Stanford AAUP
@stanfordaaup.bsky.social
The Stanford Chapter of the @aaup.bsky.social. Fighting to preserve academic freedom for all. All Stanford academic staff are eligible to join. Opinions our own.
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@stanfordaaup.bsky.social
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Joining the AAUP says that you’re concerned about academic freedom, and about the way that basic freedom protects your teaching and research. Join today.
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Since our chapter re-activated this spring, we've passed 160 members and we're growing quickly! All Stanford academic staff are eligible to join the Stanford AAUP chapter in resisting the current attacks on higher education in the United States.
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Important essay by @stanfordaaup.bsky.social colleague Jessica Riskin. The three lessons that universities must learn:
1. Solidarity
2. Integrity, not Neutrality
3. Student Speech
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1. Solidarity
2. Integrity, not Neutrality
3. Student Speech
stanforddaily.com/2025/11/16/a...
AAUP | Academic Freedom on the Line
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 7:20 PM
Important essay by @stanfordaaup.bsky.social colleague Jessica Riskin. The three lessons that universities must learn:
1. Solidarity
2. Integrity, not Neutrality
3. Student Speech
stanforddaily.com/2025/11/16/a...
1. Solidarity
2. Integrity, not Neutrality
3. Student Speech
stanforddaily.com/2025/11/16/a...
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🔑 3 key lessons Stanford must learn, from the co-president of @stanfordaaup.bsky.social
1️⃣ Solidify solidarity 🤝
2️⃣ Prioritize integrity ❤️🔥
3️⃣ Let students speak! 📣
stanforddaily.com/2025/11/16/a...
1️⃣ Solidify solidarity 🤝
2️⃣ Prioritize integrity ❤️🔥
3️⃣ Let students speak! 📣
stanforddaily.com/2025/11/16/a...
AAUP | Academic Freedom on the Line
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 20, 2025 at 7:48 PM
🔑 3 key lessons Stanford must learn, from the co-president of @stanfordaaup.bsky.social
1️⃣ Solidify solidarity 🤝
2️⃣ Prioritize integrity ❤️🔥
3️⃣ Let students speak! 📣
stanforddaily.com/2025/11/16/a...
1️⃣ Solidify solidarity 🤝
2️⃣ Prioritize integrity ❤️🔥
3️⃣ Let students speak! 📣
stanforddaily.com/2025/11/16/a...
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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."
It’s a shame BBC hasn’t yet learned that caving to bullies won’t prevent them from coming after you.
NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history."
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Trump’s Fury at BBC Gets Unnerving Results with Pro-MAGA Edit Stunner
First, British Broadcasting Corporation execs resigned after Trump complained about a segment. Now the BBC edited out a line from a historian that was critical of Trump. Where does this end?
newrepublic.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:11 AM
It’s a shame BBC hasn’t yet learned that caving to bullies won’t prevent them from coming after you.
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📢📢The AAUP chapter at the University of Houston has sent the following letter to admin: “We are deeply concerned that the directives outlined in Chancellor Khator's email present significant risks to academic freedom, to the integrity of our teaching mission + to the University’s legal obligations.”
AAUP @ Univ. of Houston Opposes Campus Censorship
CONTACT: Daniel Morales, JD, President of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) Chapter at the University of Houston, [email protected]
aaup-texas.org
November 26, 2025 at 12:27 AM
📢📢The AAUP chapter at the University of Houston has sent the following letter to admin: “We are deeply concerned that the directives outlined in Chancellor Khator's email present significant risks to academic freedom, to the integrity of our teaching mission + to the University’s legal obligations.”
“I think this initiative has as much to do with scientific research as the early [antisemitism] initiative had to do with protecting Jews. This is an extortionist move to try to hold institutions that are heavily dependent on federal funding, as research institutions are, to have leverage over them.
Opinion | ‘We Lost Our Mission’: Three University Leaders on the Future of Higher Ed
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
“I think this initiative has as much to do with scientific research as the early [antisemitism] initiative had to do with protecting Jews. This is an extortionist move to try to hold institutions that are heavily dependent on federal funding, as research institutions are, to have leverage over them.
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"When we undermine our colleges, we are not “owning” some distant ivory tower; we are weakening our talent pipeline, our innovation capacity and our civic fabric."
Really lovely defense of higher education—focused on local colleges but applicable more broadly. Higher Ed is so crucial to economies, to people, to imaginations
Opinion: How higher education now powers the Lehigh Valley
Opinion: Colleges and universities function as anchor institutions in the Lehigh Valley
www.mcall.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
"When we undermine our colleges, we are not “owning” some distant ivory tower; we are weakening our talent pipeline, our innovation capacity and our civic fabric."
