Nearly 500 signatures now, in ~72 hours!

📢 UT AUSTIN COLLEAGUES: This goes out at 8am tomorrow (Mon 4/28). If you've already signed, please help spread the word.

Early voting runs through April 30 and Election Day is May 4. Find out where to vote and what's on the ballot: bit.ly/45QExyE.

TAKE ACTION: FIRE is urging UT Austin to ensure all charges against peaceful protesters—and any disciplinary sanctions against them—have been dropped.

While we await their response, join FIRE in demanding Gov. Abbott recommit to upholding 1A rights!
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.IU Media School faculty says in an open letter the university's decision regarding the ongoing protest in Dunn Meadow 'has shattered our university’s most cherished values, and authorizing armed police on campus rooftops has endangered us all.'

Read here: iustv.com/iu-media-schoo…

UConn-AAUP endorses the following statement in solidarity with UConn student activists who are demonstrating in support of the Palestinian people. You can read the statement here:
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UPDATE: Media School faculty condemned IU’s response to protests, writing that it has damaged IU’s moral center.

“The administration has crossed a red line by choosing an authoritarian stance that is antithetical to the mission of an institution of higher learning.”

Indiana Daily Student

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✴️We appreciate the support of @aaup as we work for our students, staff & faculty @utaustin. And our allies Texas AFT Texas Conference of the AAUP TSEU Legal Defense Fund Texas Students for DEI We stand in solidarity with AAUP chapters across the country fighting the wave of brutal repression on our campuses.🙏🏽

Faculty anywhere barred from campus for participating in a peaceful protest should contact the American Association of University Professors at @[email protected] and provide details.

As the voice of higher ed and the profession since our founding in 1915, American Association of University Professors is here to help.

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Choose the best candidates for the job.
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Dear Jay Hartzell, please consider points 1 through 5. ⬇️⬇️

“University presidents are assumed to have total power and control, so bringing in an external police force, you know the first thing that’s going to happen is you lose control over the situation”—Nicholas Dirks nytimes.com/2024/04/27/us/…

Over 4️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ UT Austin faculty have signed a letter expressing a lack of confidence in President Jay Hartzell. There’s still time to add your name. Strength in numbers! ⬇️

⬇️Only 1 of many confusing messages UT Austin sent to students, staff & faculty last week.Vague texts about “police action,” campus-wide directives to vacate campus, flyers banning students from campus, inaccurate statements to press, retractions—these do not inspire confidence.

From the scholar who wrote the book on tyranny.

Any faculty member at Brown University or anywhere else who faces “discipline” for having been somewhere on campus should contact American Association of University Professors via [email protected]

Are you kidding me, @BrownU? says this parent of two graduates ‘08 and ‘15)

So many of us feel this way. Which is why we are fighting so hard for the future of high education. Solidarity! Stronger together! ✊🏽✊🏾✊

The anger behind the right wing rhetoric against DEI, CRT, “woke,”etc is manifesting on college campuses right now in the form of physical violence against students & faculty.

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