Category Archives: Event Announcement
AAUP-CSU Releases NoKingsAAUP app for March 28 rally in Fort Collins, CO
Filed under Action, Event Announcement, Past Events
AAUP-CSU Shows up to Defend Higher Education at No Kings Rally
The AAUP-CSU showed up strong and braved the high winds to stand up at the No Kings Rally in Fort Collins CO. Check out some of these wonderful images from the rally.
Filed under Event Announcement
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 a message of support for Academic Freedom, Research Integrity, Curricula Independence, Student Support Services, and other key values of higher education.
The Trump Administration is bribing and threatening universities to exert direct control over educational activities to censor and silence research and education from topics ranging from Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice to Science and Health. We must stay strong and organize to resist these attacks.
If you are marching in Northern Colorado, please consider adding one of the following slides to your sign to help support the American Association of University Professors at Colorado State University.
Come to the AAUP-CSU Sign-Making party (Thursday, Oct 16, 4:30-6:30 PM, LSC Room 386) to get some logo stickers and to make signs with us.
Flyer for the Rally and March
Please print and cut out as many copies of this flyer as you can and help us to pass them out at the march. We will have extras at the AAUP-CSU booth on Saturday.
Suggested Slogans for Signs
Here are a few slogans that could help to promote the AAUP message to protect academic freedom, research integrity, curricular independence and free speech at universities.
- Protect Education, Save Democracy, Join AAUP
- Education is for Everyone
- Support Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- Reject Trump’s University Loyalty Oath
- No kings in the classroom.
- Don’t Censor our Science!
- Knowledge, not kings!
- The free mind knows no crown.
- Universities, not Vassals
- Faculty Free = Liberty
- Faculty Voice=More Choice
- Science Helps Everyone
- DEI shouldn’t DIE
- Less Vought, more Thought
- Vaccines Cause Adults
- AAUP for Democracy
- Science, not Superstition
- Education, not Deportation
Filed under Event Announcement, Highlight
AAUP-CSU Needs your Help Now!
Dear AAUP Members and Supporters and all CSU and Fort Collins Community Members,
AAUP-CSU invites you and your colleagues, friends, and family of all ages to three fun, yet important democratic actions that AAUP is taking over the next two weeks to fight for the rights and careers of our students, staff, and faculty. We desperately need your help right now to protect academic freedom, free speech, student services, and the sciences, research, and arts at CSU.
Please sign up to volunteer here:
On Thursday, October 9, members of the AAUP and CSU community members will be attending the CSU Board of Governors Meeting at 9:00am in the Long’s Peak room of the Lory Student Center to speak about faculty, student, and staff concerns regarding recent changes to the free speech policy, the continuing need to support CSU services, and to voice concerns about how the budget will affect jobs and services across campus. If you are available at 9:00am, please join to support our efforts on these crucial issues. Arrive early to fill out a comment postcard to be given to the BoG. This event was a resounding success. thank you to all who joined!
On Thursday, October 16, the AAUP will be co-hosting a Sign-Making Party from 4:30pm – 6:30pm in the Lory Student Center, Room 386. At this event, we will have music, conversation, and shared arts and crafts supplies for participants to express their support for the sciences, arts, and humanities; for education; for freedom of speech; and for so many other issues that are under attack in the current political climate. Bring your colleagues, friends, and families for an evening of fun and creativity. Donate a few extra sign-making supplies to share if you are able.
On Saturday, October 18, the AAUP will be joining IndivisibleNoCo, dozens of other local groups, and thousands of Fort Collins residents to attend the No Kings Rally and March (9:00-11:30 a.m. in Civic Center Park, 201 Laporte Avenue in Fort Collins). AAUP will have a tent and tables to distribute information about recent attacks on academic freedom and the lawsuits that the AAUP has won to protect faculty, students, and staff at US Universities against illegal executive overreaches. We will be collecting statements on postcards to demonstrate that CSU and Fort Collins community members still care about our constitutional rights and about education and research in the humanities, arts, and sciences.
There are many fun and easy ways to help!
Bring your friends and family to our sign-making party on Thursday, grab a few of our AAUP Logos and QR Code Stickers to display proudly on your signs to support education, science, and the arts. Wear an AAUP pin at the march, and help us to pass out flyers to support the work that AAUP is doing to protect our freedoms. Bring as many people over to the AAUP table as you can so they can learn more, and so they can sign postcards to tell CSU administration that we care deeply about our rights.
