Mark Criley
@markcriley.bsky.social
“Nothing bad can happen. It can only good happen.”
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“Disciplining union members for protected, concerted activity reveals just how far Columbia University leadership has fallen, prioritizing political submission to the Trump agenda over fair treatment & rights of their own employees.”
— Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
— Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
Columbia sends disciplinary letters to at least 20 SWC-UAW members for October picket, union says
After an Oct. 17 Student Workers of Columbia-United Auto Workers <a href="https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/10/26/public-safety-asks-swc-uaw-to-move-picket-off-campus-despite-rules-exemption...
www.columbiaspectator.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:41 PM
“Disciplining union members for protected, concerted activity reveals just how far Columbia University leadership has fallen, prioritizing political submission to the Trump agenda over fair treatment & rights of their own employees.”
— Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
— Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
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Higher ed folks! Hopkins Press is having a 40% off holiday sale, so it's a great time to get copies of "the best book there is on the topic" of academic freedom. Use code HHOL25. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/... #Academia #academicsky #highered
Understanding Academic Freedom
In the evolving landscape of academic freedom in America, this second edition addresses the latest challenges and developments in the field.Since the publication of the first edition of Understanding ...
www.press.jhu.edu
November 25, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Higher ed folks! Hopkins Press is having a 40% off holiday sale, so it's a great time to get copies of "the best book there is on the topic" of academic freedom. Use code HHOL25. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/... #Academia #academicsky #highered
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"The Stanford Daily et al. suit comes on the heels of a major First Amendment victory; The American Association of University Professors sued Rubio, and the court held that the Trump administration unconstitutionally targeted noncitizens for deportation based on pro-Palestinian speech."
Stanford Students Sue Over Trump’s Crackdown on Political Speech
Amid the administration’s war on higher education, The Stanford Daily’s lawsuit targets federal statutes that allow deportation and visa revocation based on political speech.
www.thenation.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:10 PM
"The Stanford Daily et al. suit comes on the heels of a major First Amendment victory; The American Association of University Professors sued Rubio, and the court held that the Trump administration unconstitutionally targeted noncitizens for deportation based on pro-Palestinian speech."
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Really pleased to learn that one of our students, Kristen Waddell, has won a national award for her NSF-funded research on local water quality. Congratulations to Kristen and to my teaching colleague, Dr. Daisy Zhang.
Folks, we're a community college.
www.kiiitv.com/article/news...
Folks, we're a community college.
www.kiiitv.com/article/news...
DMC student’s water-quality research earns national recognition
Kristen Waddell has spent more than a year using new techniques to study water quality in South Texas, using samples collected directly from Baffin Bay.
www.kiiitv.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Really pleased to learn that one of our students, Kristen Waddell, has won a national award for her NSF-funded research on local water quality. Congratulations to Kristen and to my teaching colleague, Dr. Daisy Zhang.
Folks, we're a community college.
www.kiiitv.com/article/news...
Folks, we're a community college.
www.kiiitv.com/article/news...
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✊☕️✊
Say GOOD MORNING to our baristas in Aurora, IL who joined our national ULP strike this morning!
And remember: don't buy Starbucks while baristas are on strike! #NoContractNoCoffee
And remember: don't buy Starbucks while baristas are on strike! #NoContractNoCoffee
November 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
✊☕️✊
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I love caramel brûlée lattes during the fall / winter, alas no can do. Respect the strike!
BREAKING: 30 more Starbucks locations are joining the strike.
Starbucks workers in 25 cities are jumping into the week-long strike.
Now @sbworkersunited.org members at 95 stores in 65 cities have walked off the job.
Starbucks workers in 25 cities are jumping into the week-long strike.
Now @sbworkersunited.org members at 95 stores in 65 cities have walked off the job.
November 20, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I love caramel brûlée lattes during the fall / winter, alas no can do. Respect the strike!
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“If there is a message to be heeded in the legislative assault on governance bodies, it is that the enemies of higher education, nonetheless, still fear faculty authority. Why else would they be so insistent on silencing faculty members?”
#DefendHigherEd
#DefendHigherEd
November 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
“If there is a message to be heeded in the legislative assault on governance bodies, it is that the enemies of higher education, nonetheless, still fear faculty authority. Why else would they be so insistent on silencing faculty members?”
#DefendHigherEd
#DefendHigherEd
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We appreciate University Baptist Church!
November 18, 2025 at 11:57 PM
We appreciate University Baptist Church!
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Wonderful to see THREE new AAUP chapters in Texas! Let’s go!! 👏👏👏
November 18, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Wonderful to see THREE new AAUP chapters in Texas! Let’s go!! 👏👏👏
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AAUP TV — WEDS, NOV 19 @ 7 PM ET!
