Cornell AAUP
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Cornell’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors
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DOGE was A LOT less likely to cancel contracts from companies that donated money to Republicans than companies that donated to Democrats.
December 25, 2025 at 10:47 PM
DOGE was A LOT less likely to cancel contracts from companies that donated money to Republicans than companies that donated to Democrats.
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"no statistically or substantively significant bias against conservative students in efforts to establish politically-oriented registered student organizations (Study 1) or secure campus space for a guest speaker to lecture on political issues (Study 2)" link.springer.com/article/10.1...
December 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
"no statistically or substantively significant bias against conservative students in efforts to establish politically-oriented registered student organizations (Study 1) or secure campus space for a guest speaker to lecture on political issues (Study 2)" link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Trump offering states a "deal" like the higher ed compact that would vastly and unconstitutionally expand the federal government's powers (in this case, over election administration)
Here's the deal, says USDOJ to states: we're going to send you lists of voters we think are ineligible, and you're going to take them off the rolls. That "would hand the federal govt a major role in election admin, a responsibility that belongs to the states under the U.S. Constitution." [Stateline]
Trump’s DOJ offers states confidential deal to remove voters flagged by feds • Stateline
The U.S. Department of Justice has sent confidential draft agreements on voter data sharing to more than a dozen states, part of the Trump administration’s effort to obtain unredacted voter rolls, wit...
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December 26, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Trump offering states a "deal" like the higher ed compact that would vastly and unconstitutionally expand the federal government's powers (in this case, over election administration)
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Kudos to @djpressman.bsky.social of the UConn AAUP who is quoted.
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How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very
From emancipation to women’s suffrage, civil rights and BLM, mass movement has shaped the arc of US history
www.theguardian.com
December 25, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Kudos to @djpressman.bsky.social of the UConn AAUP who is quoted.
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Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
Texas A&M won’t reinstate fired lecturer despite findings
A vice chancellor upheld the firing of Melissa McCoul, seen in a viral video being confronted by a student on her gender identity teachings, saying the termination was done with “good cause.”
www.texastribune.org
December 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
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Today we, a supermajority of Registered Nurses at Cayuga Medical Center, are proud to announce that we are forming a union with @CWAUnion and have formally requested voluntary recognition.
December 3, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Today we, a supermajority of Registered Nurses at Cayuga Medical Center, are proud to announce that we are forming a union with @CWAUnion and have formally requested voluntary recognition.
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I think it’s important to insist on recalling, at all available opportunities, that this was specifically an attack on a trans instructor over an assignment about gender. Neither of those details are incidental; they are the center of the story
If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
December 24, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I think it’s important to insist on recalling, at all available opportunities, that this was specifically an attack on a trans instructor over an assignment about gender. Neither of those details are incidental; they are the center of the story
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They’re not perfect, but golly, public universities are one of the best engines of economic mobility we have
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Marginal Returns to Public Universities,” by Jack Mountjoy: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
Marginal Returns to Public Universities
Abstract. This paper studies the returns to enrolling in American public universities by comparing the long-term outcomes of barely admitted versus barely
doi.org
December 25, 2025 at 12:15 AM
They’re not perfect, but golly, public universities are one of the best engines of economic mobility we have
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“Today’s rushed appointment of Scott Beardsley as University of Virginia president by UVA’s Board of Visitors, with little meaningful faculty input, is an affront to the entire UVA community in a time of crisis.”
— joint statement from
@proftwolf.bsky.social & @rweingarten.bsky.social
— joint statement from
@proftwolf.bsky.social & @rweingarten.bsky.social
Rushed UVA Presidential Appointment an Affront
Rather than heeding calls to pause the search until a fair and transparent process can be initiated, the board regrettably chose to push through an appointment without a duly constituted membership. T...
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December 19, 2025 at 11:57 PM
“Today’s rushed appointment of Scott Beardsley as University of Virginia president by UVA’s Board of Visitors, with little meaningful faculty input, is an affront to the entire UVA community in a time of crisis.”
