Today, the AAUP’s Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom released a new white paper that examines the partisan megadonors funding of right wing attacks on higher education.
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Read the full report here:

aaup.org/article/manufa…

My white paper 'Manufacturing Backlash' is now published with American Association of University Professors. It offers a systematic analysis of the anti-CRT, anti-DEI, anti-tenure, and anti-accreditation legislation introduced during the 2021, 2022, 2023 legislative cycles. Check it out. aaup.org/article/manufa…

It did not have to be this way. Student protests need not have thrown college campuses into chaos.

As Irene Mulvey, AAUP president, has said of the current campus protests, “The way forward is through education, dialogue, communication.”

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✴️✴️✴️ Here’s a link to join @aaup and several reasons to consider joining. We fight for academic freedom, shared governance, and due process in higher education. All of these are under attack in Texas. Join to participate in campus, state, and national organizing! ✊🏽✊🏾✊

“The university has not yet agreed to an independent review of its decision to call
in state police.” nytimes.com/video/us/10000…

Reports incoming that PERB denied UC's request for an injunction. UAW 4811 strike will go ahead at UCLA and UC Davis on Tuesday.

As faculty, you have the legal right not to pick up struck work.

Read our FAQ for more: uclafa.org/2024/05/15/kno…

UVa faculty call for review of police force on campus. @aaup ⁦UVA⁩
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#academicfreedomforafreesociety

✴️✴️New documents: At UT Austin, 71% of the 50 faculty and staff terminated were women and 73% were non-white, according to the documents. The state’s flagship university had the largest number of #DEI employees prior to the ban and faced the largest cuts. dallasnews.com/news/education…

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'Civil discourse and critical inquiry are not abstract concepts in the encampment. They are active principles.'
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In the April session management continued to raise the constraints of the city & state pattern on their overall economic offer. The union challenged the idea of a limited “pie” created by the pattern...

Contract for #APeoplesCUNY

More details here: psc-cuny.org/issues/contrac…

An American Association of University Professors chapter at Harvard University! Welcome!!

I look forward to voting to approve your charter.

Again for the people in the back: aaup.org/membership/sta…

These hearings are “performative political theatre,” said Irene Mulvey, AAUP president.

University presidents should “stand up & provide a full-throated & robust defense of #academicfreedom , free speech, & assembly rights for students.”

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'Free speech, free expression & #academicfreedom are the core values of our university & we will protect them. At the same time, academic freedom & free expression do not allow discrimination, harassment or intimidation.' - Northwestern president Michael Schill.

With the rise in campus antisemitism, Republicans believe they have found an issue on which they can display moral leadership (in some eyes) and garner political capital to help win back the The White House and full control of Congress. After the April hearing, House Speaker Mike Johnson