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Texas Conference of the AAUP
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We are an association of all AAUP members in Texas #HigherEd. Join us as we advocate for faculty and instructors through the state. Become involved in a local chapter or start one!

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November 13, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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📢📢 We are proud to stand in solidarity today at this Texas State Employees Union rally for Dr. Tom Alter who was unjustly fired from Texas State University for exercising his right to free speech. The Texas State Board of Regents must reinstate Dr. Alter immediately! ✊
Dr. Tom Alter wears a black sweater and stands at a microphone in front of a group of Texas State Employees Union members. Many demonstrators carry a yellow sign saying “Defend Free Speech.”
November 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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⭐️⭐️⭐️ Rally today outside the Board of Regents meeting at 2pm to demand the reinstatement of Texas State Prof. Tom Alter! We’ll see you there!
Poster for Prof. Tom Alter who was fired from Texas State for exercising his first amendment rights. Black text on white background. Image shows Dr. Alter in a red shirt with his dog.
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Shout out to members of the AAUP Chapter at Rice who participated in the National Day of Action for Higher Education last Friday. We are stronger together! ✊✊✊
Five faculty members at Rice University stand behind a table with an AAUP banner and promotional materials. Five faculty members at Rice University stand behind a red tabletop with AAUP promotional materials.
November 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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🚨🚨 Texas A&M Board of Regents is meeting next week and set to approve a new policy requiring pre-approval of courses on race and gender. This is a blatant violation of academic freedom.
November 8, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Yesterday UT Austin students protested yet again against the Compact for higher education. UT is not for sale! #LonghornPride #SaveUT👏✊👊
Student signs read “UT is Not For Sale” and “Reject the Compact” A large student sign says “Students over Profit: Reject the Compact.” Students gather in front of the UT Tower. Students marching across campus holding signs.
October 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Hey, Texas Higher Ed workers, meet us at Capitol today! We’ll be at the African American Memorial beginning at 1:45. “No Crowns. No Thrones. No Compact.” ✊
Image of a crown crossed out in red. Logos for Texas Conference of the AAUP and Texas AFT. “No Crowns. No Thrones. No Compact.” Written in bold black text and highlighted in yellow.
October 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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⭐️⭐️Statement from Dr. Tom Alter following his firing today from Texas State University. This is a massive loss for #academicfreedom and First Amendment rights at Texas State. Our fight for Dr. Alter will continue. ✊
Black text on shaded blue background moving from teal to pale blue. “Committee to Defend Tom Alter” in bold black and red.
October 14, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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⭐️Rally for fired Texas State history professor Dr. Tom Alter and for #FreeSpeech this Thursday, September 25th, 11am at the Hays County Courthouse, San Marcos. ✊
Yellow poster with three images of protests for free speech and labor unions. Featured speakers from TSEU, AAUP, Texas AFL-CIO, elected officials and more.
September 22, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Student-led demonstration for #academicfreedom TOMORROW at Texas A&M 6pm! 👏✊👇
Poster on brown background featuring circular, colorful emblems representing various student orgs at A&M: MOVE Texas A&M, Texas A&M Rising, Secular Student Alliance, TAMU QEC, Pols Aggies and Texas Aggie Democrats.
September 21, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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⭐️ TODAY: Texas State Employees Union press release condemns the firing of Texas State University professor for statements he made as a private citizen. ✊👇

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Images show text of press release in black and blue ink on white pages. Full text here: https://texasaflcio.org/sites/default/files/2025-09/09-11_release_tseu_firing.pdf Images show text of press release in black and blue ink on white pages. Full text here: https://texasaflcio.org/sites/default/files/2025-09/09-11_release_tseu_firing.pdf
September 12, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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🌟💫Congratulations to the Alamo Colleges’ new AAUP Chapter! The Alamo Colleges launched their chapter last month and had the most new members join in August among all 40 chapters in the Texas Conference of the AAUP. Way to go!! 👏👏
Black poster celebrating the Alamo Colleges’ new AAUP chapter which had the most new members join in August of all AAUP chapters in the TX conference. One image shows unorganized small fish being overpowered by a larger fish with the words “Do Not Panic”, and another showing the small fish organized in formation to overpower the larger fish. The image says: “Organize.”
September 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Hey, Texans! 🤠 See you at the Capitol this Sunday for an urgent rally! Let’s tell our state and national leaders: Hands Off Our Students and #HandsOffHigherEd! 👏👏👏
A poster showing fists in the air and calling for a Hands Off Higher Ed rally from 12-3pm at the Texas Capitol to protect immigrant and LGBTQ students, the Texas Dream Act and Faculty senates.
May 24, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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🤠 See you there, this Sunday at the Texas Capitol! #HandsOffHigherEd
May 19, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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😊 Thank you to Dr. Maria Del Carmen Unda of ⁦Black & Brown Dialogues on Policy‬⁩ for speaking today! Bills like SB12 and SB37 “destabilize the very conditions we need to build a just and representative public education system. These bills are not grounded in the needs of TX communities.” 🔥
Dr. Maria Unda speaks before a group of students and educators at the Texas Capitol’s outdoor rotunda.
May 15, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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⭐️ Aihanuwa Ale-Opinion, U of Houston student: “I remember learning in middle school about government censorship…where students are fed sanitized, state-approved versions of history…. SB37 mimics these authoritarian tactics + holds university funding hostage for noncompliance.”
Aihanuwa Ale-Opinion, U of Houston student, stands before a crowd of educators and students in the outdoor rotunda at the Texas Capitol.
May 15, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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📢 Our president, Brian Evans, speaking out today at our press conference AGAINST SB37. His message to lawmakers: let teachers teach so students can learn! Hands off TX public colleges, universities and medical institutions. 👏👏
Brian Evans, president of the Texas Conference of the AAUP, stands before a group of educators and students at the outdoor rotunda at the Texas Capitol.
May 15, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Agenda for today’s Senate Subcommittee Hearing on K-16 education. ⬇️
March 20, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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☎️☎️☎️Calling all Texans concerned about the future of #HigherEd in our state! There will be a Senate hearing on SB 37 Thursday. This bill will decimate shared governance, due process, + academic freedom. Join us at the Capitol to testify against SB 37 to protect our colleges and universities!! ⬇️
March 18, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Rep. James Talarico says there’s lots of time left on the clock 🕰️ to win the fight against vouchers! 💪💪
Rep. James Talarico speaks before an audience of educators.
March 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Dr. David DeMatthews, an expert in K-12 education, speaking about the theory and practice of vouchers at AFT’s legislative training at the Capitol today. The practice shows that vouchers are a failure.😡
A professor stands at the front of the room giving a presentation to seated audience members.
March 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Several hundred educators showed up for the Texas AAUP and Texas AFT (American Federation of Teachers) Educator’s Advocacy Day at the State Capitol! We are stronger together! 💪💪💪 @texasaft.org
March 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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AAUP members, including our former president Jim Klein, at the MLK Day March in Corpus Christi. The quote below is taken from King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere...Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” ✊
January 20, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Texas AAUP-AFT and @TexasAFT leaders at the Capitol on opening day of session yesterday. Thank you all for being there and fighting for Texas educators! 👏👏👏
A group of advocates stands on the steps of the Texas Capitol with their fists raised.
January 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM