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SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 6m

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SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 1d

The UFS is!

SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 3d

Who’s with me?

SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 7m

I’m very proud to lead a system-wide governance body that gets, and acts on, precisely this. Once I get in front of a computer, look for a brief report looking back at the UFS’s Fall 2025 Plenary that concluded on Saturday—and looking ahead to the conversations it continues and initiates.

Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 29m

2/2 The moment requires bold distributed decision-making. The faculty are not nieve, even if many of us are not paying enough attention. Campus cohesion, and sectoral solidarity are the two key ingredients for both survival and successful transformation to fulfill the mission and rebuild trust.

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SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 11m

Also: not all

SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 12m

Word

Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 29m

1/2 On campus leadership:
This is a measured and well articulated statement for shared governance from the Michigan faculty. It points to, and corrects, a fundamental miscalculation that many campus executives are making; namely, that the moment requires bold executive leadership.

Faculty Perspective: Open Letter Regarding Consultative Decision-Making | The University Record

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SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 14m

Proud to be in regular dialogue with leaders across SUNY and at every level of SUNY System to try to ensure that this conception of shared governance is taken seriously as a baseline of meaningful faculty involvement in the making and vetting of tough decisions.

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Faculty Perspective: Open Letter Regarding Consultative Decision-Making | The University Record

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SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 1d

The UFS is!

SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 3d

Who’s with me?

Citizen of Somewhere Else @citizense.bsky.social · 3d

Time to draw a line in the sand.

www.defendingourcampuses.org

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SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 1d

On behalf of the State University of New York University Faculty Senate, which voted to empower me to sign this petition on their behalf, I just signed University Administrations: Reject Trump's "Loyalty Oath" Compacts. Sign here: 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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SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 2d

Wendy Gordon (SUNY UFS VP/Secr) moderating panel on meeting the moment with Candice Vacin (SUNY FCCC), Matthew Cotter (CUNY UFS), Fred Kowal ( @uupinfo.bsky.social ) and Luca Rallis (SUNY SA).

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SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 2d

The Chancellor is in the house!

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SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 3d

The leaves are turning. A new day is coming.

Citizen of Somewhere Else @citizense.bsky.social · 3d

Sunrise coming. Time to rise up! Eh, @higheredlabor.bsky.social @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social ?

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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SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 3d

If not now, when?

Citizen of Somewhere Else @citizense.bsky.social · 3d

Time to stand together for higher ed.

www.standtogetherhighered.org/statement-on...

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SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 3d

Who’s with me?

Citizen of Somewhere Else @citizense.bsky.social · 3d

Time to draw a line in the sand.

www.defendingourcampuses.org

Defending Our Campuses and Communities

The AFT and the AAUP are working with allies in higher education and the labor movement to defend and advance higher education that is accessible and affordable for all who want it, and to protect the...

www.defendingourcampuses.org

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SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 3d

Time to pick sides, Senators! Where does UFS stand?

Citizen of Somewhere Else @citizense.bsky.social · 11d

We will always fight for Public Good U over Grift U, Police U, and, now, Vichy U

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Erik Linstrum @eriklinstrum.bsky.social · 11d

UVA invited to join select group of collaborationist universities

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SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you, ACLS

www.acls.org/news/acls-st...

ACLS Statement Regarding White House “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”

ACLS stands firmly against this latest White House effort to divide faculties by giving special privileges to students in “hard science programs” and its demand that institutions abolish “units that p...

www.acls.org

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SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 5d

Everybody who knows somebody in higher education, or anybody who benefited from it, should sign this petition.

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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SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 5d

Hey, kids, there’s no better time to reread this Independence Day declaration from 10 current and former SUNY and CUNY governance leaders and add your John Hancock! Pass it on!

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SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 5d

A great essay, well-pitched to a broad audience. Wait, the Mutual Assured Destruction Compact would end big-time college sports?

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Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

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SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 6d

Not one faculty member at USC saw any bright side or silver lining to the Mutual Assured Destruction Compact. I love the suggestion to counter with a Mutual Academic Defense Compact. Our #MADC is the best response to the Upside Down/Bizarro World Mailman Compact.

Stephen Shapiro @stephenshapiro.bsky.social · 6d

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USC faculty members denounce Trump compact that would shift university to the right

The USC Academic Senate held a special meeting to discuss the Trump administration's education compact, which was presented to the school last week.

www.latimes.com

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SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 6d

Challenge: convince these students they’re wrong!

Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 6d

Students at the 9️⃣universities: “If any one of our universities agrees to this compact, it risks creating a chain reaction for the #HigherEd system at-large to side with tyrants over students. We demand that our universities do not fold + do not sign.” 👏

www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...

Our Universities Must Not Fold to Trump's Authoritarian Compact | Common Dreams

This compact goes against every democratic principle our country and our schools should uphold, and we reject the Trump administration’s attempt to cajole universities into compliance through explicit...

www.commondreams.org

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AFT Connecticut @aftct.bsky.social · 6d

"We are living through a multi-decade moral panic that’s been manufactured against higher education." @aaup.org @isaackamola.bsky.social

Panelists sound alarm about state of academic freedom at Democracy Project event

At Friday’s event, four panelists discussed current threats to academic freedom.

www.browndailyherald.com

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SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 6d

Teacher working conditions are, and have always been, student learning conditions.

Lumina Foundation @luminafoundation.bsky.social · 6d

Freedom to learn depends on freedom to teach, but when that's at risk, transparency, inquiry, and trust erode.

These campaigns distract from the real work of helping students learn and thrive, and could prevent students from the education they need to build a fair, secure, and prosperous future.

Local colleges targeted amid growing campus culture wars

National media and conservative groups are seeking syllabi and student information from public colleges; professors say they feel targeted and harassed.

www.wgbh.org

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SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 6d

Here’s a thread evaluating arguments by someone (at Harvard, of all places) that the Mutual Assured Destruction Compact is not all bad.

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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 6d

The argument presented by Allen is both politically naive and historically erroneous. Accepting a compact *for higher education at this point in time* is suicidal. A 🧵

Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 7d

Danielle Allen has proposed many good things for Harvard, so I’m puzzled by her reading of the word “compact” here, as if this would be an agreement freely entered into. She rightly says that, as written, this shouldn’t be agreed to. Maybe leave it there? therenovator.substack.com/p/why-im-exc...

SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 6d

In times like these, @sheeoed.bsky.social continues doing what they do best: essential research for understanding higher education as a public good.

State Higher Education Executive Officers Association @sheeoed.bsky.social · 10d

NEW BLOG: In the 2025 legislative session, state lawmakers considered nearly 400 bills related to financial aid for postsecondary education. Read our latest blog post to learn about what bills crossed the finish line: https://ow.ly/t01Z50X5NUU

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SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 6d

We need an entire alphabet soup of condemnation of the Mutual Assured Destruction Compact! Academic freedom, institutional autonomy, and our democratic system of shared governance must never be for sale.

American Association of Colleges & Universities (AAC&U) @aacu.org · 9d

AAC&U Statement on the Trump Administration’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” https://bit.ly/3VOEJvx

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SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 6d

Good overview of responses to the Mutual Assured Destruction Compact here, although I would have appreciated a better summary of criticisms and concerns from the folks I’ve been featuring on this feed.

www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

Higher Ed Sounds Off on Proposed Compact

The sector has overwhelmingly panned Trump’s plan to give preferential treatment to universities that commit to his policies. So have some conservative leaders.

www.insidehighered.com

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