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The magazine of the American Association of University Professors. https://www.aaup.org/academe | https://academeblog.org/
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A Call for Proactive University Communication Strategies
BY LOUISE PAY Understanding the strategy behind ideological attacks on university employees is the only way to counter them effectively. It’s easy to dismiss cases like the recent incident at the U…
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December 5, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Statement from NU AAUP on the University’s “Resolution Agreement”
BY JACKIE STEVENS Northwestern University’s Interim President Henry Bienen announced on Friday the university had violated commitments to its faculty and students in order to appease an autoc…
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December 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Global South Scholars Cannot Afford Academic Freedom
BY SIBESO LISULO What happens when a university, the very institution tasked with speaking truth to power, cannot afford the cost of its own voice? This is not a theoretical question but a lived re…
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November 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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On Faculty Senates and the “Berkeley Revolution of 1919-20”
BY HANK REICHMAN This week the AAUP released a report, In Defense of an Independent and Representative Faculty Voice: The Case of Faculty Senates, prepared by a subcommittee of the AAUP’…
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November 19, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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In Defense of an Independent and Representative Faculty Voice: The Case of Faculty Senates
BY AFSHAN JAFAR We have recently seen accelerating legislative and political attacks on faculty governing bodies at state institutions, including legislation recently enacted in Indiana, Ohio, Utah…
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November 18, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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The Eternal Synergy of the Spotless Mind
BY ADAM RZEPKA A large public university is wiping out all of its humanities departments. It isn’t sure why. As I write this, our Interim Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS…
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November 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Three of this year’s #JAF articles focus on philanthropy’s intersection with racial capitalism, “delimiting what knowledge is produced, who produces it, and whose voices are silenced”:
Volume 16
Faculty Coeditors
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November 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Three of this year’s #JAF articles focus on philanthropy’s intersection with racial capitalism, “delimiting what knowledge is produced, who produces it, and whose voices are silenced”:
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November 6, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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"Rights, liberties, and freedoms are never secure when they lie dormant or unused." Interesting article in the latest volume of the Journal of Academic Freedom. Rather than thinking of #AcademicFreedom as a defense against attacks, we should make it an active practice.
www.aaup.org/JAF16/conspi...
www.aaup.org/JAF16/conspi...
Conspicuously Exercising Academic Freedom as a Response to Incremental Threats
Abstract:
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November 7, 2025 at 5:54 AM
"Rights, liberties, and freedoms are never secure when they lie dormant or unused." Interesting article in the latest volume of the Journal of Academic Freedom. Rather than thinking of #AcademicFreedom as a defense against attacks, we should make it an active practice.
www.aaup.org/JAF16/conspi...
www.aaup.org/JAF16/conspi...
The final four #JAF articles in this year’s volume address tensions and schisms between the private and the common good and “the urgent need to defend academic freedom not as an abstract principle but as a lived practice in concrete institutional contexts”:
www.aaup.org/JAF16
www.aaup.org/JAF16
Volume 16
Faculty Coeditors
www.aaup.org
November 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The final four #JAF articles in this year’s volume address tensions and schisms between the private and the common good and “the urgent need to defend academic freedom not as an abstract principle but as a lived practice in concrete institutional contexts”:
www.aaup.org/JAF16
www.aaup.org/JAF16
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“From attacks on academic freedom to the defunding of life-saving scientific research to arresting peaceful student protesters, Trump’s higher ed policies have been catastrophic for our democracy. We’re excited to build a coalition of workers & students fighting back."
– AAUP president Todd Wolfson
– AAUP president Todd Wolfson
November 4, 2025 at 5:11 PM
“From attacks on academic freedom to the defunding of life-saving scientific research to arresting peaceful student protesters, Trump’s higher ed policies have been catastrophic for our democracy. We’re excited to build a coalition of workers & students fighting back."
