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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...

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CUIMC Stands Up @cuimcstandsup.bsky.social · Jul 1

Spread the word: when scientific training and research funding is cut, EVERYBODY loses.

@statnews.com

www.statnews.com/2025/06/27/b...

Proposed cuts could have ‘catastrophic effect,’ 110 biomedical, health sciences industry leaders tell Congress

Proposed cuts will have “a catastrophic effect on the advancement of biomedical and biotechnology capabilities in the United States,” more than 100 leaders of biomedical/health sciences companies tell...

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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...

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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 · 17d

The AAUP & @aft.org are fighting back to remind our elected leaders that higher education & public health research are transformative public goods.

We must keep life-saving NIH research fully funded & stop the Trump admin’s devastating funding cuts that are halting medical breakthroughs.

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AAUP @aaup.org · Sep 7

The Resistance Is Inevitable.

We’re sick & tired of ICE & FBI agents profiling, harassing, & violently arresting our neighbors.

#wearealldc

Incredible turnout in DC yesterday, including a strong AAUP contingent.

@aaupmason.bsky.social
@gwaaup.bsky.social
@afthighered.bsky.social

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AAUP @aaup.org · Sep 4

In April, the AAUP & our Harvard chapter sued the Trump admin for demanding that Harvard censor speech & restructure core operations or else face $8.7 billion in funding cuts.

We hope this decision clarifies to Harvard’s administration that bargaining w/ tyrannical authoritarians is unacceptable.

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CUIMC Stands Up @cuimcstandsup.bsky.social · Aug 5

TODAY! 4–5:30pm ET
Zoom panel discussion by CU-AAUP: LEGAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE COLUMBIA AGREEMENT

An expert panel of law professors will address questions about CU’s resolution agreement.

Open to Barnard & Columbia faculty. MUST register by 12pm, link here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Legal Perspectives on the Columbia Agreement. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

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CUIMC Stands Up @cuimcstandsup.bsky.social · Jul 26

“Columbia must resist narratives that single out some students for protection while ignoring the suffering of others…The current lopsided treatment of students by this administration regarding the war in Gaza risks worsening the very divisions it claims to address.” (6/6)

Columbia must resist narratives that single out some students for protection while ignoring the suffering of others.
These narratives misrepresent the nature and causes of campus tensions and provide the cover for outside attacks that undermine our university's mission.
Columbia must reject pressures-whether from donors, alumni, political actors, or internal stakeholders-to privilege some views and silence others in the name of safety or institutional reputation. At its best, a university defends the full spectrum of intellectual freedom, not only fostering inclusion based on identity, but also protecting the right to protest, question, critique, and hold power accountable. This means respecting students and scholars across political, religious, and ideological spectra and protecting their civil rights. The current lopsided treatment of students by this administration regarding the war in Gaza risks worsening the very divisions it claims to address.

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CUIMC Stands Up @cuimcstandsup.bsky.social · Jul 26

‼️🚨WHAT’S AT STAKE: Higher ed “has long served as a necessary counterweight to authoritarianism…

But that crucial role is possible only if universities support discourse that includes dissent and uphold their core values of inclusion, equity, and academic freedom consistently, not selectively” (5/6)

What's at stake
Across the country, universities are under intensifying political pressure to suppress protest, narrow intellectual discourse, and align with authoritarian narratives.
Higher education has long served as a vital space for critical thinking and dissent-a necessary counterweight to authoritarianism and the abuse of power.
But that crucial role is possible only if universities support discourse that includes dissent and uphold their core values of inclusion, equity, and academic freedom consistently, not selectively.

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CUIMC Stands Up @cuimcstandsup.bsky.social · Jul 26

“The findings…fall short of capturing the range of experiences of Jewish students on campus…

Columbia's prevailing discourse…oversimplifies and obscures these complex and painful realities, thereby undermining our community's ability to address the challenges.” (4/6)

The findings presented in the task force's report fall short of capturing the range of experiences of Jewish students on campus. Embedded within the data, and reflected in accounts since October 7, 2023, are the facts that many Jewish students have reported feeling alienated for criticizing Israel's assault on Gaza and some have been targeted by alumni and professors, or labeled as "self-hating Jews" for their support of Palestinian rights. In addition, Jewish students, like students of all backgrounds, have been exposed to threats, harassment, administrative punishment, arrest, and physical attacks for participating in a noble tradition of Columbia student protests against global injustices.
Therefore framing all of the "immense challenges faced by our Jewish students" as a problem of antisemitism as Columbia's prevailing discourse does, oversimplifies and obscures these complex and painful realities, thereby undermining our community's ability to address the challenges.

