From: Kelly Benjamin, AAUP Media and Communications
Below are a few of the AAUP’s press clips from around the country over the past month. Read on to see the great work your fellow members have been doing to keep academic freedom, shared governance, and the economic security of the profession in the spotlight. If you are on Twitter, please help amplify this work by clicking the Tweet link at the end of each bullet point to share.
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AAUP Top Clips:
- Public Universities Run on Underpaid Labor. Now Grad Workers Are Fighting Back. – Truthout (Tweet)
- What to Know About Tenure and Free Speech Protections – New York Times (Tweet)
- Academics Fight Moves to Defund Diversity Programs at US Universities. – Nature (Tweet)
- Some States Want to Reshape Tenure, This Time They May Succeed. – Chronicle of Higher Education (Acting director of the Department of Academic Freedom, Tenure, and Governance Anita Levy quoted, Tweet)
- Three Governors are Driving the GOP’s Higher Ed Agenda – Inside Higher Education (Tweet)
Connecticut:
- Wesleyan AAUP Chapter Launches “One Faculty!” Campaign Calling for All Faculty to Receive Tenure Protections – Wesleyan Argus (Tweet)
Florida:
- National Organizations Condemn Florida Bill that Would Bring Major Higher Ed Changes – Tampa Bay Times (Tweet)
- “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet”: Ron DeSantis’s Florida Prepares Its Next Attack on Black and LGBTQ+ Students – Vanity Fair (AAUP president Irene Mulvey quoted)
Indiana:
- AAUP Censures Indiana U Northwest – Inside Higher Education (Tweet)
New Jersey:
- One of the US’s Largest Public Universities Could See First Strike in its 257 Years– Truthout
- Rutgers AAUP-AFT, Adjunct Faculty Union Vote to Authorize Strike – The Daily Targum
- Rutgers’ Unions Representing Faculty, Grad Students and Adjuncts Pass Strike Authorization Vote – Philadelphia Inquirer
New Mexico:
- New Mexico Adjunct Faculty Deserve a Living Wage – The Daily Lobo (Op Ed from AAUP National Council member Ernesto Longa, Tweet)
Pennsylvania:
- Striking Grad Students Ratify Tentative Agreement With Temple University – NBC 10 Philadelphia
In Solidarity,
Kelly Benjamin
AAUP Media and Communications