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AAUP @aaup.org · 18h

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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Higher Education Labor United (HELU) @higheredlabor.bsky.social · 22h

Trump is demanding nine colleges and universities sign a "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." These demands will come to all of higher ed if we don't stand together and fight back now. Tell our college and university administrations: Reject the Compact! tinyurl.com/rejectthecom...

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AAUP @aaup.org · 1d

“I joined the AAUP because I wanted to connect w/ people who shared the values I hold dear — values that are under attack & need defending. I saw the opportunity to participate in the trial because of that connection. & because of that connection, I felt able to take a risk worth taking.”

I’m a Non-Citizen Professor. Here’s Why I Testified Against Trump. | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson

I am glad that I could re-learn this crucial lesson. Surround yourself with the right people. Stand in solidarity with them. Courses of action will make themselves known to you, along with the resourc...

www.thecrimson.com

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AAUP @aaup.org · 2d

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 @aaup.org · 6d

UC’s Academic Council calls on the Office of the President & the UC Board of Regents to unequivocally reject governmental demands that compromise institutional autonomy and #academicfreedom.

This is the way.

#DefendHigherEd

Brian Soucek @brsoucek.bsky.social · 6d

Strong statement today from UC's Academic Senate:

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AAUP @aaup.org · 6d

“Trump’s restrictions on H-1B visa applications will lead to less lifesaving research, reduced innovation, & diminished competitiveness. This short-sighted policy will hurt every American by slowing research breakthroughs, weakening our economy & putting our global leadership at risk.”
—Todd Wolfson

Groups File Suit Over Trump’s $100,000 H-1B Visa Fee

www.nytimes.com

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AAUP @aaup.org · 7d

The Trump admin’s offer to give preferential treatment to institutions that toe the party line reeks of bribery in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological agenda.

This is corruption.

Adherence to ‘loyalty oaths’ would usher in a new era of thought policing in American higher education.

Universities Must Reject Trump Admin 'Loyalty Oath' Compacts

The AAUP and AFT warn that the Trump administration’s offer to give preferential treatment to colleges and universities that court government favor in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological...

www.aaup.org

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 7d

Just noting that a university that signed this compact would be agreeing to gut clinics and institutes like, say, the Knight Institute, whose mandate is to promote free speech and press freedom. What would it even mean for us to be “neutral”?

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AAUP @aaup.org · 7d

In a landmark ruling in our case against the Trump admin on the deportation of international students for protected speech, Judge William Young rejected the government’s justification for the wearing of masks by ICE agents as
“disingenuous, squalid & dishonorable.”

#AAUPvRubio
@knightcolumbia.org

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 9d

Today I am especially happy to be an @aaup.org member.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 9d

This case … squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us.”

“The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally ‘yes, they do’.

— Judge William G. Young

#AAUPvRubio

Opinion

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 10d

So, at the very least, we all need to be joining or starting an AAUP chapter:

www.aaup.org/chapters/fin...

Find a Chapter

A list of AAUP chapters, both unionized and nonunionized. (You can also see a list of just union chapters.)

www.aaup.org

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AAUP @aaup.org · 9d

BREAKING: WE WON!!!
💥 💥 💥

Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.

Full ruling here:

Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #261 in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-10685) – CourtListener.com

Judge William G. Young: ORDER entered. FINDINGS OF FACT AND RULINGS OF LAW, PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(Sonnenberg, Elizabeth) (Additional attachment(s) added on 9/30/2025: # 1 Main Document) (J...

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AAUP @aaup.org · 11d

“McCarthyism targeted individuals because of their past political activities. They were never asked about their teaching and research. Today, the attack is on the university, on the academic community; not just individuals, but on the higher education community as a whole.”

— Ellen Schrecker

Kirk assassination raises the political stakes for HE

Comments by United States President Donald Trump and his supporters at the memorial service of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk confirmed the worst fe...

www.universityworldnews.com

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AAUP @aaup.org · 10d

Academic freedom will not survive by encouraging professors to censor themselves more.

