SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon
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The official account of the President of the SUNY University Faculty Senate, SUNY Fredonia Associate Professor of English Bruce Simon, 7/1/2025-6/30/2027. Fund, price, staff, and govern higher ed like the public good it is. #PublicGoodU #MADC
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Made sure to reference this in my segment of a fantastic academic freedom panel organized by the National Council of Faculty Senates featuring @standhighered.bsky.social Jennifer Lundquist @penamerica.bsky.social Amy Reid and moderated by Katherine Ott Walter #MADC
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Harvard AAUP fights to extend free speech protections to international students & faculty!
“We look forward to seeing the remedy Judge Young will put in place to protect our community — and campuses across the country — from the government’s unconstitutional conduct.”
- Kirsten Weld, AAUP Harvard
“We look forward to seeing the remedy Judge Young will put in place to protect our community — and campuses across the country — from the government’s unconstitutional conduct.”
- Kirsten Weld, AAUP Harvard
Harvard AAUP Asks Judge To Extend Speech Protections to International Students, Faculty Nationwide | News | The Harvard Crimson
After winning a court victory against the Trump administration in September, a Harvard faculty group is asking a federal judge to extend protections for noncitizens’ speech nationwide.
www.thecrimson.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Harvard AAUP fights to extend free speech protections to international students & faculty!
“We look forward to seeing the remedy Judge Young will put in place to protect our community — and campuses across the country — from the government’s unconstitutional conduct.”
- Kirsten Weld, AAUP Harvard
“We look forward to seeing the remedy Judge Young will put in place to protect our community — and campuses across the country — from the government’s unconstitutional conduct.”
- Kirsten Weld, AAUP Harvard
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truly orwellian .. presidents now can determine whether hundreds of courses are 'legitimate' ... censorship of the worst kind––how knowledge is constructed, validated, accessed
Faculty, advocates react to Texas A&M University's new race and gender approval system
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Faculty, advocates react to Texas A&M University's new race and gender approval system
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Faculty, advocates react to Texas A&M University's new race and gender approval system
The new Texas A&M University System, which requires professors to obtain approval from the school president to discuss certain race and gender topics, has been met with opposition from faculty and fre...
www.npr.org
November 15, 2025 at 3:51 PM
truly orwellian .. presidents now can determine whether hundreds of courses are 'legitimate' ... censorship of the worst kind––how knowledge is constructed, validated, accessed
Faculty, advocates react to Texas A&M University's new race and gender approval system
www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...
Faculty, advocates react to Texas A&M University's new race and gender approval system
www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...
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"Smaller discretionary grants, awarded without scholarly review, have so far gone to scholars with ties to conservative or religious institutions... including $30,000 for a project called 'Meritocracy vs. Equity: The Declaration of Independence in Tension With Critical Race Theory and D.E.I.'"
As the top Democrat overseeing the National Endowment for the Humanities, I’ve spent the past few months digging into the Administration’s unprecedented dismantling of the agency.
What I found reveals a disturbing pattern of corruption.
What I found reveals a disturbing pattern of corruption.
Fired Scholars and Big Grants to Favored Projects: Inside Trump’s N.E.H.
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM
"Smaller discretionary grants, awarded without scholarly review, have so far gone to scholars with ties to conservative or religious institutions... including $30,000 for a project called 'Meritocracy vs. Equity: The Declaration of Independence in Tension With Critical Race Theory and D.E.I.'"
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Today @peninternational.bsky.social and PEN centers worldwide launch the #DayoftheImprisonedWriter campaign—a global call to release writers behind bars for their words.
Join us & take action for #RoryBranker #YalqunRozi #MohamedTadjadit & #MziaAmaglobeli: www.pen-international.org/our-campaign...
Join us & take action for #RoryBranker #YalqunRozi #MohamedTadjadit & #MziaAmaglobeli: www.pen-international.org/our-campaign...
Day of the Imprisoned Writer 2025 — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide
“Across the world, writers continue to pay a heavy price for speaking truth. Rory Branker, Yalqun Rozi, Mohamed Tadjadit, and Mzia Amaglobeli remind us that words can shake the powerful — and that cou...
www.pen-international.org
November 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Today @peninternational.bsky.social and PEN centers worldwide launch the #DayoftheImprisonedWriter campaign—a global call to release writers behind bars for their words.
Join us & take action for #RoryBranker #YalqunRozi #MohamedTadjadit & #MziaAmaglobeli: www.pen-international.org/our-campaign...
Join us & take action for #RoryBranker #YalqunRozi #MohamedTadjadit & #MziaAmaglobeli: www.pen-international.org/our-campaign...
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November 15, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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UVA president Jim Ryan resigned after sleazy, opaque machinations from only three right-wing board members. There was no board meeting or conversation about DoJ threats or Jim resigning. The whole saga is outlined in a memo Jim just released.
drive.google.com/file/d/1rgFz...
drive.google.com/file/d/1rgFz...
