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The Stanford community won’t back down from the fight for academic freedom. “You can’t stomp, you can’t stomp, you can’t stomp on me. We still have rights and we will fight for human dignity!”

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“Xi is pushing many of the best and the brightest to leave China…The U.S. should be taking advantage of this historic brain drain, not shutting the door to many talented Chinese young people.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/b...

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“Tenure is a crucial element of academic freedom, & to delay a tenure vote in this large-scale humanities & social sciences-targeting way is harmful to faculty, students, & members of the UNC community. The lack of transparency is also galling.” – Belle Boggs, NC AAUP Conference President

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The details of the proposed budget cuts to NSF are just horrific. 🔭🧪⚛️☄️ Example: "the astronomical community will be stunned that the agency intends to wind down one of the sites for the celebrated Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)." WTF? www.science.org/content/arti...

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“Many internationals don’t want to come to the US because they think their future plans may be interrupted by a whimsical move from the government at any moment. The best of the best in the world simply won’t come here, & the science here will suffer.”

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NIH announces the cancelation of future funding for HIV vaccine consortia. The cuts come at a critical time as recent clinical trials show real promise. www.science.org/content/arti...

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Today, faculty and staff from across Columbia's campuses again stood together in silence for one hour to call for an end to the persecution of our colleagues and students. 📸: @ninaber.bsky.social #CampusVigils #HandsOff #RiseUpHigherEd

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The damage that the Trump administration is doing to higher education is "absolutely beyond the pale," says historian Ellen Schrecker. www.democracynow.org/2025/5/30/mc...

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“Tenure is a crucial element of academic freedom, & to delay a tenure vote in this large-scale humanities & social sciences-targeting way is harmful to faculty, students, & members of the UNC community. The lack of transparency is also galling.” – Belle Boggs, NC AAUP Conference President

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“This latest attack on higher education does not combat antisemitism. It simply weaponizes antisemitism to serve Trump’s radical right-wing agenda to destroy our colleges and universities.” – Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

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“We’re seeing a growing movement within civil society, that has to be maintained, & and has to be maintained for years. The damage that the Trump administration is doing is absolutely beyond the pale & has never, never been equaled in American life with regard to higher education.” — Ellen Schrecker

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"Spend those so-called reserves on the classroom [and] send that money back into the places where teaching and learning is happening," Cindy Stretch, VP of @csuaaup.bsky.social. "We want that money to go where the students will feel it immediately, and where it will really enhance their education."

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“The #TXlege is poised to pass SB37, which would place ideological litmus tests on courses in the state core curriculum. This proposal is based, at least in part, on the belief that conservative views are being stifled at our universities by professors like me. I vehemently disagree…”

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Rally to Defend Education and Research Friday, May 30 · 12 - 1:30pm PDT White Memorial Plaza Stanford, CA All are welcome! www.eventbrite.com/e/rally-to-d...

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We’re international students at Harvard. We’re afraid to write this. But we have to speak up. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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“When wide-ranging program cuts and terminations of faculty appointment are a possibility, AAUP standards insist that the faculty must be involved in deliberation and decisions at every stage of the process, beginning with a determination that a state of financial exigency exists.”

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“The lack of detail on the scope of the directive will no doubt fuel worries among the roughly 275,000 Chinese students in the United States, as well as professors and university administrators who depend on their research skills and financial support.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u...

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Much respect to Local 6741 for your leadership and there are key resources here for organizing in higher ed👇🏿👇🏿💪🏿

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Right, @ProfTWolf.bsky.social! Organizing in higher education creates better working conditions for higher ed faculty and staff, better learning conditions for students, and more stable universities for all. @AAUP.bsky.social poweratwork.us/trumps-attac...

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Losing $44 billion is a big deal - and the ripple effects of this policy will hurt our economy, our research initiatives, and more for years to come. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

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And from Nature. @ucs.org president Gretchen Goldman suggests the EO steamrolls longstanding efforts to create a buffer between science and politics, putting US scientists and science under the thumb of political appointees like HHS secretary RFK Jr. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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“This obsession with controlling what can researched & taught on college campuses is antithetical to higher education, academic freedom, & most importantly our shared democracy. Ultimately, these are attempts to undermine our democracy in pursuit of authoritarian political power.” — Todd Wolfson

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Not a sly way of limiting tenure or faculty voice in tenure cases, right? Because that sure sounds like a way to limit academic freedom.

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"Whatever their demands are — & they certainly extend beyond what the law requires — even if Harvard were to meet them, they would come up w/ a new set of demands that it hadn’t met. It’s very clear that what they want to do is run the university into the ground." —Alison Frank Johnson, Harvard AAUP

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He accused NEJM, Lancet, and JAMA of being corrupt and said NIH researchers won’t be allowed to publish in these (leading) journals unless the journals stop being corrupt.

