University of Oklahoma AAUP
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/america... Given this development, now is a really good time for OU to resume DEI efforts on campus.
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- AAUP President Todd Wolfson issued the following statement in response to Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt's Executive Order issued today immediately eliminating academic tenure at the state’s public regional universities and community colleges.
- "Targeting regional universities and community colleges reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of tenure—as if it were a privilege reserved for a select few rather than an essential working condition for all faculty responsible for teaching and research." @proftwolf.bsky.social @aaup.org
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- “Contrary to claims of being ‘1 University’ & supporting shared governance, OU has not yet deigned to respond to GSS & OU AAUP statements addressing the campus issues of transparency in the grade appeals process, including with Mel Curth, support of academic freedom & to counter political attacks."
- We need to win universal childcare, free #CUNY, and an affordable city, and we need to tax the rich to pay for it! Join us for a labor phonebank on February 10th at 6:30PM. Let’s make @mayor.nyc.gov Mamdani’s affordability agenda a reality! RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/labor...
- www.oudaily.com/news/graduat... The University of Oklahoma (OU) Graduate Student Senate (GSS) is demanding answers now from OU regarding the political attack on Mel Curth, the undisclosed process in firing Mel Curth, and OU's substandard academic reputation due to firing Mel Curth. OU-AAUP agrees.
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- Rally tomorrow! Be there!
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- ICE doesn’t de-escalate, it escalates, then runs. 🚨ICE agent pepper-sprays woman after shoving her. Totally unnecessary. Santa Barbara police and paramedics showed up to clean up the mess. ICE already fled the scene.
- Tomorrow, we stand together and demand an end to censorship at Texas A&M. No more bans. Students deserve to learn without uncertainty, and faculty deserve to teach without retaliation. Join us. @tamu-aaup.bsky.social @texasaaup.bsky.social @texasaft.org
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- Education is a public good for all. When politicians censor classroom teaching in order to narrow the field of topics that students can engage in, they rob them of a stellar world class education. This is what is happening at Texas A&M & other institutions in the state. 🧵
- Families dig deep to pay for the rising cost of college. They expect an education that prepares them to think critically & lead in a changing world. Professors must defend the student learning experience from politicians that wish to limit classroom learning to a narrow ideological viewpoint.
- AAUP President Todd Wolfson on the killing of Alex Pretti: "This moment demands a unified, bold, and powerful response from the labor movement. We are uniting across sectors to organize, mobilize, and wield our full collective power to confront ICE." Full statement:
- If Texas A&M truly believes in the values of leadership, integrity, & service, it must defend academic freedom & protect student learning. Please sign & share this petition to TAMU leadership demanding an end to all censorship of instruction & retaliation against faculty who refuse to censor.
- Please sign the petition! Defend academic freedom at Texas A&M! actionnetwork.org/pe...
- Please sign the petition! Defend academic freedom at Texas A&M! actionnetwork.org/pe...
- “Judge Young affirmed unequivocally, without a doubt, that non-citizens lawfully present here in the US have the same free speech rights as everyone else. He established that the federal government clearly & unconstitutionally pursued a policy of discrimination against pro-Palestinian speech.”
- PSC members turned out in huge numbers today in solidarity with the call from Minnesota for a national Day of Truth and Freedom. #ICEoutofNY #HandsOffNYC
- Legalize Plato at Texas A&M. #DefendHigherEd @tamu-aaup.bsky.social @texasaaup.bsky.social @texasaft.org
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- Higher ed says: ICE out of Minneapolis. The AAUP stands in solidarity with the higher ed workers marching in today's Day of Truth and Freedom action. No shopping, no school, no work. We want ICE out. See the link below for details about the action. @higheredlabor.bsky.social
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- The labor movement is standing with nurses striking for a fair contract with guaranteed safe staffing, healthcare benefits, and protections from workplace violence. Join a PSC contingent on the @nynurses.bsky.social strike lines on Tuesday, January 27, 11AM - 1PM, Mount Sinai West, 1000 Tenth Ave.
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- The censorship at Texas A&M is out of control. Classes have been cancelled & professors are being retaliated against for speaking out. It’s time to stand up. Join the TAMU community to rally next Thursday! Aggies for Academic Freedom! @texasaaup.bsky.social @tamu-aaup.bsky.social @texasaft.org
- FIRE is paying attention....
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- www.insidehighered.com/news/governm... One of the claims about "Illegal DEIA" just disappeared. Time for a new OU Provost Office secret memo reversing the August 2025 secret memo about supposed "illegal DEIA" being essentially verboten at OU?
- “University administrators and state lawmakers are saying, in effect, that academic freedom won’t protect you if you teach ideas they don’t like. Never mind that decades ago, the Supreme Court described classrooms as the very embodiment of the “marketplace of ideas” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/o...
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- An Open Letter from Dr. Leonard Bright, AAUP Texas A&M Chapter President, to the Texas A&M University Community....
- Academics! Join us!
- www.kosu.org/2025-06-18/o... A recap of a key July 2025 court victory in which the Oklahoma Supreme Court upheld academic freedom for public colleges and universities in Oklahoma. OU-AAUP has been one of the plaintiffs.
- The court battle continues in the US 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, where there is a challenge to Oklahoma HB 1775 on behalf of intellectual freedom in public K-12 schools. OU-AAUP is in solidarity with public school plaintiffs in this case. www.aclu.org/press-releas...
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- “The suspension of Mel Curth, a graduate instructor at the University of Oklahoma (OU), stemming from a grading dispute with a student, is an egregious violation of widely accepted principles of academic freedom and due process.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
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- “We urge OU to publicly and unequivocally affirm the right of OU faculty and instructors to conduct teaching, grading, and research without political interference, unlawful mandates, or external pressures that hinder academic freedom.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
- Read AAUP President Todd Wolfson's full statement here👇
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