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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that following discussions with President Parsons at Faculty Council on October 7, 2025, CSU administration has withdrawn their recent changes to the Freedom of Speech and Peaceful Assembly policy.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.
- Preliminary results from the AAUP’s 2025–26 Faculty Compensation Survey reveal that real wages for full-time faculty fell between fall 2024 and fall 2025, ending two years of postpandemic recovery.
- Instead, at a time when higher education is under constant attack, they are doing the attackers’ work for them by enthusiastically gutting their own institution.
- Kentucky House Bill 490 poses a direct threat to students, faculty, high quality college education, and the prosperity of the people of Kentucky. It would allow political appointees on governing boards to fire teachers for pretextual reasons.
- A new report co-released by the AAUP and the National Center provides the first in-depth, industry-wide examination of how academic freedom has been written into collective bargaining agreements across American higher education.
- Rather than protecting educational quality, the CPHE appears designed to give partisan political actors a powerful new tool to pressure universities to conform to a narrow ideological agenda—backed by the threat of cutting off access to federal student financial aid.
- AAUP President Todd Wolfson and AFT President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement in response to the decision by the National Institutes of Health to strip research fellows of their right to collective bargaining.
- On February 26, the AAUP sent a letter to Virginia State University President Makola M. Abdullah inquiring into the termination of six faculty members in the Virginia State University’s College of Agriculture, who have requested the advice and assistance of […]
- The North Carolina AAUP state conference and national AAUP celebrate the reversal of an intrusive surveillance policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- We are outraged by reports that DHS agents misrepresented themselves to gain entry to a Columbia University residential building and seize an international student. The AAUP and AFT stand firmly with students, faculty and campus communities.
- The AAUP condemns the attack on an independent documentarian who was attempting to interview former OSU President E. Gordon Gee. The assault raises serious concerns about press rights and safety at the Ohio State University campus.
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.