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CUIMC Stands Up @cuimcstandsup.bsky.social · Jul 26

“The current framing—which is endorsed by Columbia's leadership, exploited by the federal government, and echoed by their allies in the media—oversimplifies and obscures, and
risks deepening divisions rather than healing them.” 🎯 (3/6)

The University's responsibility is to respond to these complexities, not reduce them to a singular narrative of antisemitism. The current framing-which is endorsed by Columbia's leadership, exploited by the federal government, and echoed by their allies in the media- oversimplifies and obscures, risks deepening divisions rather than healing them.

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CUIMC Stands Up @cuimcstandsup.bsky.social · Jul 26

“The administration's narrative obscures these facts, marginalizes the pain and suffering of Muslim students, and erroneously homogenizes Jewish students' experiences by ignoring the pressures many encountered for protesting Israel's assault on Gaza.” (2/6)

The data reflects a campus community struggling with grief, moral urgency, intense polarization, and the failure of University administration to broker the ensuing tension in a constructive manner.
As described below, these struggles affect Jewish students and Muslim students at comparable rates. The administration's narrative obscures these facts, marginalizes the pain and suffering of Muslim students, and erroneously homogenizes Jewish students' experiences by ignoring the pressures many encountered for protesting Israel's assault on Gaza.
Changing our understanding of the problem changes the solutions needed to address it.

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CUIMC Stands Up @cuimcstandsup.bsky.social · Jul 26

Out today in the Columbia Spectator — faculty from CUIMC Stands Up & CU Faculty Alliance reframe the narrative about antisemitism at Columbia through an analysis of the HEALS data. Read it here ⬇️

www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...

Reframing the narrative on antisemitism at Columbia: What the data says

In March, President Donald Trump’s administration abruptly terminated numerous federally funded scientific research projects at Columbia. According to personal correspondence with multiple Columbia Un...

www.columbiaspectator.com

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CUIMC Stands Up @cuimcstandsup.bsky.social · Jul 24

“But, looking at this agreement, one has to think that it wasn’t worth it. What value is there to saving lives and extending them if these lives are lived in a world of restricted speech, arbitrary arrest, and cheerful physical violence?”

Read more here:

open.substack.com/pub/riseupco...

Columbia's Agreement with the Federal Government

The Columbia administration has finally done what many of us have urged it not to do: it has signed a bad agreement with the federal government to address the government’s phony concerns about Columbi...

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CUIMC Stands Up @cuimcstandsup.bsky.social · Jul 24

We couldn’t have said it better ourselves:

“I don’t think the values of the Trump administration are the values of the Columbia medical faculty. In fact, I am certain they are not. We have made a deal with the devil. Those don’t usually work out.”

We can confirm ‼️

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CUIMC Stands Up @cuimcstandsup.bsky.social · Jul 24

Thank you to Rise Up, Columbia for the astute analysis as usual and the footnote shoutout to CUIMC Stands Up!

We’re a group of medical campus faculty & staff firmly against the exchange of our values for grant funds, even as our jobs & careers are at risk.

🔗 open.substack.com/pub/riseupco...

Columbia's Agreement with the Federal Government
RISE UP, COLUMBIA
TODAY AT 12:17 PM
The Columbia administration has finally done what many of us have urged it not to do: it has signed a bad agreement with the federal government to address the government's phony concerns about
Columbia. Here is the document. And here, importantly, is President Shipman's letter outlining her view of the document.

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CUIMC Stands Up @cuimcstandsup.bsky.social · Jul 23

www.cuimcstandsup.org/specter/post-7

Post #7 — CUIMC Stands Up

Reading Between the Lines : Columbia’s July 22, 2025 University Statement on UJB Determinations for Butler Library Disruption and Alumni Weekend Encampment by The Spector Editorial Staff From ...

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Nina Berman @ninaber.bsky.social · Jul 10

Latest on Columbia with words by historian Ellen Schrecker www.vqronline.org/spring-2025/...

