Todd Wolfson

Trump Administration Scraps Effort to Pause Health-Research Funding The administration halted and then restarted billions in new research grants flowing from the National Institutes of Health.

Cancer doesn't care who you voted for!
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AFT, AAUP and CFT Demand Accountability from Sequoia Capital Over Partner’s Racist Comments WASHINGTON—Three of the nation’s top education union leaders are urging the regents of the University of Michigan and the University of California to publicly condemn racist remarks made by Sequoia Ca...

The racist remarks made by Sequoia Capital partner Shaun Maguire are unacceptable hate speech. @rweingarten.bsky.social @jeff-f7.bsky.social and @proftwolf.bsky.social wrote to Sequoia clients U Michigan and U California to demand accountability. More here: www.aft.org/press-releas...

“The Columbia settlement is a disaster for higher education, an act of cowardice by the leadership of Columbia & bullying & weaponization of antisemitism for nefarious purposes by the Trump administration.”

— Todd Wolfson, President of the AAUP

Universities of California, Michigan urged by unions to put Sequoia Capital in hot seat Educational unions are calling on the two university systems to reevaluate investments in Sequoia Capital following an employee's remarks attacking New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.

Those who manage workers deferred wages and other public monies shouldn't promote hate. I'm proud to take a stance alongside @proftwolf.bsky.social, @tfromthed.bsky.social and CFT's @Jeff-f7.bsky.social condemning hateful statements made by Shaun Maguire www.pionline.com/institutiona...

Fascism

No university administrator is going to stop this.

The only group actively fighting it is @aaup.org.

Join AAUP and get involved on your campus.

Faculty students and staff will stand up to Trump, when cowards like Claire Shipman of @columbiauniversity.bsky.social bend the knee! Higher ed students and workers unite! @aaup.org

This is wonderful! So proud of our team and especially Britt Paris

Let’s go higher ed!!!!

“We cannot live in fear. AAUP and our partners will not cower in silence. We will stand with & for higher education writ large. We will stand for democracy.”

— Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

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

Trump’s cuts kill!!!

As our case, @aaup.org v. Rubio wraps up, we begin our case around the Trump administration's attacks on freedom of speech and attacks on our biomedical research infrastructure and his attacks on @harvard.edu! We will win

Hundreds of higher ed workers have gathered together at Morehouse & Spelman for the @aaup.org & @aft.org Summer Institute. Right now we are learning organizing skills to protect ourselves our campuses and our students!

"The real purpose of these show trials is to undermine university autonomy so the federal government can control what faculty research, write, and teach and what students learn and say..." - @aaup.org President @proftwolf.bsky.social #HandsOffHigherEd @aft.org @nysut.bsky.social @ucaft.bsky.social

YouTube video by Knight First Amendment Institute AAUP v. Rubio Press Conference & Rally

Right now @aaup.org is in court with MESA and @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social and we are represented by @knightcolumbia.org. Check the livestream here:
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The four stooges

YouTube video by Alex Safonov (skramble) Bombing Brown People

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Hey @jd-vance-1.bsky.social welcome to Bluesky.

1. Go follow @standupforscience.bsky.social
2. Could you plz tell your boss no one wants a world war?
3. Professors aren’t evil.
4. Which children get “pro-life” protections and which don’t? Seems like only the healthy, straight, rich, white ones.

NJ lawmakers want more oversight of college mergers | NJ Spotlight News State lawmakers are learning from recent and ongoing college mergers in NJ, as they seek greater oversight of the mergers.

.@AFTNewJersey.bsky.social President Jennifer Higgins is right. Unions should be involved in the mergers of colleges & universities, to make sure the schools stay true to their mission & serve the community. www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/06/nj-s...

Coalition Files Suit Challenging DOGE Attacks on Congressionally-Approved STEM Programs - Democracy Forward

Today @aaup.bsky.social joined forces with @uaw.org, @aapthq.bsky.social , @aacu.org, Women in Engineering ProActive Network & @aeraedresearch.bsky.social to challenge DOGE's attacks on STEM research at the NSF. We are being represented by @democracyforward.org.

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Thank you for your leadership Brad Lander

AAUP: Faculty Pay Rises Again, but Not to Pre-Pandemic High An uptick in faculty average salary wasn’t enough to recover to 2019-level compensation. The gender pay gap also persists, along with low per-course compensation for part-timers.

New AAUP Report out today: real average salaries for continuing & new full-time faculty have increased but have not recovered from pre-pandemic levels. The last two years of progress weren’t enough to recover from three consecutive years of decline.
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Trump is an abject failure of a leader by any metric

A fourth force

Join us tomorrow btw 11-11:30 for No Kings at @pftlocal3.bsky.social (1816 Chestnut)! Prek-12 and higher ed workers unite. @aaup-penn.bsky.social @aaup.bsky.social @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social @ruaaup-ptl.bsky.social

Trump’s Cuts Kill

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As a result of public pressure generated by AAUP members’ collective action, UNC Chapel Hill's Board of Trustees voted to tenure the 33 faculty members who had been left in limbo by an unprecedented large-scale delay.

Today, AAUP President Todd Wolfson called for an explanation. ⬇️

This escalation came from the President of the United States.