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University of Denver Chapter of the AAUP
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Founded in the 1940s. Proud to be the largest chapter of the American Association of University Professors in Colorado, and still growing! Learn more: https://sites.google.com/view/duaaup/home
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University of Denver Chapter of the AAUP @udenveraaup.bsky.social · 19h
ICYMI our Cultural Center, which included the Pride Lounge, BIPOC lounge, & Pride Closet, is no more. Any remaining functions have been merged, along with Native American and Indigenous Initiatives and Black Community Initiatives, into a "Community Connections Team"
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University of Denver Chapter of the AAUP @udenveraaup.bsky.social · 15h
You heard it here first: our chancellor announced publicly that DU will not be signing on to Trump's "compact."
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AAUP @aaup.org · 18h
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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University of Denver Chapter of the AAUP @udenveraaup.bsky.social · 18h
That one conversation totally changed things for me in a way I know these resources have for countless other students. Seeing them ripped away and those stories go untold hurts more than can be described."
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University of Denver Chapter of the AAUP @udenveraaup.bsky.social · 18h
The person in Eric's role previously, on the first day of orientation, was the first person after that experience to tell me that I was good and valid and ok as a human being...
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University of Denver Chapter of the AAUP @udenveraaup.bsky.social · 18h
From a recent graduate and current staff member: "it breaks my heart that my students have so many less resources at DU than I did when I graduated all of 2 years ago...I came out to my parents right before getting on the plane to come to DU as a freshman...
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University of Denver Chapter of the AAUP @udenveraaup.bsky.social · 19h
The Assistant Director position has been eliminated, along with a graduate assistanceship. In the above Instagram post, the Director, Eric Duran, also announced his resignation.
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University of Denver Chapter of the AAUP @udenveraaup.bsky.social · 19h
ICYMI our Cultural Center, which included the Pride Lounge, BIPOC lounge, & Pride Closet, is no more. Any remaining functions have been merged, along with Native American and Indigenous Initiatives and Black Community Initiatives, into a "Community Connections Team"
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AAUP-CSU @aaupcsu.bsky.social · 22h
#AAUPwin at CSU - Following AAUP-CSU's advocacy postcard campaign, the Colorado State University has withdrawn ALL changes to the university's "Free Speech and Peaceful Assembly" policy. #AAUP-CSU FOUGHT AND WON back speech rights for all employees and students rights.

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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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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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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 22h
As someone who has studied the circulation of terms “subversive” and “communist” in the lead to and through McCarthyism as empty signifiers to justify violent suppression I feel like I’m both amazed and unsurprised how transparently and unsophisticatedly “woke” and “antifa” are now doing the same.
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 22h
Marc Rowan says the "compact" will "protect free speech," but First Amendment scholars across the political spectrum are of one mind that the compact is flagrantly unconstitutional, and every major free speech org--from the ACLU to FIRE to PEN--agrees. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...
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University of Denver Chapter of the AAUP @udenveraaup.bsky.social · 4d
We found our favorite button in the library's Banned Books display
Button pile with "Ban the Fascists, Save the Books" on top
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 7d
"We all learned long ago on the playground that trying to appease a bully only makes things worse. It’s equally hard to imagine how higher education will recover if colleges and universities begin conceding to Mr. Trump’s illegal compact."

via UC-Berkeley Law Dean
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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion
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AAUP @aaup.org · 10d
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 chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 10d
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Judge issues blistering opinion against Trump policy to deport pro-Palestinian students
Judge rules non-citizens have the same free speech rights as US citizens under the first amendment
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UChicago AAUP @uchicagoaaup.bsky.social · 10d
Huge victory for @aaup.org in AAUP v. Rubio:
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AAUP @aaup.org · 10d
"Declining international student enrollment is a piece of the larger puzzle undermining the financial health of higher ed. [We see] programs shut down, campuses shut down, smaller public or private institutions closing & a curtailment of opportunities for students."

— Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
'A perfect storm' — more colleges at risk as enrollment falls and financial pressures mount
In part due to the Trump administration's changes to the student visa policy, there are fewer students on college campuses this fall.
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Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 11d
A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.
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Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 11d
30% drop year over year!
Amid visa restrictions, international freshmen enrollment plummets at UW-Madison
This year’s number of international freshmen is the lowest recorded since at least 2015.
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University of Denver Chapter of the AAUP @udenveraaup.bsky.social · 10d
Ohio State admin are really wilding out. Whew.
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Jennifer Hell Hoffman 😈🔥 @astroprofhoff.bsky.social · 10d
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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 11d
Ohio State just advised all staff and students not to attend the SACNAS (Society for the advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science) annual meeting of 6000+ scientists -- which is in Columbus, OH this year! -- saying it may be exclusionary, even though it is open to all.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 11d
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.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 13d
“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.”

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Texas Tech Moves to Limit Academic Discussion to 2 Genders
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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 13d
Yes, we are alarmed about unlawful, transphobic censorship in the Texas Tech System. Join AAUP and AFT in the fight for academic freedom and free speech! ✊🏽 #LetTeachetsTeach #LetStudentsLearn
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Sjoerd de Jong @sjoerdjong.bsky.social · 14d
“The move, apparently a first among large institutions of higher education, raised alarm among advocates of academic freedom across Texas. It signaled that an effort to restrict teaching about transgender people and gender topics was expanding to colleges and universities, where no such ban exists.”
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 13d
We have allowed the lazy, grifting Silicon Valley charlatans into the front door, & in doing so, we have learned just how many of our own colleagues & administrators simply are not interested in the actual business of education. It's incredibly demoralizing.

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 13d
Thanks so much for your reporting on this, Ben. I just got an email from my campus's IT office triumphantly advertising free student access to four different AI models -- at the same time as we have a hiring freeze, caps on grad enrollment, and a 7% budget cut -- and wanted to scream.
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