@cornellaaup.bsky.social
Cornell’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors
Join the AAUP and other allied organizations across the nation on October 18 for a day of peaceful and impactful protest as we come together to make clear: America has no kings, and the power belongs to the people!
#NoKings #AAUP #AcademicFreedom #HigherEducation #DefendHigherEd #Education
The University of Arizona's faculty senate has voted to ask the UA president to reject the Trump administration's proposed compact. It's among an accumulation of voices who say not to be tempted by the good things in the compact due to its more fundamental threats.
tucson.com/news/local/e...
Dr. Rupa Marya was a professor of medicine at the UCSF. She reveals how she was fired from her position after a campaign involving a state politician, a billionaire donor, and university admin targeted her for speaking out against the destruction of hospitals from a region experiencing a genocide.
08.10.2025 17:22 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
5 yrs ago, I argued that climate change demands an activist academy. So does growing authoritarianism. Our universities need to act collectively, and we academics, as their beating heart, must demand that administrations do this.
My piece: direct.mit.edu/daed/article....
Henry's is a must read. 👇
Academic freedom means that a course that teaches students to critique settler colonialism can be taught alongside one that teaches students to maximize shareholder value.
Both are "biased" in their framing.
Only one is currently at risk of being cancelled by state and/or institutional actors.
Trump’s H-1B Visa Fee Could Strain Universities and Schools
“It’s not patriotic,” Dr. Botstein said. “It harms the economy and has nothing to do with excellence.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...
“Any university leader who signs on to this compact would betray everything good and solid about the university and would do deep and permanent harm to the United States and the world.”https://newrepublic.com/article/201376/trump-compact-academic-excellence-university-virginia via @newrepublic.com
07.10.2025 12:36 — 👍 52 🔁 18 💬 0 📌 2
cornell alums sign and share and fight and then some docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
07.10.2025 21:56 — 👍 40 🔁 22 💬 3 📌 3“While the material consequences of refusal may be significant, the alternative is far worse. Sacrificing our values and principles would irreparably damage the foundations upon which our university has been built. We must, together, find another way.” ✊
08.10.2025 02:43 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0The authoritarian threat is not just at the federal level
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I am proud of MIT, where our branch of AAUP has voted unanimously to endorse this statement urging MIT leadership and the MIT Corporation to reject the Compact wholesale
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Not to pile on, but www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...
07.10.2025 00:39 — 👍 24 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0
"No institution that is committed to the free pursuit of knowledge should submit to the degradation of autonomy and academic freedom contained in it." @acls1919.bsky.social statement on the White House "compact" proposed to universities. www.acls.org/news/acls-st...
06.10.2025 16:16 — 👍 69 🔁 38 💬 2 📌 2
This video is part of the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom's series, "Faculty on the Frontlines," which spotlights ten AAUP members who share their stories of repression and resistance in the face of partisan interference and violations of academic freedom.
Learn more at the link below👇
Michel DeGraff, a tenured professor of linguistics at MIT, discusses how his proposal to teach a class on language & decolonization in Haiti, Israel, and Palestine was denied. He faced significant repercussions: he was removed from his department, had a pay raise withheld, and his salary frozen.
06.10.2025 15:57 — 👍 82 🔁 57 💬 3 📌 1Who else should we add to our academic freedom starter pack? We’ve got all the AAUP chapters we could find on here and a few other orgs and people!
go.bsky.app/6bkKToU
Say NO to Trump’s loyalty oaths and extortion of our universities!
We will NOT throw our students, faculty, and staff under the bus to comply with undemocratic and partisan ideological agendas.
“The Cornell administration’s actions violate Professor Cheyfitz’s academic freedom and due process rights under Cornell’s policies and under the principles of the AAUP. But it is not too late for the Provost to rectify the situation.”
06.10.2025 00:40 — 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0brown alums sign and share standstrongbrown.org/reject-trump...
05.10.2025 17:00 — 👍 18 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0wrote this line yesterday:
"If President Trump were, in other words, trying to instigate some kind of national divorce, it is hard to imagine what he would be doing differently than this."
“The Cornell administration’s actions violate Professor Cheyfitz’s academic freedom and due process rights under Cornell’s policies and under the principles of the AAUP. But it is not too late for the Provost to rectify the situation.”
06.10.2025 00:40 — 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0It's a new moment in faculty organizing for collective power. We cannot solve this problem one by one. Only in community. Messy, squabbly, put-aside-that-moment-that-person-was-annoying-in-a-faculty-meeting community.
05.10.2025 13:17 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Concise summary of the Trump admin’s proposed “compact” with universities: “In other words, this is the most sweeping pile of unconstitutional conditions that any American constitutional lawyer has ever seen in the wild.”
05.10.2025 14:08 — 👍 210 🔁 74 💬 1 📌 1Who else should we add to our academic freedom starter pack? We’ve got all the AAUP chapters we could find on here and a few other orgs and people!
go.bsky.app/6bkKToU
UC’s Academic Council calls on the Office of the President & the UC Board of Regents to unequivocally reject governmental demands that compromise institutional autonomy and #academicfreedom.
This is the way.
#DefendHigherEd
Dartmouth’s president declines Trumps academic compact.
Dartmouth says no to Trump.
04.10.2025 01:10 — 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0Dwayne has his job back because we organized for it. We fight or we die. Join AAUP today www.aaup.org/join
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We’re going live at 7PM ET on YouTube & Instagram to discuss the Trump admin’s offer to give preferential treatment to colleges & universities that pledge an oath of loyalty to Trump’s ideological agenda.
Pure corruption & a violation of core principles of US higher education & democracy.
“This is extortion, plain and simple.
It is not hyperbole to say that the future of higher education.. requires that every university reject it…The only solution is solidarity and collective action against this effort at federal control over higher education.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
