“If this kind of austerity can happen at The News School, it can happen everywhere. Faculty all over the country need to be on guard. We need strong labor unions.”
— Jeremy Varon, New School AAUP President on @democracynow.org today.
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AAUP members came together @ the Higher Ed Summit & Biennial to approve a package of critical proposals that will serve as a sweeping strategic blueprint for our Union to build structural power & go on the offensive against the political & economic threats to higher ed in this moment.
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“Universities continue to push partnerships with AI companies—even as students themselves openly mock AI output & its makers as “clankers.” At graduations across the country students have booed CEOs & industry speakers who boost AI as the inevitable future, & jeered admin who use AI systems.”
“We have shown that when the government tries to turn fear into policy, the AAUP will answer with law, with organizing, with solidarity, & with the oldest commitment we have: the defense of academic freedom for the common good.”
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“I want faculty to leave here recognizing that for us to transform our situation—whether it’s in our classrooms, in our departments, on our campuses, in our states or nationally—we have everything we need to do it. We can play a role in transforming our democracy.”
— AAUP President Todd Wolfson
Powerful plenary to start day 2 of the #AAUP2026 Higher Ed Summit on who controls the future: democratic institutions & workers or authoritarians & corporate power?
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w/ @democracynow.org’s Juan Gonzalez, Mohsen Mahdawi, @hellobrittparis.bsky.social, & @ncaaup.bsky.social’s
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What a POWERFUL Higher Ed Summit this week in Chicago centering the work of building a strong movement to defend the quality & promise of higher ed & our democracy in this pivotal moment.
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The AAUP Higher Ed Summit & Biennial in Chicago is in full effect!
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Exciting week ahead at the AAUP Higher Ed Summit in Chicago!
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At the first biennial since President Donald Trump retook office, faculty members strategized about how to resist increasing political interference in their work and on their campuses.
New on Academe Blog from @hellobrittparis.bsky.social of @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social:
Here are the notes from my @aaup.org Legal Update, delivered by the incredible @sbagen.bsky.social at the Biennial this last week!
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BY VEENA DUBAL The following report by AAUP General Counsel Veena Dubal, Professor of Law at the University of California at Irvine, was delivered to the AAUP’s biennial meeting in Chicago on…
BY BRITT PARIS As AI companies are flailing, financial forecasters warn of an AI bubble. There is an extensive list of harms AI poses to workers, students, communities, the environment, and the soc…
