Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

EXPLAINED: The american association of university professors | Rare Historical Photos

Texas Tech’s new limits on how faculty teach gender identity and sexual orientation challenge more than free speech

Texas Tech University, a public university in Lubbock, announced in April 2026 that its five schools would phase out all academic credentials centered on sexual orientation or gender identity. The new policy, detailed in a six-page memo on April 9, also requires instructors to use “alternate materials” when courses address…

The Conversation

Trump’s gold card visa program faces legal challenge from US based academicians, scientists

A group of academicians, scientists and high-skilled professionals who are in various stages of applying for employment-based green cards, led by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), have filed a lawsuit with the district court of Columbia, challenging the Trump administration’s controversial ‘Gold Card’ immigration program.

The Times of India

There’s an intensifying kind of threat to academic freedom – watchful students serving as informants

Texas AM University told philosophy professor Martin Peterson in early January 2026 that he could not teach some of Greek philosopher Plato’s writings that touch on “race and gender ideology.”

The Conversation

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

US professors facing threats, firings and harassment over Charlie Kirk posts

As many as 40 academics have been dismissed in aftermath of shooting, allegedly without due process

The Guardian - US

Texas State System dissolves faculty senates, eroding professors' influence on campuses

While other universities move to preserve the advisory bodies, Texas State will abolish them under a new state law that curtails faculty’s influence on campuses.

The Texas Tribune

Trump team has been using shadowy website that doxxed pro-Palestine academics and targets them for deportation

A senior Immigration and Customs Enforcement official testified that a ‘tiger team’ of analysts used information from the Canary Mission website

The Independent UK

The Decline and Fall of the AAUP as a Principled Defender of Academic Freedom

Matthew Finkin dissects how the American Association of University Professors has abandoned a principle defense of academic freedom.

Reason

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

The art of resistance

The rise of resistance to Trump takes root in rural America

Salon

Harvard faculty organize amid anxiety university will capitulate to Trump

Harvard weighs costs of standing up to president as other elite schools, such as Princeton, signal they won’t concede

The Guardian - US

Texas lawmakers are scrutinizing university professors’ influence. Here's how faculty shape their universities.

Faculty senates have long played a key role in developing curriculum and protecting open inquiry. State leaders have also accused them of liberal indoctrination.

The Texas Tribune

5 growing threats to academic freedom

The ability to teach and conduct research free from political interference is the cornerstone of higher education and its contribution to the public good. Academic freedom, however, has become increasingly threatened.

The Conversation

State laws threaten to erode academic freedom in US higher education

Over the past few years, Republican state lawmakers have introduced more than 150 bills in 35 states that seek to curb academic freedom on campus. Twenty-one of these bills have been signed into law.

The Conversation

Report finds Hamline University violated professor’s academic freedom in Islamic art controversy

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Hamline University’s response to a Muslim student’s art class complaint last fall violated the professor’s academic freedom, according to a new report by the American Association of University Professors.

Pioneer Press

"Egregious Violations of Academic Freedom at Collin College"

A report from the American Association of University Professors, apropos the incidents that I've blogged about before (generally relying on the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression's coverage): Today, the AAUP published an investigative report concerning the Collin College administration's summary termination of the services of professors Lora Burnett, Suzanne…

Reason

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

the Department of Homeland Security

Immigration and Customs Enforcement

665 stories

617 stories

the Department of Education

University of Houston

100 stories

UTAustin

88 stories

Texas Tech University

82 stories

AAUP

46 stories

Southern Methodist University

45 stories

AFSCME

44 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.