AAUP-South Carolina

We join with faculty in Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, and Texas to note with dismay that central tenets of the AAUP have disappeared from the Principles of Accreditation of the Commission on Colleges and Universities (formerly SACSCOC). 🧵 1/8 sacscoc.org/principles-r...

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You're invited to join The SCEA for a “spooky”-themed Public Education, Public Trust Town Hall! 🎃 We'll enjoy trunk-or-treat and a special Superintendent’s Reading Corner. Bonus treats for you should you come dressed as your favorite book character!

There are many ways to destroy a university. Texas Tech, Texas A&M + the University of Texas have each taken a different approach…But the result will be the same: substandard education, substandard research + graduates who are less prepared for their future… + more prepared to obey without question.

After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

#TheSCEA is seeking qualified candidates for our Statewide Member Engagement Coordinator position. Reach out today and apply by Monday, October 26. Find the opening at thescea.org/careers

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Join us for our October Power Lunch www.aaup-sc.org/single-post/...

Now accepting applications for two paid legal internships in summer 2027. Deadline is November 22. Learn more and hear from our most recent interns about their experience working with the ACLU-SC: https://www.aclusc.org/news/meet-our-2026-summer-legal-interns/

We want *you* to be a non-partisan poll observer! Join one of the virtual training sessions from tonight through Oct. 29 and help ensure your community can vote securely, from early voting through Election Day. Register for training here: https://airtable.com/apptr1EuJqWilNp6h/shrCQGGPTksuCw7p5

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So outrageous. www.statesman.com/news/educati...

www.oudaily.com/news/aaup-su... "A log of responses from Oklahoma professors shows 64% of respondents reported they would not recommend working in Oklahoma to colleagues or graduate students."

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AGGGH, I am going to have to write another comment. Accreditors should pay attention to the composition of boards because they have become political footballs that impact the education of students.

The AAUP is paying attention to accreditation, learn why academeblog.org/2026/09/09/p...

How are we going to fight back against Trump’s Compact 2.0? Join the AAUP & AFT for a webinar tomorrow: Thursday, September 10, at 7PM ET, to learn how you can help to block the Trump admin’s efforts to assert political control over higher education. Register here: aft.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

New Gallup polling finds that 71% of Americans approve of labor unions and 56 million Americans would join a union tomrorow if they could. We are witnessing a historic rebirth of worker power. If you want a better life for you and your children, join or support a union.

Happy Labor Day from AAUP-SC!

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Our state conference shared concerns with Gov. McMaster re: Executive Order No. 2026-14, which establishes the South Carolina Foreign Visitor and Foreign Travel Programs www.aaup-sc.org/single-post/...

Shared governance means faculty hold primary responsibility for areas in which their professional expertise is essential, including: • Curriculum and course content • Teaching methods • Research • Faculty status and evaluation • Academic aspects of student life www.aaup.org/issues-highe...

This is how we win

@higheredheist.com once again has the goods. This time detailing the conflicts of interest that abound in the corporate structure of DeSantis’s accrediting agency, The Commission for Public Higher Education, Inc. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 substack.com/home/post/p-...

“Two courses for the fall of 2026 were canceled outright, while several more had to alter their syllabi to comply. Professors teaching those courses told The Chronicle they weren’t provided with any rationale for why their “exception requests” were partially or fully denied.”

We are winning, and you can be part of it by becoming a member of AAUP-AFT today! Join the biggest, strongest higher education union in the country by visiting our website local6741.org or aaup.org/join. #UnionStrong @aaup.org @aft.org @proftwolf.bsky.social

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This is a great film about young people who got together to protect freedom of reading. A local fight with implications for the state and nation. We can learn a lot from their organizing and advocacy. Because there is still much work to do.

You know what to do...

“We’re seeing the unfolding of a decades-long effort by right-wing think tanks to weaken the accreditation system..at stake is a systemic effort to make higher ed more vulnerable to political interference & to cost-cutting, quality reducing measures.”

Heads up: this proposed rule from OPM affects not just the #sciences, but the National Endowment for the Humanities as well. These changes - to peer review, to staff expertise, to grant terminations - have been already happening for more than a year at our #humanities agency. #NEH

What does the new OMB proposal mean for science? How can we STOP VOUGHT and SAVE SCIENCE together? All of these questions and more to be discussed at the Emergency Science Meeting on June 2nd, 4PM ET, hosted by Stand Up for Science! Register at the link in our bio, or go here: zurl.co/oCIDw #OMB

The US Department of Education is currently overhauling federal accreditation rules for colleges & universities. The April 6, 2026, Proposed Changes to Initial Draft Regulations unacceptably seek to narrow & control what can be taught, learned, & researched on college & university campuses. 🧵 1

SC Higher Ed workers! Join us Thursday at noon for a conversation with technologist Dwayne Monroe about A I ! www.aaup-sc.org/single-post/...

Join us for us Spring Meeting, April 18! www.aaup-sc.org/single-post/...