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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 18h

Imagine how embarrassing changes like this are going to look in 3-5 years

UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

SDSS Dean Stanley Ahalt will be made dean of the new school while SILS Dean Jeffrey Bardzell will stand as the University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI.

www.dailytarheel.com

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Nancy MacLean @nancymaclean.bsky.social · 16h

Trump is trying to rule like a king. Sending masked agents into our cities. Targeting immigrant families. Terrorizing our communities.

But this country does not belong to kings or dictators. It belongs to us.

On October 18, we rise to say #NoKings ! social.demcast.com/s/mcvGYsMF. Find your event

Find An Event Near You

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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 2d

📢Solidarity! This is the time for solidarity among universities, among faculty of different persuasions, between public & private universities, between students, staff, faculty, administrators, alumni, and donors. Fight the authoritarian takeover of higher education together! Fight the Compact! ✊🏽✊🏼✊🏾

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Linguischick @cocchino.bsky.social · 1d

"Faculty members are uncertain whether discussing scientifically-accepted concepts in their disciplines, such as biological intersex conditions, historical gender systems in various cultures, or legal frameworks governing sex discrimination, could result in termination." #TXHigherEd #AcademicBluesky

AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 1d

aaup-texas.org/blog/f/aaup-...

AAUP-Texas Tech Pushes Back Against Campus Censorship

Below is a letter from the AAUP Chapter at Texas Tech University. The AAUP-TTU Chapter is part of the Texas Conference of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), which is affiliated...

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Jennifer Ruth @jenniferruth.bsky.social · 1d

"Discussions regarding the memo have too often focused on bloodless, technocratic terms like 'compliance' or 'implementation.' Behind the legal and policy concerns are real people . . . Transgender and gender-nonconforming individuals are part of our university community." Go AAUP-Texas Tech!

AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 1d

aaup-texas.org/blog/f/aaup-...

AAUP-Texas Tech Pushes Back Against Campus Censorship

Below is a letter from the AAUP Chapter at Texas Tech University. The AAUP-TTU Chapter is part of the Texas Conference of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), which is affiliated...

aaup-texas.org

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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 16h

“LGBTQ+ history has reshaped how historians understand American citizenship, the Cold War and the civil rights movement, among many subjects. Officials may succeed in driving LGBTQ+ history out of Texas’s public universities — but they will not erase the past. LGBTQ+ history belongs to all of us.”

AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 19h

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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RutgersAAUP-AFT @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social · 1d

Read of the day: “Turning Point USA is targeting a Rutgers faculty member for doing his job — in this case, researching the history of postwar anti-fascist movements and writing about them,” [Rutgers AAUP-AFT President] Givan said. https://loom.ly/1rQW_J8

N.J. professor says he’s moving to Europe after death threats over antifa research

Mark Bray said right-wing influencers have been targeting him on social media. Turning Point USA wants him fired.

www.nj.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

The Rutgers TPUSA chapter — whose characterization of a historian there as a “outspoken, well-known antifa member” led to death threats and moving his family to Europe — think *other* people are being “blatantly defamatory.”

Not them, though. They’re doing politics the right way.

Rutgers TPUSA officers slam petition to shut down chapter, ‘Blatantly defamatory’

Alexander Di Filippo accuses Turning Point USA of inciting violence against Antifa handbook author Mark Bray.

www.foxnews.com

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AAUP @aaup.org · 1d

Over 100 Brown U students & 20 faculty members gathered outside
the campus today to demand that the university reject Trump’s loyalty oath compact. Professors & students taped their mouths shut to symbolize the compact’s threat to free speech, #academicfreedom & diversity of thought.
#DefendHigherEd

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North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social · 1d

ncnewsline.com/2025/10/08/u...

UNC professor suspended for anti-fascist activism returns to class • NC Newsline

UNC Chapel Hill professor Dwayne Dixon returned to campus to teach his first class after his suspension for ties to an anti-fascist group.

ncnewsline.com

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AFT @aft.org · 1d

“We will not allow fear and hatred to tear apart our communities and families.” @mayorofchicago.bsky.social

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North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social · 2d

News coverage: www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...

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North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social · 2d

Press conference for Prof. Dwayne Dixon's return to classes. Dixon, NC AAUP, AAUP UNC Chapel Hill, NC ACLU, and TranspaUNCy all delivered stinging criticisms of UNC Chancellor Lee Roberts and ringing affirmations of our Constitutional rights and academic freedom. When we fight, we win. @aaup.org

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Isaac Kamola @isaackamola.bsky.social · 3d

Sign-on letter to oppose Trump's (extortion) "compact" for higher ed institutions. 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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Audrey Truschke @audreytruschke.bsky.social · 3d

A Rutgers professor has been forced to flee the country for his safety, after targeting by a far-right student group that was *checks notes* claiming they felt unsafe.

I'm horrified.
I'm angry.

A short 🧵 #AcademicFreedom #Rutgers #violence #antifa

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

www.theguardian.com

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 3d

Mark Bray and his family are being forced to move to Europe because of incitement by right-wing operatives because he wrote a book about antifascism.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

www.theguardian.com

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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 4d

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...

docs.google.com

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AAUP @aaup.org · 3d

NO LOYALTY OATHS IN HIGHER ED!

Trump's attacks on our universities are an attempt to consolidate power. This loyalty oath directly undermines our right to academic freedom & goes against every democratic principle our country should uphold.

Please click below, sign, & share.

#DefendHigherEd

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

A teach-in this Friday!

Learn about Trump’s proposed “compact” with UT and what we can do about it. 4 PM on Friday 10/2025. University Methodist, 2409 Guadalupe.

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 8d

To the leaders of Vanderbilt, Dartmouth, UPenn, USC, MIT, UT Austin, the University of Arizona, Brown, & UVA: Acquiescing to a Mailman compact would be a profound betrayal of your students, staff, faculty, the public, higher education, and our shared democracy.

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North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social · 4d

Powerful statement. Academic workers must stand with students against this proposed capitulation to authoritarianism and destruction of higher education @aaup.org

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

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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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 6d

“Asked on Friday by the right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson if there would be “ICE enforcement” at the Super Bowl, Noem replied, “There will be,” adding that federal immigration officers would be “all over” the event.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/a...

Kristi Noem Says ICE Will Be ‘All Over’ the Super Bowl

www.nytimes.com

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 5d

@aacu.org has stepped up & called the Trump "compact" for higher ed what it is: "The compact is, in effect, an ultimatum...This is not constructive engagement." Big question is where is @aau.edu? If your university is part of AAU, write to your president & trustees now.
www.aacu.org/newsroom/aac...

AAC&U Statement on the Trump Administration’s “Compact for… | AAC&U

AAC&U Statement on the Trump Administration’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”

www.aacu.org

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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 5d

“The compact’ is a maximalist document, demanding a near-complete surrender of core academic freedoms of the university. It purports to give vast new leverage to the DOJ…to take away federal “benefits” to which the university and its faculty and students are entitled under federal law.” ⬇️⬇️

Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 6d

I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below.

It's especially for journalists covering this story!

Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.

Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

balkin.blogspot.com

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 7d

The question journalists need to be asking is: WHY is the government trying this?

It’s because they want to control universities in unlawful ways that courts will not allow; it’s not working; so they’re trying to get universities to sign up “voluntarily” for unlawful levels of government control.

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