WMU AAUP

10/08/2026

TONIGHT, 10/8 .

The AAUP has partnered with Freedom Trainers to highlight strategies that have stopped authoritarian regimes around the world. We will walk through different election scenarios, illustrating what might happen and what we can do about it. Join one of these participatory workshops to learn the must-do moves to stop authoritarians from wrongfully seizing power through manipulated elections. AAUP members: check your email for the registration link.

10/07/2026

The AAUP along with our Harvard and Boston U chapters, Service Employees Int'l Union, and Americans for Immigrant Justice, have filed a lawsuit challenging two Trump–Vance administration policies that threaten green card applicants with family separation.

The lawsuit challenges new policies from US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) that fundamentally alter the longstanding process known as “adjustment of status,” which Congress created to allow eligible immigrants already in the United States to apply for permanent residence without having to leave their families, jobs, and communities to pursue a green card abroad.

The policies change the rules for people who have followed the legal process to seek permanent residence and put them at risk of losing their ability to live and work in the United States, being separated from their families, and having their careers and education disrupted.

The case is American Association of University Professors et al. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security et al.

10/06/2026

David Prellwitz, a master gardener at Western Michigan University, is our latest Never Quit winner.

10/06/2026

BREAKING:

The AAUP, along with our Harvard & Boston U chapters, SEIU, and Americans for Immigrant Justice, filed a lawsuit today challenging Trump administration policies that threaten green card applicants with family separation.

The new policies from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) fundamentally alter the longstanding process known as “adjustment of status,” which Congress created to allow eligible immigrants already in the United States to apply for permanent residence without having to leave their families, jobs, and communities to pursue a green card abroad.

The full complaint as well as a press release can be found in the comments below.

“By weaponizing the green card process and threatening immigrant professors, researchers, and students with sudden deportation or forced family separation, this administration is sabotaging scientific innovation and turning our universities into hostile environments for the global talent that drives our country forward. Trump’s assault on immigrants is not only cruel and inhumane, it weakens the global competitiveness of our higher education institutions,” said Todd Wolfson, President of the American Association of University Professors

“Immigrant faculty and students are essential to the success and vitality of U.S. higher education and research. By making it even more difficult for international scholars to work and live here, these cruel and counterproductive new policies reflect both the Trump administration’s larger anti-immigrant crusade and its unconstitutional war on universities. But the U.S. cannot be a global leader in education while cutting off the globe, and we will always stand up for members of our academic community when they are illegally threatened by this lawless administration,” said Kirsten Weld, co-president of the Harvard University Chapter of the American Association of University Professors.

“BU AAUP condemns the Trump administration’s new green card policies, which impose onerous and opaque rules on our international faculty and students.” — Mary Battenfeld, co-president of Boston University AAUP.

10/06/2026

The AAUP stands with our Cornell chapter and share their outrage of the continued culture of misogyny and pervasiveness of violence against women at Cornell and at colleges and universities across the country. We condemn the Cornell University police department’s mishandling of evidence and the university administration’s unwillingness to hold Chi Phi fraternity sufficiently accountable for the alleged rapes.

The AAUP represents faculty and academic staff at universities and colleges across the country. We create space in our classrooms and labs to teach, debate, research, think, discover, and create with our students. For years, we have watched the role of college and university administrators shift from one that supports and develops these activities to one that protects the economic interests of trustees and wealthy donors who sit on university boards. A college or university’s brand reputation should not trump its students’ safety. Together with Cornell AAUP, we stand in solidarity with survivors of sexual violence, with student organizations and journalists who have been demanding better, and with faculty, staff, and students at Cornell who have been organizing to demand change.

Link to statement in comments.

10/02/2026

10/02/2026

It's starting to look like fall. And, as usual, we are well-served by the landscaping crew at WMU.

09/23/2026

A federal court has struck down the Education Department’s “arbitrary” anti-DEI rule. Thank you to all of the unions, legislators and advocates who are standing together. Our students deserve a nation that stands up for diversity. https://trib.al/juHWJ93