AAUP chapter @UT Austin

ACLS, AHA, and MLA File Motion for Summary Judgment to Restore Previous NEH Function and Funding Discovery released in lawsuit reveals ChatGPT-powered process by DOGE in cancelling grants for schools, libraries, and community organizations.

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When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities

When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...

End Academic Censorship at Texas A&M University The Regents have the obligation to uphold academic freedom and encourage, rather than stifle, open inquiry in and out of the classroom.

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Texas is on the front lines of the fight against government suppression of academic inquiry. We must continue to hold the line against those who wish to control the range of topics that can be taught in the classroom.

Keep fighting. Our democracy depends on it.
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Texas AAUP-AFT Spring 2026 Meeting Web Site: aaup-texas.org

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Indoctrination isn’t happening at UT, despite what regents say UT professor argues claims of widespread campus indoctrination are unfounded, citing research showing students feel free to think independently.

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Texas Tech regents take no public action on teaching race, gender Some professors are waiting for a final decision on acceptable instruction under a review policy created by the system’s new chancellor.

Texas Tech regents unexpectedly take no public action on what can be taught on race, gender www.texastribune.org/2026/02/26/t...

FIRE Letter to University of Houston, February 24, 2026

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Most Conservative Students Don’t Feel Persecuted on Campus A new survey of college students contradicts Republican rhetoric that campus culture is hostile to right-wing views.

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One year in, UT Austin’s president won’t do interviews. Here’s why it matters Jim Davis declined all interview requests from the Austin American-Statesman. He has also declined requests from the Texas Tribune and KUT.

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Year in review: Top 5 changes President Jim Davis brought to UT One year ago, the UT System Regents appointed Jim Davis as UT’s interim president. From courses to consolidations, here is how UT changed under his leadership.

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Texas professors flock to join teachers' union amid academic freedom concerns The union's rapid growth comes as federal and state lawmakers target classroom instruction and personal speech in higher education.

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Reinstate the Fired Six at VSU On December 16, 2025, Dr. Harbans L. Bhardwaj, Dr. Adnan Beker Yousuf, Dr. Vitalis W. Temu, Dr. Maru K. Kering, Dr. Toktam Taghavi, and Dr. Molla Fentie Mengist were abruptly removed from Virginia Sta...

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This petition challenges serious violations of public sector workers’ due process rights, shared governance, attacks on academic freedom and academic integrity at a public HBCU.

UT’s Women's and Gender Studies won a department. Then politics closed in UT faculty say women's and gender studies is a long-established discipline that’s being gutted and defined without their input or voice.

UT’s Women's and Gender Studies won a department. Then came the political pressure www.statesman.com/news/educati...

The Misuses of the University - Public Books Have the funds that might have trained the next generation of scholars at the nation’s first research university have been blown on ostentatious new buildings?

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Who would have thought that the public University of Texas and the private Johns Hopkins would look so alike in 2026?

Details about implementation are scarce. Current graduate students will be able to finish their degrees. Beyond that depends on an opaque curriculum review process.

UT Head of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Speaks Out • The Austin Chronicle On Monday, the Chronicle spoke with Lisa Moore, who has served since 2023 as the chair of UT-Austin’s Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department – a department that is now being collapsed with ...

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UT Policy Asks Faculty to Avoid “Controversial” Topics The system board did not specify what topics are considered controversial or elaborate on how the policy will be enforced. The language echoes similar restrictions at the Texas A&M and Texas Tech syst...

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UT Head of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Speaks Out • The Austin Chronicle On Monday, the Chronicle spoke with Lisa Moore, who has served since 2023 as the chair of UT-Austin’s Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department – a department that is now being collapsed with ...

UT Head of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Speaks Out www.austinchronicle.com/news/ut-head...

Vague, chilling and, sadly, now University of Texas System policy. 🥶🥶🥶

The University of Texas is clipping the wings of students of color | Opinion Students from different races and ethnicities had to fight to find belonging at the University of Texas. Now they are being asked to shrink themselves, Mateo Vallejo writes.

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Students can solve controversial problems. UT must trust them to do so | Opinion A vague proposed policy on “controversial topics” risks narrowing what students can learn at the University of Texas, David Gray Widder writes.

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Political Correctness Is Illegal, Say These Professors Suing Their University

Political Correctness Is Illegal, Say These Professors Suing Their University in Canada
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This is not how you improve education at the University of Texas | Opinion The provost’s decision to eliminate key teaching and advising units threatens students, staff and educational quality, Julie Minich writes.

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The proposed policy on "Teaching Controversial Topics" is vague, leaves key terms undefined, and would have a chilling effect on what is taught. This, in turn, would curtail the freedom of our students to learn and Texas' ability to recruit world-class faculty working on pressing issues.

New policy proposal could limit 'controversial topics' at UT System schools The policy states faculty should “ensure a broad and balanced approach” to teaching controversial and contested issues. But the policy does not define controversial.

🚨🚨UT Regents may vote to limit teaching of 'controversial topics' this week. 👇

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Gender Studies gives people the tools to question the exploitation of women and exposes elite men's abuse of power, money, and sex.

Some of the best departments, some of the best teachers, scholars, and students in the US and worldwide are at UT in these programs. As far as I am aware, the programs enroll well, are in demand, produce award-wining scholarship. Why in the world would anyone make this decision? @aaup.org

if you are a faculty member in Texas and you haven't joined @texasaaup.bsky.social yet you should have done that yesterday. (actually this applies to faculty everywhere, join @aaup.org

Devastated to learn that Univ of Texas at Austin is closing the American Studies dept. The years I spent there earning my PhD were formative, making me the teacher, thinker, and writer I am today. I've passed on what I learned at UT to thousands of students over the past 20 years. Just awful.