– AAUP president Todd Wolfson
– AAUP president Todd Wolfson
Three of this year’s #JAF articles focus on philanthropy’s intersection with racial capitalism, “delimiting what knowledge is produced, who produces it, and whose voices are silenced”:
Volume 16
Faculty Coeditors
www.aaup.org
November 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Three of this year’s #JAF articles focus on philanthropy’s intersection with racial capitalism, “delimiting what knowledge is produced, who produces it, and whose voices are silenced”:
Four of this year’s #JAF articles examine how “philanthropic agendas directly reshape academic life”: 🧵
Volume 16
Faculty Coeditors
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October 31, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Four of this year’s #JAF articles examine how “philanthropic agendas directly reshape academic life”: 🧵
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A Tale of Two Compacts
BY SHAWN GILMORE It’s now been a few weeks since the second Trump administration offered its “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” first to nine institutions, then to the rest of u…
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October 30, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Three of this year’s #JAF articles “interrogate the compatibility of neoliberalism and academic freedom”: 🧵
Volume 16
Faculty Coeditors
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October 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Three of this year’s #JAF articles “interrogate the compatibility of neoliberalism and academic freedom”: 🧵
The 2025 volume of #JAF is now live! This year’s volume brings together articles that probe the uneasy relationship between philanthropy and academic freedom and the financial infrastructures and political economies that sustain or threaten it. Check out the full issue at www.aaup.org/JAF16
October 29, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The 2025 volume of #JAF is now live! This year’s volume brings together articles that probe the uneasy relationship between philanthropy and academic freedom and the financial infrastructures and political economies that sustain or threaten it. Check out the full issue at www.aaup.org/JAF16
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The Three-Legged Stool
BY YASHA HARTBERG Across the country, the foundations of academic freedom and shared governance are under strain. Legislatures are rewriting university missions. Boards are bypassing faculty senate…
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October 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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New in #Academe: Judith A. Wilde and James H. Finkelstein examine how executive search firms have played a significant, often underexamined, role in the erosion of shared governance and the corporatization of American higher education.
Gatekeepers of the Ivory Tower
Executive search firms have played a significant, often underexamined, role in the erosion of shared governance and the corporatization of American higher education.
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October 23, 2025 at 6:03 PM
New in #Academe: Judith A. Wilde and James H. Finkelstein examine how executive search firms have played a significant, often underexamined, role in the erosion of shared governance and the corporatization of American higher education.
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W/ @genevievelakier.bsky.social, the @aaup.org today released a letter to the Offices of the General Counsel at US colleges & universities. We detail why the Compact violates the Constitution & urge that no one signs it.
www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...
www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...
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October 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
W/ @genevievelakier.bsky.social, the @aaup.org today released a letter to the Offices of the General Counsel at US colleges & universities. We detail why the Compact violates the Constitution & urge that no one signs it.
www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...
www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...
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TONIGHT!
Join AAUP president Todd Wolfson & AAUP General Counsel Veena Dubal for an update on the AVALANCHE of universities rejecting Trump’s loyalty oath compact & how the compact violates the US Constitution.
7:30PM ET / 4:30 PM PT
Live on both IG &
YouTube.
Link: youtube.com/live/h-H-ETa...
Join AAUP president Todd Wolfson & AAUP General Counsel Veena Dubal for an update on the AVALANCHE of universities rejecting Trump’s loyalty oath compact & how the compact violates the US Constitution.
7:30PM ET / 4:30 PM PT
Live on both IG &
YouTube.
Link: youtube.com/live/h-H-ETa...
October 21, 2025 at 4:51 PM
TONIGHT!
Join AAUP president Todd Wolfson & AAUP General Counsel Veena Dubal for an update on the AVALANCHE of universities rejecting Trump’s loyalty oath compact & how the compact violates the US Constitution.
7:30PM ET / 4:30 PM PT
Live on both IG &
YouTube.
Link: youtube.com/live/h-H-ETa...
Join AAUP president Todd Wolfson & AAUP General Counsel Veena Dubal for an update on the AVALANCHE of universities rejecting Trump’s loyalty oath compact & how the compact violates the US Constitution.
7:30PM ET / 4:30 PM PT
Live on both IG &
YouTube.
Link: youtube.com/live/h-H-ETa...
Writing in #Academe, Ajay Skaria of @umn-tc-aaup.bsky.social breaks down how recent attempts to bar speech by academic units in the name of "institutional neutrality" undermine academic freedom:
What’s New About the Attack on Academic Freedom?
Attempts to bar some speech by academic units in the name of “institutional neutrality” disregard the associational nature of academic freedom.
www.aaup.org
October 21, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Writing in #Academe, Ajay Skaria of @umn-tc-aaup.bsky.social breaks down how recent attempts to bar speech by academic units in the name of "institutional neutrality" undermine academic freedom: