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Recent AAUP-CSU Campaigns
The following excerpts describe a few of the many recent activities undertaken by the AAUP-CSU. Please click the links to learn more about what we are doing and how you can help!
AAUP-CSU suggestions for No Kings rally signs
The Oct. 18, No Kings March will likely be the biggest day of protest in US history, and the AAUP-CSU wants to ensure that this includes strong and clear support for higher education. When making your signs, please consider promoting …
AAUP-CSU Postcard Campaign to Protect Free Speech, Academic Freedom, and Student Centers
The AAUP-CSU+ASCSU Postcard Campaign for Free Speech, Academic Freedom, and Student Centers has collected hundreds of postcards to CSU Chancellor Tony Frank and the CSU Board of Governors! The successful campaign continues at the Oct 18 No Kings Rally and …
CSU Withdraws Changes to Freedom of Speech and Peaceful Assembly Policy!
AAUP-CSU is pleased to announce that following discussions with President Parsons at Faculty Council on October 7, 2025, CSU administration has withdrawn their recent changes to the Freedom of Speech and Peaceful Assembly policy.
AAUP-CSU Needs your Help Now!
AAUP-CSU invites all CSU and Fort Collins Community Members to join in the fight to protect academic freedom, free speech, student services, and the sciences, research, and arts at CSU. Please volunteer at upcoming actions and events hosted by AAUP-CSU.
AAUP-CSU Newsletter, October 2025
AAUP-CSU's October 2025 Newsletter is now available (click here!). There is a lot going on, and AAUP-CSU is active in taking a stand for employee rights, academic freedom, free speech and student services.
Act Now to Save Funding for Science, Research, and the Arts
AAUP-CSU asks all members and supporters to call/write their elected officials to urge protection for research funding. The Congressional budget process will eventually resume, and legislators will determine specific levels of funding – if any – for higher education and …
Revised Free Speech Policy Alarms Faculty and Students
The revised free speech policy announced by the CSU administration in September threatens the right to free speech and peaceful assembly on campus. AAUP-CSU calls on all CSU and Fort Collins community members to write to CSU admin and ask …
AAUP-CSU condemns attacks against CSU from the AFL.
A disturbing “civil rights complaint” was filed against CSU by America First Legal (a partisan group founded by Stephen Miller). AFL knows/cares nothing about truth, education, or the Colorado communities. Join AAUP-CSU and help CSU Administration keep their commitments to …
AAUP-CSU at the No Kings march
The CSU chapter of the AAUP showed up for the No Kings march on June 14. AAUP-CSU members Anders Fremstad (Economics) and Brian Munsky (Biomedical and Chemical Engineering) spoke at the event to protest the unconstitutional intimidation against free speech …
AAUP-CSU Advocates for the Establishment of a Mutual Defense Compact for CO Higher Education
The AAUP Resolution to Establish a Mutual Defense Compact for Colorado Institutions of Higher Education was passed at the CSU Faculty Senate on May 6, 2025 with a nearly unanimous vote of 45-1.
ASCSU Unanimously Passes a Resolution for a Mutual Defense Compact for Colorado Institutions of Higher Education
The Associated Students of Colorado State University (ASCSU) joined with AAUP-CSU to pass their own version of the Resolution to Establish a Mutual Defense Compact for Colorado Institutions of Higher Education.
Recent National AAUP Campaigns
Below are a few of the recent campaign and wins by the national AAUP. Click any of the boxes to go to the full stories in the national press, or read more at AAUP in the News.
- In a decision arising from a lawsuit brought by the AAUP and allies, a court has limited the Trump executive order targeting DEI discrimination and federal contractors to only bar discrimination already prohibited by federal law.
- The AAUP announced a slate of twelve national political endorsements for Senate and congressional races in the 2026 midterm elections.
- In a letter to Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges and Universities (the Commission on Colleges and Universities) president Stephen Pruitt on SACSCOC’s draft principles, AAUP president Todd Wolfson highlighted concerns regarding issues of academic freedom, shared […]
- The Rutgers AAUP unions have reached tentative agreement on an article guaranteeing academic freedom to everyone covered by the contract, including adjunct faculty and clinicians. It is fully enforceable and grievable and was won through the rank-and-file efforts of the […]
- The AAUP and a coalition of allies filed a lawsuit today challenging two Trump–Vance administration policies that make it significantly harder or impossible for eligible immigrants already living in the United States to obtain as a green card without leaving […]
- A federal court has blocked the implementation and enforcement of the Trump administration's $100,000 H-1B visa fee, the result of a lawsuit brought by the AAUP and coplaintiffs.
- The AAUP stands with the Cornell AAUP chapter and share their outrage of the continued culture of misogyny and pervasiveness of violence against women at Cornell and at universities and colleges across the country.
- In official comments submitted yesterday, Todd Wolfson, president of the American Association of University Professors, urged Education Secretary Linda McMahon to reconsider the Department of Education’s proposed rule changes.
- In a letter sent today, Todd Wolfson, president of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), formally urged the American Association of Universities (AAU) to withhold consideration of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s readmission to the organization. The AAUP warns that […]
- The AAUP's Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure advises faculty, staff, students, and administrators to “remain clear eyed about the need to refuse to comply” with the latest Trump administration attempt to assert authoritarian control over higher ed.
Academe Blog
Want to learn even more, check out the recent editorials on the Academy Blog. Academe Blog is a production of Academe magazine and focuses on issues in higher education. The blog and Academe are published by the American Association of University Professors, but opinions published in them do not necessarily represent the policies of the AAUP.
