North Carolina Conference of the AAUP
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We are an association of all AAUP members in North Carolina #highered. Join us as we advocate for all faculty and instructors through the state. Become involved in a local chapter or start one! AN INJURY TO ONE IS AN INJURY TO ALL! https://www.aaupnc.org/
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(UNC faculty: Just don't put it in your syllabus.)
Also if anyone is interested in the history of the United States' attempts to topple leaders in South America and install more friendly dictators then you can - and I'm not joking here - download the files from the CIA website.
January 3, 2026 at 7:28 PM
(UNC faculty: Just don't put it in your syllabus.)
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January 3, 2026 at 12:09 AM
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It's January 2026. Welcome to the UNC system, where you can soon expect an army of Nick Shirleys to show up in classrooms and harass faculty and students thanks to their dimwitted misunderstanding of publicly searchable syllabi. Or as Peter Hans puts it, this is how we rebuild public trust!
January 2, 2026 at 8:17 PM
It's January 2026. Welcome to the UNC system, where you can soon expect an army of Nick Shirleys to show up in classrooms and harass faculty and students thanks to their dimwitted misunderstanding of publicly searchable syllabi. Or as Peter Hans puts it, this is how we rebuild public trust!
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Statement Re: OU Discrimination Investigation
Today, my client, Mel Curth, submitted her appeal of the University's Institutional Equity Office finding that she engaged in arbitrary and capricious grading of a student's assignment in violation of that student's religious liberty.
Today, my client, Mel Curth, submitted her appeal of the University's Institutional Equity Office finding that she engaged in arbitrary and capricious grading of a student's assignment in violation of that student's religious liberty.
December 30, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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"The policy is meant to prevent students from learning about topics the current administration deems unacceptable. This will deprive students of a robust education and put targets on the backs of faculty who choose to teach such content, despite the risks."
www.citizen-times.com/story/opinio...
www.citizen-times.com/story/opinio...
Opinion: UNC's syllabi public-posting mandate erodes academic freedom
Publicly posting syllabi is an effort to prevent the teaching of topics that right-wing actors deem “unacceptable.”
www.citizen-times.com
December 29, 2025 at 7:22 PM
"The policy is meant to prevent students from learning about topics the current administration deems unacceptable. This will deprive students of a robust education and put targets on the backs of faculty who choose to teach such content, despite the risks."
www.citizen-times.com/story/opinio...
www.citizen-times.com/story/opinio...
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This year, the AAUP proved something powerful: When we fight, we win.
Your gift to the AAUP Foundation will power legal challenges, advocacy & education that defend the core values of higher ed. Please donate at the link below.
An injury to one is an injury to all. Together, we are stronger.
Your gift to the AAUP Foundation will power legal challenges, advocacy & education that defend the core values of higher ed. Please donate at the link below.
An injury to one is an injury to all. Together, we are stronger.
Giving
Information about various ways to give to the AAUP Foundation.
www.aaupfoundation.org
December 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
This year, the AAUP proved something powerful: When we fight, we win.
Your gift to the AAUP Foundation will power legal challenges, advocacy & education that defend the core values of higher ed. Please donate at the link below.
An injury to one is an injury to all. Together, we are stronger.
Your gift to the AAUP Foundation will power legal challenges, advocacy & education that defend the core values of higher ed. Please donate at the link below.
An injury to one is an injury to all. Together, we are stronger.
Never Say Never Again: A Search Committee Memoir
make a Bond movie academic
Dr. No: A study of economic stability and mental health of ABDs in STEM and Humanities, 1975-2000
Dr. No: A study of economic stability and mental health of ABDs in STEM and Humanities, 1975-2000
make a Bond movie academic
The Spy Who Loved Me: Birthright Citizenship and the Law of Alien Enemies
The Spy Who Loved Me: Birthright Citizenship and the Law of Alien Enemies
December 26, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Never Say Never Again: A Search Committee Memoir
Bari Weiss's censoring 60 Minutes in the name of "building trust" is of a coin with Peter Hans's imposing a pro-doxxing syllabus policy in the name of "rebuilding public trust." They are both the gaslighting actions of political operatives sent to destroy the institutions they lead.
Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
December 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Bari Weiss's censoring 60 Minutes in the name of "building trust" is of a coin with Peter Hans's imposing a pro-doxxing syllabus policy in the name of "rebuilding public trust." They are both the gaslighting actions of political operatives sent to destroy the institutions they lead.
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Paper linked below. The grading criteria, given to students in advance, was based on whether the student demonstrated they read the article and if they provided a reaction to some aspect of it. The student made no effort to do either; they blathered about the Bible.
drive.google.com/file/d/1qxnV...
drive.google.com/file/d/1qxnV...
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university
Graduate instructor who gave failing grade to Samantha Fulnecky no longer teaching at OU
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university.
www.koco.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Paper linked below. The grading criteria, given to students in advance, was based on whether the student demonstrated they read the article and if they provided a reaction to some aspect of it. The student made no effort to do either; they blathered about the Bible.
drive.google.com/file/d/1qxnV...
drive.google.com/file/d/1qxnV...
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How to win friends and influence people
Trump admin to seize wages of up to 5 million defaulted student loan holders
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Trump admin to seize wages of up to 5 million defaulted student loan holders
President Donald Trump's administration will reportedly begin seizing wages from up to 5 million student loan borrowers who are behind on their payments.On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Education co...
www.rawstory.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:50 PM
How to win friends and influence people
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Protect the academic freedom of faculty at the UNC system, and challenge the unreasonable demand of admin to require instructors to publicly post their syllabi, by signing on to the petition below👇
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Protect Academic Freedom, Our Faculty, Our Communities
Faculty, staff, students, alumni, and community members: The UNC System is preparing to cave to political pressure from the Heritage Foundation, the Oversight Project, and the James Martin Center by ...
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December 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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"Providing public access to syllabi during a period of heightened partisanship and rising political violence looks like partisan pandering with a cost."
— North Carolina AAUP
Link to petition challenging this dangerous decision in thread. Sign on and support faculty at the UNC system!
— North Carolina AAUP
Link to petition challenging this dangerous decision in thread. Sign on and support faculty at the UNC system!
UNC to require faculty to publicly post syllabi in 2026-27
The 16-campus system has faced conservative-led public records requests this year focused on diversity- and race-related instruction.
www.highereddive.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:59 PM
"Providing public access to syllabi during a period of heightened partisanship and rising political violence looks like partisan pandering with a cost."
— North Carolina AAUP
Link to petition challenging this dangerous decision in thread. Sign on and support faculty at the UNC system!
— North Carolina AAUP
Link to petition challenging this dangerous decision in thread. Sign on and support faculty at the UNC system!
Excellent essay by Michael Schwalbe on the problem of UNC System Office now asserting that syllabi are works for hire. @aaup.org
ncnewsline.com/2025/12/23/c...
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UNC system’s new 'work for hire' policy is a right-wing Trojan horse • NC Newsline
COMMENTARY: As faculty objecting to the policy argued, making syllabi public isn’t really about transparency for the benefit of students, as Hans claims, but about making faculty and their courses eas...
ncnewsline.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Excellent essay by Michael Schwalbe on the problem of UNC System Office now asserting that syllabi are works for hire. @aaup.org
ncnewsline.com/2025/12/23/c...
ncnewsline.com/2025/12/23/c...
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iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.
Archivists Posted the 60 Minutes CECOT Segment Bari Weiss Killed
iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.
www.404media.co
December 23, 2025 at 12:15 AM
iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.
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The cuts at the New School in the @nytimes.com. It’s not too late to cut the cuts and stop the clock on this cruel timeline for staff and 40% of full-time faculty www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
Falling Enrollment, Money Woes: The New School Seeks a Path to Survival
www.nytimes.com
December 21, 2025 at 6:11 AM
The cuts at the New School in the @nytimes.com. It’s not too late to cut the cuts and stop the clock on this cruel timeline for staff and 40% of full-time faculty www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
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“‘My most daring idea is to refuse,’ she said to applause.”
