AFT Higher Education
400,000 workers in higher education defending democracy and protecting a pathway to opportunity for all.
- Reposted by AFT Higher EducationTexas A&M ends its women's & gender studies program while hundreds of syllabi remain flagged and censored under top-down review policies. “I have never seen anything like this.” — Dr. Leonard Bright, @tamu-aaup.bsky.social President @texasaft.org @texasaaup.bsky.social @cwa-tseu.bsky.social
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- The bosses have discovered solidarity? “There’s this thought that if you stand up, you’re sort of a fish in a barrel. But if you do it together, that’s safer,” There IS that thought indeed! hechingerreport.org/value-polici...
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- Reposted by AFT Higher EducationThe Heritage Foundation wrote Project 2025, which helped motivate many federal policy changes in the last year. Here is their follow-up document, which will definitely get traction at the Department of Education and in red states.
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- Join us tomorrow! Featuring higher ed members but all are welcome
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- Academic freedom is the freedom to discuss current events in the classroom, to research topics that may be poorly understood or controversial, & the freedom from censorship (even when critiquing the workplace) Like all freedoms, academic freedom calls for ethical use. ncnewsline.com/2026/01/26/w...
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- Reposted by AFT Higher EducationThe scale and speed of state censorship of campus really is amazing. More than half of America's college students attend institutions in states that have passed laws censoring higher education since 2021. From @penamerica.bsky.social pen.org/report/ameri...
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- Your periodic reminder the college student are adults CHOOSING their courses in NONCOMPULSORY education. Yet a record number of state legislatures have decided they know best. Give adults the freedom to learn. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
- Is this what they have workshops on at the boss conference? How to Minimize Accountability on Zoom? 🙄
- Victory at Portland State - 10 non-tenure track faculty members reinstated. Our locals fought hard to make these job security contract provisions reality, taking the fight to arbitration and organizing hundreds. 💪 www.opb.org/article/2026...
- Reposted by AFT Higher EducationTexas A&M decided to publicly cancel my Ethics class, and share a false statement that I declined to provide information, which made it impossible for [them ] to request an exemption. See for yourself, if this statement is true. They are getting creative!
- Not the thing you want to read, but the thing you need to read: www.wired.com/story/what-t...
- Was about to post this article where Dr. Bright is quoted opposing A&Ms policies. Interesting 🤬 www.kltv.com/2026/01/13/t...
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- These 'supporters of free speech' sure hate hearing what people think about them and they make everyone's education poorer bc of it. (We could spend all day just pointing out maga hypocrisy but this one really grates.) www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
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- Stressed by breaking news on SAVE plan? Not even sure what the SAVE plan is? Join us this evening.
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- Meet one of our members forced to go without health insurance next year because of skyrocketing ACA premiums. Tom Moomjy is a teacher, a musician, and a caretaker. We all do better when people like Tom have affordable healthcare. aftvoices.org/one-emergenc...
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- Our first student debt report was called "On the Backs of Students and Families" for a reason - state and federal support for higher ed isn't keeping up. See the latest numbers by institution www.chronicle.com/article/stat...
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- Haphazard, top-down "reorgs" don't make sense at the campus level, and they definitely don't make sense at the federal level. “This move is neither streamlining nor reform – it’s an abdication and abandonment of America’s future,” said @rweingarten.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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- "Montclair State aren’t necessarily any less smart, talented, passionate or ambitious than their Ivy League counterparts." Apologies for being a few days late sharing this 🔥 op-ed, the WSJ op-ed pages are not typically such an inspiring place for us 🙃 @aftnewjersey.bsky.social
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- Devastating. 48 clinic trials in reproductive health, 97 in infectious disease (14%!), and 118 in cancer
- Solidarity with our @apscuf.org members and their allies rallying in Harrisburg today for fair funding! www.wccsradio.com/2025/11/16/a...
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- Last week on 11/7 students, faculty and staff rose up at more than 100 universities and colleges across the country and said, “no more.” www.aft.org/news/we-rise...
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- Reminder that college students are *adults* who can handle complex information! "The Texas A&M Board of Regents is caving to political pressure in this crucial moment and damning our future in the process." -Zeph Capo @texasaft.org Read more: www.texasaft.org/membership/h...
- Reposted by AFT Higher EducationAs of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
- Illinois students and faculty are working together to build the movement for fair funding. 💪 northernstar.info/130091/news/...
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- "What would go to our universities is still pennies compared to what Illinois gave one Microsoft data center over $38 million in tax exemptions for just 20 permanent jobs and then gave Amazon $741 million in tax breaks for warehouses paying poverty wages." www.sj-r.com/story/opinio...
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- Quality thread on the Cornell "deal" In case you need reminding why we're on the streets today. We need to rise up for higher ed and the freedom to learn, teach, and research! #HigherEdBenefitsEveryone
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