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Isaac Kamola @isaackamola.bsky.social · 1d

Sign-on letter to oppose Trump's (extortion) "compact" for higher ed institutions. actionnetwork.org/petitions/un...

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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Audrey Truschke @audreytruschke.bsky.social · 1d

A Rutgers professor has been forced to flee the country for his safety, after targeting by a far-right student group that was *checks notes* claiming they felt unsafe.

I'm horrified.
I'm angry.

A short 🧵 #AcademicFreedom #Rutgers #violence #antifa

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1d

Mark Bray and his family are being forced to move to Europe because of incitement by right-wing operatives because he wrote a book about antifascism.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

www.theguardian.com

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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 1d

I am proud of MIT, where our branch of AAUP has voted unanimously to endorse this statement urging MIT leadership and the MIT Corporation to reject the Compact wholesale
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Letter Regarding Compact

MIT Chapter of the American Association of University Professors October 6, 2025 Statement on the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” MIT has been invited by the federal governmen...

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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 chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 1d

A teach-in this Friday!

Learn about Trump’s proposed “compact” with UT and what we can do about it. 4 PM on Friday 10/2025. University Methodist, 2409 Guadalupe.

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 5d

To the leaders of Vanderbilt, Dartmouth, UPenn, USC, MIT, UT Austin, the University of Arizona, Brown, & UVA: Acquiescing to a Mailman compact would be a profound betrayal of your students, staff, faculty, the public, higher education, and our shared democracy.

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North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social · 1d

Powerful statement. Academic workers must stand with students against this proposed capitulation to authoritarianism and destruction of higher education @aaup.org

Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 1d

Students at the 9️⃣universities: “If any one of our universities agrees to this compact, it risks creating a chain reaction for the #HigherEd system at-large to side with tyrants over students. We demand that our universities do not fold + do not sign.” 👏

www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...

Our Universities Must Not Fold to Trump's Authoritarian Compact | Common Dreams

This compact goes against every democratic principle our country and our schools should uphold, and we reject the Trump administration’s attempt to cajole universities into compliance through explicit...

www.commondreams.org

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 3d

“Asked on Friday by the right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson if there would be “ICE enforcement” at the Super Bowl, Noem replied, “There will be,” adding that federal immigration officers would be “all over” the event.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/a...

Kristi Noem Says ICE Will Be ‘All Over’ the Super Bowl

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 3d

@aacu.org has stepped up & called the Trump "compact" for higher ed what it is: "The compact is, in effect, an ultimatum...This is not constructive engagement." Big question is where is @aau.edu? If your university is part of AAU, write to your president & trustees now.
www.aacu.org/newsroom/aac...

AAC&U Statement on the Trump Administration’s “Compact for… | AAC&U

AAC&U Statement on the Trump Administration’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”

www.aacu.org

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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 3d

“The compact’ is a maximalist document, demanding a near-complete surrender of core academic freedoms of the university. It purports to give vast new leverage to the DOJ…to take away federal “benefits” to which the university and its faculty and students are entitled under federal law.” ⬇️⬇️

Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 3d

I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below.

It's especially for journalists covering this story!

Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.

Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

balkin.blogspot.com

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 4d

The question journalists need to be asking is: WHY is the government trying this?

It’s because they want to control universities in unlawful ways that courts will not allow; it’s not working; so they’re trying to get universities to sign up “voluntarily” for unlawful levels of government control.

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North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social · 3d

UVA Faculty Senate with a clear statement of values: facultysenate.virginia.edu/resolution-o...

Resolution Opposing the "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education" | Faculty Senate, U.Va.

facultysenate.virginia.edu

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North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social · 3d

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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 in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological agenda is entirely corrupt.

www.aaup.org

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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 5d

“No self-respecting university could ever accept something like this,” said Lee Bollinger, a First Amendment scholar and former Columbia University president. “Trying to protect conservative ideas against being ‘belittled’ — that’s about as violative of the First Amendment interests as you can get.”

Colleges weigh whether to sign onto Trump plan or forgo federal benefits

A new proposal from the Trump administration would give colleges funding advantages if they adopt conservative priorities.

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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 5d

It’s a 1️⃣-2️⃣punch: The State of Texas, the Regents, & the President dissolve the Faculty Council. Then Trump offers a compact that will affect academic freedom, curriculum, student recruitment, research priorities, the future of academic programs. Once faculty had a voice in such decisions. No longer.

AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 11d

✴️For the first time since 1945, UT does not have a representative faculty council.

Our press release on the replacement of an elected Faculty Council with faculty advisory bodies composed entirely of appointees of President Davis.

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Press Release 9.27.2025.docx

PRESS RELEASE American Association of University Professors (AAUP) chapter at The University of Texas at Austin Contact: Pauline Strong, PhD, Chapter President, [email protected] _________________...

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 5d

"This is extortion, plain and simple.... The only solution is solidarity and collective action against this effort at federal control over higher education."

A sobering analysis of the illegality of the administration's "compact" and its stakes for higher ed. 🎁🔗

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

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

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Pamela Neumann @pamelaneumann.bsky.social · 6d

www.texastribune.org/2025/10/02/u... shameful that this was not immediately rejected. I’m disgusted with my grad school Alma mater leadership.

UT-Austin considering offer to adopt Trump priorities for funding advantages

The funding deal would reportedly ask the university to adopt a stricter definition of gender and a tuition freeze, among other conditions.

www.texastribune.org

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 6d

Trump's higher ed ransom note is here - everyone would have to acquiesce to their unprecedented demands or not be "given priority for grants," plus they can demand "reimbursement" for "violations" www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

A mechanism to enforce fealty. An attack on academic freedom and democracy

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Matthew Boedy @matthewboedy.bsky.social · 4d

Progressive students in the south have had to navigate “deeply uncomfortable” conversations with their conservative family members (after Charlie Kirk’s death), said John, a sophomore at Appalachian State University in North Carolina.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘He wasn’t this national hero’: US college students voice concern over Charlie Kirk’s idolization

Black, brown and LGBTQ+ students across the US are puzzled by all the praise the far-right commentator has received after his killing

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 4d

“Mr. Rowan, who is chief executive of Apollo Global Management, and Stephen A. Schwarzman, the chief executive of Blackstone — are helping shape seismic discussions related to the Trump administration’s campaign to upend American campuses.”

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

The Billionaire Behind Trump’s Deal for Universities

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 5d

Chris Rufo's disastrous takeover of New College in Florida shows what universities would become if they sign the Trump regime's extortionary "compact."

New College was supposed to model the anti-woke conservative higher-ed Americans crave. Instead, it showed the opposite, and serves as a warning.

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Stephanie M. Lee @stephaniemlee.bsky.social · 4d

"To the presidents and trustees of those nine universities: This decision will define you. You can be remembered as leaders who defended higher education’s independence against attack, or as those who surrendered it. There is no middle ground. Choose independence." www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

The Trump Administration’s ‘Compact’ Is a Trap

Choose independence. Refuse to sign.

www.chronicle.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5d

The Trump regime has ordered nine top universities to agree to its demands or lose access to federal funds.

Reminder for any school dealing with Trump's extortion: You can't appease a tyrant.

www.nytimes.com

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North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social · 4d

AAC&U Statement on the Trump Administration’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” @aaup.org #highered
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