entire futures if they draw the university president’s ire, undergrads openly worrying about the complete loss of a fundamental right.

Julie Greene @greeneland.bsky.social · 1d

I just learned, Thomas Alter, tenured professor, has been terminated effective immediately. Shame on Texas State! We mst build support for Tom. spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-tex...

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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 1d

Grad student workers at UTAustin: “Even if your classes, your research, your job are yet unaffected, it would be naive to take comfort…what are all the publications in the world when your peers have been expelled + scholarship itself has become nothing but a hollow mouthpiece for the state?” 🔥🔥

The UT Administration is Dismantling Academic Freedom and Lying About It. We Must Stop Them.

Over the last few months, the Trump administration and its acolytes in state governments have launched an existential challenge to academic freedom in university research and teaching. The federal gov...

www.utgwu.com

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AAUP @aaup.org · 1d

"We must continue to organize within and beyond academic spaces, whether it's establishing chapters, getting involved in AAUP, or pressuring academic organizations...what we are seeing is that pressure really does work, so we must continue doing that."

— Jairo Fúnez

@texasaaup.bsky.social

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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 23h

“A federal judge in Austin has temporarily blocked key parts of Texas' new law limiting expression on campuses, halting the University of Texas System's enforcement of a ban on overnight expression and limits on speakers, amplified sounds and drums during the last two weeks of the semester.”

Federal judge temporarily blocks key parts of state law that limits campus protests

The law banned “expressive activity” on campuses from 10 p.m. to 8 a.m., among other restrictions. “The Court cannot trust the universities to enforce their policies in a constitutional way,” the judg...

www.texastribune.org

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Coalition for Action in Higher Ed @actioninhighered.bsky.social · 22h

Re-upping this now that Trump has extended the bribe to all universities.

Coalition for Action in Higher Ed @actioninhighered.bsky.social · 5d

Sign the "No Loyalty Oaths in Education!" petition started by Sunrise and sponsored by @higheredlabor.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/petitions/un...

University Administrations: Reject Trump's "Loyalty Oath" Compacts

The Trump administration is trying to blackmail schools to let him and his unqualified bureaucrats run our schools. They want to dictate what schools teach, who they admit and hire, what researchers s...

actionnetwork.org

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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 1h

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Texas Systems Review Course Descriptions, Syllabi

Syllabi and course information are becoming increasingly public and Texas institutions are scrambling to scrub them of topics like gender identity.

www.insidehighered.com

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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 8h

Our executive committee, the only elected faculty body remaining at UT, urged the President and Board of Regents to reject Trump’s ultimatum. www.chronicle.com/article/dart...

Dartmouth’s President Balks at Trump Compact, Sources Say, as Feds Expand Offer to ‘Any Institution’

Sian Leah Beilock has told faculty members she won’t sign the document as written. Meanwhile, the White House’s broader proposal has shifted discussion about the deal.

www.chronicle.com

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Jackie Gardina @jackiegardina.bsky.social · 1d

#academicsky and #Legalsky, @education4all.bsky.social has a week of webinars planned all week about the compact. I will put them all in this 🧵

You can find them all education4allhub.com/building-all... 1/

@aaup.org @utaustinaaup.bsky.social @ncaaup.bsky.social @aaup-penn.bsky.social

Building Alliances in Higher Education - Education 4 All

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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 23h

So, a Texas legislator is very proud to be destroying higher education there, and Universities are precomplying out of fear (even though they've violated no law).

cc: @aaup.org @utaustinaaup.bsky.social @texasaaup.bsky.social

www.texastribune.org/2025/10/14/b...

Harrison vs. higher ed: How one lawmaker is weaponizing social media to eradicate LGBTQ+ curriculum

State Rep. Brian Harrison has been on a crusade against Texas universities, scouring course catalogs and university websites for examples of “gender ideology” or LGBTQ+ curriculum, and riling up his X...

www.texastribune.org

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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 21h

www.texastribune.org/2025/09/03/t...

Federal judge temporarily blocks key parts of state law that limits campus protests

The law banned “expressive activity” on campuses from 10 p.m. to 8 a.m., among other restrictions. “The Court cannot trust the universities to enforce their policies in a constitutional way,” the judg...

www.texastribune.org

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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 21h

www.texastribune.org/2025/09/03/t...

Federal judge temporarily blocks key parts of state law that limits campus protests

The law banned “expressive activity” on campuses from 10 p.m. to 8 a.m., among other restrictions. “The Court cannot trust the universities to enforce their policies in a constitutional way,” the judg...

www.texastribune.org

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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 1d

thedailytexan.com/2025/10/13/s...

Do Not Sign!

Student organizations protest Trump administration’s compact offered to UT

About 200 students chanted “do not sign” in front of the Main Tower on Monday, as they protested the compact the Trump administration offered the University earlier this month. The compact would prior...

thedailytexan.com

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AAUP @aaup.org · 3d

Shanae Aurora Martinez is a professor of Indigenous Literature at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. In this interview, she shares her story about being suspended for defending her students’ rights to protest the university’s investments in weapons manufacturing.

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 2d

My latest: "Numerous studies show that majors in the humanities—typically, in departments of English, history, philosophy, religious studies, classics and languages—lead students to employment and life satisfaction outcomes as positive as those for majors traditionally championed as 'practical.'”

Counterpoint | Minnesota humanities graduates thrive in meaningful careers

"The stereotype of the underemployed history major is simply not true," professor Andrea Kaston Tange writes.

www.startribune.com

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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 1d

On this Indigenous People’s Day we reaffirm our commitment to truthful and inclusive history, to spaces that serve our Indigenous students, and to advancing social justice.

AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 2d

Indigenous Peoples’ Day is a time to celebrate those who first called this land home.

America’s unions recognize the struggles and tragedies they have endured, and we honor the many indigenous communities and cultures that have contributed to the story of our labor movement.

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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 1d

www.austinchronicle.com/news/republi...

Every faculty member quoted in this piece is active in the AAUP chapter at UT Austin. We are proud of our leaders and members, speaking out when so many are silent. 👏🏽👏🏽

Republicans Continue to Batter UT • The Austin Chronicle

The Texas Republican Party’s ideological transformation of UT-Austin is barreling forward, with new developments coming on a weekly and sometimes daily basis. Last Wednesday, Board of Regents Chairma...

www.austinchronicle.com

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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 2d

“It is telling that [Eltife] mentioned the TX governor, lieutenant governor + speaker of the house as the people he’s been working with to improve higher education-not university leaders…If he signs the compact he will be signing away academic freedom + undermining our great TX public universities.”

Republicans Continue to Batter UT • The Austin Chronicle

The Texas Republican Party’s ideological transformation of UT-Austin is barreling forward, with new developments coming on a weekly and sometimes daily basis. Last Wednesday, Board of Regents Chairma...

www.austinchronicle.com

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Julie Greene @greeneland.bsky.social · 1d

I just learned, Thomas Alter, tenured professor, has been terminated effective immediately. Shame on Texas State! We mst build support for Tom. spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-tex...

Texas State upholds the firing of associate history professor Thomas Alter

Alter’s termination occurred on Sept. 10, stemming from his remarks at the Revolutionary Socialism Conference on Sept. 7.

spectrumlocalnews.com

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