University of Oklahoma AAUP
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We are the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) at the University of Oklahoma. We defend academic freedom, shared governance and fundamental professional values and standards for higher education.
www.oudaily.com/news/aaup-su... "A log of responses from Oklahoma professors shows 64% of respondents reported they would not recommend working in Oklahoma to colleagues or graduate students."
AAUP survey reveals growing concerns of political influence in higher education among instructors
An American Association of University Professors survey of faculty in southern states, now including Oklahoma, reveals growing concerns about political influence in university curriculum.
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Good to see this lawsuit and pushback. With actual actions rather than wine and whine grumbling. www.chronicle.com/article/at-t...
A Bombshell Lawsuit Points to an ‘Extraordinary System of Censorship’ at Texas Tech
An 84-page complaint offers a glimpse into how the system’s curricular-review process has operated behind closed doors.
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OU-AAUP Political Harassment Plan document is now on the OU-AAUP website and provides non-legal information in the event that an OU faculty member is harassed. It documents ways to respond to harassment and threats and lists resources. sites.google.com/view/ou-aaup...
OU-AAUP - OU Political Harassment Plan
On this website is the OU-AAUP's 'OU POLITICAL HARASSMENT PLAN.' This site provides non-legal information in the event that a faculty member is politically harassed: docs.google.com/document/d/1k9kvM...
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NEW today in the New York Times: In the face of unprecedented authoritarian attacks, the AAUP is building a powerful and militant resistance movement in defense of American higher education, the freedom to learn, and our democracy. Join Us!
A Professor Union Grows Fast as It Ramps Up Its Fight Against Trump
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What has the University of Oklahoma chapter of AAUP been doing to protect academic freedom and workplace rights and safety in the last six years? It turns out a lot. Check our new web page with our press releases for six years for an overview: sites.google.com/d/1IrQajK_8D...
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Today, the AAUP & @aft.org launched our national policy platform to win back an American higher education system that protects the freedom to teach & learn & strengthens our democracy. Read it in full here: www.aaup.org/blueprint-st... 🧵
A Blueprint for Strengthening and Transforming Higher Education
The AAUP and AFT jointly launched a new comprehensive policy platform ahead of the 2026 midterms aimed to counter the Trump administration’s far right extremist attacks on American higher education an...
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“They tried to weaken higher education, but instead they built a movement to fight for the future... They can attack our institutions, but they cannot stop our movement….We will not stop until we have the higher education system and the democracy we all deserve.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm... OU-AAUP: “Abolishing tenure cripples and compromises scientific and creative research that benefits all Oklahomans." “It also sends a strong message that top-tier academics seeking employment at Oklahoma universities should look elsewhere immediately.”
Bills Weakening Tenure, Abolishing Faculty Senates Advance
Alabama, Kentucky, Oklahoma and Tennessee are considering legislation that will impact tenure, faculty governance and more.
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NEW: Preliminary findings released today from the AAUP’s annual Faculty Compensation Survey reveal that real wages for full-time faculty decreased & remain below pre-pandemic levels. The FCS is the largest independent source of data on faculty salaries. Check out preliminary findings below. ⬇️
Faculty Compensation Survey
The AAUP publishes faculty compensation survey results in the spring for the current academic year and a full report in the summer.
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"Eliminating tenure based on misunderstandings and misinformation will have far-reaching consequences, and it will negatively impact our students, our institutions of higher education, and ultimately our state’s economic growth."
University of Oklahoma AAUP@uoklahomaaaup.bsky.social · 6mo agooklahomavoice.com/2026/04/01/m...
Misunderstanding tenure leads to harmful outcomes for Oklahoma colleges, universities • Oklahoma Voice
Gov. Kevin Stitt sent shockwaves through Oklahoma’s higher education academic community earlier this year when he abruptly recommended the State Regents for Higher Education prohibit regional universi...
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“They want to do things which tend to be illegal. They have a penchant for illegality. They can be as thorough as they want, but if they want to stop freedom of speech, they're going to have a problem.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President on the Trump admin's recent fondness for launching lawsuits.
