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FACULTY WORKING CONDITIONS ARE STUDENT LEARNING CONDITIONS UNIs Faculty Union Opposes Radical Bills Targeting Higher Education Bills Would Censor Faculty and Undermine Critical Inquiry Free Speech and Student Choice Faculty salaries have fallen dramatically behind the cost of living and peer institutions March 26 2025 CEDAR FALLS Iowa United Faculty UNIs faculty labor union opposes several bills that recently passed Iowas House and would severely damage the University of Northern Iowa Iowa State and the University of Iowa if approved by the Iowa Senate. The three bills HF 269 the Freedom from Indoctrination Act HF 295 the Accreditation Autonomy Act and HF 401 the Core Curriculum Act all seek to censor university faculty and bend the universities and their curriculum to an agenda that undermines critical inquiry free speech and student choice. These bills all censor university faculty and prohibit the discussion of a number of basic topics having to do with race gender and inequality in majors minors and individual courses said Christopher Martin president of United Faculty. These bills destroy the essence of college education Open critical inquiry free speech and the ability of students to make their own decisions in what they want to study.