— joint statement from
@proftwolf.bsky.social & @rweingarten.bsky.social
— joint statement from
@proftwolf.bsky.social & @rweingarten.bsky.social
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Please continue to sign our petition
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December 20, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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It’s now a thing that when your institution gets shot up, largely because one political party refuses to limit firearms, that same political party will then seize the opportunity to come for you viciously with lies and try to destroy the institution
The Trump administration and its allies seized on the shooting at Brown University to cast the school as incompetent and ideologically hostile to conservatives, amplifying unfounded claims that a Palestinian student was responsible for the bloodshed.
Trump allies amplified unfounded online theories in wake of Brown shooting
In the gap between the shooting and an arrest, several top officials cast the school as inept and ideologically hostile to conservatives.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:34 AM
It’s now a thing that when your institution gets shot up, largely because one political party refuses to limit firearms, that same political party will then seize the opportunity to come for you viciously with lies and try to destroy the institution
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The New School owns about a billion dollars worth of art, most of which is not on display. They could sell the two Warhols they own and raise $100 million tomorrow. But they’d rather close academic departments.
New School “administrators have started to implement a plan to close, overhaul or merge about 30 academic programs or majors; pause nearly all admissions to doctoral programs; and offer buyouts or early retirement to what professors say is about 40 percent of the full-time faculty.”
Falling Enrollment, Money Woes: The New School Seeks a Path to Survival
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:24 PM
The New School owns about a billion dollars worth of art, most of which is not on display. They could sell the two Warhols they own and raise $100 million tomorrow. But they’d rather close academic departments.
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Rather than heeding calls for a fair and transparent process, the UVA Board of Visitors rushed the appointment of a new university president with little meaningful faculty input. It's an affront to the entire UVA community. Read my & @proftwolf.bsky.social's statement ⬇️
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AAUP and AFT Presidents Slam UVA Board of Visitors for Rushed Appointment of New President
WASHINGTON—AAUP President Todd Wolfson and AFT President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement in response to the University of Virginia Board of Visitors naming of a new president today:
www.aft.org
December 20, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Rather than heeding calls for a fair and transparent process, the UVA Board of Visitors rushed the appointment of a new university president with little meaningful faculty input. It's an affront to the entire UVA community. Read my & @proftwolf.bsky.social's statement ⬇️
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It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines.
It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.
And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.
And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
December 20, 2025 at 12:50 AM
It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines.
It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.
And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.
And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
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“OU’s decision to place an instructor on administrative leave following a routine grading dispute—& subsequent failure to defend her from harassment & discrimination…raises serious concerns about the University’s commitment to educational standards, academic freedom, & instructor safety.”
Faculty Want Answers on Oklahoma’s Suspension Policies
After a graduate teaching assistant was put on administrative leave following a grading dispute with a student that went viral, faculty at the University of Oklahoma are asking leaders to better prote...
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December 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
“OU’s decision to place an instructor on administrative leave following a routine grading dispute—& subsequent failure to defend her from harassment & discrimination…raises serious concerns about the University’s commitment to educational standards, academic freedom, & instructor safety.”
Sending love and solidarity to all our colleagues at Brown.
Gun control is an education issue. How can we teach and expect our students to learn with the specter of mass shootings hanging over classroom?
Gun control is an education issue. How can we teach and expect our students to learn with the specter of mass shootings hanging over classroom?
December 14, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Sending love and solidarity to all our colleagues at Brown.
Gun control is an education issue. How can we teach and expect our students to learn with the specter of mass shootings hanging over classroom?
Gun control is an education issue. How can we teach and expect our students to learn with the specter of mass shootings hanging over classroom?
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We're finally here. We all thought that surely some other effort would already be under way (remember "Cornell Matters"?)
Late start. Deal was just around the corner. Even the petition group was too late. Don't think it would've swayed them.
We're now stepping up to make sure things don't get worse.
Late start. Deal was just around the corner. Even the petition group was too late. Don't think it would've swayed them.
We're now stepping up to make sure things don't get worse.
December 12, 2025 at 7:46 AM
We're finally here. We all thought that surely some other effort would already be under way (remember "Cornell Matters"?)
Late start. Deal was just around the corner. Even the petition group was too late. Don't think it would've swayed them.
We're now stepping up to make sure things don't get worse.
Late start. Deal was just around the corner. Even the petition group was too late. Don't think it would've swayed them.
We're now stepping up to make sure things don't get worse.