“Too much of the response to the Trump admin’s repression has been driven by fear & cowardice. We need to fiercely support #academicfreedom as a fundamental right for all.”

— @johnkwilson.bsky.social

Discretion Is Not the Better Part of Academic Freedom

In a free society, we strive to eliminate the punishments that make discretion a rational choice—and not glorify discretion as a virtue when it is actually a vice.

www.insidehighered.com

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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 13d

Gift link! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

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AAUP @aaup.org · 15d

A network of right wing “pink slime” faux news sites is targeting “anti-American” classes at colleges & universities nationwide.

#DefendHigherEd

Local colleges targeted amid growing campus culture wars

National media and conservative groups are seeking syllabi and student information from public colleges; professors say they feel targeted and harassed.

www.wgbh.org

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AAUP @aaup.org · 16d

The AAUP stands for what we always stood for: a powerful higher education sector that leads to innovation, social mobility, and is a bedrock of democracy.

Read AAUP Todd Wolfson’s Q & A published this week in the Chronicle of Higher Ed.

www.chronicle.com/article/is-t...

@proftwolf.bsky.social

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AAUP @aaup.org · 17d

"Look, we are a labor union. We’re going to fight & respond to this moment...We're standing for what we always stood for...a powerful higher-education sector that leads to innovation & social mobility & is a bedrock of our democracy."

—Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

#DefendHigherEd
#AcademicSky

Is the AAUP Too Partisan? Its President Doesn’t Think So.

Todd Wolfson has taken heat for some of the organization’s political stances during his tenure. Here’s what he makes of the criticism.

www.chronicle.com

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AAUP @aaup.org · 17d

🚨🚨🚨
NEW AAUP Report Analyzes Trump Admin Weaponization of Title VI
to Undermine Civil Rights Protections.

#Academicfreedom
#AcademicSky
#DefendHigherEd

On Title VI, Discrimination, and Academic Freedom

This report considers how Title VI has been used to create an enforcement apparatus that sidesteps long-established AAUP-recommended procedures of shared governance and offers recommendations for facu...

www.aaup.org

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AAUP @aaup.org · 18d

The AAUP & @aft.org are fighting back to remind our elected leaders that higher education & public health research are transformative public goods.

We must keep life-saving NIH research fully funded & stop the Trump admin’s devastating funding cuts that are halting medical breakthroughs.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 20d

Dr. Leonard Bright, VP of @texasaaup.bsky.social on the resignation of Texas A&M president Mark Welsh.

(Watch to the end for a report on how politicians are being appointed to lead university systems in Texas.)

#DefendHigherEd
#AcademicFreedom
#AcademicSky

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AAUP @aaup.org · 20d

"Enough is enough. Texas must allow faculty and college students to explore freely the breadth of human knowledge, and administrators must support us in that time-honored quest."

– Pauline Strong, President @utaustinaaup.bsky.social

#AcademicFreedom
#AcademicSky
@texasaaup.bsky.social

Manufactured outrage is killing academic freedom in Texas | Opinion

Enough with the "gotcha" attacks like the recent firing of a Texas A&M instructor. Let professors teach. Let students learn, writes Pauline Turner Strong.

www.statesman.com

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AAUP @aaup.org · 20d

The new reality that is emerging in Texas is that certain topics or ideas are simply off the table in the classroom.

The censorship of academic speech and entire fields of knowledge in service to an ideology poses an unprecedented danger to the future of higher education.

#AcademicFreedom

How a secret recording of a gender identity lecture upended Texas A&M

Officials have struggled to detail the exact reasons for the A&M professor’s termination, citing a technical issue with her course description. Faculty say the move was politically motivated.

www.texastribune.org

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AAUP @aaup.org · 21d

“We will not allow authoritarians to dismantle higher education. We will not allow billionaires to profit while communities suffer. And we will not allow fear to silence students and workers who speak out.”

— Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

#DefendHigherEd
#HigherEdBenefitsEveryone
@aft.org

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