11.14.25_JER Resignation Facuty.pdf
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November 14, 2025 at 2:51 PM
UVA president Jim Ryan resigned after sleazy, opaque machinations from only three right-wing board members. There was no board meeting or conversation about DoJ threats or Jim resigning. The whole saga is outlined in a memo Jim just released.
drive.google.com/file/d/1rgFz...
drive.google.com/file/d/1rgFz...
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Penn's Title VI office failed to discuss allegations of violating academic freedom!
“The administration does not answer in any meaningful way to faculty...to staff or students, but instead has shown repeatedly that it answers to donors, lobbying organizations, & politicians."
- AAUP - Penn
“The administration does not answer in any meaningful way to faculty...to staff or students, but instead has shown repeatedly that it answers to donors, lobbying organizations, & politicians."
- AAUP - Penn
OREI failed to answer questions about alleged academic freedom violations, AAUP-Penn says
In an interview with the DP, a member of AAUP-Penn said that the OREI did not attend a follow-up meeting on Nov. 3 with the faculty group to hear and respond to questions outlined in the report.
www.thedp.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Penn's Title VI office failed to discuss allegations of violating academic freedom!
“The administration does not answer in any meaningful way to faculty...to staff or students, but instead has shown repeatedly that it answers to donors, lobbying organizations, & politicians."
- AAUP - Penn
“The administration does not answer in any meaningful way to faculty...to staff or students, but instead has shown repeatedly that it answers to donors, lobbying organizations, & politicians."
- AAUP - Penn
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"Defendants are ENJOINED and/or STAYED from conditioning the grant or continuance of federal funding on the UC’s agreement to any measures that would violate the rights of Plaintiffs’ members under the First Amendment."
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 2:10 AM
"Defendants are ENJOINED and/or STAYED from conditioning the grant or continuance of federal funding on the UC’s agreement to any measures that would violate the rights of Plaintiffs’ members under the First Amendment."
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For your reference: Timeline of UC faculty legal efforts to defend against Trump’s attacks
legal timeline
Timeline of UC faculty legal efforts to defend against Trump’s attacks UCLA Faculty Association June 4. UC Berkeley faculty and staff Neeta Thakur, Ken Alex, Nell Green Nylen, Robert Hirst, Christine...
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November 15, 2025 at 6:44 AM
For your reference: Timeline of UC faculty legal efforts to defend against Trump’s attacks
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Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
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““The notion that politicians or high-level administrators can dictate what can be taught, researched, discussed or debated in a college classroom is fundamentally at odds with what higher education is about."
- Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
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- Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
@aft.org
AFT’s Weingarten and AAUP’s Wolfson on Texas A&M University System Board of Regents’ Vote to Censor Curriculum
COLLEGE STATION, Texas—AFT President Randi Weingarten and American Association of University Professors President Todd Wolfson issued the following statement condemning the Texas A&M University…
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November 15, 2025 at 1:25 AM
““The notion that politicians or high-level administrators can dictate what can be taught, researched, discussed or debated in a college classroom is fundamentally at odds with what higher education is about."
- Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
@aft.org
- Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
@aft.org
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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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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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WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
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 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
Made sure to reference this in my segment of a fantastic academic freedom panel organized by the National Council of Faculty Senates featuring @standhighered.bsky.social Jennifer Lundquist @penamerica.bsky.social Amy Reid and moderated by Katherine Ott Walter #MADC
November 14, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Made sure to reference this in my segment of a fantastic academic freedom panel organized by the National Council of Faculty Senates featuring @standhighered.bsky.social Jennifer Lundquist @penamerica.bsky.social Amy Reid and moderated by Katherine Ott Walter #MADC
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Oneonnnnnttttta! (rocks)
November 14, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Oneonnnnnttttta! (rocks)
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Today @sunychancellor.bsky.social John B. King Jr. announced the launch of the SUNY Military Tuition Rate Program to ensure SUNY’s academic excellence is fully affordable for active-duty service members, members of the National Guard, and members of the Reserves.
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New SUNY Military Tuition Rate for Active Service Members
SUNY Chancellor King today announced the launch of the SUNY Military Tuition Rate Program, a new system-wide initiative that will ensure SUNY’s academic excellence is fully affordable for active...
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November 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Today @sunychancellor.bsky.social John B. King Jr. announced the launch of the SUNY Military Tuition Rate Program to ensure SUNY’s academic excellence is fully affordable for active-duty service members, members of the National Guard, and members of the Reserves.
www.suny.edu/suny-news/pr...
www.suny.edu/suny-news/pr...
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With the new military tuition rate, SUNY is removing barriers and making sure cost is never what stands between servicemembers and their education. On Veterans Day, and every day, SUNY is proud to support our veterans, active duty servicemembers, and military-connected students.
