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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 15d

So, at the very least, we all need to be joining or starting an AAUP chapter:

www.aaup.org/chapters/fin...

Find a Chapter

A list of AAUP chapters, both unionized and nonunionized. (You can also see a list of just union chapters.)

www.aaup.org

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 1d

569 Dartmouth faculty members have signed a petition urging College President Sian Leah Beilock not to sign the Trump administration’s “Compact”

More than half of Dartmouth faculty members sign petition against Trump compact

The petition states that signing the compact would “undermine” the College’s “academic freedom.”

www.thedartmouth.com

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UMiami AAUP @aaupumiami.bsky.social · 20h

www.aaup.org/seven-theses... "...if viewpoint diversity means committing oneself to a robust debate about truth and values, then the movement should be open to responding to and refuting the following theses challenging its premises and fundamental arguments."

Seven Theses Against Viewpoint Diversity

Demands for “viewpoint diversity,” a pillar of the Right’s strategy to remake higher education, collide with the pursuit of truth.

www.aaup.org

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 1d

Absolutely love to see it. Where you at alumni?
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 1d

Student government leaders of MIT, UVA, U of AZ, Dartmouth, UPenn, Brown, and Vanderbilt united in their opposition to the "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

www.instagram.com/p/DPm507ljBJ...

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Jennifer Ruth @jenniferruth.bsky.social · 2d

Trump is calling the destruction of academic freedom his "Great Reform Agenda in Higher Ed." One political party breaking and then remaking higher ed. along its preferred ideological lines is not "reform," it's authoritarianism. Say No to the Compact.

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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 1d

Join Together and Reject Trump's Loyalty Oath for Higher Ed-Penn, USC, Vanderbilt, University of Virginia, University of Arizona, UT-Austin, MIT, Brown & Dartmouth.
@aaup.org @aaup-penn.bsky.social @utaustinaaup.bsky.social @aaupbrownchapter.bsky.social

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UMiami AAUP @aaupumiami.bsky.social · 1d

stanforddaily.com/2025/10/12/f... we must refuse

From the Community | We must refuse the 'Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education'

Associate professor Greg Martin writes on behalf of the Stanford's AAUP chapter to condemn the White House's compact on higher education.

stanforddaily.com

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UMiami AAUP @aaupumiami.bsky.social · 1d

Reject Trump's "Loyalty Oath" Compacts actionnetwork.org/petitions/un...

University Administrations: Reject Trump's "Loyalty Oath" Compacts

The Trump administration is trying to blackmail schools to let him and his unqualified bureaucrats run our schools. They want to dictate what schools teach, who they admit and hire, what researchers s...

actionnetwork.org

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Rob Milton @therobmilton.com · 7d

- put down the damn AI.

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Ian S. Pumpkins @icpetrie.bsky.social · 7d

Penn historian Ben Nathans with an op-ed in our campus newspaper:

"No self-respecting university that values its autonomy and the integrity of its teaching and research should sign the compact."

Benjamin Nathans | Autonomy or obedience

Guest Columnist Benjamin Nathans urges Penn’s leadership to resist the White House’s demands in its “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.”

www.thedp.com

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AFT @aft.org · 9d

VIDEO: Listen to Ph.D. candidate Caitlin Brabble Rose explain why government programs like a grant she got from the National Science Foundation are essential for the next generation of scientists and innovators.

#HigherEdBenefitsEveryone @aaup.org @afthighered.bsky.social

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UMiami AAUP @aaupumiami.bsky.social · 9d

Hard endorse!

North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social · 9d

UVA Faculty Senate with a clear statement of values: facultysenate.virginia.edu/resolution-o...

Resolution Opposing the "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education" | Faculty Senate, U.Va.

facultysenate.virginia.edu

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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 11d

Of course it’s a trap.

