Texas Conference of the AAUP
We are an association of all AAUP members in Texas #HigherEd. Join us as we advocate for faculty and instructors through the state. Become involved in a local chapter or start one!
- ⏰ There is still time to STOP SB37 in the House Higher Ed committee! 💪💪 1️⃣ Reach out to the members of the House Committee on Higher Ed + your Texas House representative! Automatic emails and click-to-call resources below. ⬇️ 2️⃣ Ask your friends, family, and colleagues to do the same!
- ✊We showed up in droves at the #txlege this week to oppose SB37 in ALL its forms! Although the House committee introduced a substitute of the bill, we oppose all versions of SB37! Watch highlighted testimony + read an overview of the hearing below!👇
- Reposted by Texas Conference of the AAUPThis is what can make academic communities true wonders. May they strive to live up to these practices and ideals.
- Reposted by Texas Conference of the AAUPTrans History is Southern History. This pride month Join Invisible Histories on June 17th, 2025, at 6:00pm CST to learn about and celebrate the history of trans identity and gender nonconformity in the Deep South! Registration: givebutter.com/transsouth
- Reposted by Texas Conference of the AAUPDay 3 of Teacher Appreciation Week—and Republicans are still stalling on raising teacher pay and funding our public schools. They move fast for their billionaire East Coast owners, but not for Texas teachers. Shame!
- Reposted by Texas Conference of the AAUPBREAKING: Second Circuit panel, one day after arguments, unanimously rejects government's arguments and orders that Rumeysa Ozturk be transferred to Vermont no later than May 14. ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/is...
- Faculty, students, staff, alumni, parents + many others concerned about the future of #HigherEd in TX submitted 1️⃣4️⃣7️⃣ pages of written testimony on SB37! Their comments demonstrate the overwhelming public opposition to SB37! Members of the House Higher Ed Committee: please vote NO on this awful bill!
- 🚨 Faculty are already experiencing some of this chilling of speech and intimidation in Texas in the wake of SB17 and SB18 which attacked DEI and tenure. This will only get worse if SB37 passes as MANY faculty warned our lawmakers at the House Higher Ed Committee hearing on the bill yesterday. ⬇️
- Brutal account of what it’s like to teach at the University of Florida right now in the NYT—extraordinary climate of fear. People afraid to say intersectional and talk about lynchings. Fake students trying to entrap Muslim faculty or just making things up altogether. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/o...
