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Free Higher Ed Now!: A Day of Higher For the Common Good. Join us on April 17, 2025. https://www.dayofactionforhighered.org/

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

⭐️⭐️ Check out a roundup of pictures from events across the country on April 17th 2025, our second annual #DayofActionforHigherEd! We seek to renew the vision of higher education as an autonomous public good, and university workers as its most important resource. 👊👊

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A National Day of Action for Higher Ed

On April 17, higher ed unions, AAUP chapters, and student organizations across the U.S. are coming together to fight back against the coordinated assault on teaching and learning, and to mobilize for ...

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Coalition for Action in Higher Ed @actioninhighered.bsky.social · 52m

NEWS: Professor Tom Alter unlawfully terminated at Texas State in a blatant violation of first amendment rights and academic freedom. Please share on social media: #DefendTomAlter #FirstAmendmentTXST

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Coalition for Action in Higher Ed @actioninhighered.bsky.social · 3h

Here is the original article he is responding to: www.aaup.org/seven-theses...

Seven Theses Against Viewpoint Diversity

Demands for “viewpoint diversity,” a pillar of the Right’s strategy to remake higher education, collide with the pursuit of truth.

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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 21h

Join Together and Reject Trump's Loyalty Oath for Higher Ed-Penn, USC, Vanderbilt, University of Virginia, University of Arizona, UT-Austin, MIT, Brown & Dartmouth.
@aaup.org @aaup-penn.bsky.social @utaustinaaup.bsky.social @aaupbrownchapter.bsky.social

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AAUP @aaup.org · 3h

"Once you start teaching loyalty instead of critical thinking, you stop creating scholars & you start creating followers. That's not the America we signed up for."

#noloyaltyoaths
#academicfreedom

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 1d

Made by @aaup-penn.bsky.social member!

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 1d

#tdih 1925 Tenants in Panama City protested rising rents & unsanitary conditions. Withheld rent.

In response, U.S. gov't sent soldiers who banned gatherings of 5+ people, killed 2 tenant organizers, & arrested & deported more. 💔

Whose side is gov't on?

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Oct. 12, 1925: U.S. Fights Panama Renters’ Strike

Protesting rising rents and unsanitary conditions, tenants in Panama City, Panama were met with swift force and violence by U.S. soldiers, with six killed during the weekend.

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Jonathan Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 3d

Vanderbilt AAUP press release about the Vanderbilt Faculty Senate voting overwhelmingly to adopt a resolution opposing the President's proposed Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education as an unconstitutional & illegal infringement on rights & freedoms.

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Vanderbilt Faculty Senate Votes Overwhelmingly to Oppose Trump Loyalty Oath

The Vanderbilt Faculty Senate overwhelmingly passed a resolution opposing President Trump’s proposed “Compact for Excellence in Higher Education.” The resolution, citing concerns …

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 1d

"We’ve seen this movie before, and Black communities have been telling America how it ends."

Black People Knew This Would Happen

Generational experience has taught us what happens when the state builds a weapon for someone else: Sooner or later, it finds a way back to us.

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 3d

hell yeah

Cover of the classic children's book Frog And Toad Are Friends.

Drawing of Toad, a brown toad, sitting on a bench, dressed in a green jacket and slacks. He is reading a book to his friend Frog, a green frog dressed in a brown jacket and slacks. They are surrounded by green plants and mushrooms. There is a silver Caldecott Medal in the corner.

Text has been altered from original. It reads
Fiftieth Anniversary
Frog and Toad Are Antifa
by Arnold Lobel

Commemorative Edition

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 2d

Wow.

Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 2d

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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Coalition for Action in Higher Ed @actioninhighered.bsky.social · 3d

CAHE member joins the LA press conference demonstrating solidarity with k-12 and higher ed workers denouncing AB 715!

Coalition for Action in Higher Ed @actioninhighered.bsky.social · 3d

Check out Debt Collective's Jubilee School offerings -- always free and open to the public. Thank you @debtcollective.bsky.social!
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Jubilee School Courses

Debt Collective Jubilee School Course Offerings – always free and open to the public

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Coalition for Action in Higher Ed @actioninhighered.bsky.social · 4d

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...

