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There is no AAUP without U!
We have a new flier thanks to the creative and collaborative efforts of Professor Bryan Klausmeyer! The Virginia Tech Chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) invites you to download this flier, print it off, and hang it … Continue reading
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Kill the Cuts TEACH-IN with the VT AAUP
On April 8th, 2025 the VT Chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) will host a teach-in focused on the scale and impact of federal research grant funding. This is an in-person event happening in room 340 of … Continue reading
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The Virginia Tech AAUP Chapter sends a letter to President Sands and Provost Clarke regarding chilled speech as a result of recent executive orders
Please find the text of the letter below. Greetings President Sands and Provost Clarke, I am writing to you today on behalf of the Virginia Tech Chapter of the American Association of University Professors (VT AAUP). On March 4th, 2025 … Continue reading
VT Chapter’s Statement on Protests on Campus
The Virginia Tech Chapter of the AAUP supports peaceful protest and the robust expression of 1st Amendment rights and of contractual rights including academic freedom of students, faculty, and staff. In addition, it rejects abusive or threatening speech or writing … Continue reading
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The following is a statement concerning protests on Virginia campuses from the Virginia Conference of the AAUP.
Statement In Defense of the Right to Free Speech and Peaceful Protest on Virginia Campuses and Across the Nation “If you aren’t upholding free speech and freedom of assembly in times like this, then these foundational constitutional freedoms are meaningless.” … Continue reading
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Statement from AAUP National Office on the recent protests on university campuses.
In Defense of the Right to Free Speech and Peaceful Protest on University Campuses AAUP and its chapters defend the right to free speech and peaceful protest on university campuses, condemn the militarized response by institutional leaders to these activities, … Continue reading
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Spring Gathering of VT-AAUP
Professors of all stripes (or checks, or plaids, or rainbows, or whatever you wish) – come join us for a Spring Gathering of Virginia Tech’s Chapter of AAUP at the Rising Silo Brewery at 2351 Glade Road on Thursday, April … Continue reading
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Invitation to VT AAUP Social
VT professors of all stripes – full, associate, assistant, instructors, collegiate, research, etc. Please join us tomorrow, Wednesday, November 9 at Eastern Divide Brewery from 4:30 – 6:15 pm. Meet the VT AAUP officers and just have fun socializing with … Continue reading
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Who is really in charge of the henhouse at NYU?
A recent article in the NYT showed that an eminent professor of organic chemistry was let go because students signed a petition that his class was too hard and they were not getting the grades they needed to get into … Continue reading
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