The Right Has Weaponized Title VI Investigations...
The Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom has resources for fighting back.
#DefendHigherEd
The Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom has resources for fighting back.
#DefendHigherEd
The Right Has Weaponized Title VI Investigations...
The Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom has resources for fighting back.
academicfreedomontheline.substack.com
October 30, 2026 at 10:59 PM
The Right Has Weaponized Title VI Investigations...
The Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom has resources for fighting back.
#DefendHigherEd
The Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom has resources for fighting back.
#DefendHigherEd
AAUP President Todd Wolfson: Trump's assault on American higher education is worse than McCarthyism.
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October 26, 2026 at 10:48 PM
AAUP President Todd Wolfson: Trump's assault on American higher education is worse than McCarthyism.
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Abdul El-Sayed is the kind of champion we need for American higher education.
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October 23, 2026 at 12:48 AM
Abdul El-Sayed is the kind of champion we need for American higher education.
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"Doing so will require more than statements of principles: we need contractually protected policies and procedures, and we need shared governance." #DefendHigherEd @aaup.org @aft.org @afthighered.bsky.social @aaupyale.org
yaledailynews.com
October 27, 2026 at 3:05 PM
"Doing so will require more than statements of principles: we need contractually protected policies and procedures, and we need shared governance." #DefendHigherEd @aaup.org @aft.org @afthighered.bsky.social @aaupyale.org
The future of America depends on investing in education and opening doors for the next generation. We need leaders who get that. Standing up for higher ed is standing up for our future! 📚🔥 #HigherEdVoter #DefendHigherEd
October 23, 2026 at 3:36 AM
The future of America depends on investing in education and opening doors for the next generation. We need leaders who get that. Standing up for higher ed is standing up for our future! 📚🔥 #HigherEdVoter #DefendHigherEd
“Building trust with employees would require two-sided communication and listening.” #DefendHigherEd @aaup.org @afthighered.bsky.social @csuaaup.bsky.social @kariswanson.bsky.social
Connecticut college system reforms face skepticism from faculty union leader
Connecticut's public college system, which does not include UConn, is tightening policies after a critical review of its handling of sexual harassment allegations. But a faculty union leader says rebu...
www.ctpublic.org
October 23, 2026 at 4:12 PM
“Building trust with employees would require two-sided communication and listening.” #DefendHigherEd @aaup.org @afthighered.bsky.social @csuaaup.bsky.social @kariswanson.bsky.social
"Let’s help @uconn.bsky.social’s students to have a say in #AI, and let’s mobilize as a community to protect them from exploitation." #DefendHigherEd @aaup.org @aft.org @afthighered.bsky.social @uconnaaup.bsky.social
Who is pushing generative AI at UConn?
For what purpose did our administration agree to enter student data into a corporate generative artificial intelligence (genAI) platform? In fall 2025, the UConn administration signed a contract wi…
dailycampus.com
October 21, 2026 at 1:08 PM
"Let’s help @uconn.bsky.social’s students to have a say in #AI, and let’s mobilize as a community to protect them from exploitation." #DefendHigherEd @aaup.org @aft.org @afthighered.bsky.social @uconnaaup.bsky.social
“I and many other faculty members expect that those who were derelict in their responsibilities will be held accountable.” #DefendHigherEd @afthighered.bsky.social @aaup.org @csuaaup.bsky.social @kariswanson.bsky.social
CSCU launches a way to track reforms after harassment scandal
The CSCU system announced it will undertake a series of reforms following the resignation of former interim Chancellor John Maduko.
ctmirror.org
October 16, 2026 at 6:17 PM
“I and many other faculty members expect that those who were derelict in their responsibilities will be held accountable.” #DefendHigherEd @afthighered.bsky.social @aaup.org @csuaaup.bsky.social @kariswanson.bsky.social
"That #HigherEd came to value voices and worldviews beyond those of elite, white males wasn’t “caused by a bunch of out-of-control, rampaging, wackadoodle professors. It’s the product of really good arguments.” #DefendHigherEd @aaup.org @afthighered.bsky.social @isaackamola.bsky.social
Does Viewpoint Diversity Require More Conservative Faculty?