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Again, this is an existential crisis for the entire financial & academic model of 🇺🇸 public universities, but the public doesn’t understand this, in part because our leaders have been on this issue. It’s maddening:
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New foreign student enrollment in the US fell 17% this fall www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
How foreign student enrollment is shifting in the U.S., in 6 charts
Foreign student enrollment in U.S. colleges has stalled, with a 17 percent decline in new students this fall after Trump policy changes, a key survey shows.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Again, this is an existential crisis for the entire financial & academic model of 🇺🇸 public universities, but the public doesn’t understand this, in part because our leaders have been on this issue. It’s maddening:
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this moment calls for deep solidarity — a kind of collective politics faculty haven't been used to practicing. proud to stand with colleagues across stanford and across the country today.
We’ve started our Teach-In as part of the @aaup National Day of Action with @palumboliu.bsky.social talking about the implications of institutional neutrality in this moment. If we don’t engage with topics such as immigration, freedom of speech, etc, we are letting our whole community down.
November 7, 2025 at 9:31 PM
this moment calls for deep solidarity — a kind of collective politics faculty haven't been used to practicing. proud to stand with colleagues across stanford and across the country today.
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Spotted at our @stanfordaaup.bsky.social teach-in today!
November 7, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Spotted at our @stanfordaaup.bsky.social teach-in today!
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Stanford Teach-In: A thread... 👇🏼🧵 #DefendHigherEd
We’ve started our Teach-In as part of the @aaup National Day of Action with @palumboliu.bsky.social talking about the implications of institutional neutrality in this moment. If we don’t engage with topics such as immigration, freedom of speech, etc, we are letting our whole community down.
November 7, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Stanford Teach-In: A thread... 👇🏼🧵 #DefendHigherEd
Thread from one of our members on what federal funding changes have done to science—this was a sobering part of our teach-in today
As I mentioned at my talk today for the @stanfordaaup.bsky.social teach-in, over 4,500 federal grants have been terminated at over 600 institutions. Those grants are valued at~$8B, with ~$3.5B being stolen from universities when those grants were terminated. The type of grants terminated varies +
November 7, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Thread from one of our members on what federal funding changes have done to science—this was a sobering part of our teach-in today
We’ve started our Teach-In as part of the @aaup National Day of Action with @palumboliu.bsky.social talking about the implications of institutional neutrality in this moment. If we don’t engage with topics such as immigration, freedom of speech, etc, we are letting our whole community down.
November 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM
We’ve started our Teach-In as part of the @aaup National Day of Action with @palumboliu.bsky.social talking about the implications of institutional neutrality in this moment. If we don’t engage with topics such as immigration, freedom of speech, etc, we are letting our whole community down.
Reminder! This is happening today! Hope to see you there
Hope the folks in our Stanford community can join us for a teach-in this coming Friday as part of the @aaup.org National Day of Action for Higher Ed! 12-1pm at White Plaza. Please share!
November 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Reminder! This is happening today! Hope to see you there
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DEFEND HIGHER ED STARTER PACK!
We are building a movement to defend US higher education & have created a starter pack of AAUP chapter & ally accounts to follow. Please Share!
(This list is not exhaustive. If you have suggestions, please shoot us a DM!)
#DefendHighEd
⬇️⬇️⬇️
go.bsky.app/3YidJ7k
DEFEND HIGHER ED STARTER PACK!
We are building a movement to defend US higher education & have created a starter pack of AAUP chapter & ally accounts to follow. Please Share!
(This list is not exhaustive. If you have suggestions, please shoot us a DM!)
#DefendHighEd
⬇️⬇️⬇️
go.bsky.app/3YidJ7k
October 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
💥💥💥
DEFEND HIGHER ED STARTER PACK!
We are building a movement to defend US higher education & have created a starter pack of AAUP chapter & ally accounts to follow. Please Share!
(This list is not exhaustive. If you have suggestions, please shoot us a DM!)
#DefendHighEd
⬇️⬇️⬇️
go.bsky.app/3YidJ7k
DEFEND HIGHER ED STARTER PACK!
We are building a movement to defend US higher education & have created a starter pack of AAUP chapter & ally accounts to follow. Please Share!
(This list is not exhaustive. If you have suggestions, please shoot us a DM!)
#DefendHighEd
⬇️⬇️⬇️
go.bsky.app/3YidJ7k
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Hope the folks in our Stanford community can join us for a teach-in this coming Friday as part of the @aaup.org National Day of Action for Higher Ed! 12-1pm at White Plaza. Please share!
November 6, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Hope the folks in our Stanford community can join us for a teach-in this coming Friday as part of the @aaup.org National Day of Action for Higher Ed! 12-1pm at White Plaza. Please share!