Professor Warns That the Wealthy Are Trying to Use AI to Seize Control of Everything
Renowned sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom says that AI is a tool for the rich to cement control over society.
futurism.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:03 PM
“‘My most daring idea is to refuse,’ she said to applause.”
Restructuring with a hard r
I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model
December 20, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Restructuring with a hard r
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It’s the entire point. There’s no plan to make this meaningful for students. No plan to use it administratively. Its design and implementation signals its only real intent. It’s best and easiest use case is for systematic harassment and to scare faculty into complying in advance.
We know the students don’t read the syllabuses. So who will? Right-wing activists looking for excuses to hound profs.
December 20, 2025 at 12:47 PM
It’s the entire point. There’s no plan to make this meaningful for students. No plan to use it administratively. Its design and implementation signals its only real intent. It’s best and easiest use case is for systematic harassment and to scare faculty into complying in advance.
The fact that the System Office have spent the most time talking about the need to expose syllabus contents to public scrutiny and have offered only nominal arguments about student convenience is really telling. Recall Peter Hand's op-ed, and the blathering about "the public's trust"
It’s the entire point. There’s no plan to make this meaningful for students. No plan to use it administratively. Its design and implementation signals its only real intent. It’s best and easiest use case is for systematic harassment and to scare faculty into complying in advance.
We know the students don’t read the syllabuses. So who will? Right-wing activists looking for excuses to hound profs.
December 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The fact that the System Office have spent the most time talking about the need to expose syllabus contents to public scrutiny and have offered only nominal arguments about student convenience is really telling. Recall Peter Hand's op-ed, and the blathering about "the public's trust"
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“Today’s rushed appointment of Scott Beardsley as University of Virginia president by UVA’s Board of Visitors, with little meaningful faculty input, is an affront to the entire UVA community in a time of crisis.”
— joint statement from
@proftwolf.bsky.social & @rweingarten.bsky.social
— joint statement from
@proftwolf.bsky.social & @rweingarten.bsky.social
Rushed UVA Presidential Appointment an Affront
Rather than heeding calls to pause the search until a fair and transparent process can be initiated, the board regrettably chose to push through an appointment without a duly constituted membership. T...
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December 19, 2025 at 11:57 PM
“Today’s rushed appointment of Scott Beardsley as University of Virginia president by UVA’s Board of Visitors, with little meaningful faculty input, is an affront to the entire UVA community in a time of crisis.”
— joint statement from
@proftwolf.bsky.social & @rweingarten.bsky.social
— joint statement from
@proftwolf.bsky.social & @rweingarten.bsky.social
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The New School owns about a billion dollars worth of art, most of which is not on display. They could sell the two Warhols they own and raise $100 million tomorrow. But they’d rather close academic departments.
New School “administrators have started to implement a plan to close, overhaul or merge about 30 academic programs or majors; pause nearly all admissions to doctoral programs; and offer buyouts or early retirement to what professors say is about 40 percent of the full-time faculty.”
Falling Enrollment, Money Woes: The New School Seeks a Path to Survival
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:24 PM
The New School owns about a billion dollars worth of art, most of which is not on display. They could sell the two Warhols they own and raise $100 million tomorrow. But they’d rather close academic departments.
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December 20, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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The UNC System has published the new syllabus policy. It's every bit as bad as you would expect, & as we warned. Poorly thought out. An invitation to bad actors to dox faculty. And serves no educational purpose that could not already be met with existing tools.
www.northcarolina.edu/apps/policy/...
www.northcarolina.edu/apps/policy/...
www.northcarolina.edu
December 19, 2025 at 11:14 PM
The UNC System has published the new syllabus policy. It's every bit as bad as you would expect, & as we warned. Poorly thought out. An invitation to bad actors to dox faculty. And serves no educational purpose that could not already be met with existing tools.
www.northcarolina.edu/apps/policy/...
www.northcarolina.edu/apps/policy/...