AAUP President Calls Trump Election Victory ‘Disappointing’
“Higher Ed Must Organize to Ensure a Future for American Democracy.”
This is the same AAUP that is currently embracing the anti-Israel BDS movement.
Inside Higher Ed reports:
AAUP President: Election of Trump-Vance ‘Disappointing,’ ‘Higher Ed Must Organize’
The president of the American Association of University Professors called the presidential election results “disappointing” in a news release Thursday titled “Higher Ed Must Organize to Ensure a Future for American Democracy.”
“We remain steadfast in our commitment to our principles and ensuring that future generations of Americans are afforded the opportunity that higher education provides,” wrote Todd Wolfson, whom AAUP convention delegates selected as their president this summer.
Back in August, Wolfson called JD Vance a “fascist” in a statement on the organization’s website. Vance, former president Donald Trump’s running mate, had previously called professors “the enemy” and praised how Viktor Orbán, the authoritarian Hungarian prime minister, dealt with universities in his country.
Trump and Vance are now set to occupy the White House come January. While Wolfson didn’t use the word “fascist” in Thursday’s statement, he did warn that higher education’s plight may worsen.
“We are deeply concerned that the ongoing crisis in higher education of declining public funding, ballooning student debt and attacks on academic freedom will only be intensified under the incoming administration,” Wolfson wrote. “Without a thriving, inclusive higher education system that serves the public good, the majority of Americans will be excluded from meaningful participation in our democracy and this country will move backwards.”
The AAUP is both an American Federation of Teachers–affiliated union and a 110-year-old group of scholars that wrote the rules—adopted by colleges and universities across the country—defining what academic freedom, tenure and shared governance mean. Wolfson has sought to organize all higher education workers into one labor coalition.
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The president of the American Association of University Professors called the presidential election results “disappointing” in a news release Thursday titled “Higher Ed Must Organize to Ensure a Future for American Democracy.”
Given Higher Education’s propensity to target those who don’t fit its narrative– such as conservatives or Jewish students who don’t support Palestinian destruction of the state of Israel– that quote is pathetic.
Higher Ed has no interest whatsoever in democracy. Higher Ed is much more interested in suppressing those who don’t go along with its narratives de jour.
The AAUP went full retard over a decade ago, like the SPLC.
Nobody with common sense cares what they think anymore.
The AAUP has been a socialist organization ever since I first declined to join it, around 1974.
Right now, as universities drop tenure-track lines and hire more contingent and part-time faculty, something like the AAUP, without all its political baggage, is badly needed. But I don’t think the current crop of young faculty understand that, so the AAUP will continue to be an effete bunch of socialist (and would-be communist) kibitzers.
AAUP is now a union. They used to support faculty and academic freedom and even would black list universities that interfered with that freedom. That was a long time ago. They merged with AFT, American Federation of Teachers a few years ago. Their goal is to keep federal money coming into the universities though research grants and those wonderful student loans.
Most Americans correctly think the left are the threat to democracy
My granddad belonged to AAUP when he was tenured medical faculty. He compared the organization to Earl Browder’s CPUSA, although Granddad said AAUP wasn’t quite as comical.