Yale AAUP
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“We... wanted to address a frustrating narrative we’ve been hearing more frequently—that Yale has somehow been exempted from the funding freezes and disruptions affecting other institutions,” HoSang wrote... “The idea that Yale has been untouched is simply wrong."
Professors lament federal research funding cuts at faculty panel
The Yale chapter of the American Association of University Professors held a virtual panel Thursday featuring six faculty members who have been affected by President Donald Trump’s cuts.
yaledailynews.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:35 PM
“We... wanted to address a frustrating narrative we’ve been hearing more frequently—that Yale has somehow been exempted from the funding freezes and disruptions affecting other institutions,” HoSang wrote... “The idea that Yale has been untouched is simply wrong."
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Our November 7 day of action to defend higher education has taken the country by storm! ✊
“There is only one way forward in saving higher education and democracy writ large and that is students, faculty, staff united...We have to become a new political force.”
— Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
“There is only one way forward in saving higher education and democracy writ large and that is students, faculty, staff united...We have to become a new political force.”
— Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
Students and faculty at over 100 US universities protest against Trump’s attacks
Student, national and local groups across US organized day of action to condemn Trump’s assault on academic freedom
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Our November 7 day of action to defend higher education has taken the country by storm! ✊
“There is only one way forward in saving higher education and democracy writ large and that is students, faculty, staff united...We have to become a new political force.”
— Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
“There is only one way forward in saving higher education and democracy writ large and that is students, faculty, staff united...We have to become a new political force.”
— Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
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"We are calling on our institutional leadership, our governor and our state officials to stand up, speak up, and have the courage to protect academic freedom and reject the federal administration so called compact for higher education" --Neena Qasba, vice president of UCHC-AAUP
CT professors call on higher ed leaders to reject Trump's compact and defend higher education
The compact asks colleges and universities to align their practices and policies with the president's agenda.
www.ctinsider.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:36 PM
"We are calling on our institutional leadership, our governor and our state officials to stand up, speak up, and have the courage to protect academic freedom and reject the federal administration so called compact for higher education" --Neena Qasba, vice president of UCHC-AAUP
“We... wanted to address a frustrating narrative we’ve been hearing more frequently—that Yale has somehow been exempted from the funding freezes and disruptions affecting other institutions,” HoSang wrote... “The idea that Yale has been untouched is simply wrong."
Professors lament federal research funding cuts at faculty panel
The Yale chapter of the American Association of University Professors held a virtual panel Thursday featuring six faculty members who have been affected by President Donald Trump’s cuts.
yaledailynews.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:35 PM
“We... wanted to address a frustrating narrative we’ve been hearing more frequently—that Yale has somehow been exempted from the funding freezes and disruptions affecting other institutions,” HoSang wrote... “The idea that Yale has been untouched is simply wrong."
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Connecticut state senator and professor at Quinnipiac University, Sujata Gadkar-Wilcox, calls for the rejection of Trump's loyalty oath compact!
Reject the compact and defend the democratic right for higher ed workers to dissent!
@aftct.bsky.social
Reject the compact and defend the democratic right for higher ed workers to dissent!
@aftct.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Connecticut state senator and professor at Quinnipiac University, Sujata Gadkar-Wilcox, calls for the rejection of Trump's loyalty oath compact!
Reject the compact and defend the democratic right for higher ed workers to dissent!
@aftct.bsky.social
Reject the compact and defend the democratic right for higher ed workers to dissent!
@aftct.bsky.social
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Higher ed workers say: Condemn the Compact!
Here is CSU-AAUP, AFT Local 6745 member A. Fiona Pearson, professor of sociology at Central Connecticut State University, calling for us to unite in the face of these attacks on higher ed!
@aftct.bsky.social
Here is CSU-AAUP, AFT Local 6745 member A. Fiona Pearson, professor of sociology at Central Connecticut State University, calling for us to unite in the face of these attacks on higher ed!
@aftct.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Higher ed workers say: Condemn the Compact!
Here is CSU-AAUP, AFT Local 6745 member A. Fiona Pearson, professor of sociology at Central Connecticut State University, calling for us to unite in the face of these attacks on higher ed!
@aftct.bsky.social
Here is CSU-AAUP, AFT Local 6745 member A. Fiona Pearson, professor of sociology at Central Connecticut State University, calling for us to unite in the face of these attacks on higher ed!
@aftct.bsky.social
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CSU-AAUP co-hosted a press conference with other American Association of University Professors chapters from across the state to demand that CT leaders reject the Trump administration's higher education "compact" and protect our freedoms.
