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AAUP @aaup.org · 4h

“If we aren't free to pursue research and teaching based on wherever the knowledge leads us, we are not truly working in the service of the public.”

— Rana Jaleel, associate professor at UC Davis & Chair of the AAUP’s Committee A on Academic Freedom & Tenure

How Academic Freedom in Universities Generates the Greatest Value for Society

Academic freedom is at the foundation of one of the most powerful and fundamental ideas about universities. Learn about how academic freedom has contributed to broad benefits in society and UC Davis f...

lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu

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AAUP @aaup.org · 1d

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

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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AAUP @aaup.org · 6d

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 · 7d

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

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AAUP-CSU @aaupcsu.bsky.social · 7d

Again and again over the past six months, the AAUP has shown that the key to fighting back against injustice and executive overreach is ... fighting back!
There has never been a better time to join AAUP and help protect free speech at all US Universities. When we unite and fight, we win.

AAUP @aaup.org · 8d

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 · 8d

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...

www.courtlistener.com

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AAUP @aaup.org · 8d

"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.

www.cnbc.com

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AAUP @aaup.org · 9d

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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AAUP @aaup.org · 13d

“Knowledge flourishes when inquiry is free and respectful."

The AAUP supports statements affirming academic freedom in class syllabi!

@aaupcu.bsky.social

#DefendHigherEd #AcademicFreedom

Faculty insert AAUP academic freedom statement into class syllabi

Some Columbia professors have inserted a statement supporting academic freedom into their fall 2025 class syllabi in light of the University’s July 23 <a href="https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2...

www.columbiaspectator.com

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AAUP @aaup.org · 13d

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 · 15d

"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 · 16d

🚨🚨🚨
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 · 20d

“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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AAUP @aaup.org · 23d

The AAUP notes with great alarm the rash of recent administrative actions to discipline faculty, staff, & student speech in the aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk.

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Columbia University Chapter, AAUP @aaupcu.bsky.social · 26d

“I believe that I am on the right side of history. How would you expect me to be silent, when my people are being killed on a daily basis, when my family members are still in prison, when I have lost dozens of family members?”

Life After the Deal

Columbia University endured two years of unprecedented upheaval. Will its wide-ranging settlement with the government allow it to turn the page?

www.chronicle.com

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AAUP @aaup.org · 29d

Important & hilarious deconstruction of Trump & the authoritarian far right's absurdly dangerous attacks on American higher education featuring a cameo from Michael Thaddeus, acting president of @aaupcu.bsky.social.

#DefendHigherEd #Academicsky

Jeffrey Winfield 💙 🌈 🫂 🫘 @maverickhammed.bsky.social · Sep 8

John Oliver talks about Donald Trump’s war on higher education, the history of right-wing attacks on what universities research and teach, and how a weird little tree frog might – might! – just save us all. 👍♥️😁
#JohnOliver #Trump #HBO #BlueSky

Trump vs. Higher Education: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Kathy Roberts Forde @krforde.bsky.social · Sep 8

We invite all Columbia AAUP Chapter members
‪@aaupcu.bsky.social‬
to join us at Stand Together for Higher Ed. We are fighting alongside the AAUP and building faculty and staff power across all US higher education: standtogetherhighered.org. We are building coalitions across states, universities

Columbia University Chapter, AAUP @aaupcu.bsky.social · Sep 3

On the first day of classes, Columbia AAUP held a press conference sounding the alarm on threats to #academicfreedom in teaching & research. Several of Columbia’s most distinguished faculty spoke out on the government intrusions & administrative concessions that have harmed our institution.

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Columbia University Chapter, AAUP @aaupcu.bsky.social · Sep 3

On the first day of classes, Columbia AAUP held a press conference sounding the alarm on threats to #academicfreedom in teaching & research. Several of Columbia’s most distinguished faculty spoke out on the government intrusions & administrative concessions that have harmed our institution.

🧵

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AAUP @aaup.org · Sep 4

Here’s a 🧵 on key points in Judge Burroughs’ order in the AAUP/Harvard AAUP’s lawsuit against Trump’s DOJ for ideological funding cuts at Harvard:

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AAUP @aaup.org · Sep 3

This is a HUGE win for American higher education!

#DefendHigherEd

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

Judge Issues Ruling Helpful to Harvard in Case Against Trump

www.nytimes.com

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Columbia University Chapter, AAUP @aaupcu.bsky.social · Sep 3

More in the @nydailynews.com:

www.nydailynews.com/2025/09/02/c...

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · Sep 3

AAUP-HARVARD, AAUP, & UAW WON THE HARVARD CASE!!!!

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Columbia University Chapter, AAUP @aaupcu.bsky.social · Sep 3

Jean-Marie Guéhenmo, Professor of International Affairs & Conflict Resolution, Director of SIPA’s Kent Global Leadership Program on Conflict Resolution: “This is about the kind of society we want to be.”

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Columbia University Chapter, AAUP @aaupcu.bsky.social · Sep 3

Anya Schiffrin, Senior Lecturer in International & Public Affairs, followed up reminding that if professors weren’t powerful & necessary they wouldn’t be attacked.

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