“They would reward campuses that toe the party line and punish those that cherish their independence,” a statement from AAUP and AFT says. “In doing so, it would commit the very viewpoint discrimination it claims to redress.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

Trump Offered Universities an Invitation for a Deal. Some See a Trap.

www.nytimes.com

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AAUP–Penn @aaup-penn.bsky.social · 11d

Well, well, well www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

The Billionaire Behind Trump’s Deal for Universities

www.nytimes.com

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11d

Universities considering capitulating to the Trump “conditions” should use this real world example to understand they will simply be destroying their own institution. bsky.app/profile/nich...

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11d

Chris Rufo's disastrous takeover of New College in Florida shows what universities would become if they sign the Trump regime's extortionary "compact."

New College was supposed to model the anti-woke conservative higher-ed Americans crave. Instead, it showed the opposite, and serves as a warning.

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North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social · 11d

UNC Chapel Hill has reinstated Prof. Dwayne Dixon.
Rather than conduct a threat assessment of a faculty member based on spurious accusations, UNC should conduct an assessment of its own administration's threat to First Amendment rights and academic freedom. @aaup.org
www.wral.com/news/local/u...

UNC professor reinstated after investigation into alleged ties with politically motivated group

UNC-Chapel Hill has reinstated a professor who was linked to groups believed to call for politically motivated violence. An investigation found that Dwayne Dixon posed no threat to the campus communit...

www.wral.com

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AAUP @aaup.org · 11d

UC’s Academic Council calls on the Office of the President & the UC Board of Regents to unequivocally reject governmental demands that compromise institutional autonomy and #academicfreedom.

This is the way.

#DefendHigherEd

Brian Soucek @brsoucek.bsky.social · 11d

Strong statement today from UC's Academic Senate:

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GMU-AAUP @aaupmason.bsky.social · 11d

UVA is one of nine schools to receive Trump's letter offering "preferred" funding status in exchange for, well, their souls and their dignity. Interim President Mahoney: under no circumstances can you accept this corrupt bargain.

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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 11d

Of course it’s a trap.

“They would reward campuses that toe the party line and punish those that cherish their independence,” a statement from AAUP and AFT says. “In doing so, it would commit the very viewpoint discrimination it claims to redress.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

Trump Offered Universities an Invitation for a Deal. Some See a Trap.

www.nytimes.com

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 12d

That's the only way to play this. The only form of resistance that can work to this kind of authoritarian power-grab is resistance where universities all refuse to voluntarily give up autonomy over what they teach, write, and allow their students and faculty to say.

Then fight in court, one by one.

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UMiami AAUP @aaupumiami.bsky.social · 11d

www.youtube.com/live/RB1FLkR...

Breaking Down Trump's New Higher Ed Loyalty Oath Compacts and Why We Must Resist

YouTube video by TheAAUP

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UMiami AAUP @aaupumiami.bsky.social · 28d

www.aaup.org/news/academi...

Academic Freedom and the Death of Charlie Kirk

The AAUP notes with great alarm the rash of recent administrative actions to discipline faculty, staff, and student speech in the aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk.

www.aaup.org

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29d

(Trump imposes martial law on a conquered nation, speaking from the smoking ruins of a Planned Parenthood while drinking Diet Coke out of a liberal professor's skull)

Schumer: We look forward to sending the president our ideas for a tax rebate on home security systems and debating them at length.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29d

Man, it would be great to have an opposition party in DC right now.

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 29d

As @shannonrwatts.bsky.social pointed out, where's the Democrats Leadership's response to JD Vance and the Trump Administration essentially declaring war on the majority of America?

Debunking all his lies? Calling out right-wing terror?

Anything? Anything at all?

Bueller...Bueller?

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AAUP @aaup.org · Sep 8

“Land acknowledgments are not statements on behalf of an issue or cause. Acknowledging the historical and contemporary realities of the university on Indigenous land is not an activist act. It’s a factual statement.”

AAUP-Ohio State @osuaaup.bsky.social · Sep 3

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Ohio State Bans Most Land Acknowledgments

The new policy is one of several in response to a state law that aims to eliminate any mention of diversity, equity and inclusion at public universities.

www.insidehighered.com

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