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My wife teaches at a CSU and got her first papers this week for her Native American history class. Paper based on a widely-available online source. About half the papers had the exact same argument. Prose was different, but argument was the exact same.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/t...
Big Tech Makes Cal State Its A.I. Training Ground
www.nytimes.com
November 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
My wife teaches at a CSU and got her first papers this week for her Native American history class. Paper based on a widely-available online source. About half the papers had the exact same argument. Prose was different, but argument was the exact same.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/t...
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Perhaps a new phase in anti-academia actions
A device exploded inside the Goldenson Building in Harvard’s Longwood medical campus early Saturday morning, according to a message from the Harvard University Police Department to University affiliates.
Matan H. Josephy and Laurel M. Shugart report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Matan H. Josephy and Laurel M. Shugart report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Authorities Investigating Explosion on Harvard’s Medical Campus, Believed To Be Intentional | News | The Harvard Crimson
A device exploded inside the Goldenson Building in Harvard’s Longwood medical campus early Saturday morning, according to a message from the Harvard University Police Department to University…
www.thecrimson.com
November 2, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Perhaps a new phase in anti-academia actions
The research that led to these is the sort of basic research that the Trump administration is cutting, robbing future generations of scientific, technological, and health innovations.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
7 basic science discoveries that changed the world
Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government.
www.nature.com
November 2, 2025 at 1:59 AM
The research that led to these is the sort of basic research that the Trump administration is cutting, robbing future generations of scientific, technological, and health innovations.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Important thread by former Science EiC, Jeremy Berg.
A follow-up to yesterday's email to Director Bhattacharya...
1/12
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October 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Important thread by former Science EiC, Jeremy Berg.
As we’ve said before, no university should sign on to this compact, certainly not our own. @gjmartin.bsky.social and other Stanford AAUP colleagues explain why in this editorial👇
From the Community | We must refuse the 'Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education'
Associate professor Greg Martin writes on behalf of the Stanford's AAUP chapter to condemn the White House's compact on higher education.
stanforddaily.com
October 14, 2025 at 12:31 AM
As we’ve said before, no university should sign on to this compact, certainly not our own. @gjmartin.bsky.social and other Stanford AAUP colleagues explain why in this editorial👇
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This @stanfordaaup.bsky.social is so necessary in this moment of attack on higher ed: "This compact is better understood as an attempt to subordinate some of the country’s most important civil society institutions to the executive branch of the federal government." stanforddaily.com/2025/10/12/f...
October 13, 2025 at 5:09 PM
This @stanfordaaup.bsky.social is so necessary in this moment of attack on higher ed: "This compact is better understood as an attempt to subordinate some of the country’s most important civil society institutions to the executive branch of the federal government." stanforddaily.com/2025/10/12/f...
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Agree 100% @stanfordaaup.bsky.social!
“When it inevitably comes time for Stanford to choose, we must remember that we owe our loyalty not to any executive branch official but to our own foundational principles. We must be ready, when it’s our turn, to walk away.”
stanforddaily.com/2025/10/12/f...
“When it inevitably comes time for Stanford to choose, we must remember that we owe our loyalty not to any executive branch official but to our own foundational principles. We must be ready, when it’s our turn, to walk away.”
stanforddaily.com/2025/10/12/f...
From the Community | We must refuse the 'Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education'
Associate professor Greg Martin writes on behalf of the Stanford's AAUP chapter to condemn the White House's compact on higher education.
stanforddaily.com
October 13, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Agree 100% @stanfordaaup.bsky.social!
“When it inevitably comes time for Stanford to choose, we must remember that we owe our loyalty not to any executive branch official but to our own foundational principles. We must be ready, when it’s our turn, to walk away.”
stanforddaily.com/2025/10/12/f...
“When it inevitably comes time for Stanford to choose, we must remember that we owe our loyalty not to any executive branch official but to our own foundational principles. We must be ready, when it’s our turn, to walk away.”
stanforddaily.com/2025/10/12/f...
“When it inevitably comes time for Stanford to choose, we must remember that we owe our loyalty not to any executive branch official but to our own foundational principles.
We must be ready, when it’s our turn, to walk away.”
We must be ready, when it’s our turn, to walk away.”
From @gjmartin.bsky.social (writing for @stanfordaaup.bsky.social) laying out why no university should sign Tr*mp’s “Compact” stanforddaily.com/2025/10/12/f...
From the Community | We must refuse the 'Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education'
Associate professor Greg Martin writes on behalf of the Stanford's AAUP chapter to condemn the White House's compact on higher education.
stanforddaily.com
October 14, 2025 at 12:29 AM
“When it inevitably comes time for Stanford to choose, we must remember that we owe our loyalty not to any executive branch official but to our own foundational principles.
We must be ready, when it’s our turn, to walk away.”
We must be ready, when it’s our turn, to walk away.”