CT State Conference-AAUP
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Connecticut conference of the American Association of University Professors. We represent all AAUP members in CT.
https://ctsc-aaup.org/
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This garbage bill would:
--remove research from the review of non-STEM faculty, making tenure decisions based exclusively on teaching
--require a 3-3 teaching load
--prioritize “American Constitutionalism and Western Civilization”
--give politicians and political appointees oversight of research
--remove research from the review of non-STEM faculty, making tenure decisions based exclusively on teaching
--require a 3-3 teaching load
--prioritize “American Constitutionalism and Western Civilization”
--give politicians and political appointees oversight of research
The James G. Martin Center has released model legislation to put non-STEM faculty under the thumb of university boards and administrators. Look for red states to take this up soon.
jamesgmartin.center/2025/12/amer...
jamesgmartin.center/2025/12/amer...
American Higher Education Restoration Act — The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
This suite of reforms prioritizes excellence in teaching and ideological diversity and intellectual seriousness in faculty hiring.
jamesgmartin.center
December 10, 2025 at 5:01 AM
This garbage bill would:
--remove research from the review of non-STEM faculty, making tenure decisions based exclusively on teaching
--require a 3-3 teaching load
--prioritize “American Constitutionalism and Western Civilization”
--give politicians and political appointees oversight of research
--remove research from the review of non-STEM faculty, making tenure decisions based exclusively on teaching
--require a 3-3 teaching load
--prioritize “American Constitutionalism and Western Civilization”
--give politicians and political appointees oversight of research
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Happening now: #union members join @blumenthal.senate.gov to denounce fed @dol.gov's move to deprofessionalize RN degree programs, escalate #StudentDebt crisis. #CodeREDCT @aft.org @afthealthcare.bsky.social @afthighered.bsky.social @aaup.org @seiu.org @democrats.senate.gov
December 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Happening now: #union members join @blumenthal.senate.gov to denounce fed @dol.gov's move to deprofessionalize RN degree programs, escalate #StudentDebt crisis. #CodeREDCT @aft.org @afthealthcare.bsky.social @afthighered.bsky.social @aaup.org @seiu.org @democrats.senate.gov
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AAUP is livestreaming the rally and press conference against extreme austerity measures and the proposed termination of 40% of full-time faculty at The New School right now.
Watch here:
www.youtube.com/live/iT2HhjU...
Watch here:
www.youtube.com/live/iT2HhjU...
AAUP TV LIVESTREAM: Rally Against Extreme Austerity Measures Outside Board of Trustees Meeting
YouTube video by TheAAUP
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December 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
AAUP is livestreaming the rally and press conference against extreme austerity measures and the proposed termination of 40% of full-time faculty at The New School right now.
Watch here:
www.youtube.com/live/iT2HhjU...
Watch here:
www.youtube.com/live/iT2HhjU...
“I think it’s even more important for UConn to be a place of free exchange of ideas, to live up to its ideal as a higher education institution”
-- Chen Chen (UConn AAUP)
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-- Chen Chen (UConn AAUP)
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Costumed Protesters Demand Academic Freedom Protections At UConn | CT News Junkie
The event, described by organizers as a “joyful” demonstration, was intended to challenge what they view as restrictive university policies and a refusal by UConn administrators to guarantee academic ...
ctnewsjunkie.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:14 AM
“I think it’s even more important for UConn to be a place of free exchange of ideas, to live up to its ideal as a higher education institution”
-- Chen Chen (UConn AAUP)
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-- Chen Chen (UConn AAUP)
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"Many faculty feel kind of in the dark about these processes"
--Daniel Martinez HoSang (President of Yale AAUP), calling for more participation from faculty, students, and staff in budget priorities, as Yale considers potential layoffs
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--Daniel Martinez HoSang (President of Yale AAUP), calling for more participation from faculty, students, and staff in budget priorities, as Yale considers potential layoffs
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Yale hints at layoffs to help pay for endowment tax hike under Trump administration
The university estimates it will pay the federal government $300 million per year beginning in July 2026.
www.ctpublic.org
December 11, 2025 at 2:12 AM
"Many faculty feel kind of in the dark about these processes"
--Daniel Martinez HoSang (President of Yale AAUP), calling for more participation from faculty, students, and staff in budget priorities, as Yale considers potential layoffs
@yaleaaup.bsky.social
--Daniel Martinez HoSang (President of Yale AAUP), calling for more participation from faculty, students, and staff in budget priorities, as Yale considers potential layoffs
@yaleaaup.bsky.social
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The AAUP Ad Hoc committee on AI and Academic Professions & colleagues will discuss ongoing strategy building in the movement for tech justice and freedom from surveillance.