November 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
CSU-AAUP co-hosted a press conference with other American Association of University Professors chapters from across the state to demand that CT leaders reject the Trump administration's higher education "compact" and protect our freedoms.
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A coalition of AAUP chapters in Atlanta stood up today for the future of higher education and marched from Morehouse College to Clark Atlanta University!
@neatoday.bsky.social
#defendacademicfreedom
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#defendacademicfreedom
November 7, 2025 at 9:32 PM
A coalition of AAUP chapters in Atlanta stood up today for the future of higher education and marched from Morehouse College to Clark Atlanta University!
@neatoday.bsky.social
#defendacademicfreedom
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#defendacademicfreedom
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The Cornell AAUP chapter has consistently stated that any deal with the Trump administration would be strategically unwise and a betrayal of Cornell’s principles. This remains the case. At best, we can say that this deal could have been worse.
Read our full statement here:
Read our full statement here:
Statement on Cornell’s agreement with federal government
The Cornell AAUP chapter has consistently stated that any deal with the Trump administration would be strategically unwise and a betrayal of Cornell’s principles. This remains the case. We ar…
aaup-cornell.org
November 7, 2025 at 11:24 PM
The Cornell AAUP chapter has consistently stated that any deal with the Trump administration would be strategically unwise and a betrayal of Cornell’s principles. This remains the case. At best, we can say that this deal could have been worse.
Read our full statement here:
Read our full statement here:
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"We are calling on our institutional leadership, our governor and our state officials, to stand up, speak up and have the courage to protect academic freedom and reject the federal administration so called compact for higher education."
— Neena Qasba, Vice President of AAUP - UConn Health Center
— Neena Qasba, Vice President of AAUP - UConn Health Center
CT professors call on higher ed leaders to reject Trump's compact and defend higher education
The compact asks colleges and universities to align their practices and policies with the president's agenda.
www.ctpost.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:48 PM
"We are calling on our institutional leadership, our governor and our state officials, to stand up, speak up and have the courage to protect academic freedom and reject the federal administration so called compact for higher education."
— Neena Qasba, Vice President of AAUP - UConn Health Center
— Neena Qasba, Vice President of AAUP - UConn Health Center
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Hear @proftwolf.bsky.social: “OUR compact is: higher education as a public good—that means free college for all; that means an end to student debt; that means work with dignity for everyone on our campuses; it means freedom to teach and freedom to learn without Big Brother on our back!”
November 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Hear @proftwolf.bsky.social: “OUR compact is: higher education as a public good—that means free college for all; that means an end to student debt; that means work with dignity for everyone on our campuses; it means freedom to teach and freedom to learn without Big Brother on our back!”
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Tomorrow! Wesleyan-AAUP hosts a "One Campus" rally to celebrate Wesleyan faculty, staff, and students who refuse to live in fear. Academic Freedom! Freedom of Speech! Solidarity across campus!
November 7, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Tomorrow! Wesleyan-AAUP hosts a "One Campus" rally to celebrate Wesleyan faculty, staff, and students who refuse to live in fear. Academic Freedom! Freedom of Speech! Solidarity across campus!
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It’s time for us to reconnect with the radical, system-changing spirit that was once at the heart of our field. #publichealth #episky #medsky #activism www.thenation.com/article/acti...
Public Health Was a Place for Warriors Once. It Needs to Be Again.
It's time for us to reconnect with the radical, system-changing spirit that was once at the heart of our field.
www.thenation.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
It’s time for us to reconnect with the radical, system-changing spirit that was once at the heart of our field. #publichealth #episky #medsky #activism www.thenation.com/article/acti...
Join the Yale AAUP Today (Thursday) at 5 pm to discuss how federal funding cuts are threatening life-saving research at Yale and across the country-- DM for more info!
November 6, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Join the Yale AAUP Today (Thursday) at 5 pm to discuss how federal funding cuts are threatening life-saving research at Yale and across the country-- DM for more info!
Join the Yale AAUP tomorrow (Thursday) for a discussion of how federal funding cuts are threatening life-saving research at Yale and across the country--
November 6, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Join the Yale AAUP tomorrow (Thursday) for a discussion of how federal funding cuts are threatening life-saving research at Yale and across the country--
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University of Virginia AAUP calls to immediately rescind the standstill agreement with Trump admin!
It poses these threats to academic freedom:
❌Divergence from Existing Civil Rights Law
❌Unconstitutional Coercion
❌Conflict with Virginia Law
❌Lack of Due Process
❌Preventing Legal Challenges
It poses these threats to academic freedom:
❌Divergence from Existing Civil Rights Law
❌Unconstitutional Coercion
❌Conflict with Virginia Law
❌Lack of Due Process
❌Preventing Legal Challenges
aaup-uva.org
November 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
University of Virginia AAUP calls to immediately rescind the standstill agreement with Trump admin!
