Postcard Campaign for Free Speech, Academic Freedom, and Student Centers

In September, we launched a Postcard Campaign for Free Speech, Academic Freedom, and Student Centers.

AAUP@CSU is teaming up with ASCSU to help our community let the administrators of the CSU system know how we feel about attempts to undermine research and curricular independence, close student centers, curtail academic freedom, and constrain freedom of speech on our campus.

It’s important that the leaders of our system hear how faculty, students, and staff have been impacted, and how they, CSU alumni, and fellow Coloradoans would like our administration to respond to future threats.

We designed postcards on which any member of our community can tell their story and voice their concerns. We are currently collecting postcards to be delivered to the Board of Governors when they meet on our campus on October 9^th. After that, postcards may be mailed directly to the CSU system office.

We collected hundreds of postcards in two days of tabling on the Lory Student Center Plaza. Students, faculty, staff, and other members of the community voiced their concerns about new CSU restrictions on faculty and student speech, revoked federal grants, and federal pressure to alter our curriculum and close campus cultural centers.

We need your help to expand this effort! If you would like a set of blank postcards to share with colleagues, friends, neighbors, and family members—anyone in the CSU community or the state of Colorado is invited to fill out a postcard—contact Communications and Organizing Co-Chair Karrin Anderson.

Let Chancellor Tony Frank and the Board of Governors know that we want them to strongly oppose partisan attempts to undermine academic freedom.

The postcard campaign will be active through the end of the Fall 2025 semester.