Universities and groups pushing to change higher ed have said they support intellectual diversity and similar terms. But few say they’re explicitly trying to attract more right-leaning scholars.
www.insidehighered.com
October 15, 2026 at 4:29 PM
"That #HigherEd came to value voices and worldviews beyond those of elite, white males wasn’t “caused by a bunch of out-of-control, rampaging, wackadoodle professors. It’s the product of really good arguments.” #DefendHigherEd @aaup.org @afthighered.bsky.social @isaackamola.bsky.social
Yale had made one offer, seen it rejected, and made another, “essentially bargaining against itself.” #DefendHigherEd @aaup.org @afthighered.bsky.social @aaupyale.org @akapczynski.bsky.social
Yale’s Protest Tradition Is Back
For the first time in more than 50 years, Yale students gathered around an iconic sculpture to protest their university and their government.
www.thenation.com
October 9, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Yale had made one offer, seen it rejected, and made another, “essentially bargaining against itself.” #DefendHigherEd @aaup.org @afthighered.bsky.social @aaupyale.org @akapczynski.bsky.social
“I thought we were past the point of statements, right? We don’t just make statements, we need action.” #DefendHigherEd @aaup.org @afthighered.bsky.social @aaupyale.org @akapczynski.bsky.social
yaledailynews.com
October 5, 2026 at 3:36 PM
“I thought we were past the point of statements, right? We don’t just make statements, we need action.” #DefendHigherEd @aaup.org @afthighered.bsky.social @aaupyale.org @akapczynski.bsky.social
"Now comes the harder work...restoring meaningful shared governance...and rebuilding the university around the people whose labor, knowledge, relationships, and collective struggle actually keep it alive." #DefendHigherEd @aaup.org @afthighered.bsky.social @csuaaup.bsky.social
Opinion: An unsentimental obituary for the CCSU polytechnic vanity project
Nothing says student-centered public education like fastening the university’s future to a possible extinction machine.
ctmirror.org
October 5, 2026 at 4:30 PM
"Now comes the harder work...restoring meaningful shared governance...and rebuilding the university around the people whose labor, knowledge, relationships, and collective struggle actually keep it alive." #DefendHigherEd @aaup.org @afthighered.bsky.social @csuaaup.bsky.social
“'We told you so,' is not a claim of victory. It’s an urgent appeal that, this time, the people responsible will listen and act." #DefendHigherEd @aaup.org @afthighered.bsky.social @csuaaup.bsky.social
Opinion: CT’s CSCU governance and proposed reforms failed. People responsible must listen and act.
The General Assembly created the Board of Regents, defined its authority, and now has the power to investigate and change that structure.
www.courant.com
October 5, 2026 at 4:42 PM
“'We told you so,' is not a claim of victory. It’s an urgent appeal that, this time, the people responsible will listen and act." #DefendHigherEd @aaup.org @afthighered.bsky.social @csuaaup.bsky.social
AAUP is growing its national network of local university chapters. Check out AAUP's Defend Higher Ed starter pack here:
October 2, 2026 at 3:00 PM
CCU invites interested parties to provide feedback on the new draft standards by Oct. 12. Defeating the attack on independent accreditation will take all of us pushing back. Faculty senates & AAUP chapters should consider issuing statements & asking administrations to do the same.
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October 2, 2026 at 2:16 PM
CCU invites interested parties to provide feedback on the new draft standards by Oct. 12. Defeating the attack on independent accreditation will take all of us pushing back. Faculty senates & AAUP chapters should consider issuing statements & asking administrations to do the same.
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"Yale’s leaders are losing their quest to force this university to give in to an autocrat." #DefendHigherEd @aaup.org @aaupyale.org @gregggonsalves.bsky.social
Things Are Doubleplusgood at Yale (opinion)
The free expression facilitators will not save us.
www.insidehighered.com
September 21, 2026 at 4:06 PM
"Yale’s leaders are losing their quest to force this university to give in to an autocrat." #DefendHigherEd @aaup.org @aaupyale.org @gregggonsalves.bsky.social
"It is nonsensical to contend that advocates for one or another account of a university’s mission can themselves be neutral." #DefendHigherEd @aaup.org @aaupyale.org
Clarifying How Universities Should Deal with Controversy
Robert Post reviews The Opinionated University: Academic Freedom, Diversity, and the Myth of Neutrality in American Higher Education by Brian Soucek.
