AAUP–Penn
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University of Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP–Penn)
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American University faculty, staff, students & alumni: please sign our chapter statement asking AU to refuse to sign the trump compact & proactively plan how to effectively respond to govt. pressure to sign. The compact isn't dead & new iterations are likely coming down the pike. La lucha continua!
American University AAUP Chapter Petition: Reject the Trump Compact
Note: This statement was endorsed by the AU AAUP Chapter on Nov 21, 2025. We publish it here as an open letter and invite the American University community to sign; to do so, go here. On October 1s…
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November 26, 2025 at 2:44 PM
American University faculty, staff, students & alumni: please sign our chapter statement asking AU to refuse to sign the trump compact & proactively plan how to effectively respond to govt. pressure to sign. The compact isn't dead & new iterations are likely coming down the pike. La lucha continua!
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This is why AAUP and PSC-CUNY members and allies turned up outside Rowan's office. And why we'll do it again.
November 25, 2025 at 10:40 PM
This is why AAUP and PSC-CUNY members and allies turned up outside Rowan's office. And why we'll do it again.
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Solidarity with @teamsters.bsky.social , who sanctioned our strike nationwide and won't be delivering food, picking up trash, or bringing packages across picket lines! ✊🔥
#NoContractNoCoffee
#NoContractNoCoffee
November 25, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Solidarity with @teamsters.bsky.social , who sanctioned our strike nationwide and won't be delivering food, picking up trash, or bringing packages across picket lines! ✊🔥
#NoContractNoCoffee
#NoContractNoCoffee
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Resource share! Our Joint Academic Freedom Committee has compiled a toolkit for our members facing challenges to their academic freedom on campus, in the classroom, and beyond.
Read and share with your colleagues: https://rutgersaaup.org/academic-freedom-toolkit/
Read and share with your colleagues: https://rutgersaaup.org/academic-freedom-toolkit/
November 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Resource share! Our Joint Academic Freedom Committee has compiled a toolkit for our members facing challenges to their academic freedom on campus, in the classroom, and beyond.
Read and share with your colleagues: https://rutgersaaup.org/academic-freedom-toolkit/
Read and share with your colleagues: https://rutgersaaup.org/academic-freedom-toolkit/
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We @uam-umd.bsky.social won. Faculty packed town halls, talked to their colleagues and collected hundreds of petition signatures. Now UMD is coughing up $8.75m, during a deficit, to fund faculty whose research is under attack. Not enough, but a helluva thing for a union the state calls illegal.
$8.75M Investment Supports ‘Research Resilience’… | Maryland Today
UMD, MPower Funds Combine to Help Preserve Institutional Capabilities, Lab Operations and More
today.umd.edu
November 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
We @uam-umd.bsky.social won. Faculty packed town halls, talked to their colleagues and collected hundreds of petition signatures. Now UMD is coughing up $8.75m, during a deficit, to fund faculty whose research is under attack. Not enough, but a helluva thing for a union the state calls illegal.
“The University of Phoenix has itself been a prime example of many of the problems that Mr. Rowan has highlighted in his attacks on academia”
Wealthy People Have Always Shaped Universities. This Time Is Different.
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
“The University of Phoenix has itself been a prime example of many of the problems that Mr. Rowan has highlighted in his attacks on academia”
Did you hear that a stunning 92% of GETUP-UAW members voted to authorize a strike? It’s time for Penn to come the table instead of trying to coerce faculty and staff into strikebreaking (“ensuring instructional continuity” =🐀), because these grad workers are ready to win a fair contract now
Graduate student workers at the University of Pennsylvania have voted to strike if their union calls for it, as they work toward a first contract with better pay and benefits.
Thousands of Penn graduate student workers could soon strike
The 3,400-member union GETUP-UAW, which includes teaching and research assistants, has been negotiating with the university for a year on a first contract.
www.inquirer.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Did you hear that a stunning 92% of GETUP-UAW members voted to authorize a strike? It’s time for Penn to come the table instead of trying to coerce faculty and staff into strikebreaking (“ensuring instructional continuity” =🐀), because these grad workers are ready to win a fair contract now
Two weeks ago today a coalition of NYC unions incl @psc-cuny.org, @aaup.org chapters, @debtcollective.bsky.social, @higheredlabor.bsky.social & student groups took the fight against Trump’s loyalty oath “compact” for higher ed to its billionaire author, Apollo Global Management CEO Marc Rowan (1/3)
Marc Rowan is trying to end academic freedom as we know it.
