In the first headline, the Chronicle presents @aaup.org 's political endorsement strategy as questionable. In the second headline, the Chronicle demonstrates why it's not questionable but absolutely vital.

Please fill out this survey and share your experience as a faculty member in the South.

Matthew Boedy@matthewboedy.bsky.social · 2d ago

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...

BOOM. The AAUP is suing Texas A&M University System over their censorship policy that prohibits faculty from discussing topics & viewpoints related to race, sexual orientation, & gender. www.aclutx.org/app/uploads/... 1

"As for the letter’s insistence that admissions be 'based on merit'? 'They mean they think too many Black people have gotten into places they never should have gotten into,' she said." I have gotta learn to be more straightforward www.chronicle.com/article/for-...

For Higher Ed, Trump’s Compact 2.0 Is Either an Olive Branch or a Gloved Fist

The White House has promised there will be no direct penalties — or rewards — for making the statements asked for, but some are skeptical.

chronicle.com

Two senators on their way out the door. Nothing left to lose. Total leverage. And they traded it for a memo. A piece of paper. Cornyn and Tillis folded like lawn chairs, and everybody knew they would. Again.

University executives are never going to defend us. We defend our universities. This is another fight we will embrace. And we will win.

Mark Peifer (He, him)@peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 2d ago

@aaup.org @ncaaup.bsky.social @unc-ch-aaup.bsky.social We need to get moving in opposition to this capitulation by major University leaders to Trump demands

AAU changes name to AAQ for Quisling www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

McMahon Asks US Colleges to Pledge Campus Reforms by End of 2026

Education Secretary Linda McMahon is sending a letter Monday to the leaders of US universities asking them to commit to a slate of campus reforms by the end of 2026 in the Trump administration’s lates...

bloomberg.com

@aaup.org @ncaaup.bsky.social @unc-ch-aaup.bsky.social We need to get moving in opposition to this capitulation by major University leaders to Trump demands

Liam Knox@liamknox.bsky.social · 2d ago

Scoop: The Trump administration is sending a letter to college presidents asking them to pledge a series of policy changes by the end of the year. Unlike last year's Compact, this effort was devised with input from higher ed leaders. Free link to my exclusive: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

There are a lot of important things going on. Maybe this isn’t a top twenty concern. But, this is actually workplace harassment, the kind that can get people killed.

@carmenlynn.bsky.social · 5d ago

The Koch Nazis are back “A shadowy network of conservative activist groups, backed by Koch-linked dark money, is deploying hidden cameras and mass public-records requests to hunt down and destroy the careers of college professors and administrators — and it's working.”

“To demand that the AAUP remain silent about the political attack on academia is ridiculous. To demand that the AAUP should do nothing to fight for academic freedom is wrong.” #academicsky

Critics of the AAUP and the Delusions of Neutrality

The AAUP is not and must not be neutral in defense of academic freedom.

insidehighered.com

pleased to announce the Winner of Bluesky

The DeSantis crowd hate affirmative action so much they lowered their standards to appoint an unqualified jackass as president, and now he's gotten them a big fat lawsuit as their reward www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/u...

Florida Professor Fired for Assigning a Profane Story, Lawsuit Says

South Florida State College fired an English professor after she assigned a story about a teacher who talks about sex with her students. Now the professor is suing.

nytimes.com

@utaustin.bsky.social, where merit and peer review don't matter. "Academic freedom is not under duress—it’s being dismantled" Ivan Chaar Lopez on being denied tenure despite strong department and referee support www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... Academic Freedom letter to sign 👇

Prof Denied Tenure: Academic Freedom at UT Being Dismantled

Border-surveillance researcher Iván Chaar López received a near-unanimous recommendation from faculty and outstanding external support letters. Still, he was denied tenure without explanation.

insidehighered.com

Another day, another Chronicle essay about the dangers of "activist" scholarship. Today's contribution to the genre comes from an Ivy League social psychologist who is so worried about anthropologists' motivated reasoning that he has nothing to say about Jonathan Haidt.

“Genuine intellectual diversity requires time for reflection, institutional independence, historical depth, ethical questioning, & the freedom to pursue research unconstrained by immediate market demands. These conditions cannot flourish where knowledge itself has become increasingly commodified.”

Higher Ed Can’t Be Neutral in an Age of Brutality. It Must Choose Democracy.

Contemporary proponents of “institutional neutrality” fail to grasp that universities have never been outside politics.

truthout.org

"When universities retreat into managerial caution as democratic institutions are dismantled, they teach students that conformity is safer than dissent, that moral responsibility yields to bureaucratic calculation, and that the defense of democracy lies outside the university’s mission."

North Carolina Conference of the AAUP@ncaaup.bsky.social · last wk.

"Yet contemporary appeals to neutrality...identify as political only those form of knowledge that challenge existing relations of domination while treating market values, corporate influence, billionaire philanthropy, militarized research, nationalism, & racial hierarchy as ideologically innocent."

