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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 47m

AAUP will be marching g with TSEU! No Kings! No Loyalty Oaths! No Compact!

AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 23h

Great turnout of students, staff, faculty, and alumni at the teach-in. We stand together for academic freedom and the autonomy of our beloved university! Tell UT Austin to be Texas Proud and reject Trump’s Compact!

AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 5d

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

✴️✴️✴️ Today!

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

“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 · 1d

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

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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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

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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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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...

aaup-texas.org

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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 1d

Prof. Karma Chavez: “I think UT’s good enough just to compete on the regular marketplace and still win.” That’s right! UT doesn’t need to trade its independence and autonomy for vague promises of “preferential” federal grant funding! 👏🧡✊ #LonghornPride

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

pilot.latakoo.com/asset/219723... Dr. Karma Chavez, the new president of the AAUP chapter at UT Austin, on the elimination of democracy in Texas public education and dangers of Trump’s compact. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 3d

📢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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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 1d

MIT rejects the compact! 👏👏👏👏

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

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 @aaup.org · 1d

Professor Karma Chávez of @utaustinaaup.bsky.social explaining how the abolishment of faculty senates in Texas strips away democracy & any notion of shared governance in TX higher education.

#defendhighered

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Susan (George) Schorn @susanschorn.bsky.social · 1d

"In that free marketplace of ideas, the people of MIT gladly compete with the very best, without preferences. Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education.

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

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 · 1d

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

Great opinion piece from UT Austin faculty member Lisa Moore. 👏🏽👏🏽

After 35 years at UT Austin, I hardly recognize my university | Opinion

What was once a beacon of access and discovery is now fighting for its soul and mission as political attacks upend norms, rules and rights, Lisa L. Moore writes.

www.statesman.com

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

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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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3d

bit.ly/nodealtexas

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

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 · 1d

pilot.latakoo.com/asset/219723... Dr. Karma Chavez, the new president of the AAUP chapter at UT Austin, on the elimination of democracy in Texas public education and dangers of Trump’s compact. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

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

“There is no place in American higher education for death threats against professors,” Todd Wolfson, the president of the AAUP, said in a statement. “We stand with Professor Bray against this gross assault on academic freedom and freedom of speech.”

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

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Flees to Spain After Death Threats

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

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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 · 3d

📢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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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 3d

Another Faculty Senate offers wise advice.

Pres. Davis, you’ve abolished our Faculty Council, depriving yourself of the advice of faculty who would say, Just say no to the Compact! This is a road to disaster for a great University. We need autonomy, free speech & academic freedom to stay great!

Tim Steller @timsteller.bsky.social · 4d

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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The Academic Resistance @academicresistance.bsky.social · 3d

Universities must unite to reject President Trump’s partisan “Compact for Academic Excellence” which threatens academic freedom and diversity. Only bold, collective resistance can defend higher ed from ideological control and preserve critical thought on campus. wagingnonviolence.org/cnv/2025/10/...

Why universities must flatly reject Trump’s ultimatum

Universities need to form a large and powerful bloc to resist attempts to illegitimately remake higher education.

wagingnonviolence.org

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 3d

Henry Farrell on the Trump admin’s proposed “compact” for universities, arguing that the rollout signals weakness, and that academics need to band together to reject this authoritarian attack on university independence and academic freedom.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

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New Hampshire Public Radio @nhpr.org · 3d

“You have often heard me say that higher education is not perfect and that we can do better," Dartmouth President Sian Leah Beilock said in a recent message to the campus community. "At the same time, we will never compromise our academic freedom and our ability to govern ourselves.” buff.ly/dv5e3RR

Dartmouth preparing feedback to Trump administration’s college compact proposal

The White House’s 10-point memo issued to Dartmouth and eight other highly regarded schools asks them to commit to a number of conditions that align with the administration’s policy positions and…

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dtretired.bsky.social @dtretired.bsky.social · 3d

The Trump Cabal's "Compact" to Stamp Out Academic Freedom dianeravitch.net/2025/10/08/t...

The Trump Cabal’s “Compact” to Stamp Out Academic Freedom

Our reader Christine Langhoff discovered an excellent analysis of the “compact” that the Trump administration has offered to several universities. A “compact” usually refers…

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