In the Hallowed Place Where There’s Only Darkness

For more than fifty years, I have been studying and writing about political repression and higher education, with a special emphasis on McCarthyism, long considered by historians to be the most seriou...

www.vqronline.org

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CUIMC Stands Up @cuimcstandsup.bsky.social · Jul 1

At Columbia, we’re also facing challenges as layoffs continue, threatening the integrity of research + diversity driving our excellence. We need ACTION to protect academic freedom, scholars, & research.

We demand our leaders:
🧬 Protect science
🔬 Preserve innovation
👩‍🔬 Support education & research

CUIMC Stands Up @cuimcstandsup.bsky.social · Jul 1

Spread the word: when scientific training and research funding is cut, EVERYBODY loses.

@statnews.com

www.statnews.com/2025/06/27/b...

Proposed cuts could have ‘catastrophic effect,’ 110 biomedical, health sciences industry leaders tell Congress

Proposed cuts will have “a catastrophic effect on the advancement of biomedical and biotechnology capabilities in the United States,” more than 100 leaders of biomedical/health sciences companies tell...

www.statnews.com

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CUIMC Stands Up @cuimcstandsup.bsky.social · Jul 1

So far ~250 Columbia affiliates have signed a petition calling to remove Shoshana Shendelman from CU Board of Trustees + boards of CUIMC & VP&S: www.bit.ly/Remove-Trustee

After an FDA warning letter ‼️ she allegedly misled investors re: company prospects

Read more: theintercept.com/2025/05/27/c...

Columbia Trustee Got Sued for Securities Fraud — Then Left Her Pharma Firm Under a Cloud

Columbia trustee Shoshana Shendelman sold millions in stock as she was going back and forth with the FDA. Then the drug got rejected.

theintercept.com

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CUIMC Stands Up @cuimcstandsup.bsky.social · Jun 27

@columbiamed.bsky.social posted this on X? CUIMC has many obesity medicine docs, dietitians, etc. who study nutrition. Trustee Shoshana Shendelman isn’t one of them She’s been sued for fraud (hiding FDA concerns). Faculty have a petition to remove her from CU leadership: bit.ly/Remove-Trustee

Screenshot of a X post from @ColumbiaMed: Obesity is a serious public health issue nationwide, affecting nearly 20% of children in the U.S. To effectively address this crisis, @columbiaps' Dr. Shoshana Shendelman stresses the importance of collaboration between the pharmaceutical industry and community organizations like Make America Healthy Again (MAHA)
@: columbiamed.link/4eeUeFr

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CUIMC Stands Up @cuimcstandsup.bsky.social · Jun 28

Still thinking about the official Columbia Medical Center @columbiamed.bsky.social X account posting about the “importance of collaboration” between pharma and Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) as if MAHA is a legit org and not a gov. committee & broader movement, both widely considered unscientific

CUIMC Stands Up @cuimcstandsup.bsky.social · Jun 27

@columbiamed.bsky.social posted this on X? CUIMC has many obesity medicine docs, dietitians, etc. who study nutrition. Trustee Shoshana Shendelman isn’t one of them She’s been sued for fraud (hiding FDA concerns). Faculty have a petition to remove her from CU leadership: bit.ly/Remove-Trustee

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AAUP @aaup.org · Jul 1

"A reduction in federal research funding on the scale currently contemplated for fiscal year 2026 will have a catastrophic effect on the advancement of biomedical & biotechnology capabilities in the United States."

This is utter madness. Massive cuts to US scientific research will harm everyone.

CUIMC Stands Up @cuimcstandsup.bsky.social · Jul 1

Spread the word: when scientific training and research funding is cut, EVERYBODY loses.

@statnews.com

www.statnews.com/2025/06/27/b...

Proposed cuts could have ‘catastrophic effect,’ 110 biomedical, health sciences industry leaders tell Congress

Proposed cuts will have “a catastrophic effect on the advancement of biomedical and biotechnology capabilities in the United States,” more than 100 leaders of biomedical/health sciences companies tell...

www.statnews.com

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CUIMC Stands Up @cuimcstandsup.bsky.social · Jul 1

Spread the word: when scientific training and research funding is cut, EVERYBODY loses.

@statnews.com

www.statnews.com/2025/06/27/b...

Proposed cuts could have ‘catastrophic effect,’ 110 biomedical, health sciences industry leaders tell Congress

Proposed cuts will have “a catastrophic effect on the advancement of biomedical and biotechnology capabilities in the United States,” more than 100 leaders of biomedical/health sciences companies tell...

www.statnews.com

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