Lawsuits Are the New Trump Tactic in the Fight to Overhaul Education
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Full-time salaries for most categories of faculty have remained about the same since 2002, adjusting for inflation, while admin pay soars. Faculty have had enough. We’re fighting back nationwide. ✊🏽✊🏻✊🏿 www.chronicle.com/article/amid...
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Students' freedom to learn depends on faculty's freedom to teach. Texas AAUP Conference President Brian Evans on the power of unions & organizing in the fight against censorship & attacks on academic freedom in Texas 🔥 @texasaaup.bsky.social @texasaft.org @aft.org @afthighered.bsky.social
Academic Freedom Under Siege in Texas: How We Fight Back 📈📚
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AHA Sends Letter Urging Recission of Oklahoma Executive Order Targeting Tenure Protections - AHA
The AHA sent a letter to Governor Kevin Stitt urging him to rescind an executive order encouraging the Oklahoma State Regents of Higher Education to gut existing tenure protections at state research u...
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www.oudaily.com/news/ou-facu... The OU Faculty Senate was not consulted on the attack on Mel Curth despite claims by OU otherwise. OU-AAUP: “Providing OU’s version of information and not consulting any faculty member or group on campus is the opposite of this.”
OU president says university met with Faculty Senate Executive Committee regarding Mel Curth’s termination
OU President Joseph Harroz Jr. told OU Daily at the March 10 OU Board of Regents meeting that he met with the OU Faculty Senate Executive Committee twice regarding former
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No to SB 1782! Read Alyssa’s excellent piece - we need to protect (and expand) due process protections for all of Oklahoma’s public university and community college faculty.
AAUP@aaup.org · 7mo ago“Removing tenure protection does not make universities more accountable to students or taxpayers. It makes faculty more vulnerable to political interference. For anyone who has watched what politically motivated meddling does to institutions, that should not be a selling point.” #AcademicSky
“Removing tenure protection does not make universities more accountable to students or taxpayers. It makes faculty more vulnerable to political interference. For anyone who has watched what politically motivated meddling does to institutions, that should not be a selling point.” #AcademicSky
Anti-tenure bill would hand political win to lame-duck Stitt | Opinion
SB 1782 doesn't solve higher education's problems. It restricts tenure tracks, hands a political win to Gov. Kevin Stitt, who has unfinished business.
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“There’s kind of a defeatism, this idea that there’s no stopping technology & that resistance is futile, everything will be crushed in its path. That needs to change … We can decide that we want to be human.” #AcademicSky
‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI
As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large
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nondoc.com/2026/03/09/e... Weeks later, the OU President weighed in on the political and academic freedom attack on Mel Curth. He *claims* noninvolvement: “That’s not my role in these,” Harroz said. “As you see, there’s an appeal process going on right now that’s taking place."
Essay controversy spurs OU criticism across spectrum
After an OU student's essay referencing her religious beliefs received a failing grade, the University of Oklahoma drew fire from all sides.
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The far right's new politicized higher ed accreditor is illegitimate. "Rather than protecting educational quality, the CPHE appears designed to give partisan political actors a powerful new tool to pressure universities to conform to a narrow ideological agenda" — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
New CPHE Accrediting Body Is Illegitimate
Rather than protecting educational quality, the CPHE appears designed to give partisan political actors a powerful new tool to pressure universities to conform to a narrow ideological agenda—backed by...
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www.oudaily.com/news/oklahom... “It also sends a strong message that top-tier academics seeking employment at Oklahoma universities should look elsewhere immediately,” Givel wrote. “Why pursue a job here, including at OU, under such a repressive climate?”
Oklahoma legislature advances bill that would remove tenure at OU, public universities
The Oklahoma legislature advanced a bill Tuesday that would remove the possibility of tenure for OU faculty, limit contract agreements to five years and require each state institute for higher
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“Abolishing tenure cripples scientific & creative research... This sends a strong message that top-tier academics seeking employment at Oklahoma universities should look elsewhere immediately. Why pursue a job here under such a repressive climate?” — Michael Givel, OU AAUP President
Oklahoma legislature advances bill that would remove tenure at OU, public universities
The Oklahoma legislature advanced a bill Tuesday that would remove the possibility of tenure for OU faculty, limit contract agreements to five years and require each state institute for higher
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