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AAUP-Ohio State @osuaaup.bsky.social · 18h

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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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Kirsten Weld @kirstenweld.bsky.social · 8d

An enormous legal victory for @aaup.org, MESA, and the Rutgers, NYU, and Harvard chapters of AAUP, in a case that Judge Young describes as "perhaps the most important ever to fall within the jurisdiction of this district court."

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 8d

BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Andy Sellars @sellars.bsky.social · 8d

AAUP v. Rubio is out, and look at how it starts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Ahead of the case caption, a handwritten note: "Trump has pardons and tanks . . . . what do you have?" Judge Young's reply: "Dear Mr. or Ms. Anonymous,
Alone, I have nothing but my
sense of duty.
Together, We the People of the
United States –- you and me --
have our magnificent Constitution.
Here’s how that works out in a
specific case –- "

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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-Ohio State @osuaaup.bsky.social · 13d

Now with alt text!

A cartoon of Brutus the Buckeye, wearing glasses, is writing on a blackboard with his finger. He is starting a list “10 Reasons to Love OSU.” Reason #1 is “Football games.” Reason #2 is “Academic freedom.” But here Brutus slips and his fingernail makes a loud “Screech” on the board. A voice from off the image says “Stop that!” Brutus says “What, I thought you said no chalk!”

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AAUP-Ohio State @osuaaup.bsky.social · 14d

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AAUP-Ohio State @osuaaup.bsky.social · 15d

Please read this new report from AAUP national on Title VI and academic freedom.

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-Ohio State @osuaaup.bsky.social · 17d

A fee days ago @aaup.org published an advisory for academic workers in this time of intensive repression and censorship. Please read *before* a crisis hits, if possible, whether you’ve been targeted before or not.

www.aaup.org/news/advisor...

Advisory to Academic Workers

In a moment when it is becoming increasingly difficult to predict the consequences of our online speech and choices, the AAUP and Faculty First Responders are issuing guidance to AAUP members and othe...

www.aaup.org

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AAUP-Ohio State @osuaaup.bsky.social · 19d

New statement: Academic Freedom, academic responsibility, and the attack on higher ed.

www.aaup-osu.org/post/aaup-os...

AAUP-OSU Statement on Academic Freedom and Responsibility

AAUP-OSU clarifies the relationship between academic freedom and responsibility.

www.aaup-osu.org

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Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social · 19d

Firings, sanctions, bans, threats, chilling of speech… OSU AAUP laying out and standing up for the essence of academic freedom and responsibility @aaup.org @osuaaup.bsky.social www.aaup-osu.org/post/aaup-os...

AAUP-OSU Statement on Academic Freedom and Responsibility

AAUP-OSU clarifies the relationship between academic freedom and responsibility.

www.aaup-osu.org

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 20d

He couldn't save himself by firing professors. The cultural revolution marches on. You won't escape it by cowardice.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

Texas A&M President to Step Down After Controversy Over ‘Gender Ideology’

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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
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AAUP-Ohio State @osuaaup.bsky.social · 21d

ACLU-Ohio challenges OSU’s expulsion of student as a violation of free speech

www.acluohio.org/press-releas...

ACLU of Ohio Files Lawsuit Challenging the Ohio State University’s Violation of Student’s Free Speech and Due Process Rights - ACLU of Ohio

Today, the ACLU of Ohio filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Ohio State University’s expulsion of a student for engaging in protected political speech, violating his First Amendment and Fourteenth ...

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AAUP-Ohio State @osuaaup.bsky.social · 21d

AAUP-Ohio State @osuaaup.bsky.social · 23d

Please see the national AAUP statement on the current disciplining of student, faculty, and staff speech.

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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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 28d

A GoFundMe for the instructor who was fired at Texas A&M!

Emily Pitts Donahoe @empittsdonahoe.bsky.social · 28d

I overlapped with the instructor, Melissa, as grad students in Notre Dame's English department. One of her former ND colleagues has started a GoFundMe for her: gofund.me/3f5b12078

Donate to Help Support Our Children's Literature Colleague, organized by Angel Matos

Recently, our colleague Melissa McCoul was fired from her position as a S… Angel Matos needs your support for Help Support Our Children's Literature Colleague

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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 28d

chng.it/v648fZ9tKW Solidarity with colleagues at Texas A&M.

Sign the Petition

Stop the Overreach: Reinstate the Dean of Arts & Sciences Now

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 29d

Update on the Texas A&M professor / cell phone video situation: the professor has been fired by the A&M president
president.tamu.edu/messages/an-...

This afternoon, following full consideration of the facts related to this situation, I directed the Provost to terminate the professor involved, effective immediately. Please understand that these decisions were mine alone and were not
made lightly. While I cannot provide all the details at this time, I will share the following facts.

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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 29d

PEN America: “We are witnessing the death of academic freedom in Texas." https://pen.org/press-release/swift-removal-of-academic-leaders-at-texas-am-signals-the-death-of-academic-freedom-in-the-state-warns-pen-america/

Swift Removal of Academic Leaders at Texas A&M Signals the Death of Academic Freedom in the State, Warns PEN America - PEN America

Texas A&M purge over a student complaint sparks outcry over political interference in classrooms and suffocates free speech.

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 29d

Considering that most acknowledgments are simply… acknowledgments and statement of fact (and not a call for action), this seems like absolute BS and suppression of speech and academic freedom, period

AAUP-Ohio State @osuaaup.bsky.social · 29d

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