Our First Thursdays happy hour this month will be with the Monroe County Education Association. Indiana's strongest public school teachers union meets the nation's fastest-growing AAUP chapter! Thursday 12/4, 5-7 pm at Nick's on Kirkwood Ave.

(No need to RSVP)

@iubaaup.bsky.social

Indiana University fired the director of student media amid growing tension between the school and the student newspaper over what content was allowed in the print edition.

It's time for IU to respect the value of its educators, and ensure faculty, staff, and graduate student worker compensation keeps pace with the cost of living and ensures that we can live and thrive. Fair compensation is essential to a world-class university.

The council formally thanked three IU professors — Alex Tanford, Steven Sherman and Russ Skiba — for suing over the removal of emerita faculty from university governance.

Charlie Kirk’s Professor Watchlist wasn’t about “free speech.” It was about fear.
Professors were doxxed, harassed, even assaulted and now America is rewriting the story.
www.virginmonkboy.com/p/the-watchl...

#AcademicFreedom #ProfessorWatchlist #CharlieKirk #FreeSpeech #PoliticalViolence #HigherEd

Good reporting from our students on the Trustees’ power grab. Shout out to @iubaaup.bsky.social President Davy McD!
www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

IUB AAUP chapter members and leaders on curfew breaking and the fight to restore freedom of speech on our campus: "Credit for the victory of restoring freedom of speech at IU belongs to those who showed up and refused to be silenced." www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

Libraries provide far more than books—they're lifelines for internet access, digital equity, connection, and community programs, especially for low-income families. As educators and advocates for accessible knowledge, we need to support libraries in our community and beyond.

Indiana University prides itself on teaching more languages than any university in the country. Now some teachers are fighting to keep their degree programs from being cut. www.ipm.org/news/2025-08...

A pro-Palestine group at Indiana University has been ordered to cease and desist all activity and comply with a university investigation into alleged misconduct. @weiss-a-woni.bsky.social

"There's no reference to any sort of discovery process whatsoever," he said. "It was clearly a hastily and thoughtlessly written, anonymous complaint in a reporting system that had no consequences. ... It was elevated into an SEA 202 complaint."

www.indystar.com/story/news/e...

Indiana University professor Ben Robinson was formally reprimanded for violating Indiana’s intellectual diversity law.

Indiana University’s Board of Trustees will meet for an executive session Friday. The session in Bryan Hall is only open to the trustees and invited participants. The trustees will discuss legal advice with an attorney, exempting them from Indiana’s Open Door laws.

Without faculty input or public debate, the IU Board of Trustees has eliminated shared governance on matters that pertain to the mission and implementation of academic activities, curriculum, and degree programs.

Review the changes in BOT-25 here:

iubaaup.wordpress.com/2025/08/05/c...

“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception."
www.mellon.org/voices/human...

You can never bend the knee enough to appease an authoritarian bully.

This is a devastating blow to academic freedom & freedom of speech at Columbia.

Never in the history of this nation has there been an administration so intent on the utter destruction of higher education as we know it.

Far beyond Harvard, conservative efforts to reshape higher education are gaining steam

Who else is buying nothing today? Are you also staying off FB?

“I am human; therefore, nothing human can be alien to me.” Terence (h/t Maya Angelou)