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Coalition for Action in Higher Ed
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Free Higher Ed Now!: A Day of Higher For the Common Good. Join us on April 17, 2025. https://www.dayofactionforhighered.org/
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Coalition for Action in Higher Ed @actioninhighered.bsky.social · Apr 22
⭐️⭐️ Check out a roundup of pictures from events across the country on April 17th 2025, our second annual #DayofActionforHigherEd! We seek to renew the vision of higher education as an autonomous public good, and university workers as its most important resource. 👊👊

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A National Day of Action for Higher Ed
On April 17, higher ed unions, AAUP chapters, and student organizations across the U.S. are coming together to fight back against the coordinated assault on teaching and learning, and to mobilize for ...
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Higher Education Labor United (HELU) @higheredlabor.bsky.social · 20h
HELU's International Campus Worker Protections (ICWP) Campaign is organizing to pressure our institutions to stand up for international workers. Read more about this campaign in a recent piece by organizer Bobby Huggins higheredlaborunited.org/2025/09/22/t...
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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 1d
Now: Debt Collective Raises Hand to Purchase Chunk of Federal Government Student Debt Portfolio The Debt Collective has purchased billions in household debt over the past decade WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, after a new POLITICO report that the Trump administration is “exploring options to sell off parts of the federal government’s $1.6 trillion student loan portfolio to the private market,” the Debt Collective is announcing its willingness to purchase the entire portfolio for its true market value. The Debt Collective will then subsequently cancel the debt.
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Coalition for Action in Higher Ed @actioninhighered.bsky.social · 1d
Please share this widely and help defend Tom against this attack on him for what is indisputably lawfully protected speech.
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Coalition for Action in Higher Ed @actioninhighered.bsky.social · 1d
Tomorrow! Watch on FB and Youtube!
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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.

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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...
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Good Trouble @whking.bsky.social · 2d
Resistance by a professor. When there is a will, there is a way to fight fascism.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 2d
After Columbia canceled my course on race and media, and Washington Poat fired me for speaking about race and violence,

I’m teaching about race and media anyway!

@resistanceschool.bsky.social fall session on Race, Media and International Affairs starts tonight!

600+ signups.

We move!! ✊🏾
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 3d
"Too often, when it comes to U.S. Cold War interventions, the official curriculum is sanitized & disjointed, leaving students ill-equipped to make sense out of their nation’s global bullying." -- Ursula Wolfe-Rocca

Defend right to #TeachPeoplesHistory
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Disguising Imperialism: How Textbooks Get the Cold War Wrong and Dupe Students
By Ursula Wolfe-Rocca The perpetual interventionism and global hegemony exercised by the U.S. government today urgently need to be questioned and dismantled. Such a monumental task requires a citizenr...
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Coalition for Action in Higher Ed @actioninhighered.bsky.social · 3d
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Statement on the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education
BY THE AAUP-PENN EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE We were alarmed to read reports that Penn has been “invited” to sign a so-called “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” by the federal government…
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Coalition for Action in Higher Ed @actioninhighered.bsky.social · 3d
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On Higher Ed “Boards of Trustees,” a Preliminary Statement from the JVP Academic Council
BY LAURA GOLDBLATT AND DAN SEGAL With scant exceptions, US colleges and universities have a board of trustees that is the institution’s highest decision-making or governance body.  In response to t…
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 3d
I was told not to teach a class on the intellectual histories of Zionism and Anti-Zionism next year - not because they doubted I could teach it fairly, but because it would attract too many politicians scrutinizing the syllabus.

A society where that is a valid fear is no longer fully democratic.
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EMUFT @emuftunion.bsky.social · 6d
@actioninhighered.bsky.social has an organizational meeting tomorrow! Register at the link in our bio
#emuft #truemu #unionstrong #cahe #coalitionforactioninhighered
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AAUP @aaup.org · 6d
We’re going live at 7PM ET on YouTube & Instagram to discuss the Trump admin’s offer to give preferential treatment to colleges & universities that pledge an oath of loyalty to Trump’s ideological agenda.

Pure corruption & a violation of core principles of US higher education & democracy.
Breaking Down Trump's New Higher Ed Loyalty Oath Compacts and Why We Must Resist
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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...
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Coalition for Action in Higher Ed @actioninhighered.bsky.social · 8d
Huge victory for pro-Pal activism in AAUP vs. Rubio! The court finds that government officials “deliberately and with purposeful aforethought” engaged in a coordinated policy or campaign aimed at chilling noncitizen plaintiffs’ speech and assembly rights. www.courtlistener.com/docket/69784...
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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Coalition for Action in Higher Ed @actioninhighered.bsky.social · 9d
We are very excited about this series run by CAHE's Palestine caucus. Please share widely!
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AAUP @aaup.org · 10d
“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...
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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.
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Coalition for Action in Higher Ed @actioninhighered.bsky.social · 9d
If you are a member of MLA, please sign on to support the proposed resolution 2026-1. We need 100 signatures by 10/1. www.mla.org/About-Us/Gov...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9d
Am I reading this correctly?

A grad student ... in Computer Science ... enrolled in an undergraduate seminar ... in the American Indian and Indigenous Studies program ... where he ignored the readings and hijacked discussions to talk about Israel and defend its actions in Gaza?

What the hell?
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 9d
Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.
Early last semester, Droubi said, students began approaching Cheyfitz with complaints that a graduate student in the “Gaza, Indigeneity, Resistance” class appeared to be recording them, possibly to “gather their names and comments” and intimidate them. “We believe that a student came to the course for the sole reason of surveilling and potentially harming students in the class,” Droubi said. “That ended up proving itself to be true because multiple students came forward and shared their concerns with Professor Cheyfitz.” Cheyfitz said one Palestinian student quit the class after telling him she felt upset and frightened. Current Issue Cover of October 2025 Issue October 2025 Issue According to Cheyfitz, the graduate student often steered conversations away from the assigned readings—which at that point mostly focused on definitions of genocide and international law on Indigenous rights—to defend Israel’s conduct in the war in Gaza and argue with others in the class. “He clearly had not done the readings,” Cheyfitz said. “It was disruptive.” Cheyfitz said he met with the graduate student in late January and spoke to him about concerns from his classmates. During the conversation, he asked the graduate student to drop the course, and by the next class, he did, Cheyfitz said. The graduate student, Oren Renard, a PhD candidate in computer science whose identity was confirmed by other students in the class, previously served in Israel’s elite military surveillance agency, Unit 8200, according to his LinkedIn profile.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 9d
Professor Florence Ashley was placed on (non-disciplinary) leave by the University of Alberta because of CK social media posts.

This is a blatant violation of academic freedom in Canada. CAUT should be examining censuring UA for this violation.

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Florence Ashley I was shocked when the University of Alberta administration informed me, one of its law professors, that I was being placed on non-disciplinary leave for my social media comments in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination—comments that unquestionably fall within the scope of academic freedom and freedom of expression. I know that many others have been placed on leave, disciplined, or fired for their comments, and feel compelled to speak up in light of my firm belief that the health of a democratic society depends upon its protection of academic freedom and freedom of expression.
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United Academics @local6741.bsky.social · 15d
This is really important. Be sure to check it out!
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AAUP @aaup.org · 16d
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NEW AAUP Report Analyzes Trump Admin Weaponization of Title VI
to Undermine Civil Rights Protections.

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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...
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Coalition for Action in Higher Ed @actioninhighered.bsky.social · 14d
We invite you to register for our first organizing meeting of the 2025-26 year on Oct. 3 @ 12pm PST/3pm EST! The success of our 200+ actions last April 17 was just a start . . . preview.mailerlite.io/emails/webvi...
Coalition for Action in Higher Ed: Planning Meeting on Oct. 3 for 2025-26
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Jennifer Ruth @jenniferruth.bsky.social · 14d
Fired for Advocating Socialism: Professor Tom Alter Speaks Out - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/24/f...
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AAUP @aaup.org · 16d
"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

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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.
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