More information about these and many other events can be found on the AAUP website here: https://aaupcsu.org/
Encourage your colleagues to sign up as local members or supporters of AAUP-CSU (https://aaupcsu.org/join-and-support/), so that they too can take part in this movement (ask us about low or zero-cost memberships). And as always, please let us know if you would like to get more involved in planning or supporting future AAUP events or actions.
When we unite and fight, we win.
Yours, in solidarity,
The Communications and Organizing and Executive Committees of the AAUP-CSU
Filed under Action, Event Announcement, Highlight
AAUP-CSU Sign-Making Party – Oct 16.
Come make signs with American Association of University Professors, the STEM Interdisciplinary Rams Alliance, and the Young Democratic Socialists of America to Support Sciences, Research, and the Arts at the 2025 Homecoming Parade and the Oct. 18 “No Kings” Rally.
Join the CSU chapter of the AAUP at our sign-making party on Thursday, Oct 16 at 4:30-6:30pm. We will have an evening of fun and community with dancing, laughing and making art to support Science, Research and the Arts. We will provide shared art supplies and help to make pro-science and pro-education signs to wave in the weekend’s Homecoming Parade and No Kings rally and march. All are welcome – bring your colleagues, friends, neighbors, and kids!
Filed under Action, Event Announcement
Next AAUP-CSU General Meeting – Wednesday Oct. 1, 2025.
Our next AAUP general meeting will be on Wednesday, October 1, 4:30-5:30pm at Avo’s. Please join us and bring your colleagues, friends and family.
We are several weeks into the Fall Semester, and political attacks on university education are reaching critical levels of concern. This meeting will give us an opportunity to meet each other to build solidarity and gather our strength for actions in the short and long term.
Meeting Agenda
- Introductions for new and returning members.
- Overview of AAUP-CSU website and resources and membership drive [see post here].
- Updates on campaign to urge the CSU Board of Governors to protect Academic Freedom, Free Speech and Student Services [see post here].
- Updates on plans to attend and advocate for faculty and staff at the Oct. 9 Board of Governors meeting [see post here].
- Updates on legislative campaign to contact CO members of congress to Support Science, Research and the Arts [see post here].
- Planning for AAUP-CSU involvement in the Oct 18 No Kings protest [see post here].
- Discussion and open suggestions for future AAUP-CSU actions
- Other business
Filed under Event Announcement
Join AAUP-CSU at the Good Trouble Lives ON protest, July 17, Fort Collins CO.
AAUP-CSU needs members and associates to join the Good Trouble Lives On protest to hand out flyers to support AAUP initiatives. Please contact us at aaupcsu@gmail.com to obtain materials and instructions.
Good Trouble Lives On is a national day of nonviolent action to commemorate the life and Civil Rights work of Congressman John Lewis and to respond to the attacks posed on our civil and human rights by the Trump administration.
AAUP-CSU will join IndivisibleNOCO and other local progressive groups to line the streets of Fort Collins. Protesters will be picking location on College Ave. between Mulberry St. and Prospect St.
Join AAUP at this event to distribute flyers and build support to protect of affordable education and academic freedom in Colorado.
Filed under Action, Event Announcement
Sign Making Party – June 12, 6pm
Come join AAUP, YDSA, and SIRA for a sign making party in advance of the No Kings Rally and March. Come to socialize, listen to music, share stories and to show off your arts and craft skills as we make posters to support science, education and academic freedom.
When: Thursday, June 12, 6:00pm – 8:00pm.
Where: Lory Student Center (1101 Center Ave Mall, Fort Collins, CO 80521), Room 390
Filed under Action, Event Announcement
No Kings in America
The AAUP is joining IndivisibleNoCo, yDSA, and dozens of other local organizations to proclaim that no one is above the law in the United States of America.
Come join us for sign making, live music, information and action tables, and to exercise your constitutional right to stand up for democracy.
When: June 14, 9:30am – 12:00pm
Where: Lory Student Center Plaza for the Rally followed by a march along College Ave.
Filed under Action, Event Announcement
May Day Picnic – May 4, 2025
Join AAUP, local labor organizers, speakers, artists and musicians for an afternoon of fun at Edora Park at 12:30pm on Sunday, May 4th, 2025.
May 4, 2025 · 3:50 AM