We also want to hear from you – what you are thinking about, your needs & how you engage with the topic of AI in education.
We also want to hear from you – what you are thinking about, your needs & how you engage with the topic of AI in education.
December 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
The AAUP Ad Hoc committee on AI and Academic Professions & colleagues will discuss ongoing strategy building in the movement for tech justice and freedom from surveillance.
We also want to hear from you – what you are thinking about, your needs & how you engage with the topic of AI in education.
We also want to hear from you – what you are thinking about, your needs & how you engage with the topic of AI in education.
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AI is not inevitable: A conversation with educators, unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience!
Join your colleagues from across pre-K-12 and higher ed for a webinar on exercising worker power in the age of AI.
December 11, 4-5 p.m. ET on Zoom
Link to register below👇
Join your colleagues from across pre-K-12 and higher ed for a webinar on exercising worker power in the age of AI.
December 11, 4-5 p.m. ET on Zoom
Link to register below👇
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: AI is Not Inevitable. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
A conversation with educators, education unions and Collaborative Research Center for Resilience
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December 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
AI is not inevitable: A conversation with educators, unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience!
Join your colleagues from across pre-K-12 and higher ed for a webinar on exercising worker power in the age of AI.
December 11, 4-5 p.m. ET on Zoom
Link to register below👇
Join your colleagues from across pre-K-12 and higher ed for a webinar on exercising worker power in the age of AI.
December 11, 4-5 p.m. ET on Zoom
Link to register below👇
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Hey UConn, protect academic freedom now! @aaup.org #adminsofragile
December 1, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Hey UConn, protect academic freedom now! @aaup.org #adminsofragile
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"At the end of the day, defending academic freedom is defending democracy. UConn must be a marketplace of ideas, not a walled garden for the ivory tower."
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Opinion: Academic freedom should extend to UConn graduate assistants
Graduate assistants following UConn’s values by speaking clearly, honestly, and frankly deserve the same protection as any full professor.
ctmirror.org
November 29, 2025 at 2:34 PM
"At the end of the day, defending academic freedom is defending democracy. UConn must be a marketplace of ideas, not a walled garden for the ivory tower."
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Curtailment of faculty authority in governing higher education institutions today will not only undermine professional freedoms--it will spoil the fruits of those freedoms: an independent, intellectually rigorous, and incorruptible education for future generations
-- Afshan Jafar (Conn AAUP)
-- Afshan Jafar (Conn AAUP)
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…
academeblog.org
November 30, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Curtailment of faculty authority in governing higher education institutions today will not only undermine professional freedoms--it will spoil the fruits of those freedoms: an independent, intellectually rigorous, and incorruptible education for future generations
-- Afshan Jafar (Conn AAUP)
-- Afshan Jafar (Conn AAUP)
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"An important lesson we can draw from the new report is that our failure in higher education to defend, without giving any ground, pro-Palestinian speech has proven to be not just costly, but nothing less than an existential threat." Dan Segal on the AAUP-MESA Report. wp.me/p8xr4h-dit
The New AAUP-MESA Report on Our Moment’s Campus Repression
BY DANIEL SEGAL It is the rare faculty member who today is unaware of the significant increase in attacks on speech rights and academic freedom protections on U.S. campuses over the past two years.…
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November 15, 2025 at 2:10 AM
"An important lesson we can draw from the new report is that our failure in higher education to defend, without giving any ground, pro-Palestinian speech has proven to be not just costly, but nothing less than an existential threat." Dan Segal on the AAUP-MESA Report. wp.me/p8xr4h-dit
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UConn professors get ZERO days of guaranteed paid family leave 🤯
UConn AAUP is negotiating for paid family leave as well as better safeguards for academic freedom and more robust protections for faculty working on contracts.
Read more about their contract demands here👇
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UConn AAUP is negotiating for paid family leave as well as better safeguards for academic freedom and more robust protections for faculty working on contracts.