Veena Dubal, AAUP General Counsel, and Todd Wolfson, AAUP President, will discuss the historic victory in AAUP v. Trump and what it means for the UC system & higher ed!
@proftwolf.bsky.social
@veenadubal.bsky.social
Tune in on IG or YouTube (link in thread)!
Veena Dubal, AAUP General Counsel, and Todd Wolfson, AAUP President, will discuss the historic victory in AAUP v. Trump and what it means for the UC system & higher ed!
@proftwolf.bsky.social
@veenadubal.bsky.social
Tune in on IG or YouTube (link in thread)!
November 19, 2025 at 12:35 AM
AAUP TV — WEDS, NOV 19 @ 7 PM ET!
Veena Dubal, AAUP General Counsel, and Todd Wolfson, AAUP President, will discuss the historic victory in AAUP v. Trump and what it means for the UC system & higher ed!
@proftwolf.bsky.social
@veenadubal.bsky.social
Tune in on IG or YouTube (link in thread)!
Veena Dubal, AAUP General Counsel, and Todd Wolfson, AAUP President, will discuss the historic victory in AAUP v. Trump and what it means for the UC system & higher ed!
@proftwolf.bsky.social
@veenadubal.bsky.social
Tune in on IG or YouTube (link in thread)!
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UConn professors get ZERO days of guaranteed paid family leave 🤯
UConn AAUP is negotiating for paid family leave as well as better safeguards for academic freedom and more robust protections for faculty working on contracts.
Read more about their contract demands here👇
@uconnaaup.bsky.social
UConn AAUP is negotiating for paid family leave as well as better safeguards for academic freedom and more robust protections for faculty working on contracts.
Read more about their contract demands here👇
@uconnaaup.bsky.social
LTTE: Support UConn Faculty’s Reasonable Contract Demands
For months now, the UConn-AAUP negotiating team has made minimal progress at the bargaining table across from the UConn administration’s negotiators.
dailycampus.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:20 PM
UConn professors get ZERO days of guaranteed paid family leave 🤯
UConn AAUP is negotiating for paid family leave as well as better safeguards for academic freedom and more robust protections for faculty working on contracts.
Read more about their contract demands here👇
@uconnaaup.bsky.social
UConn AAUP is negotiating for paid family leave as well as better safeguards for academic freedom and more robust protections for faculty working on contracts.
Read more about their contract demands here👇
@uconnaaup.bsky.social
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AAUP Stanford emphasizes three key features of our struggle to remake higher ed for the common good:
1️⃣ Solidarity
2️⃣ Integrity, not Neutrality
3️⃣ Student speech
"Let us act in solidarity and with integrity. Let us trust our students to speak."
- Jessica Riskin, AAUP Stanford Co-President
1️⃣ Solidarity
2️⃣ Integrity, not Neutrality
3️⃣ Student speech
"Let us act in solidarity and with integrity. Let us trust our students to speak."
- Jessica Riskin, AAUP Stanford Co-President
AAUP | Three lessons the University must learn
In a new column from Stanford's chapter of the American Association of University Professors, history professor Jessica Riskin offers three lessons for universities facing pressure from the federal go...
stanforddaily.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:09 PM
AAUP Stanford emphasizes three key features of our struggle to remake higher ed for the common good:
1️⃣ Solidarity
2️⃣ Integrity, not Neutrality
3️⃣ Student speech
"Let us act in solidarity and with integrity. Let us trust our students to speak."
- Jessica Riskin, AAUP Stanford Co-President
1️⃣ Solidarity
2️⃣ Integrity, not Neutrality
3️⃣ Student speech
"Let us act in solidarity and with integrity. Let us trust our students to speak."
- Jessica Riskin, AAUP Stanford Co-President
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YES!!!
Tae Heung “Will” Kim, a U.S. permanent resident from South Korea, has been released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody after being detained for months.
asamnews.com/2025/11/17/w...
asamnews.com/2025/11/17/w...
U.S. permanent resident released from ICE custody – AsAmNews
South Korean U.S. permanent resident Tae Heung “Will” Kim has been released from ICE custody after being detained for months.
asamnews.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:13 AM
YES!!!
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Desperately need coffee and a snack and you know where I am NOT going? Starbucks! Friendly reminder to respect the strike! ✊🏾
November 17, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Desperately need coffee and a snack and you know where I am NOT going? Starbucks! Friendly reminder to respect the strike! ✊🏾
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BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
November 14, 2025 at 11:55 PM
BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
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Truly I am in tears. My beloved UC system! Saved from the clutches of fascism. ❤️🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾❤️❤️❤️
November 15, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Truly I am in tears. My beloved UC system! Saved from the clutches of fascism. ❤️🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾❤️❤️❤️
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WE WON!!!