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Jennifer Ruth @jenniferruth.bsky.social · 4d

"Discussions regarding the memo have too often focused on bloodless, technocratic terms like 'compliance' or 'implementation.' Behind the legal and policy concerns are real people . . . Transgender and gender-nonconforming individuals are part of our university community." Go AAUP-Texas Tech!

AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 4d

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AAUP-Texas Tech Pushes Back Against Campus Censorship

Below is a letter from the AAUP Chapter at Texas Tech University. The AAUP-TTU Chapter is part of the Texas Conference of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), which is affiliated...

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Higher Education Labor United (HELU) @higheredlabor.bsky.social · 6d

HELU's International Campus Worker Protections (ICWP) Campaign is organizing to pressure our institutions to stand up for international workers. Read more about this campaign in a recent piece by organizer Bobby Huggins higheredlaborunited.org/2025/09/22/t...

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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 7d

Now: Debt Collective Raises Hand to Purchase Chunk of Federal Government Student Debt Portfolio

The Debt Collective has purchased billions in household debt over the past decade

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, after a new POLITICO report that the Trump administration is “exploring options to sell off parts of the federal government’s $1.6 trillion student loan portfolio to the private market,” the Debt Collective is announcing its willingness to purchase the entire portfolio for its true market value. The Debt Collective will then subsequently cancel the debt.

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Coalition for Action in Higher Ed @actioninhighered.bsky.social · 6d

Please share this widely and help defend Tom against this attack on him for what is indisputably lawfully protected speech.

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Coalition for Action in Higher Ed @actioninhighered.bsky.social · 6d

Tomorrow! Watch on FB and Youtube!

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AAUP @aaup.org · 7d

NO LOYALTY OATHS IN HIGHER ED!

Trump's attacks on our universities are an attempt to consolidate power. This loyalty oath directly undermines our right to academic freedom & goes against every democratic principle our country should uphold.

Please click below, sign, & share.

#DefendHigherEd

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

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Good Trouble @whking.bsky.social · 7d

Resistance by a professor. When there is a will, there is a way to fight fascism.

Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 7d

After Columbia canceled my course on race and media, and Washington Poat fired me for speaking about race and violence,

I’m teaching about race and media anyway!

@resistanceschool.bsky.social fall session on Race, Media and International Affairs starts tonight!

600+ signups.

We move!! ✊🏾

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 9d

"Too often, when it comes to U.S. Cold War interventions, the official curriculum is sanitized & disjointed, leaving students ill-equipped to make sense out of their nation’s global bullying." -- Ursula Wolfe-Rocca

Defend right to #TeachPeoplesHistory
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Disguising Imperialism: How Textbooks Get the Cold War Wrong and Dupe Students

By Ursula Wolfe-Rocca The perpetual interventionism and global hegemony exercised by the U.S. government today urgently need to be questioned and dismantled. Such a monumental task requires a citizenr...

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Coalition for Action in Higher Ed @actioninhighered.bsky.social · 8d

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Statement on the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education

BY THE AAUP-PENN EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE We were alarmed to read reports that Penn has been “invited” to sign a so-called “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” by the federal government…

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Coalition for Action in Higher Ed @actioninhighered.bsky.social · 8d

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On Higher Ed “Boards of Trustees,” a Preliminary Statement from the JVP Academic Council

BY LAURA GOLDBLATT AND DAN SEGAL With scant exceptions, US colleges and universities have a board of trustees that is the institution’s highest decision-making or governance body. In response to t…

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 8d

I was told not to teach a class on the intellectual histories of Zionism and Anti-Zionism next year - not because they doubted I could teach it fairly, but because it would attract too many politicians scrutinizing the syllabus.

A society where that is a valid fear is no longer fully democratic.

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EMUFT @emuftunion.bsky.social · 12d

@actioninhighered.bsky.social has an organizational meeting tomorrow! Register at the link in our bio
#emuft #truemu #unionstrong #cahe #coalitionforactioninhighered