🔥 WashU in STL rejects Trump’s loyalty oath compact! 🔥
The resistance cannot be stopped!
AAUP chapters and organized higher ed workers across the nation are unified in spearheading this fight—let’s keep it up!
22.10.2025 19:34 — 👍 79 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 0
Tampa No Kings
Trump on a toilet a giant phone with the words “Nobel prize was rigged just like everything under Crook Joe and the radical left lunatics! I won in a landslide. Thank you for your attention to this matter.”
Lady wearing a shirt that reads “I AM AUNT TIFA”
Tampa No Kings
Scenes from Tampa, Florida today.
#nokings
@utaaup.bsky.social
18.10.2025 22:51 — 👍 123 🔁 29 💬 0 📌 0
Reject the ongoing censorship of student media on our campuses!
“Administrative efforts to subordinate campus journalism to public relations are inconsistent with the mission of higher education to provide a space of intellectual exploration and debate”
—Hank Reichman, in a new Academe Blog post
17.10.2025 14:01 — 👍 21 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 2
MIT President Sally Kornbluth next to a shot of the campus and text of an open letter to the government on the education compact proposed by President Donald Trump. In black text the kicker Governance, the headline MIT Rejects Proposed Federal Compact, and the sub-headline MIT is the first institution to reject a proposal by the Trump administration that would trade preferential treatment on federal funding for far-reaching changes. Photo illustration by Justin Morrison/Inside Higher Ed | Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images | Nate Hovee/iStock/Getty Images | MIT
The quote “In our view, America’s leadership in science and innovation depends on independent thinking and open competition for excellence. In that free marketplace of ideas, the people of MIT gladly compete with the very best, without preferences. Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education.” — Sally Kornbluth, MIT president, in a letter to the campus community Friday.
ICYMI | MIT has rejected the Trump administration’s proposal to sign on to the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” which would mandate sweeping changes across campus in exchange for preferential treatment on federal funding.
https://bit.ly/3KO0g5l
13.10.2025 15:20 — 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
A student looking at a cellphone with a bunch of fists flying out of it.
With Doxing On the Rise, Here Are 7 Tips to Stay Safe Online
Experts offer solutions to prevent doxing and advice about how to respond and keep yourself safe if it happens to you. https://bit.ly/47KLTrY
#AcaemicSky #EDUSky #HigherEd
19.09.2025 16:23 — 👍 2 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 3
Just a little #throwback, thinking about our joint #solidarity event on Monday!
04.09.2025 14:56 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Here’s a 🧵 on key points in Judge Burroughs’ order in the AAUP/Harvard AAUP’s lawsuit against Trump’s DOJ for ideological funding cuts at Harvard:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
04.09.2025 12:21 — 👍 89 🔁 53 💬 1 📌 1
Unite and rise! #solidarity #LaborDay
01.09.2025 16:15 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Image of a crowd of people sitting on a beach in blue shirts.
Image taken from a drone overhead, showing people lined up on the beach, spelling out the words, unite and rise
Just a few images from our #solidarity event this #LaborDay!
01.09.2025 16:13 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
GIF shows a collection of hands in multiple colors coming together, surrounded by the words teamwork makes the dream work
Let’s make this #LaborDay a day of action and #solidarity! Learn more at maydaystrong.org #StrongerTogether #WorkersOverBillionaires
01.09.2025 11:14 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The Monday letter took an explicitly ideological tone, writing that Harvard had benefited from the American 'free-market system you teach your students to despise.'
McMahon also blasted Harvard for its association with prominent Democrats...
06.05.2025 01:57 — 👍 32 🔁 16 💬 3 📌 2
The Scary Implications of U.S. Government Attacks on Medical Journals
A Trump-aligned prosecutor’s attack on medical journals is a threat to your health care—and the medical establishment should not comply
Since this was published yesterday, NPR reports JAMA joins NEJM on the list of journals that confirms they’ve been sent threatening letters by Trump’s DOJ, ominously referencing their tax-exempt status in a bid to compel regime-friendly editorial choices.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
02.05.2025 22:10 — 👍 1298 🔁 627 💬 1 📌 52
We see you Kennesaw State University Faculty Senate!
1st in the South to pass a resolution establishing a mutual defense compact w/ other institutions.
"Whereas, Faculty members must organize to effectively counter political attacks on higher education & defend #academicfreedom..."
#defendhighered
29.04.2025 03:20 — 👍 372 🔁 101 💬 5 📌 7
Graphic of Washington Post poll from April 18-22, 2025, showing "Majorities of Americans oppose various Trump proposals"
highlighting two lines in particular:
"Increasing the Federal Government's role in how private universities operate" - 28 percent support, 70 percent oppose
"Reducing federal funding for medical research" - 21 percent support, 77 percent oppose
University leaders need to understand: they are holding INCREDIBLY good cards.
It is so rare in today's polarized era to have the support of 70+ percent of the public against the Trump admiministration on anything. Universities have that—AND winning legal arguments.
27.04.2025 05:29 — 👍 4448 🔁 1383 💬 48 📌 55
EO on Accreditation Opens the Door for Rampant Corruption and Political Interference
President Donald Trump’s executive order on accreditation is yet another attempt to dictate what is taught, learned, said and done by college students and instructors. Threats to remove accreditors fr...
Trump’s executive order on accreditation is yet another attempt to dictate what is taught, learned, & said by college instructors & students.
Threats to remove accreditors are transparent attempts to consolidate power in the hands of the administration in order to stifle teaching & research.
🧵
24.04.2025 02:44 — 👍 117 🔁 77 💬 1 📌 2
💥BOOM💥
“The preservation of one institution’s integrity is the concern of all, and an infringement against one member university of the Big Ten shall be considered an infringement against all.”
24.04.2025 21:39 — 👍 267 🔁 70 💬 3 📌 7
These are just a few of the benefits of supporting the #AAUP. Feel free to add more benefits from your perspective in the comments below!
22.04.2025 23:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Influences policy at all levels. For instance, the #AAUP is currently suing the federal government to stop the DEI executive orders, stop detentions and deportations of international students and faculty, and to stop grant funding cuts.
22.04.2025 23:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Provides opportunities for networking, community building, and professional development, in our local chapter and through the national organization. Coming together and creating community is vital!
22.04.2025 23:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Advocates for shared governance, academic freedom and tenure. Also, the #AAUP strongly advocates for contingent faculty and even parental leave!
22.04.2025 23:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
As we ramp up our UTampa chapter member recruitment efforts, we want to point out what the #AAUP can do for faculty at UTampa and across the nation! Here’s a short list of things the AAUP does—
22.04.2025 23:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Don’t praise Harvard just yet - The Boston Globe
Harvard needs to do more than defend itself. It needs to spearhead a coordinated opposition to Trump’s attacks on higher education.
“Harvard needs to do more than defend itself. It needs to spearhead a coordinated opposition to Trump’s attacks on higher education.”
— Jonathan Feingold’s new op ed out today in the @bostonglobe.com
18.04.2025 19:52 — 👍 56 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
On Thursday, protests took place on college campuses across the U.S.
condemning the White House's attack on education and students. This is a student at the University of California, Berkeley.
“We have something that we’re fighting for that is a little bit different than what we’ve fought for in the past. Our very right to keep fighting. Our right to resist & our right to speak & learn & teach, even if the current political regime disagrees.”
www.democracynow.org/2025/4/18/he...
18.04.2025 21:25 — 👍 66 🔁 25 💬 0 📌 1
