Adrienne Wood

I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.

ACQUAVIVA: U.Va. paid nothing, yet lost everything It seems disingenuous for the University to boast about its agreement having “no external monitoring,” since the University’s president is required to report compliance — and certify under penalty of ...

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In housing markets, new construction soaks up high end demand, thereby keeping existing more affordable homes available at those more affordable prices.

Thank you @katrinacallsen.com and @creighdeeds.bsky.social for demanding UVA Interim President Mahoney reverse this decision.

Virginians, if you haven't voted in the state-wide election already, do it!!! Then we can replace this BOV, which has irretrievably lost the UVA community's confidence.

We have a super exciting half-day planned for the Emotion Preconference at #SPSP2026. We'd love to see you there!!

The Justice Department Announces Agreement with University of Virginia WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of Justice announced an agreement with the University of Virginia (“UVA”) that will protect UVA’s students, faculty, and employees from violations of federal ci...

This is shameful.

It’s not the US president’s role to oversee our state public universities.

Appeasement is a road to nowhere.

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absolutely shameful that the university has embraced the administration’s demand that it discriminate against its students. this is the board of visitors telling UVA students that if they aren’t white and cisgendered then they don’t belong.

UVA's president and board were engaging in secret negotiations with Trump's DOJ even as they publicly rejected the Compact for Academic Excellence. We'll be reporting to them quarterly. I'm not sure what this means for us but I can imagine it's all that good. federalinfo.virginia.edu/sites/federa...

WashU in STL just announced, in a university-wide email, that we will NOT be signing The Compact.

This statement, I believe, exists thanks to the tremendous energy generated w/in our community by, among others, the Faculty Senate, the revived AAUP, and student journalists. I'm proud of everybody.

Vance spokesperson: “Gavin Newsom wants people to think this exercise is dangerous.”

<shrapnel hits Vance’s motorcade>

Vance spokesperson: No comment.

Sara Whitmer • • • 1h • 8 I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town. Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming. Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance. 75 12 comments

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America

a massive crowd of people holding anti-Trump signs

#NoKings Charlottesville, VA

This week:

-Three more universities rejected Trump's extortion compact
-Over a dozen airports refused to play Kristi Noem's propaganda video
-30+ press outlets refused to comply with Pete Hegseth's new restrictions

The only way to rebuke Trump's authoritarianism is solidarity.

Dear Secretary McMahon, Ms. Mailman, and Mr. Haley, I appreciated the opportunity to speak with you yesterday. I welcome further engagement around how we can (a) enhance the long-standing partnership between the federal government and this country's leading research universities and (b) ensure that higher education stays focused on academic excellence. As I shared on the call, I do not believe that the involvement of the government through a compact--whether it is a Republican- or Democratic-led White House- is the right way to focus America's leading colleges and universities on their teaching and research mission. Our universities have a responsibility to set our own academic and institutional policies, guided by our mission and values, our commitment to free expression, and our obligations under the law. Staying true to this responsibility is what will help American higher education build bipartisan public trust and continue to uphold its place as the envy of the world. We remain open to other ways to work with the federal government to enhance higher education. Best, Sian Leah Beilock President

Dartmouth is OUT! Thank goodness... a friend at U of A and I have been playing "Who will be the last of the 9 standing?" and it's not gonna be us!

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It worked!!! UVA rejects the compact, joining the other 4 universities that stood for academic freedom in the face of coercion!!!

Hundreds of UVA faculty, staff, and students showed up to fight for academic freedom and demand that UVA rejects Trump's Compact!

Update from Interim President Kim October 16, 2025 Dear Trojan Family, Earlier today, I sent this letter to the U.S. Department of Education regarding the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education. I appreciate the various p...

And USC rejects the compact! Four down, UVA to go… www.president.usc.edu/2025/10/16/u...

Student leaders from UVA, MIT, other colleges speak out against education compact UVA was one of nine higher education institutions to receive the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.

Student leaders from UVA, MIT, other colleges speak out against education compact

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents ‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.

When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.

Faculty, students, and staff everywhere should be proactively demanding that their universities reject Trump's Compact, which has now been offered to ALL universities. Make it clear to your administration what the costs of this compact will be.

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Here's info about @upenn.edu's rally aaup-penn.org/statement-by...

Coalition plans rally next week against Compact at UVA - Cville Right Now Fairly quiet since the semester began at the University of Virginia in light of the summer's Jim Ryan resignation, and now the Compact the White House has sent the University, the quiet will be broken...

📣 Colleagues at UVA and the 8 other universities targeted by the Compact for Academic Excellence: the AAUP is organizing a No Compact protest at most of our campuses this FRIDAY. Find out if one is happening at your university and SPREAD THE WORD! cvillerightnow.com/news/208802-...

Again, every time this happens, we literally have no idea if the masked, plainclothes people are actual government agents, or private citizens acting in party-affiliated paramilitaries. The whole point of IDs & uniforms & no masks is that we know these things.

A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 engraving in the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, in an effort to foster cooperation among the various colonies against the tyrant king of Britain, with the American colonies replaced by the nine universities selected for special collaboration opportunities

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

MIT rejects Trump administration deal for priority federal funding MIT is one of the nine schools that were asked to agree to adopt conservative priorities and policies in exchange for funding perks.

This is what courage in the face of authoritarianism looks like. No university should take Trump's bribe & surrender their integrity — bending the knee to a bully only feeds the beast & puts ALL our rights at risk.

Others should follows MIT’s example ASAP.

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously.

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