NC AAUP: What's on your mind? by NC AAUP

aaupncconf — 2025-04-02 13:25:21 UTC

Job security (including from department/program closures) and pay equity for NC-system faculty including those who are part time and contingent.

aaupncconf — 2025-04-02 13:25:40 UTC

The prospect of program elimination at various UNC institutions, which will be made far easier if proposed changes to Chapter VI of the UNC Code are approved.

aaupncconf — 2025-04-02 13:25:55 UTC

The removal of diversity, equity and inclusion as part of the academic goals of institutions.

aaupncconf — 2025-04-02 13:26:04 UTC

wages & health care

aaupncconf — 2025-04-02 13:26:14 UTC

Support for contract faculty

aaupncconf — 2025-04-02 13:26:24 UTC

Threats to academic freedom and protests on campus.

aaupncconf — 2025-04-02 13:26:37 UTC

Strategies for building our base and recruiting more of our colleagues to AAUP--we've been working on this on our campus, but it is challenging.

aaupncconf — 2025-04-02 13:26:46 UTC

Free speech

aaupncconf — 2025-04-02 13:27:26 UTC

academic freedom, attacks on academic sources of funding by demonizing dei

aaupncconf — 2025-04-02 13:27:36 UTC

Contract faculty rights, unions

aaupncconf — 2025-04-02 13:27:44 UTC

NIH funding crisis

aaupncconf — 2025-04-02 13:27:55 UTC

Backlash against diversity, equity and inclusion

aaupncconf — 2025-04-02 13:28:04 UTC

Pushing decision makers to protect worker's jobs. Push back against federal cuts.

aaupncconf — 2025-04-02 13:28:15 UTC

Organizing structures across and within university to build political power collectively and build heartfelt solidarity over the long term (both things we have way to little of now)

aaupncconf — 2025-04-02 13:28:22 UTC

Executive Orders and NC Government demands and NC DOGE

aaupncconf — 2025-04-02 13:28:31 UTC

Why no one joins the NC AAUP on my campus

aaupncconf — 2025-04-02 13:28:40 UTC

Anti-DEI policies / threats to academic freedom

aaupncconf — 2025-04-02 13:28:48 UTC

Protecting academic freedom and freedom of speech on university campuses

aaupncconf — 2025-04-02 13:28:56 UTC

pushing back against the anti-DEI legislation

aaupncconf — 2025-04-02 13:29:06 UTC

1. Repression of student activists 2. Universities cooperating with ICE and the state 3. Working towards changing the law so faculty at private universities like Elon can unionize 4. Push for cost of living salary adjustments 5. recruit members

aaupncconf — 2025-04-02 13:29:16 UTC

academic freedom

aaupncconf — 2025-04-02 13:29:25 UTC

Lack of Decision making by faculty

aaupncconf — 2025-04-02 13:29:34 UTC

The current challenges posed by the Musk Adminstration to both the University as a whole and academic freedom

aaupncconf — 2025-04-02 13:29:46 UTC

Electing a new president!

aaupncconf — 2025-04-02 13:29:56 UTC

Among all the other issues facing higher education under the new regime in the US, I would like NC AAUP to also keep an eye on the growing risks facing our international colleagues—faculty, staff, students.

aaupncconf — 2025-04-02 13:30:06 UTC

Advocating for precarious workers (students, postdocs, fixed-term & adjunct faculty)

aaupncconf — 2025-04-02 13:30:15 UTC

Trump regime persecution of faculty, graduate students, postdocs, and university staff for freedom of expression and for exercising academic freedom!

aaupncconf — 2025-04-02 13:30:26 UTC

Campus speakers--prior censorship of speakers, civil discourse guidelines for both speakers and audience

aaupncconf — 2025-04-02 13:30:34 UTC

How institutions should respond to the current attack on higher education.

aaupncconf — 2025-04-02 13:30:42 UTC

Deportation of our students

aaupncconf — 2025-04-02 13:30:49 UTC

Supporting legal challenges to executive overreach re: first amendment protections.

aaupncconf — 2025-04-02 13:30:57 UTC

Protection of entire academic community -- students, faculty, institutional admin

aaupncconf — 2025-04-02 13:31:08 UTC

Academic freedom and organizing for protection of the academy

aaupncconf — 2025-04-02 13:31:18 UTC

Walkout/demonstration/DO SOMETHING CONCRETE

aaupncconf — 2025-04-02 13:31:27 UTC

Shared governance and the administration accountability

aaupncconf — 2025-04-02 13:31:37 UTC

Freedoms of speech/ and “disappearing” people

aaupncconf — 2025-04-02 13:31:45 UTC

Anticipatory obedience culture of UNC administration, non-transparency and lack of shared governance

aaupncconf — 2025-04-02 13:31:52 UTC

Protecting international students from apprehension/ deportation

aaupncconf — 2025-04-02 13:32:00 UTC

Immigrant rights

aaupncconf — 2025-04-02 13:32:09 UTC

Student safety from illegal arrests

aaupncconf — 2025-04-02 13:32:17 UTC

Attacks on DEI in education

2025-04-02 15:32:54 UTC

The attack on the sciences, especially the banning of the concept of "climate" and "climate change"...as demonized as the concepts of DEI, the point being to disable us and our economies from dealing with climate catastrophes and extreme weather events (including access to public funding during recovery)

2025-04-02 15:36:14 UTC

Replacing teaching and learning with AI, years already in the making. We have no say in how we use technology, rather systems of governance make it so that we must succumb to the tech fantasies of the oligarchs (+ Silicon Valley)

2025-04-02 15:39:33 UTC

Building forms of solidarity in practice, the likes of which we have not seen before in the neoliberal university hierarchy

2025-04-02 15:40:33 UTC

The precarity of PhD students and other graduate students and the need for them to unionize. Make collective bargaining law in North Carolina!