Read more about their contract demands here👇
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LTTE: Support UConn Faculty’s Reasonable Contract Demands
For months now, the UConn-AAUP negotiating team has made minimal progress at the bargaining table across from the UConn administration’s negotiators.
dailycampus.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:20 PM
UConn professors get ZERO days of guaranteed paid family leave 🤯
UConn AAUP is negotiating for paid family leave as well as better safeguards for academic freedom and more robust protections for faculty working on contracts.
Read more about their contract demands here👇
@uconnaaup.bsky.social
UConn AAUP is negotiating for paid family leave as well as better safeguards for academic freedom and more robust protections for faculty working on contracts.
Read more about their contract demands here👇
@uconnaaup.bsky.social
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Faculty senates are under attack from new legislation that sidelines faculty voices and undermines academic freedom. The latest AAUP report defends independent, representative governance as essential to higher ed’s integrity. @aaup.org academeblog.org/2025/11/18/i...
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…
academeblog.org
November 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Faculty senates are under attack from new legislation that sidelines faculty voices and undermines academic freedom. The latest AAUP report defends independent, representative governance as essential to higher ed’s integrity. @aaup.org academeblog.org/2025/11/18/i...
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The unity of students, faculty & staff powered our legal victories against the Trump admin!
Administrators & elected officials are not the ones filing the lawsuits against the Trump admin when our universities are under attack. Rather, faculty, students & staff are the ones defending higher ed.
Administrators & elected officials are not the ones filing the lawsuits against the Trump admin when our universities are under attack. Rather, faculty, students & staff are the ones defending higher ed.
November 23, 2025 at 7:39 PM
The unity of students, faculty & staff powered our legal victories against the Trump admin!
Administrators & elected officials are not the ones filing the lawsuits against the Trump admin when our universities are under attack. Rather, faculty, students & staff are the ones defending higher ed.
Administrators & elected officials are not the ones filing the lawsuits against the Trump admin when our universities are under attack. Rather, faculty, students & staff are the ones defending higher ed.
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“It’s not inconceivable to me why they haven’t been more vocal; I just challenge the idea that people haven’t paid a price. I think faculty have paid a price, and students have paid a price.” #AcademicFreedom @yaleaaup.bsky.social @aaup.org
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/11/21/as-yale-and-harvard-meet-treatment-by-trump-sets-them-apart/“It’s
November 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
“It’s not inconceivable to me why they haven’t been more vocal; I just challenge the idea that people haven’t paid a price. I think faculty have paid a price, and students have paid a price.” #AcademicFreedom @yaleaaup.bsky.social @aaup.org
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AAUP members qualify for liability insurance and other legal resources, including protection for charges brought by students or a parent claiming an AAUP-AFT member denied their Constitutional rights or committed libel, slander, invasion of privacy, or a criminal act.
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Check out our webinar👇
Professional Liability Insurance and Legal Resources webinar
Join us for a virtual informational session with an AFT representative to learn more about the legal benefits and professional liability insurance available to AAUP members. It provides liability…
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November 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
AAUP members qualify for liability insurance and other legal resources, including protection for charges brought by students or a parent claiming an AAUP-AFT member denied their Constitutional rights or committed libel, slander, invasion of privacy, or a criminal act.
Check out our webinar👇
Check out our webinar👇
UConn-AAUP calls for quality, humane working conditions: "It is time for President Maric’s negotiators to agree to our important contract proposals on academic freedom, paid family and caregiver leave, and job security for clinical, in-residence and extension (CIRE) faculty"
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LTTE: Support UConn Faculty’s Reasonable Contract Demands
For months now, the UConn-AAUP negotiating team has made minimal progress at the bargaining table across from the UConn administration’s negotiators.
dailycampus.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:09 AM
UConn-AAUP calls for quality, humane working conditions: "It is time for President Maric’s negotiators to agree to our important contract proposals on academic freedom, paid family and caregiver leave, and job security for clinical, in-residence and extension (CIRE) faculty"
@uconnaaup.bsky.social
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“We wanted to address a frustrating narrative we’ve been hearing more frequently—that Yale has somehow been exempted from the funding freezes and disruptions affecting other institutions”
-- Daniel HoSang, President of Yale AAUP
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-- Daniel HoSang, President of Yale AAUP
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Professors lament federal research funding cuts at faculty panel
The Yale chapter of the American Association of University Professors held a virtual panel Thursday featuring six faculty members who have been affected by President Donald Trump’s cuts.