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Note that it was the @aaup.org and faculty standing up for themselves, not UCLA as an institution, that successfully went to court to arrest Trump’s overreach here.
Important piece on Trump’s “problematic and ethically dubious” effort to gin up a case against UCLA: “Multiple attorneys who worked on it told us they were relieved they’d left the DOJ before they could be asked to sign it.”
NEW: Trump’s DOJ Pressured Lawyers to “Find” Evidence That UCLA Had Illegally Tolerated Antisemitism
An investigation by ProPublica and @chronicle.com reveals how the U.S. government ignored due process to gin up its attack on the University of California.
An investigation by ProPublica and @chronicle.com reveals how the U.S. government ignored due process to gin up its attack on the University of California.
December 12, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Note that it was the @aaup.org and faculty standing up for themselves, not UCLA as an institution, that successfully went to court to arrest Trump’s overreach here.
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This -- a model bill to effectively decimate non-STEM research by requiring 3-3 teaching loads outside of "STEM or Americanism and western civilization" -- seems...extremely bad but also quite plausible.
Proposed Model Bill Would Change College Tenure, Teaching, & Research
Three conservative groups have proposed model legislation that would dramatically change faculty tenure paths, teaching loads, research activities and hiring authority
www.forbes.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
This -- a model bill to effectively decimate non-STEM research by requiring 3-3 teaching loads outside of "STEM or Americanism and western civilization" -- seems...extremely bad but also quite plausible.
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NEW: Trump’s DOJ Pressured Lawyers to “Find” Evidence That UCLA Had Illegally Tolerated Antisemitism
An investigation by ProPublica and @chronicle.com reveals how the U.S. government ignored due process to gin up its attack on the University of California.
An investigation by ProPublica and @chronicle.com reveals how the U.S. government ignored due process to gin up its attack on the University of California.
Trump’s DOJ Pressured Lawyers to “Find” Evidence that UCLA Had Illegally Tolerated Antisemitism
An investigation by ProPublica and The Chronicle of Higher Education reveals how the U.S. government ignored due process to gin up its attack on the University of California.
www.propublica.org
December 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
NEW: Trump’s DOJ Pressured Lawyers to “Find” Evidence That UCLA Had Illegally Tolerated Antisemitism
An investigation by ProPublica and @chronicle.com reveals how the U.S. government ignored due process to gin up its attack on the University of California.
An investigation by ProPublica and @chronicle.com reveals how the U.S. government ignored due process to gin up its attack on the University of California.
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Sign on to this petition demanding that management at The New School stop the devastating budget cuts, which propose a massive layoff of 40% of full-time faculty⬇️
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SIGN ON: Petition Demanding TNS Management Stop The Cuts
Sign on to demand transparency and accountability for our students, staff, and faculty.
Find the petition here.
Questions? Email us at jgeiger@actuaw.org
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December 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Sign on to this petition demanding that management at The New School stop the devastating budget cuts, which propose a massive layoff of 40% of full-time faculty⬇️
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Massive turnout of organized higher ed workers to protest the brutal austerity measures proposed by The New School management ✊
@newschoolaaup.bsky.social
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December 10, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Massive turnout of organized higher ed workers to protest the brutal austerity measures proposed by The New School management ✊
@newschoolaaup.bsky.social
@newschoolaaup.bsky.social
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"Hundreds rallied outside the New School during a board meeting today to protest sweeping faculty and program cuts that many say will be devastating to the century-old institution’s progressive social research mission." @hyperallergic.com
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Hundreds Rally Against Sweeping Cuts at New School
Around 40% of full-time faculty were offered buyouts and programs are on the chopping block as the university faces a $48M deficit.
hyperallergic.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:37 AM
"Hundreds rallied outside the New School during a board meeting today to protest sweeping faculty and program cuts that many say will be devastating to the century-old institution’s progressive social research mission." @hyperallergic.com
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One theme here is the speed of American institutional collapse.
“It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”
“It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”
We asked activists from authoritarian regimes what they wish they’d known sooner. Here’s what they said www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
We asked activists from authoritarian regimes what they wish they’d known sooner. Here’s what they said
Activists from Hungary, El Salvador and Turkey offer advice to the US about what they’ve learned about authoritarians
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:19 PM
One theme here is the speed of American institutional collapse.
“It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”
“It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”