Rebecca Givan

The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact

The “deal” that Brown made with the Trump admin is much more extreme than is being reported. It includes government oversight of course evaluations and no barrier to government interference in faculty hiring.

Read it for yourself here:

www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

the weaponization of course evaluations in the Brown University deal takes the consumerist model of higher education to new heights. not only is your job contingent on it, but make any of your students uncomfortable and you’ll be investigated by the government

Compare/contrast:
1. DOJ memo, maintaining that recruitment at institutions chosen for their racial/ethnic composition is a "potentially unlawful practice
2. Brown settlement agreement, requiring targeted recruitment at Jewish day schools, as a remedy for past discrimination

“If noncitizens can be deported based on their political speech, then they have no First Amendment rights at all because they must always, always worry that their speech and associations will displease those in power.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/u...

In addition to #AAUPvRubio, we are also in Federal court today in Boston fighting for the restoration of $2.6 billion in crucial lifesaving scientific & medical research funding.

Here is AAUP Senior Counsel Aaron Nisenson outside the courthouse where both cases were heard today.

#TrumpCutsKill

Official Confirms State Department Considered Statements Critical of Israel and U.S. in Revoking Foreign Students’ Visas. Below are highlights from Day 9 of @aaup.org v. Rubio trial. Closing arguments are set for Monday 7/21, 10am ET. Register for livestream below.
knightcolumbia.org/content/offi...

“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.

Settle in and read this extraordinary piece by Rümeysa Öztürk about her detention and marvel at her compassion for others, even in the darkest conceivable situation. We are blessed to have students like her in America: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r...

"In court on Tuesday, multiple top ICE officials...said that in the past six months under Trump, they were told to prioritize immigration enforcement cases, as opposed to criminal cases, which they had previously focused on in the past."

In court testimony, Boston ICE official recalls pressure from above to arrest Rümeysa Öztürk - The Boston Globe "I can’t recall a time that its come top down like this with a visa revocation," the ICE official said in Boston court on Tuesday.

"A top Boston immigration official testified in federal court Tuesday that supervisors instructed him to prioritize the arrest of Tufts PhD student Rümeysa Öztürk, the first time he’s ever received such a directive from ICE in his career working at the agency." www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/15/m...

An endorsement from the largest local union of professional musicians in the world sounds a little different than the others but the meaning is the same: solidarity forever. Thank you Local 802 AFM!

(Labor folks might be interested to know that the Supreme Court case establishing this involved the first chapter in the government's very long - but ultimately futile - battle to deport Harry Bridges)

a line of heavily armed federal agents in riot gear standing in a field surrounded by tomato plants

The UFW can confirm farm workers were critically injured yesterday during chaotic raids in Ventura County, CA. Other workers, including US citizens, remain unaccounted for.

UFW staff is on the ground supporting impacted families.

Our full statement below. ⬇️
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Is Noncitizens’ Speech Protected? | Harvard Magazine A federal lawsuit accuses the Trump administration of violating the First Amendment.

In a trial that began July 7, the @aaup.org accuses the Trump administration of violating the First Amendment through a policy of “ideological deportation” that targets faculty and students engaged in pro-Palestinian advocacy.

#Harvard
www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/07/aaup...

Thanks to the amazing attorneys at @knightcolumbia.org and the plaintiff organizations, declarants and witnesses who are fighting for the constitutional rights of everyone on our campuses, regardless of immigration status.

AAUP v. Rubio, Daily Trial Updates

You should be following AAUP vs. Rubio. This case has forced the Trump administration to acknowledge depriving workers & students on our campuses of their constitutional rights. They’ve acknowledged using doxxing websites to choose who to snatch, detain & deport.
knightcolumbia.org/content/aaup...

AAUP v. Rubio, Daily Trial Updates

“The official testified that Öztürk’s dossier included her student newspaper op-ed. The dossier also incorporated Öztürk’s page on the Canary Mission website.”

knightcolumbia.org/content/aaup...

AAUP v. Rubio, Daily Trial Updates

“A senior ICE official testified that the agency assembled a team in early 2025 to investigate student protestors. The team…rapidly compiled over 100 reports based on a list of 5,000 people identified on the Canary Mission website.”

knightcolumbia.org/content/aaup...

“If some of us are not free to speak out, our whole university breaks.”

—Zachery Samalin, Vice-President of the NYU-AAUP chapter, on why his chapter joined the lawsuit against the Trump administration to halt the arrests & deportations of international students who speak out on Palestine.

Register to join the livestream for *Day 2* of the AAUP v. Rubio trial, scheduled for tomorrow 7/8 at 9:00am ET: forms.mad.uscourts.gov/seating-sign...

Trial Over Free Speech on Campus, and Trump’s Student Crackdown, Begins

“The court heard testimony from 2 professors, both legal permanent residents, who each spoke to the ways they curtailed their scholarship, stopped participating in political organizing or engaged in self-censorship after witnessing the arrests of Mr. Khalil & others.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u...

Trial in AAUP v Rubio, day one. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u...

The notable named are alphabetical so it is easy to miss that one of the supporters is Christine Todd Whitman, former EPA Administrator under George W. Bush and former Governor of New Jersey.

Sum: Harmful, bleak, and grim.

Dark Age 2.0

Trump’s second presidency begins: evaluating effects on the
US health system www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... by @scottlgreer.bsky.social @hjarman.bsky.social @mirandayaver.bsky.social @xrkulik.bsky.social

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I've got a short #MADC x @higheredlabor.bsky.social explainer up on the HELU blog! Check it out!

higheredlaborunited.org/2025/06/25/h...

Zohran Mamdani's Win Is the Beginning of the End of the Old Democratic Party Mamdani's NYC primary victory shows that the old tricks of the political establishment are dying out—and something new is being born.

"One dynamic apparent throughout Zohran’s primary campaign is that the more people learn who he is, the more they like him."– @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social

inthesetimes.com/article/zohr...

"If Republicans in Congress have their way, tax rates will be negative for a large portion of investment income."

thehill.com/opinion/5366...

Between 20 and 25 service dogs and trainees took turns standing guard at the edges of the Rotunda.

CWA District 1 Slams New Jersey Budget Deal for Punishing New Jersey Working Families with Higher Healthcare Costs in Backroom Agreement For Immediate Release: Wednesday, June 25, 2025Contact: Moira Bulloch, mbulloch@cwa-union.org

“This backroom budget gamble shifts costs onto the backs of the very people who keep our state running, while violating collective bargaining rights and threatening every single union in this state.”

cwad1.org/press-releas...