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Breaking Down Trump's New Higher Ed Loyalty Oath Compacts and Why We Must Resist YouTube video by TheAAUP

Check out me & @chenjerai.bsky.social & Lorena Grundy of @aaup-penn.bsky.social break down the new Trump compact for higher ed…. Otherwise known as loyalty oaths. This is AAUP TV. @aaup.org @aft.org @higheredlabor.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/RB1FLkR...

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.

AAUP President Todd Wolfson and AFT President Randi Weingarten on Trump’s Loyalty Pledge for Colleges and Universities.

Now is the time to unite in defense of democracy and higher education!

Read full statement below 👇

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When we fight, WE WIN!

Dwayne has his job back because we organized for it. We fight or we die. Join AAUP today www.aaup.org/join

Groups File Suit Over Trump’s $100,000 H-1B Visa Fee

“Trump’s restrictions on H-1B visa applications will lead to less lifesaving research, reduced innovation, & diminished competitiveness. This short-sighted policy will hurt every American by slowing research breakthroughs, weakening our economy & putting our global leadership at risk.”
—Todd Wolfson

AAUP President Todd Wolfson unpacks the dangerous consequences of the Trump administration’s compact, which aims to exert ideological control over universities and colleges. As Wolfson makes clear, this partisan incursion into higher education affects ALL sectors.

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The Real History of Tenure If academics want to protect the idea of tenure, they need to understand how and why it became the norm.

As states like Florida and Texas gut tenure protections for university faculty, many assume the greatest loss is to academic freedom. But tenure is not just about academic freedom. It also is, and has always been, about labor protection.
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Big news for Persian Studies and Digital Humanities!

Roshan Institute to Establish Persian Digital Library | Maryland Today Supported by $1.8M Private Gift, Project Will Be First of Its Kind

"[T]he initiative will provide free, global access to a constantly expanding body of classical and modern Persian texts. The project will also partner with institutions to help safeguard thousands of at-risk manuscripts and rare books from collections in India, Pakistan and beyond."

This is an accurate, informative headline, unlike the ones atop some of the other news stories on this topic. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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As president of @aaup.org I stand with Governor Newsom. Every single democratic governor should follow suit

In an interview with the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom, Maura Finkelstein discusses the coordinated campaign that led to the unjust termination from her position as tenured professor at Muhlenberg College—a decision that violated AAUP codes of academic freedom & due process.

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TONIGHT @7PM ET:

AAUP PresidentTodd Wolfson will be live discussing yesterday’s proposal by the Trump admin to give preferential treatment to colleges & universities that pledge allegiance to their ideological agenda.

Tune in on the AAUP’s YouTube & Instagram channels!

Breaking Down Trump's New Higher Ed Loyalty Oath Compacts and Why We Must Resist YouTube video by TheAAUP

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.

Universities Must Reject Trump Admin 'Loyalty Oath' Compacts The AAUP and AFT warn that the Trump administration’s offer to give preferential treatment to colleges and universities that court government favor in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological...

The Trump admin’s offer to give preferential treatment to institutions that toe the party line reeks of bribery in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological agenda.

This is corruption.

Adherence to ‘loyalty oaths’ would usher in a new era of thought policing in American higher education.

bangs. "They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'" Watson said trucks and military-style vans were used to separate parents from their children. Other neighbors said agents destroyed property to get in the building. "They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down," said witness Darrell Ballard. "We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military."

“Fuck them kids.”

That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other.

abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

Guy in a red tee and black jeans holds a megaphone in front of other people wearing red and waving UAW signs

Great day to be in a union! UMD grads with GLU-UAW have supermajority support but our bosses refuse to recognize them. Instead of standing with their workers, the universities are joining Trump's attack on them. @uam-umd.bsky.social stands with grads and demands UMD recognizes their union!

This is really important. Be sure to check it out!

Huge win for us!

It is your support that enables these victories.

Become an @aaup.org member today & help us carry on the fight against the Trump admin's attacks on higher ed.

Trump Says a Deal With Harvard Is Close

If Harvard bows down to this lawless president, it will cover itself in shame and betray its motto “Veritas.”

Don’t pretend to stand for truth if you’re going to surrender to this bully. Appeasement only feeds the beast and puts us all at greater risk.

Introducing “Faculty on the Frontlines,” a new series from the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom that documents the stories of AAUP members!

Over the next 2 weeks, we will spotlight the stories of 10 AAUP members fighting to defend academic freedom.

Check out our teaser 🔥

The top 10% now hold 67.4% of all the wealth in the US.

The bottom 50% hold 2.5%.

YouTube video by Pod Save America Jon Ossoff Talks Donald Trump, Corruption and How Democrats Turn It Around

It's discussed only in passing but Jon Ossoff's brief comments on Palestine on today's Pod Save America episode were interesting.

Ossoff says it's all well and good to oppose *formal* annexation but in reality *de facto* annexation on the ground has been happening "for many years now".

Northwestern students blocked from enrollment after refusing controversial antisemitism training Students say mandatory training video is biased in favor of Israel and could inflame campus tensions over Gaza

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Join us on TikTok live for AMA: Labor Organizing 101 September 26 @ 8 p.m. ET with union organizers Zack Frink & Lindsay Sanders Hosted by Victoria Hammett

AMA: Union organizers to help you ACTUALLY start organizing your workplace! 🙌

Bring your questions to Zack Frink and Lindsay Sanders this Friday at 5 p.m. PT/8 p.m. ET to get all the insight you need to know into how to make tangible change at your job.

TikTok: @genzforchange

Seriously, wtf is wrong with these people!?!?

This ICE agent should be prosecuted for assault.