The billionaire Trump donor is demanding higher ed institutions to sign a loyalty oath to gain access to federal funds.
Here's how faculty, students, and @aaup.org @psc-cuny.org @debtcollective.bsky.social responded.
The billionaire Trump donor is demanding higher ed institutions to sign a loyalty oath to gain access to federal funds.
Here's how faculty, students, and @aaup.org @psc-cuny.org @debtcollective.bsky.social responded.
November 21, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Two weeks ago today a coalition of NYC unions incl @psc-cuny.org, @aaup.org chapters, @debtcollective.bsky.social, @higheredlabor.bsky.social & student groups took the fight against Trump’s loyalty oath “compact” for higher ed to its billionaire author, Apollo Global Management CEO Marc Rowan (1/3)
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Today, @aaup.org @aaup-penn.bsky.social @psc-cuny.org outside Apollo Global Management's Midtown office to protest Marc Rowan's "Compact for Higher Education". PSC-CUNY President James Davis explains why this assault on higher ed undermines academic freedoms and our democracy itself.
November 8, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Today, @aaup.org @aaup-penn.bsky.social @psc-cuny.org outside Apollo Global Management's Midtown office to protest Marc Rowan's "Compact for Higher Education". PSC-CUNY President James Davis explains why this assault on higher ed undermines academic freedoms and our democracy itself.
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“For the first time, we are delivering a united message to the Regents: We will not accept a lack of transparency, the exclusion of faculty from decision-making, or the erosion of our university’s 156-year-old mission to educate Nebraska’s students.”
– UNL AAUP President Sarah Zuckerman
– UNL AAUP President Sarah Zuckerman
UNL Faculty Senate approves historic no-confidence resolution
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Faculty Senate voted 60-14 to approve a no-confidence resolution against Chancellor Rodney Bennett. It's believed to be the first such vote in the university's histo...
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November 20, 2025 at 3:14 PM
“For the first time, we are delivering a united message to the Regents: We will not accept a lack of transparency, the exclusion of faculty from decision-making, or the erosion of our university’s 156-year-old mission to educate Nebraska’s students.”
– UNL AAUP President Sarah Zuckerman
– UNL AAUP President Sarah Zuckerman
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“Students, faculty, and staff are the ones stepping up to defend their institutions and higher education, while administrators run for cover.” -- @proftwolf.bsky.social on the what the AAUP v. Trump win means for the University of California.✊ @aaup.org @ucaft.bsky.social @uc-faculty.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 12:32 AM
“Students, faculty, and staff are the ones stepping up to defend their institutions and higher education, while administrators run for cover.” -- @proftwolf.bsky.social on the what the AAUP v. Trump win means for the University of California.✊ @aaup.org @ucaft.bsky.social @uc-faculty.bsky.social
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This is a win for us all!! ✊👏🎉
WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)
![On official UC letterhead:
UNIVERSITY
OF
CALIFORNIA
James B. Milliken President
Office of the President
1111 Franklin Street Oakland, CA 94607
universityofcalifornia.edu
CAMPUSES Berkeley
Davis
Irvine
UCLA
Merced
Riverside San Diego San Francisco
Santa Barbara Santa Cruz
MEDICAL CENTERS
Davis
Irvine
UCLA
San Diego
San Francisco
NATIONAL LABORATORIES Lawrence Berkeley Lawrence Livermore Los Alamos
DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES
November 18, 2025
Dear Chancellors:
I'm writing with regard to the President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (PPFP) and the program's associated faculty hiring incentive.
As you know, for more than 40 years, PPFP has provided postdoctoral research fellowships, professional development, and faculty mentoring to scholars in all fields whose research, teaching, and service advance the academic and research missions of the University of California.
Since 2003, UC campuses that hire current and former PPFP fellows into ladder-rank positions have been eligible for a hiring incentive funded by the University that provides support for newly hired fellows for five years. Since the creation of the incentive, more than $162 million has been invested by the University to support PPFP faculty hires. This commitment has enabled our campuses to successfully recruit and retain outstanding faculty across a range of disciplines.
