The 2026 @aaup.org Faculty in the South Survey is live. If you are faculty in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas please take a second to fill it out: forms.gle/iLheVskd4wcA...

2026 AAUP Faculty in the South Survey

The Georgia conference of the American Association of University Professors [AAUP] and its partners in states across the South have been at the forefront of fighting attacks on higher education. To as...

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22 years vegan today! It feels good.

Write a horror story for academics in two words: It’s August.

There is a great reading list in this article!

Lisa LeVasseur@lalevasseur.bsky.social · 3d ago

Love this framing @tressiemcphd.bsky.social data politics doesn’t happen without data economics. Central to this must also be acknowledging the immorality of personal data as a market/good. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...

Update on CCCC 2027 I just got off a call with Antero Garcia and Emily Kirkpatrick. 1/21

Jesus fucking Christ. The hits keep coming for compositionists.

Seth Kahn (he/him)@badpacifist.bsky.social · last wk.

Sending vibes to @janerosenzweig.bsky.social. What an appalling decision.

Sadly true.

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · last wk.

Joke‘s on me because MOOCs failed at being remembered and but MOOC politics absolutely won the university.

@votesaveamerica.crooked.com is hosting a book club featuring @benwikler.bsky.social new book This is the Plan. This is the most amazing book I have read. Ben is joining us for the last book session. Come join us for a great book and discussions www.mobilize.us/vsa/event/98...

Vote Save America Summer Book Club: "This Is The Plan" by Ben Wikler · Vote Save America PAC

The VSA book club is back! Come read and discuss **“This is the Plan”** by former Wisconsin state party chair **Ben Wikler**. We’ve got a lot of elections to win this year, and there is no better orga...

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Hey @insidehighered.com @chronicle.com Want to report on how the professional organization for college writing (including the top required college course) was just dissolved by its parent org? ncte.org/press-update...

Email and request refunds: customer-service@ncte.org #NCTE I can’t this weekend. But I’ll develop my email and do it first thing and then I’ll share folks who allow me to share their refund requests and we’ll divest.

About NCTE's vote today to dissolve CCCCs: This is absolutely DOGE-style politics. I am infuriated for everyone who poured their hard work & energy into this org & worked to make it better. What disrespectful, cowardly action.

The CCCC Exec Committee released a brief statement on the NCTE’s intention to dissolve CCCC. "CCCC is the professional home for thousands of scholars, teachers, and researchers...with a decades-long record of shaping how writing is taught, studied, and understood."

CCCC EC Quick Response July 23

Public Facing Statement To be Shared With the General CCCC Membership We, members of the CCCC Executive Committee, were alarmed to learn of the NCTE Presidential Team’s plans to dissolve CCCC, which ...

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I've sent some letters! Here's some info so you can too.

Michelle Chen@michellechn.bsky.social · 2w ago

Apparently there's still a chance to act! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The CCCCs organization is the center of our discipline. Absolutely horrible decision by NCTE with no consideration or care for the community or anyone who has put their work into the organization, an org that is needed more than ever.

Donnie Johnson Sackey@donniejsackey.bsky.social · 2w ago

A couple hours ago, I woke up to messages about CCCC being dissolved and absorbed into NCTE's College Section. I don't know what this means for the 2027 conference, but I do know it'll be different, if it's held at all.

Many thanks to @williesha.bsky.social for covering this important issue. Public comment on the proposed changes to federal grants rules are due TONIGHT! Please submit comments if you haven't done so yet. www.al.com/news/2026/07...

Alabama university professors, researchers oppose proposed federal grant overhaul

The Office of Management and Budget proposal calls for senior appointees to evaluate funding proposals and banning diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility.

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The proposed OMB rules changes will radically alter the future of research and federal funding. Make your voice heard through a public comment before Monday, July 13! Submit comments at: regulations.gov/commenton/OMB-2026-0034-0001 or join the UA AAUP Comment-a-Thon via Zoom Thursday 2:30-5.

You may have heard about the OMB rule change that will put politics over federal grants. However bad you think it is? It's probably worse. Thanks to @theverge.com for letting me report this one out. There is still time to comment. bit.ly/4v2X4nQ

The war against ‘woke’ could end US science as we know it

“Everyone will be affected, not just scientists. Every community in the country.“

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For anyone teaching courses in digital studies, digital rhetoric, the internet, what have you....check out this (open access!) glossary of 28 keyword to think through the internet vis-a-vis imagination. I contributed "Rhetoric." 🤩 #AcademicSky #TeamRhetoric networkcultures.org/wp-content/u...

The Public Service Commission seats that were stolen from you by the Legislature are filled. It’s more control of our state by a certain utility company and the legislators on both sides that voted for it. Remember, If they can’t beat you in an election, they’ll just take the election from you…

Check out this article in the latest issue of Computers and Composition: An International Journal from our Senior Editor Tim Lockridge, on the future of digital publishing in the field. Our most recent title, Visualizing Captions and Subtitles by Janine Butler, enacts the model Tim describes here.

In a few minutes, Auburn's Board of Trustees will vote on a proposal to dissolve our Faculty Senate and revamp our Core Curriculum. Faculty weren't given any notice and have had zero input on these changes.

Auburn U. Is Upending Faculty Governance and Curriculum Even Though It’s Not Required

Despite an exemption in state law, Auburn University’s board will consider proposals Friday to eliminate the central faculty-governance body and grant trustees authority over course decisions.

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Be sure to check out Bad Ideas about AI and Writing: Generative Practices for Teaching, Learning, and Communication, from the WAC Clearinghouse. I had the privilege of writing the Afterword! wacclearinghouse.org/books/perspe...

Also someone tell the AFT and their ill-considered AI partnerships.

AAUP@aaup.org · 3mo ago

The AAUP is committed to a higher ed system where universities are the engines of democracy & human flourishing—not silent partners in a reckless technological arms race that burns through public resources & weakens the very institutions needed for democratic society. ➡️ www.aaup.org/news/aaup-ba...

“They think they can draw us out of power. They do not know the sleeping giant that they just awakened.” - Rep. @aoc.bsky.social in Montgomery #AllRoadsLeadToTheSouth

Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social in Montgomery: “We’re here united to take on this new confederacy, 60 years after the Selma March… because we know their intent is to dismantle everything gained during the civil rights movement.”

Via @rchapoco.bsky.social: “The recent Supreme Court rulings demand our presence,” Bernice King, the daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr. told over 5,000 people in Montgomery on Saturday. “It was not only a legal decision, it is a moral disgrace and a shameless assault on Black political power.”

Thousands attend protests in Selma and Montgomery for voting rights | Alabama Reflector

Speakers at the All Roads Lead to the South events urge people to mobilize to oppose redistricting efforts by Legislatures in the south.

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If you’re in Arizona (or know someone who is), sign the petition to put a constitutional amendment on the ballot protecting mail voting, early voting, common-sense voter ID, and Election Day access. Our friends need around 384K signatures by July 2 to qualify for the 2026 ballot.

This is absolutely outrageous. SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now allowing Alabama to gerrymander one week before primary after trial court found map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS issues “GVRs” in the Alabama cases—vacating district court injunctions & remanding for further proceedings in light of Callais. In practice, this means Alabama can now redraw its congressional districts in time for the midterms:

This is so fucked up. People already have absentee ballots and the primary election is next Tuesday.

Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has allowed Alabama to select a different map for this year’s congressional elections in a stunning, last-minute move to interfere with another state primary election that has already begun. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Pay attention to what is happening in Alabama and throughout the south.

Brian Lyman@brianlyman.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Cries of “No Justice No Peace” erupt at an Alabama House hearing on a bill to set new primaries should federal courts allow the state to revert to maps previously deemed discriminatory to Black voters.