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Our chapter’s letter to the provost protesting the firing of about 20 staff and the closing of offices directly contributing to excellence in undergraduate education.
AAUP-AFT at UT Austin
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AAUP-AFT at UT Austin
@aaup_utAustin
Standing up for academic freedom, shared governance, due process, tenure and fairness in higher ed. Member @texasAAUP, Texas AFT @local6741 ❤️RT🚫endorsements.
- After the police left, the students reclaimed their campus and gathered together for the planned peaceful teach-in. The massive police presence and arrest of dozens of students was so unnecessary.
- Harvard is withholding the diploma of a Rhodes Scholar, and the diplomas of 10 other seniors, for engaging in a protest. How is this at all defensible?Took graduation photos a year in advance. (As of last evening, Harvard is withholding mine and @shraddha_joshi1's degrees until May of 2025, alongside 10 other graduating seniors. Look up "Palestine exception to free speech" for more info.) x.com/harvxrdpsc/sta…
- 539 UT Austin faculty, representing all ranks and 15 of the University’s colleges and schools, signed an open letter expressing a lack of confidence in President @JCHartzell. The letter has also been sent to the leaders of the @Faculty_UT Council.
- ✴️Responding to overwhelming concern among UT faculty about increasingly untenable teaching and learning conditions, UT Austin AAUP has begun circulating an open letter intended to gauge support for a vote of no confidence in UT President Jay Hartzell. 1/x
- This is so unfortunate. We hate to see Texas lose good students and faculty. We are fighting for diversity, equity, and inclusion for all. #txlegeUniversity of Texas called us, trying to woo our straight-A student into attending their institution. I told the guy my daughter is trans, and if she went to Texas, I'd fear for her life. Guy just said, "Understood." Then hung up.
- @UTAustin’s iconic Tower blocked today to protect administrators from…students holding a teach-in on the lawn?
- What’s happening? 1500 assistant professors at UT Austin and Texas A&M plus more at other public colleges and universities are dusting off their resumes. This includes a significant number of faculty of color. Not a good week for #HigherEducation #academicfreedom #DEI #txlege
- “The effective firing of Erik Wallenberg, after his job was threatened publicly by a trustee he had criticized, appears to be an appalling act of political retaliation and an affront to the principle of academic freedom.”
- “What’s most insidious about these measures…is that they’re not designed to address real-world issues in anything resembling a constructive way. Instead, the goal is intimidation. Most of these laws are written so vaguely that college professors don’t know where the lines are.”Opinion: By slashing budgets, dictating what can be taught and gutting tenure protections, lawmakers are putting their states' public universities on a glide path to uselessness. by Michael Hiltzik governing.com/education/red-…
- 🔔🔔🔔@UTAustin people: Please call/text/email the offices of Jay Hartzell and Amanda Cochran to demand that the police be called off and the students be treated humanely.THIS is how our state and higher education leaders treat students they disagree with. Unforgivable @JCHartzell @GregAbbott_TX.
- 657 teaching faculty sign an open letter expressing lack of confidence in UT Austin President Jay Hartzell’s leadership due to his DEI-related layoffs and militarized response to two pro-Palestine protests.
- ✴️Arresting students and faculty for “trespassing” on their own campus is spreading across the country. In our case, the campus is public property, making it all the more egregious. Herding students off-campus with mounted state troopers: this is #NotOurTexasNYU-AAUP president Karl said faculty members are shocked “at how our president betrayed us, the faculty, and our students.” Faculty were arrested for trespassing on their own campus while forming a cordon around peacefully protesting students. insidehighered.com/news/quick-tak…
- ‘When asked to define “woke,” DeSantis’s lawyers called it the belief that there are “systemic injustices in American society and there is a need to address them.” Another word for believing in systemic inequality is “reality.”’
