BREAKING: We are suing the Trump admin on behalf of our members for unlawfully cutting off $400 million in federal funding for crucial public health research to force Columbia University to surrender its academic independence. Stay Tuned. - ThreadSky

aaup.bsky.social • 54 days ago

BREAKING:

We are suing the Trump admin on behalf of our members for unlawfully cutting off $400 million in federal funding for crucial public health research to force Columbia University to surrender its academic independence.

Stay Tuned.

Reposted from Seth Kimmel

@aaup.bsky.social and @aftunion.bsky.social sue over government “using cuts as a cudgel to coerce a private institution.” www.aft.org/press-releas...

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therealmecfs.bsky.social•54 days ago

Thank you from Scotland! One of those projects is important ME Research, that could help people like me all over the world.

davidmouritsen.bsky.social•54 days ago

Enos & Levitsky: “If Columbia or another university confronts the administration on its own, it will lose. If America’s nearly 6,000 universities and colleges launch a campaign in defense of higher education, odds are that Trump will lose.”

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/3/14/enos-levitsky-harvard-columbia-trump/

mejomelissa.bsky.social•54 days ago

Thank you for challenging these unlawful, unconstitutional orders

chadvanschoelandt.bsky.social•54 days ago

youtackything.bsky.social•54 days ago

Will be rooting for you!

ronafernandez.bsky.social•54 days ago

TY professors for not leaving it all up to students to save your university.

profmisterlizzie.bsky.social•54 days ago

Thank you

vmg-ylw.bsky.social•54 days ago

lzvolk.bsky.social•54 days ago

1. Everyone knows/should know Trump is a bully.
2. He will do anything to get his way.
3. All universities/institutions should not allow themselves to be bullied.
4. This should incite collaborating with resources to resist Trump rather than bowing to his irrational, probably illegal, demands.