It poses these threats to academic freedom:
❌Divergence from Existing Civil Rights Law
❌Unconstitutional Coercion
❌Conflict with Virginia Law
❌Lack of Due Process
❌Preventing Legal Challenges
It poses these threats to academic freedom:
❌Divergence from Existing Civil Rights Law
❌Unconstitutional Coercion
❌Conflict with Virginia Law
❌Lack of Due Process
❌Preventing Legal Challenges
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Join us in the fight
This image aptly captures this feeling of the walls closing in, a shrinking of freedoms in the academy over 10 years.
We can’t let these ideologues win. If you’re not a member of the @aaup.org, we need you to join now and take up the fight for #academicfreedom.
academic-freedom-index.net
We can’t let these ideologues win. If you’re not a member of the @aaup.org, we need you to join now and take up the fight for #academicfreedom.
academic-freedom-index.net
October 22, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Join us in the fight
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Some charts for those who don't know the extent of the US public (and private) investment in research (particularly in biomedical research) compared to other countries and institutions. The destruction of the US' scientific institutions has global implications.
November 2, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Some charts for those who don't know the extent of the US public (and private) investment in research (particularly in biomedical research) compared to other countries and institutions. The destruction of the US' scientific institutions has global implications.
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The US funds the bulk of biomedical research globally by far. It's not like other countries can simply take up the slack. The more likely: people leave research, new people don't become researchers. There is no happy ending. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'
A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s b...
www.pbs.org
November 1, 2025 at 8:15 PM
The US funds the bulk of biomedical research globally by far. It's not like other countries can simply take up the slack. The more likely: people leave research, new people don't become researchers. There is no happy ending. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
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1st Circuit in Stand with Us v. MIT: "[O]ur Constitution bars the government from forcing a private university to prohibit students from voicing vehement support for, or opposition to, the policies and conduct of the United States and its allies."
www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/fi...
www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/fi...
www.ca1.uscourts.gov
October 28, 2025 at 9:16 PM
1st Circuit in Stand with Us v. MIT: "[O]ur Constitution bars the government from forcing a private university to prohibit students from voicing vehement support for, or opposition to, the policies and conduct of the United States and its allies."
www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/fi...
www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/fi...
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“Trump’s compact is the greatest single incursion into the freedom & autonomy of higher education to ever happen in this country.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
#DefendHigherEd
#DefendHigherEd
‘Students Are Terrified’: How Trump’s Higher Education Compact Puts Queer Students at Risk
The heavy-handed document promises federal funding in exchange for ideological compliance. So far, it's unpopular.
rewirenewsgroup.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:32 PM
“Trump’s compact is the greatest single incursion into the freedom & autonomy of higher education to ever happen in this country.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
#DefendHigherEd
#DefendHigherEd
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We at the RU faculty unions along with other NJ unions stand in support of Mark Bray and the rights of our students and faculty to academic freedom and freedom of speech. See our statement and the list of signatories attached. aftnewjersey.bsky.social teamnjea.bsky.social ruaaup-ptl.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
We at the RU faculty unions along with other NJ unions stand in support of Mark Bray and the rights of our students and faculty to academic freedom and freedom of speech. See our statement and the list of signatories attached. aftnewjersey.bsky.social teamnjea.bsky.social ruaaup-ptl.bsky.social
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Our board member @cmcknichols.bsky.social & AAUP members from OSU & around the state contributed to this @dispatch.com article on the chilling impact of SB1 across Ohio. Between legal mandates & admin overcompliance, we are living the grim reality that thousands protested for over 2 years.
The "chill is real" on #Ohio campuses right now after #SB1 *and with federal attacks on + efforts to micromanage higher education -- cancellations, closures, + chalking and land acknowledgement bans, with some quotes from me as well, great piece in the Dispatch www.dispatch.com/story/news/e...
As SB 1 impacts ripple across Ohio college campuses, students, faculty say 'the chill is real'
Two months into her final fall semester, one OSU senior said the ripple effect of Ohio Senate Bill 1 on campus has been "like a quiet roar."
www.dispatch.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Our board member @cmcknichols.bsky.social & AAUP members from OSU & around the state contributed to this @dispatch.com article on the chilling impact of SB1 across Ohio. Between legal mandates & admin overcompliance, we are living the grim reality that thousands protested for over 2 years.