@aft.org & @aaup.org's vision is clear. Higher ed should:
🎓Be free and accessible
🎓Provide dignity, fair pay & job security for all who work in it
🎓Create a pathway to dignified, well-paying jobs
🎓Drive state & regional economies
🎓Advance research in the public interest
🎓Be governed democratically
From our Report on Academic Freedom at Yale: nearly 70% of faculty say their academic freedom has declined since January 2025. The university must act to protect free expression and debate in the classroom and beyond it.
🚨”Presidents of University of Texas System universities can more easily eliminate academic programs and cut faculty positions in “extraordinary” circumstances, after UT System Regents approved a policy change Thursday.”
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The policy changes come as UT consolidates ethnic and gender studies programs amid conservative backlash and as other Texas universities end them entirely.
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Unions of our Own
Join @dgorganize.bsky.social for a conversation with @chenjerai.bsky.social about how to tackle problems in the workplace and how to agitate to win change, hosted with @aaup.org and @sununion.org
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Yale AAUP
"Higher education has been one of the most powerful engines of opportunity, innovation & democracy in our nation’s history. It can be again. The task now is not simply to defend it. It is to rebuild it so it truly serves the public."
—Todd Wolfson & Randi Weingarten
UW AAUP delivered a petition to the president & provost demanding faculty input in addressing UW’s financial crisis.
“They're not giving us an honest picture of what the needs are & problems are...The trajectory we see UW on is getting worse for the students who we're dedicated to."
#AcademicSKy
Texas Conference of the AAUP
To explain this for my non-science followers. Such a proposal would be to create a black box around review of scientific proposals - this reduction in transparency is what you would do if you wanted to make political or partisan decisions about funding and not scientific ones
Yesterday was a true game changer for thousands of educators in Maryland. 9,000 workers in higher education will have a voice at the table to shape the colleges & universities students & staff deserve! bsky.app/profile/uam-...
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A Report from the Yale Chapter of the AAUP — SPRING 2026 This report presents findings from a survey of the Yale faculty on the state of academic freedom at the University. The survey was conducted…
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Our bill—giving 9K faculty across MD collective bargaining rights—was signed into law today!
Huge thanks goes to @govwesmoore.bsky.social @senbillferg.bsky.social @mdhousedems.bsky.social @aaup.org @aft.org @aftmaryland.bsky.social @afthighered.bsky.social @local6741.bsky.social!
www.highereddive.com
The heads of the American Association of University Professors and the American Federation of Teachers lay out their vision for overhauling the sector.
Join labor organizer Daniel Gross in conversation with Chenjerai Kumanyika, as they discuss how to tackle problems in the workplace and how to agitate to win…www.youtube.com
I heard from several sources yesterday that NIH is planning to release a Request for Information (RFI) that apparently will include this:
Scores and percentiles for NIH grant applications will not be shared with applicants although they will be provided to NIH program officers and staff.
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The heads of the American Association of University Professors and the American Federation of Teachers lay out their vision for overhauling the sector.
