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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

A flyer reading “Keep Texas Free” “Demand the university protect its autonomy and academic freedom” with a shortlink

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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 40m

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“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

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

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 · 2h

“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.”

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Rutgers Expert on Antifa Flees to Spain After Death Threats

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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 15h

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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...

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

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 · 2d

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.
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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...

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The Academic Resistance @academicresistance.bsky.social · 2d

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.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

“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 · 2d

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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Susan (George) Schorn @susanschorn.bsky.social · 2d

Also, be vocal about not donating to the school until the state of Texas protects academic freedom as it is constitutionally obligated to do: www.reddit.com/r/UTAustin/c...

From the UTAustin community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the UTAustin community

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 2d

"It wanted to signal strength. Instead, it’s revealing its weakness. The administration’s need to break the academy is forcing it to make a desperately risky gamble." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

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Susan (George) Schorn @susanschorn.bsky.social · 2d

UT-Austin alumni: Here's a letter you can sign expressing opposition to this destruction of our alma mater. www.change.org/p/alumni-urg...

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

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 · 2d

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

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“The carrots serve to lure institutions of higher learning into a dark alley where, rather than just waiting with a big stick, the government can put a gun to their heads at any time.”

US universities must reject Trump’s ‘compact’. It is full of traps | Jan-Werner Müller

The administration is trying to make nine universities an offer they seemingly cannot refuse

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 2d

Academic freedom means that a course that teaches students to critique settler colonialism can be taught alongside one that teaches students to maximize shareholder value.

Both are "biased" in their framing.

Only one is currently at risk of being cancelled by state and/or institutional actors.

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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 7d

Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion says the dean of UC Berkeley’s law school
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o... USC better not sign on to this nonsense.

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion

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Jackie Gardina @jackiegardina.bsky.social · 2d

You can watch the full webinar on the intersection of academic freedom and board independence. 2/

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The Integral Relationship Between Board Independence and Academic Freedom | Webinar on Demand

YouTube video by AGB

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collegeopp.bsky.social @collegeopp.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 California’s colleges are not for sale.

As California Governor Newsom said, "California will not bankroll schools that sell out their students, professors, researchers, and surrender academic freedom."

Read a statement from President Jessie Ryan: buff.ly/JQdFXLG

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Donna @donnamckee.bsky.social · 2d

🚨📢 Academic freedom under attack at the University of Pennsylvania and eight other Universities: share.inquirer.com/CvSiRL?utm_s...

Wharton advisory board chair Marc Rowan had a hand in crafting ideas used in Trump’s university compact, report says

Marc Rowan and his allies were instrumental in developing ideas for the compact that President Donald Trump’s administration asked nine colleges including Penn to sign, according to the New York Times

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Daniel MacPhee 🇨🇦 @d-macphee.bsky.social · 2d

“Academic freedom exists for precisely this reason: to protect the right to challenge orthodoxies, unsettle consensus, and advance difficult conversations. It is not a privilege reserved for those whose speech offends no one.”
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Opinion: U of A's response to Charlie Kirk comments erodes academic freedom

This case cannot be separated from the broader landscape of academic freedom currently under strain in Canada and beyond.

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

The Billionaire Behind Trump’s Deal for Universities

“A come to Jesus moment”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

The Billionaire Behind Trump’s Deal for Universities

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Jackie Gardina @jackiegardina.bsky.social · 2d

@joshpasek.com, @umich.edu, provides boards of trustees a roadmap for responding to external pressue, like the so-called Educational Compact.

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

“Any university leader who signs on to this compact would betray everything good and solid about the university and would do deep and permanent harm to the United States and the world.”https://newrepublic.com/article/201376/trump-compact-academic-excellence-university-virginia via @newrepublic.com

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

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