yaledailynews.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:59 PM
“We wanted to address a frustrating narrative we’ve been hearing more frequently—that Yale has somehow been exempted from the funding freezes and disruptions affecting other institutions”
-- Daniel HoSang, President of Yale AAUP
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-- Daniel HoSang, President of Yale AAUP
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"What we need to work on is preserving and protecting the freedom to express all ideas — that’s what makes for a good university."
-- Christel Manning, President of Sacred Heart University AAUP
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-- Christel Manning, President of Sacred Heart University AAUP
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Higher Education Concerns Regarding Compact Proposal – The Spectrum Newspaper
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November 29, 2025 at 11:25 PM
"What we need to work on is preserving and protecting the freedom to express all ideas — that’s what makes for a good university."
-- Christel Manning, President of Sacred Heart University AAUP
www.shuspectrum.com/archives/new...
-- Christel Manning, President of Sacred Heart University AAUP
www.shuspectrum.com/archives/new...
Just out: In Defense of an Independent and Representative Faculty Voice: The Case of Faculty Senates
In Defense of an Independent and Representative Faculty Voice: The Case of Faculty Senates
This report, prepared by a subcommittee of the AAUP’s Committee on College and University Governance, reexamines the necessity of strong faculty senates through the lens of the Statement on Government...
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November 29, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Just out: In Defense of an Independent and Representative Faculty Voice: The Case of Faculty Senates
Read the latest posts on the AAUP’s Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom’s Substack!
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You Can't Count on Legislatures or Leadership to Protect Academic Freedom
What do we do when state and institutional leadership attacks freedoms?
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November 29, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Read the latest posts on the AAUP’s Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom’s Substack!
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WE WON!!!
The US District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a preliminary injunction in AAUP et al v. Trump et al (the wall to wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of Title VI to reshape the University of California system.
Read the order here:
The US District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a preliminary injunction in AAUP et al v. Trump et al (the wall to wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of Title VI to reshape the University of California system.
Read the order here:
democracyforward.org
November 15, 2025 at 1:21 AM
WE WON!!!
The US District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a preliminary injunction in AAUP et al v. Trump et al (the wall to wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of Title VI to reshape the University of California system.
Read the order here:
The US District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a preliminary injunction in AAUP et al v. Trump et al (the wall to wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of Title VI to reshape the University of California system.
Read the order here:
"We want to make sure that everyone on campus is prepared to resist" -- Jeffers Lennox
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AAUP Rallies Students, Faculty, and Community Members Against Trump Attacks on Academia – The Wesleyan Argus
wesleyanargus.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:08 PM
"We want to make sure that everyone on campus is prepared to resist" -- Jeffers Lennox
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"We are calling on our institutional leadership, our governor and our state officials to stand up, speak up, and have the courage to protect academic freedom and reject the federal administration so called compact for higher education" --Neena Qasba, vice president of UCHC-AAUP
CT professors call on higher ed leaders to reject Trump's compact and defend higher education
The compact asks colleges and universities to align their practices and policies with the president's agenda.
www.ctinsider.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:36 PM
"We are calling on our institutional leadership, our governor and our state officials to stand up, speak up, and have the courage to protect academic freedom and reject the federal administration so called compact for higher education" --Neena Qasba, vice president of UCHC-AAUP
"Besides risking some of its best part-time faculty to burnout and the kind of bone-deep frustration that comes with being consistently undervalued, taking advantage of contingent adjuncts has a cost" in terms of student retention -- Katy Mulvaney, member of CSU-AAUP @csuaaup.bsky.social
Opinion: Faculty matter most. So where’s the support?
Faculty “is the #1 predictor for student return, retention, and graduation, above and beyond all other factors.
ctmirror.org
November 8, 2025 at 9:18 PM
"Besides risking some of its best part-time faculty to burnout and the kind of bone-deep frustration that comes with being consistently undervalued, taking advantage of contingent adjuncts has a cost" in terms of student retention -- Katy Mulvaney, member of CSU-AAUP @csuaaup.bsky.social