www.aaup.org
September 15, 2026 at 2:01 PM
"It is nonsensical to contend that advocates for one or another account of a university’s mission can themselves be neutral." #DefendHigherEd @aaup.org @aaupyale.org
Showing what true democracy looks like; our @aaupyale.org chapter joined students & alumni to organize a teach-in, modelling the courage they are demanding from their institution’s leaders. #DefendHigherEd @aaup.org @aft.org @afthighered.bsky.social (add’l 📸 credits: #DemocratizeYale coalition)
September 3, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Showing what true democracy looks like; our @aaupyale.org chapter joined students & alumni to organize a teach-in, modelling the courage they are demanding from their institution’s leaders. #DefendHigherEd @aaup.org @aft.org @afthighered.bsky.social (add’l 📸 credits: #DemocratizeYale coalition)
“You can’t be lecturing us about democracy and refuse to even take meetings with faculty.” #DefendHigherEd @aaup.org @aaupyale.org
Demonstrators ring in semester with calls to 'democratize Yale'
It was the first event of its kind since students returned to Yale for the start of the school year. But discontent has been brewing longer.
ctmirror.org
September 3, 2026 at 11:38 AM
“You can’t be lecturing us about democracy and refuse to even take meetings with faculty.” #DefendHigherEd @aaup.org @aaupyale.org
"...in the future, people will know a myriad of things that this regime did, to try to destroy the American experiment. And they just may do it. There’s more at stake here than one court settlement.” #DefendHigherEd @aaup.org @aaupyale.org
Yalies Protest Potential Trump Deal - New Haven Independent
Around 250 Yale professors, students, alumni and faculty gathered on Cross Campus Tuesday afternoon for a teach-in and rally demanding administrators “democratize Yale,” as university President Maurie...
www.newhavenindependent.org
September 2, 2026 at 12:21 PM
"...in the future, people will know a myriad of things that this regime did, to try to destroy the American experiment. And they just may do it. There’s more at stake here than one court settlement.” #DefendHigherEd @aaup.org @aaupyale.org
"...the policing of certain scholarship that is constructed as the antithesis of academic values is dangerously tied to the policing of entire communities on our campuses and within our nation." #DefendHigherEd @aaup.org @aaupyale.org
Tragedy at Vanderbilt – History of the Present
criticalnoise.org
August 28, 2026 at 2:59 PM
"...the policing of certain scholarship that is constructed as the antithesis of academic values is dangerously tied to the policing of entire communities on our campuses and within our nation." #DefendHigherEd @aaup.org @aaupyale.org
Improving "lives of patients, students, neighbors & families;" #union activists secured state resources to shore up research at CT’s flagship public university & medical academic center: aftct.org/2026/07/08/d... #DefendHigherEd @aft.org @afthighered.bsky.social @afthealthcare.bsky.social @aaup.org
August 12, 2026 at 9:57 PM
Improving "lives of patients, students, neighbors & families;" #union activists secured state resources to shore up research at CT’s flagship public university & medical academic center: aftct.org/2026/07/08/d... #DefendHigherEd @aft.org @afthighered.bsky.social @afthealthcare.bsky.social @aaup.org
The NEH is vital to supporting higher education, research, and the humanities. Putting staff on leave and halting grants is an attack on the institutions that preserve culture, foster critical thinking, and shape our future. #DefendHigherEd #SaveNEH www.npr.org/2025/04/04/n...
National Endowment for the Humanities staff put on immediate leave
A majority of NEH employees received an email placing them on immediate leave. The news comes just days after many humanities councils across the country were told their grants would be terminated.
www.npr.org
April 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The NEH is vital to supporting higher education, research, and the humanities. Putting staff on leave and halting grants is an attack on the institutions that preserve culture, foster critical thinking, and shape our future. #DefendHigherEd #SaveNEH www.npr.org/2025/04/04/n...
Trump's ultimatum to Columbia U is an assault on academic freedom & knowledge production. Forcing receivership sets a dangerous precedent, threatening higher ed autonomy nationwide. #DefendHigherEd #AcademicFreedom www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...
Why Trump’s Ultimatum to Columbia Could Upend Higher Education
A demand for the university’s administration to place the Middle Eastern studies department under receivership could signal a broader crackdown across the United States.
www.nytimes.com
March 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Trump's ultimatum to Columbia U is an assault on academic freedom & knowledge production. Forcing receivership sets a dangerous precedent, threatening higher ed autonomy nationwide. #DefendHigherEd #AcademicFreedom www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...
Higher education fuels our collective future. Universities drive innovation, tackle global challenges, & empower citizens through research and learning. Here’s how they serve the public good: 🧵 #SaveHigherEd #DefendHigherEd #DefendScience #NIH #NSF #science #highered
February 21, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Higher education fuels our collective future. Universities drive innovation, tackle global challenges, & empower citizens through research and learning. Here’s how they serve the public good: 🧵 #SaveHigherEd #DefendHigherEd #DefendScience #NIH #NSF #science #highered