Today @sunychancellor.bsky.social John B. King Jr. announced the launch of the SUNY Military Tuition Rate Program to ensure SUNY’s academic excellence is fully affordable for active-duty service members, members of the National Guard, and members of the Reserves.
www.suny.edu/suny-news/pr...
www.suny.edu/suny-news/pr...
New SUNY Military Tuition Rate for Active Service Members
SUNY Chancellor King today announced the launch of the SUNY Military Tuition Rate Program, a new system-wide initiative that will ensure SUNY’s academic excellence is fully affordable for active...
www.suny.edu
November 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
With the new military tuition rate, SUNY is removing barriers and making sure cost is never what stands between servicemembers and their education. On Veterans Day, and every day, SUNY is proud to support our veterans, active duty servicemembers, and military-connected students.
UFS stands with Alex and Yan. Thank you for leading the charge, @uupinfo.bsky.social , CSEA, and the Greater Syracuse Labor Council.
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Thank you to the New York Conference of @aaup.org for covering this developing story
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November 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM
UFS stands with Alex and Yan. Thank you for leading the charge, @uupinfo.bsky.social , CSEA, and the Greater Syracuse Labor Council.
uupinfo.org/communicatio...
uupinfo.org/communicatio...
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Through the ESSC, more than 500 SUNY students from 45 campuses are stepping up to serve their communities and make a difference for New Yorkers in need.
🔗 www.suny.edu/suny-news/pr... (2/2)
🔗 www.suny.edu/suny-news/pr... (2/2)
Day of Hunger Action for All Empire State Service Corps Students
Governor Kathy Hochul today urged all members of the Empire State Service Corps and all New Yorkers to combat food insecurity and commit to a day of hunger action on Friday, November 7.
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November 6, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Through the ESSC, more than 500 SUNY students from 45 campuses are stepping up to serve their communities and make a difference for New Yorkers in need.
🔗 www.suny.edu/suny-news/pr... (2/2)
🔗 www.suny.edu/suny-news/pr... (2/2)
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Taking action against hunger, together. 💪
@governor.ny.gov has called on SUNY’s Empire State Service Corps students to dedicate a Day of Hunger Action to support food pantries and food banks across New York State. (1/2)
@governor.ny.gov has called on SUNY’s Empire State Service Corps students to dedicate a Day of Hunger Action to support food pantries and food banks across New York State. (1/2)
Day of Hunger Action for All Empire State Service Corps Students
Governor Kathy Hochul today urged all members of the Empire State Service Corps and all New Yorkers to combat food insecurity and commit to a day of hunger action on Friday, November 7.
www.suny.edu
November 6, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Taking action against hunger, together. 💪
@governor.ny.gov has called on SUNY’s Empire State Service Corps students to dedicate a Day of Hunger Action to support food pantries and food banks across New York State. (1/2)
@governor.ny.gov has called on SUNY’s Empire State Service Corps students to dedicate a Day of Hunger Action to support food pantries and food banks across New York State. (1/2)
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As part of @governor.ny.gov's Day of Hunger Action, State University of New York at @stonybrooku.bsky.social is operating their food pantry full-time with support from student employees and volunteers. (1/2)
November 7, 2025 at 7:25 PM
As part of @governor.ny.gov's Day of Hunger Action, State University of New York at @stonybrooku.bsky.social is operating their food pantry full-time with support from student employees and volunteers. (1/2)
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Our students are stepping up. Today, Empire State Service Corps volunteers at State University of New York at @albany.edu supported a food drive for The Purple Pantry as part of @governor.ny.gov's Day of Hunger Action.
November 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Our students are stepping up. Today, Empire State Service Corps volunteers at State University of New York at @albany.edu supported a food drive for The Purple Pantry as part of @governor.ny.gov's Day of Hunger Action.
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As part of @governor.ny.gov's Day of Hunger Action, @sunybrockport.bsky.social students, including an ESSC member, are hosting an event called First Generation Students today to raise awareness of their on-campus food pantry.
November 7, 2025 at 7:57 PM
As part of @governor.ny.gov's Day of Hunger Action, @sunybrockport.bsky.social students, including an ESSC member, are hosting an event called First Generation Students today to raise awareness of their on-campus food pantry.
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ESSC students from Buffalo State University are working at Milligan's Food Pantry, assisting students in filling out paperwork for SNAP, developing meal plans for students, and physically packaging food bags as part of @governor.ny.gov's Day of Hunger Action
November 7, 2025 at 8:22 PM
ESSC students from Buffalo State University are working at Milligan's Food Pantry, assisting students in filling out paperwork for SNAP, developing meal plans for students, and physically packaging food bags as part of @governor.ny.gov's Day of Hunger Action