The US District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a preliminary injunction in AAUP et al v. Trump et al (the wall to wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of Title VI to reshape the University of California system.
Read the order here:
The US District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a preliminary injunction in AAUP et al v. Trump et al (the wall to wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of Title VI to reshape the University of California system.
Read the order here:
democracyforward.org
November 15, 2025 at 1:21 AM
WE WON!!!
The US District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a preliminary injunction in AAUP et al v. Trump et al (the wall to wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of Title VI to reshape the University of California system.
Read the order here:
The US District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a preliminary injunction in AAUP et al v. Trump et al (the wall to wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of Title VI to reshape the University of California system.
Read the order here:
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It’s almost time. nocontractnocoffee.org
November 12, 2025 at 9:55 PM
It’s almost time. nocontractnocoffee.org
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Always a delight to have something in print—my piece on Mutual Academic Defense Compacts for AAUP’s @academemagazine.bsky.social, also available online. #MADC www.aaup.org/academe/issu...
November 12, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Always a delight to have something in print—my piece on Mutual Academic Defense Compacts for AAUP’s @academemagazine.bsky.social, also available online. #MADC www.aaup.org/academe/issu...
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For more than 3 years, @pghguild.com members at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette have shown incredible strength while on strike.
Their heroic persistence demonstrates the real power of our solidarity and what’s possible when we come together in a union.
Their heroic persistence demonstrates the real power of our solidarity and what’s possible when we come together in a union.
Third Circuit Court of Appeals rules for striking Pittsburgh journalists - Pittsburgh Union Progress
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Monday morning ruled for the journalists of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh in the federal case behind their more than three-year strike at the Pit...
www.unionprogress.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
For more than 3 years, @pghguild.com members at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette have shown incredible strength while on strike.
Their heroic persistence demonstrates the real power of our solidarity and what’s possible when we come together in a union.
Their heroic persistence demonstrates the real power of our solidarity and what’s possible when we come together in a union.
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Happy to report that the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign academic senate overwhelmingly passed a resolution against the federal “compact” all of us in higher ed have been offered, encouraging our administrators to keep opposing it. #MADC www.senate.illinois.edu/2025-2026/20...
www.senate.illinois.edu
November 11, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Happy to report that the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign academic senate overwhelmingly passed a resolution against the federal “compact” all of us in higher ed have been offered, encouraging our administrators to keep opposing it. #MADC www.senate.illinois.edu/2025-2026/20...
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UNC-Chapel Hill's chancellor says the university will not sign on to a higher education compact from the Trump administration.
www.wunc.org/education/20...
www.wunc.org/education/20...
After faculty raise concerns, UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor says university will not sign Trump's higher ed compact
Lee Roberts called the "preferential treatment" proposal a clear infringement on academic freedom.
www.wunc.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:28 PM
UNC-Chapel Hill's chancellor says the university will not sign on to a higher education compact from the Trump administration.
www.wunc.org/education/20...
www.wunc.org/education/20...
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If Schumer votes AGAINST this but enough Ds vote FOR it that it passes, he needs to RESIGN immediately.
He will have shown himself to be absolutely ineffective as a minority leader. He has to go.
Literally resign tonight.
He will have shown himself to be absolutely ineffective as a minority leader. He has to go.
Literally resign tonight.
November 10, 2025 at 12:57 AM
If Schumer votes AGAINST this but enough Ds vote FOR it that it passes, he needs to RESIGN immediately.
He will have shown himself to be absolutely ineffective as a minority leader. He has to go.
Literally resign tonight.
He will have shown himself to be absolutely ineffective as a minority leader. He has to go.
Literally resign tonight.
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The Cornell AAUP chapter has consistently stated that any deal with the Trump administration would be strategically unwise and a betrayal of Cornell’s principles. This remains the case. At best, we can say that this deal could have been worse.
Read our full statement here:
Read our full statement here:
Statement on Cornell’s agreement with federal government
The Cornell AAUP chapter has consistently stated that any deal with the Trump administration would be strategically unwise and a betrayal of Cornell’s principles. This remains the case. We ar…
aaup-cornell.org
November 7, 2025 at 11:24 PM
The Cornell AAUP chapter has consistently stated that any deal with the Trump administration would be strategically unwise and a betrayal of Cornell’s principles. This remains the case. At best, we can say that this deal could have been worse.
Read our full statement here:
Read our full statement here: