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

The attack on our colleagues’ academic freedom, and anything to do with race and diversity, is in full force at OSU.

Obeying in advance once again, OSU is now withdrawing support for scholars studying topics and attending relevant conferences that the federal government doesn't like.

Ohio State changes policy on group conferences after Trump administration threats

A federal investigation into potentially discriminatory practices at Ohio State prompted the university to change its policies regarding conferences.

www.dispatch.com

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Coalition for Action in Higher Ed @actioninhighered.bsky.social · 1h

Re-upping this now that Trump has extended the bribe to all universities.

Coalition for Action in Higher Ed @actioninhighered.bsky.social · 4d

Sign the "No Loyalty Oaths in Education!" petition started by Sunrise and sponsored by @higheredlabor.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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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 20h

History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 13h

Uni administrators and trustees: We need viewpoint diversity.

Professor, outside of class: Working class should organize to overthrow capitalism

Uni administrators and trustees: No, not THAT kind of viewpoint diversity

Julie Greene @greeneland.bsky.social · 1d

I just learned, Thomas Alter, tenured professor, has been terminated effective immediately. Shame on Texas State! We mst build support for Tom. spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-tex...

Texas State upholds the firing of associate history professor Thomas Alter

Alter’s termination occurred on Sept. 10, stemming from his remarks at the Revolutionary Socialism Conference on Sept. 7.

spectrumlocalnews.com

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Claremont Colleges Chapter of AAUP @aaupclaremont.bsky.social · 2d

“Academic freedom is under threat. In the USA, the federal administration is trying to take control of university research and teaching by cutting funding, limiting the ability to freely choose research topics, and raising barriers for foreign students to be admitted to programs.”

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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 1d

Cheyfitz and Cornell negotiated a settlement. Details in the Sun here. www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...

Cheyfitz Retires Amid Discrimination Investigation Over Confrontation With Israeli Student in Gaza Class

Prof. Eric Cheyfitz, literatures in English, who in his course on “Gaza, Indigeneity, Resistance," reportedly asked an Israeli student to unenroll, is now set to retire.

www.cornellsun.com

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 1d

Made by @aaup-penn.bsky.social member!

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suzette sommer @suzette.bsky.social · 2d

OCTOBER 17th

Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 3d

I’m a mom.
I’m a scientist.
I’m an activist.

I’m not going to stand by while unqualified, Quack, fringe-ass conspiracy theorists make decisions about my family’s health that is going to kill people.

Join me outside of HHS on 10/16 at 3pm.
@standupforscience.bsky.social

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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 2d

Students from Cheyfitz’s course speak out against his suspension and explain what happened in the classroom leading up to it. www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...

We Took Cheyfitz’s Class on Gaza. His Suspension Violates Academic Freedom.

Nine students who took the course on "Gaza, Indigeneity, Resistance" contextualize the dispute that led to the suspension of Professor Eric Cheyfitz. They argue that his treatment by the University am...

www.cornellsun.com

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 4d

MIT's response to the Trump admin's proposed "compact" is excellent and should be a model for other universities. orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 4d

MIT rejects the compact! 👏👏👏👏

AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 4d

orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

“The document also includes principles w/ which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression & our independence as an institution. And [it] is inconsistent w/ our core belief that scientific funding shld be based on scientific merit alone.”

Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

orgchart.mit.edu

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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 4d

www.statesman.com/opinion/colu...

Great opinion piece by our AAUP chapter Vice President! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

I teach LGBTQ+ history. The University of Texas may soon ban my course | Opinion

Across Texas' public universities, faculty like me face course reviews and political pressure to erase LGBTQ+ studies, UT professor Lauren Gutterman writes.

www.statesman.com

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 6d

Virginia State Senate Dems just brought down fire and fury regarding the “Compact,” notifying the President and Rector that UVA would lose ALL STATE APPROPRIATIONS if it signs and cedes the University to “federal political control.” Notably, their letter directly restates points made here by @siva.

Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 6d

The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously.

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

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

newrepublic.com

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AAUP @aaup.org · 6d

Join the AAUP and other allied organizations across the nation on October 18 for a day of peaceful and impactful protest as we come together to make clear: America has no kings, and the power belongs to the people!

#NoKings #AAUP #AcademicFreedom #HigherEducation #DefendHigherEd #Education

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Tim Steller @timsteller.bsky.social · 7d

The University of Arizona's faculty senate has voted to ask the UA president to reject the Trump administration's proposed compact. It's among an accumulation of voices who say not to be tempted by the good things in the compact due to its more fundamental threats.
tucson.com/news/local/e...

U of A Faculty Senate opposes Trump compact; provost says no decision yet

The University of Arizona Faculty Senate approved a resolution calling on the UA to reject the White House’s compact requiring ideological, political and financial commitments in return for federal fu...

tucson.com

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AAUP @aaup.org · 6d

Dr. Rupa Marya was a professor of medicine at the UCSF. She reveals how she was fired from her position after a campaign involving a state politician, a billionaire donor, and university admin targeted her for speaking out against the destruction of hospitals from a region experiencing a genocide.

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 6d

5 yrs ago, I argued that climate change demands an activist academy. So does growing authoritarianism. Our universities need to act collectively, and we academics, as their beating heart, must demand that administrations do this.
My piece: direct.mit.edu/daed/article....
Henry's is a must read. 👇

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

www.nytimes.com

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 7d

Academic freedom means that a course that teaches students to critique settler colonialism can be taught alongside one that teaches students to maximize shareholder value.

Both are "biased" in their framing.

Only one is currently at risk of being cancelled by state and/or institutional actors.

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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 6d

Trump’s H-1B Visa Fee Could Strain Universities and Schools

“It’s not patriotic,” Dr. Botstein said. “It harms the economy and has nothing to do with excellence.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Trump’s H-1B Visa Fee Could Strain Universities and Schools

www.nytimes.com

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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 7d

“Any university leader who signs on to this compact would betray everything good and solid about the university and would do deep and permanent harm to the United States and the world.”https://newrepublic.com/article/201376/trump-compact-academic-excellence-university-virginia via @newrepublic.com

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

newrepublic.com

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 7d

cornell alums sign and share and fight and then some docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Alumni in Support of Cornell’s Independence, Democracy, and Academic Freedom

Please add your name below if you agree to be a signatory of the following message to be delivered to the Cornell Board of Trustees: Dear Members of the Cornell Board of Trustees, Ongoing attacks on A...

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

“While the material consequences of refusal may be significant, the alternative is far worse. Sacrificing our values and principles would irreparably damage the foundations upon which our university has been built. We must, together, find another way.” ✊

aaupbrownchapter.bsky.social @aaupbrownchapter.bsky.social · 6d

Brown Chapter of the AAUP's Statement Urging the University to Reject the Federal Government's “Compact”
www.brownchapteraaup.org/statements

Statements — Brown AAUP

www.brownchapteraaup.org

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 6d

The authoritarian threat is not just at the federal level

Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 7d

Citing the “martyrdom” of Charlie Kirk, Texas AG Ken Paxton says his office is pursuing sweeping undercover investigations into “leftist” groups. “To those demented souls who seek to kill, steal, and destroy our country, know this: you cannot hide, you cannot escape, and justice is coming."

"Leftist political terrorism is a clear and present danger. Corrupted ideologies like transgenderism and Antifa are a cancer on our culture and have unleashed their deranged and drugged-up foot soldiers on the American people," said Attorney General Paxton. "The martyrdom of Charlie Kirk marks a turning point in America.
There can be no compromise with those who want us dead. To that end, I have directed my office to continue its efforts to identify, investigate, and infiltrate these leftist terror cells. To those demented souls who seek to kill, steal, and destroy our country, know this: you cannot hide, you cannot escape, and justice is coming."
The radical Left has incubated an environment where political violence is not only justified but celebrated and praised. In July, nearly two dozen armed leftists connected to various Texas-based Antifa-like groups ambushed an Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE") facility in Alvarado, Texas. On September 10, 2025, a leftist assassin connected to the radical transgender movement murdered Charlie Kirk because of Kirk's bold support for truth, love of country, and unshakable faith. Two weeks later, another deranged leftist opened fire at an ICE facility in Dallas.
President Donald Trump has officially designated Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization and instructed his administration to "utilize all applicable authorities to investigate, disrupt, and dismantle any and all illegal operations — especially those involving terrorist actions — conducted by Antifa." Building on President Trump's bold actions, Attorney General Paxton has instructed his office to initiate sweeping investigations into radical leftist organizations engaged in or providing support to those performing political violence.

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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 7d

I am proud of MIT, where our branch of AAUP has voted unanimously to endorse this statement urging MIT leadership and the MIT Corporation to reject the Compact wholesale
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Letter Regarding Compact

MIT Chapter of the American Association of University Professors October 6, 2025 Statement on the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” MIT has been invited by the federal governmen...

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