Given the myriad challenges currently facing UC - including disruptions to billions of dollars in annual federal support, as well as uncertainty around the state budget- reasonable questions were raised in recent months about whether the University could maintain the commitment to current levels of incentive funding. After considering a recommendation to sunset the incentive program due to these significant fiscal constraints, I consulted with all of you as well as faculty and campus academic administrators and systemwide Academic Senate leadership.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:04 PM
This is a win for us all!! ✊👏🎉
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NEW: The Philadelphia Housing Authority is planning sweeping layoffs that will affect more than 300 of the agency’s 1,200 employees.
Instead of directly employing union electricians, carpenters and other workers, beginning next year, the agency will contract out for those jobs as needed.
Instead of directly employing union electricians, carpenters and other workers, beginning next year, the agency will contract out for those jobs as needed.
Philly Housing Authority plans to lay off more than 300 workers in 2026
The layoffs come as the authority is pursuing an ambitious expansion plan.
www.inquirer.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:17 PM
NEW: The Philadelphia Housing Authority is planning sweeping layoffs that will affect more than 300 of the agency’s 1,200 employees.
Instead of directly employing union electricians, carpenters and other workers, beginning next year, the agency will contract out for those jobs as needed.
Instead of directly employing union electricians, carpenters and other workers, beginning next year, the agency will contract out for those jobs as needed.
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destruction comes for The New School
"The university's cycles of austerity+consolidation, betray a pattern where we are all being asked to work more for less, and at the expense of students and workers. We must stand together."
docs.google.com/document/u/2...
"The university's cycles of austerity+consolidation, betray a pattern where we are all being asked to work more for less, and at the expense of students and workers. We must stand together."
docs.google.com/document/u/2...
Statement on the President's Announcement of Austerity Measures
November 18, 2025 Dear Colleagues, We are writing with deep dismay over yesterday’s announcement of austerity measures made without meaningful, representative consultation with faculty, staff, or stud...
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November 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM
destruction comes for The New School
"The university's cycles of austerity+consolidation, betray a pattern where we are all being asked to work more for less, and at the expense of students and workers. We must stand together."
docs.google.com/document/u/2...
"The university's cycles of austerity+consolidation, betray a pattern where we are all being asked to work more for less, and at the expense of students and workers. We must stand together."
docs.google.com/document/u/2...
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"After half a decade of organizing, nearly 1,000 workers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art told mgmt that they want a chance to form a union."
Someone's been reading their McAlevey: "We didn't want to petition before we were sure we had a supermajority of support" ✊
hellgatenyc.com/met-union-nl...
Someone's been reading their McAlevey: "We didn't want to petition before we were sure we had a supermajority of support" ✊
hellgatenyc.com/met-union-nl...
Workers of the Met, Unite
Plus more news for your Tuesday morning.
hellgatenyc.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:43 PM
"After half a decade of organizing, nearly 1,000 workers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art told mgmt that they want a chance to form a union."
Someone's been reading their McAlevey: "We didn't want to petition before we were sure we had a supermajority of support" ✊
hellgatenyc.com/met-union-nl...
Someone's been reading their McAlevey: "We didn't want to petition before we were sure we had a supermajority of support" ✊
hellgatenyc.com/met-union-nl...
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Yesterday, our union was proud to join public higher ed workers across PA. Our coalition is unprecedented and growing. Community college and PASSHE, and Pitt, Temple and Penn State workers are calling on Harrisburg to fully fund public higher ed. Let’s go from the bottom 10 to the top 10.
November 19, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Yesterday, our union was proud to join public higher ed workers across PA. Our coalition is unprecedented and growing. Community college and PASSHE, and Pitt, Temple and Penn State workers are calling on Harrisburg to fully fund public higher ed. Let’s go from the bottom 10 to the top 10.
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WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
November 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
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Harvard's endowment now has almost $443 million invested in BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF
November 18, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Harvard's endowment now has almost $443 million invested in BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF
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Universities can win against fascism when faculty, students and staff come together to take action.
This decision is huge for not just UC, but all of us.
It was driven by faculty with #AAUP, and wouldn't have happened if they had waited for administration to save them.
#edusky
#academicsky
This decision is huge for not just UC, but all of us.
It was driven by faculty with #AAUP, and wouldn't have happened if they had waited for administration to save them.
#edusky
#academicsky
"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.