"Yet contemporary appeals to neutrality...identify as political only those form of knowledge that challenge existing relations of domination while treating market values, corporate influence, billionaire philanthropy, militarized research, nationalism, & racial hierarchy as ideologically innocent."

North Carolina Conference of the AAUP@ncaaup.bsky.social · last wk.

"Such appeals to neutrality present themselves as safeguards for open inquiry, but they often function as ideological cover for institutional silence in the face of assaults on democracy, academic freedom, and human rights."

"Such appeals to neutrality present themselves as safeguards for open inquiry, but they often function as ideological cover for institutional silence in the face of assaults on democracy, academic freedom, and human rights."

North Carolina Conference of the AAUP@ncaaup.bsky.social · last wk.

"Democratic institutions cannot survive once citizens lose the historical consciousness, ethical imagination & critical capacities necessary to challenge organized lies & manufactured ignorance. The struggle over ed is therefore never secondary to politics. It is one of politics’ decisive terrains."

"Democratic institutions cannot survive once citizens lose the historical consciousness, ethical imagination & critical capacities necessary to challenge organized lies & manufactured ignorance. The struggle over ed is therefore never secondary to politics. It is one of politics’ decisive terrains."

North Carolina Conference of the AAUP@ncaaup.bsky.social · last wk.

"The greatest danger confronting universities today is not simply that certain viewpoints may receive greater attention than others; it is that political authorities increasingly seek to determine which viewpoints may legitimately exist at all." truthout.org/articles/hig...

"The greatest danger confronting universities today is not simply that certain viewpoints may receive greater attention than others; it is that political authorities increasingly seek to determine which viewpoints may legitimately exist at all." truthout.org/articles/hig...

Higher Ed Can’t Be Neutral in an Age of Brutality. It Must Choose Democracy.

Contemporary proponents of “institutional neutrality” fail to grasp that universities have never been outside politics.

truthout.org

Be sure to check out this incredible recap thread from @local6741.bsky.social on the @aaup.org advocacy chapters' participation at the @aft.org convention! Amazing stuff, ya'll.

United Academics@local6741.bsky.social · 2w ago

We rolled deep at the @aft.org convention this year. We got our resolution on pre-contract unionism passed unanimously. We built relationships with our amazing union siblings. And now we more ready than ever to go back to our campuses and communities and build power through organizing! 🧵

Hell no www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/u...

ICE Detention Center in North Carolina to Be Among Largest on East Coast

The new complex near the Virginia border signals that even as ICE has retreated from its plan to buy warehouses, the agency remains determined to increase its detention capacity.

nytimes.com

This is fcked up in more ways than we can count www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

‘Really inappropriate’: teachers decry plan for humanoid robot in New York high school

Robot from company that acquired sex doll maker to be introduced in school with large Native American population

theguardian.com

Trump administration admits, in court filings, that it canceled billions in federal grants not for policy or performance reasons, but because recipients lived in blue states. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

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United Academics@local6741.bsky.social · 2w ago

We rolled deep at the @aft.org convention this year. We got our resolution on pre-contract unionism passed unanimously. We built relationships with our amazing union siblings. And now we more ready than ever to go back to our campuses and communities and build power through organizing! 🧵

"Pre-contract unionism" is another way to describe what all workplace organizing looked like before many workers fought for and won collective bargaining rights. That fight continues today with our recent AFT convention resolution to support pre-contract unionism in higher ed. @aaup.org @aft.org

The White House didn’t weigh scientific merit or alleged noncompliance of grant terms when they cut billions in life-saving research, they just looked for words they didn’t like. Blue states were specifically targeted for defunding.

Sarah T Roberts, PhD@ubiquity75.xyz · 2w ago

A reminder that UC _faculty_ and Faculty Associations — not the universities themselves nor their administrators — are waging this battle in court, demonstrating great bravery and moral clarity.

OUT TODAY, the AAUP just released the first comprehensive account of how the Trump administration has taken the same playbook it's used on law firms & foreign governments & turned it on American universities. US higher ed has, in effect, become a target of a massive extortion racket. 🧵

New Report on Extorted Compliance Charges “Massive Extortion Racket” Against Higher Ed

A new AAUP report, "Extorted Compliance: A Threat to Institutional Autonomy, Academic Freedom, and Shared Governance," exposes how the Trump administration has extended its pay-to-play approach to gov...

aaup.org

This is how we win

United Academics@local6741.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Organize the South" is more than a slogan, it's a strategic necessity for the higher ed labor movement. Our resolution on supporting pre-contract unionism will help give our southern chapters the resources they need to fight and win. #UnionStrong @ajdouglas.bsky.social @aft.org @aaup.org

Hey NR, you like the wine-dark sea, well how do you like these grapes

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 2w ago

They’re having a completely normal one over at the National Review this weekend