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Letter from profs at Columbia + Barnard condemns antisemitism, while rejecting the definition used by the govt because it is being used to suppress free speech and categorically criminalize identity, making those groups vulnerable to repression @aaup.bsky.social academeblog.org/2025/05/27/o...

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The Trump administration is unlawfully seeking to destroy higher education in the United States. It now demands that we sacrifice our international students in the process. Universities cannot acquiesce to such extortion.

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New on Academe Blog: academeblog.org/2025/05/27/o...

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Attacks on international students hurt all Americans. International students contributed $43.8 billion and supported 378,175 jobs to the U.S. economy during the 2023-2024 academic year. Full national data from @nafsa-official.bsky.social here: www.nafsa.org/policy-and-a...

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"The AAUP calls on Duke University and its board of trustees to immediately halt the separation process & lay off plans until faculty & staff representatives can be fully involved in any decision process that would impact Duke’s mission of providing a superior liberal education to its students."

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From conservative legal scholars: "These actions, taken in direct retaliation for Harvard standing up for academic freedom, strike at the core of the liberty our Constitution protects." reason.com/volokh/2025/...

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Trump admin accuses Harvard of still using race as a deciding factor in admissions. Also/but: — Harvard College’s first-year Black enrollment was 14% in 2024, down from 18% in 2023. — Harvard Law’s entering class was 3.4% Black, the lowest since the 1960s. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

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'The Trump administration has launched a comprehensive attack on knowledge itself, a war against culture, history, and science. If this assault is successful, it will undermine Americans’ ability to comprehend the world around us.' 😳

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President of @aaup.bsky.social, Todd Wolfson, joins @mrsethharris.bsky.social in @poweratwork.bsky.social's new blogcast to discuss the attack on college campuses by the Trump administration. Visit poweratwork.us/trumps-attac... to hear about Trump's policies, the threat to academic freedom, & more

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💔 This is devastating, but we will continue fighting for academic freedom, shared governance, and due process in Texas. We will not give up on the future of higher ed in this state. Thank you to all who worked tirelessly against SB37. 🙏

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@utaustinaaup.bsky.social Pres. Polly Strong: “SB 37 will greatly harm the reputation of our research universities + lead to a brain drain of faculty + students. We are grateful to the reps who supported faculty on the floor…” www.texastribune.org/2025/05/24/t...

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"Eliminating the ED would hurt everyday Americans, severely limit access to education, eviscerate funding for HBCUs and TCUs while benefiting partisan politicians and private corporations looking to extract profit from our nation's higher education system." - Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

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😭Very disappointing to see SB37 pass on a party line vote. Institutions of higher education did NOT ask for this bill. Faculty overwhelmingly testified against it. This is an unnecessary and disastrous bill that makes Texas, with Florida, a leader in dismantling higher ed. 1/

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The Trump administration warned U. of Virginia officials that the institutions was moving too slowly on its pledge to "dismantle DEI apparatuses." Here's what happened the next day. chroni.cl/43m75C9

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At graduation, faculty members looked at one another across the aisle, wondering which of us would be, in the university president’s words, “pruned and thinned.” A Call for Solidarity at Duke.

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Its now even more important that faculty organize their workplace by joining @texasaaup.bsky.social and @aaup.bsky.social We need to prevent the over implementation of this horrible law by our administrations

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A federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s plan to dismantle the Dept. of Ed & ordered the reinstatement of employees fired in mass layoffs. This ruling is, as @rweingarten.bsky.social said, “a first step to reverse this war on knowledge and the undermining of broad-based opportunity.”

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Ryan Enos of Harvard-AAUP: "They don't care whether these accusations they are making are true. They're all a pretext to punish universities as a way to bring them under their control. That's what authoritarians do. It's not the way things should be done in the United States." @ryanenos.bsky.social

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America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

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"We aim to create a campus culture where all students are welcome, respected and valued." That, in essence, is #DEI.

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It was powerful to gather with @ct-aaup.bsky.social @aaup.bsky.social chapters from across Connecticut last night for our end of the year social. All power to the AAUP! If you or your colleagues would be interested, please join: www.aaup.org/membership/j...

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“Now is the time to rally our forces & offer a different vision of higher education & a positive path forward. Higher ed is under a withering assault right now, but it’s important for us to be clear: The assault on higher ed did not begin with Trump.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

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In the lawsuit, the university accused the Trump administration of exerting “clear retaliation for Harvard exercising its First Amendment rights to control Harvard’s governance, curriculum and the ‘ideology’ of its faculty and students.”

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"Trump has sought to sabotage unions, not strengthen them. He has moved to strip 1 million federal employees of their right to bargain while also seeking to cripple the NLRB, which protects workers’ ability to bargain for better pay and conditions." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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