#DefendHigherEd
— Veena Dubal, AAUP General Counsel & law professor at the University of California, Irvine.
#DefendHigherEd
Judge Orders Trump Not to Threaten University of California’s Funding
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Universities can win against fascism when faculty, students and staff come together to take action.
This decision is huge for not just UC, but all of us.
It was driven by faculty with #AAUP, and wouldn't have happened if they had waited for administration to save them.
#edusky
#academicsky
This decision is huge for not just UC, but all of us.
It was driven by faculty with #AAUP, and wouldn't have happened if they had waited for administration to save them.
#edusky
#academicsky
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Harvard custodians launched a strike at 10 a.m. on Monday after union negotiations broke down on the eve of their contract’s expiration, their first strike in at least 50 years.
Hugo C. Chiasson and Amann S. Mahajan report.
Hugo C. Chiasson and Amann S. Mahajan report.
Harvard Custodians Begin Two-Day Strike for New Contract | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard custodians launched a strike shortly after 10 a.m. on Monday after union negotiations broke down on the eve of their contract’s expiration, their first strike in at least 50 years.
www.thecrimson.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Harvard custodians launched a strike at 10 a.m. on Monday after union negotiations broke down on the eve of their contract’s expiration, their first strike in at least 50 years.
Hugo C. Chiasson and Amann S. Mahajan report.
Hugo C. Chiasson and Amann S. Mahajan report.
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Starbucks workers are on strike. Chronic understaffing, unfair wages and hundreds of unfair labor practices pushed a 92% super-majority to walk out on Red Cup Day and beyond.
The Working People Podcast with @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social speaks with the baristas on taking an indefinite stand.
The Working People Podcast with @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social speaks with the baristas on taking an indefinite stand.
Facing unprecedented labor violations, Starbucks workers overwhelmingly agree to strike indefinitely
Unfair wages, chronic understaffing and hundreds of ULPs have led to a Starbucks Workers United super-majority vote to strike.
inthesetimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Starbucks workers are on strike. Chronic understaffing, unfair wages and hundreds of unfair labor practices pushed a 92% super-majority to walk out on Red Cup Day and beyond.
The Working People Podcast with @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social speaks with the baristas on taking an indefinite stand.
The Working People Podcast with @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social speaks with the baristas on taking an indefinite stand.
Tomorrow at noon! Join higher ed workers from all across PA in Harrisburg for a rally for respect and full funding! Register here: tinyurl.com/y7s4usk8
November 16, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Tomorrow at noon! Join higher ed workers from all across PA in Harrisburg for a rally for respect and full funding! Register here: tinyurl.com/y7s4usk8
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Penn's Title VI office failed to discuss allegations of violating academic freedom!
“The administration does not answer in any meaningful way to faculty...to staff or students, but instead has shown repeatedly that it answers to donors, lobbying organizations, & politicians."
- AAUP - Penn
“The administration does not answer in any meaningful way to faculty...to staff or students, but instead has shown repeatedly that it answers to donors, lobbying organizations, & politicians."
- AAUP - Penn
OREI failed to answer questions about alleged academic freedom violations, AAUP-Penn says
In an interview with the DP, a member of AAUP-Penn said that the OREI did not attend a follow-up meeting on Nov. 3 with the faculty group to hear and respond to questions outlined in the report.
www.thedp.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Penn's Title VI office failed to discuss allegations of violating academic freedom!
“The administration does not answer in any meaningful way to faculty...to staff or students, but instead has shown repeatedly that it answers to donors, lobbying organizations, & politicians."
- AAUP - Penn
“The administration does not answer in any meaningful way to faculty...to staff or students, but instead has shown repeatedly that it answers to donors, lobbying organizations, & politicians."
- AAUP - Penn
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Marc Rowan--a billionaire responsible for Trump's devastating loyalty oath compact--will step down from his advisory role at the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania in summer of 2026!
AAUP President Todd Wolfson discusses our November 7th action that led to this step forward.
AAUP President Todd Wolfson discusses our November 7th action that led to this step forward.
November 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Marc Rowan--a billionaire responsible for Trump's devastating loyalty oath compact--will step down from his advisory role at the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania in summer of 2026!
AAUP President Todd Wolfson discusses our November 7th action that led to this step forward.
AAUP President Todd Wolfson discusses our November 7th action that led to this step forward.