👍 A big thumbs up to the universities who have already said absolutely not to the compact. To university leadership: don't give away your institution's autonomy...just say NO.
24.10.2025 16:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Reclaim the Narrative: A faculty and staff training webinar
Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2-4pm ET
Truth is resistance. Join us for a 2-hour training to learn how to share your higher ed story through op-eds, social media, and media interviews. Together we can #ReclaimTheNarrative. Learn more www.standtogetherhighered.org#reclaim
#AcademicSky #Academia
23.10.2025 14:37 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Upcoming Brainstorming Sessions
Monday, Nov. 10, 3pm ET
Thursday, Nov. 13, 11am ET
Stand Together for Higher Ed
📣 STHE wants to hear from you! Join us for one of our upcoming brainstorming sessions focused on how to respond to the White House compact. We would love to hear your thoughts and feelings on how our community should be responding. Register at buff.ly/R9VHdrm
#AcademicSky #Academia
20.10.2025 16:22 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
"The strength of American higher education lies in our collective commitment to truth, freedom, and excellence. The response must be unified and unequivocal: Universities will defend American freedom. They will protect each other."
Many institutions, organizations, & individuals are standing together to say NO to the White House Compact. Faculty fellows at leading Institutes for Advanced Studies are adding their voice to the choir with a new open letter:
#AcademicSky #Academia
20.10.2025 12:27 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Statement on Compact — Stand Together
Read our statement concerning the White House Compact.
Should federal funding come with political strings attached? That’s the question raised by the White House’s Compact. Read our national statement + add your perspective: buff.ly/iZheO2v
#AcademicSky #Academia
18.10.2025 20:12 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
"Now we are seeing an effort to turn universitites into instruments of propaganda for government ideology in the name of fostering a free marketplace of ideas." Kumble Subbaswamy, Co-Chair, Stand Together for Higher Ed, Chancellor Emeritus, UMass Amherst, Former Provost, University of Kentucky
"Now we are seeing an effort to turn universities into instruments of propaganda for government ideology in the name of fostering a free marketplace of ideas."
Read the latest from Kumble Subbaswamy, STHE co-chair & Chancellor Emeritus UMass Amherst buff.ly/VduYYO4
#AcademicSky #Academia
18.10.2025 17:32 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
How can faculty & staff fight back against threats to higher ed? Join us on 10/29, 2-4pm ET for Reclaim the Narrative. We're providing practical tools to tell your story & amplify the value of higher ed. Co-sponsored by STHE, AAUP, & PEN America. www.standtogetherhighered.org#reclaim #AcademicSky
17.10.2025 23:57 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Statement on Compact — Stand Together
Read our statement concerning the White House Compact.
The White House’s new Compact asks universities to trade independence for funding. We believe that’s a dangerous precedent. Read our national statement: buff.ly/iZheO2v
#AcademicSky #Academia #HigherEd
17.10.2025 22:28 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Universities Are Standing Up to Trump
The tide is rising against government overreach in higher education and we’re ready to hang ten! 🌊
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...
#academicfreedom #nocompact #highereducation #freespeech
17.10.2025 15:50 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Academic freedom is the backbone of learning, debate, and discovery. In Kumble Subbaswamy’s recent op-ed, he underscores its importance and urges us to defend it not just as faculty, but as a society committed to progress www.kentucky.com/opinion/op-e... #AcademicSky #HigherEd
09.09.2025 23:30 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Democracy Works
Check out the latest Democracy Works podcast featuring STHE! Kathy Roberts Forde & Mark Pachucki discuss what we've been up to this summer, how we're working to help faculty organize, & our hopes for the future. 🎧 Listen here: www.democracyworkspodcast.com/episodes/kat...
#AcademicSky #highered
08.09.2025 13:45 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A Grass-Roots Faculty Effort To Advance Higher Education Takes Shape
As college faculty see their role in university decision-making eroded, a new grass-roots organization is taking shape, providing a platform for a stronger faculty voice.
We're thrilled to have our work featured by @forbes.com! We're working hard to help faculty and staff across the country organize to fight back against threats to academic freedom and institutional autonomy. Learn more at www.standtogetherhighered.org
#highered #AcademicSky
05.09.2025 13:43 — 👍 14 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 1
Please help us build a following for Stand Together for Higher Ed! We are helping build a national movement to defend against attempts to dismantle, defund, and disparage the greatest #highered system in the world! Please follow, re-post, share widely on other sites. www.standtogetherhighered.org
09.06.2025 16:05 — 👍 11 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1
#academicsky We are facing a coordinated campaign to discredit, defund, and dismantle public higher education. This is not politics as usual. It is an existential threat to our mission, our students, and the future of knowledge itself. Join us! Sign up at www.standtogetherhighered.org
09.06.2025 13:34 — 👍 29 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 1
Representing Berklee College of Music and Boston Conservatory faculty, a chapter of the American Federation of Teachers, Local 4412, AFT-MA, AFL-CIO.
Connecticut conference of the American Association of University Professors. We represent all AAUP members in CT.
https://ctsc-aaup.org/
Your South Carolina Conference of chapters of the AAUP. We fight for academic freedom, shared governance, and better working conditions for all in higher ed. Join: no one can advocate for us like us. https://www.aaup-sc.org/
The GW-AAUP advances academic freedom and shared governance at George Washington University.
The Alamo Colleges chapter of AAUP-AFT in San Antonio, TX. Join at aaup-texas.org. We do not speak for our employer.
Cornell’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors
We believe that the fight against antisemitism cannot be separated from the struggle against all forms of oppression.
Learn more and join us:
https://concernedjewishfaculty.org
Our statements:
https://www.concernedjewishfaculty.org/statements
https://cadhe.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
https://www.standtogetherhighered.org/
https://www.umass.edu/senate/madcs-tracker
#CUNY #HigherEd #MADC #CADHE #SUNY #PublicGoodU #CUNYAlliance
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Fordham University chapter of the American Association of University Professors.
We fight for academic freedom at UT Austin, UT System, and Texas higher education. Member @aaup.bsky.social, @TexasAAUP.bsky.social. Affiliated with @TexasAFT.org, @texasaflcio.bsky.social. We do not speak for our employer. Follows❤️sRTs🚫endorsement.✊🏽🗣️
Helping you 🫵 make sense of higher education 🎓 Follow for the latest news, opinions, jobs and resources.
Visit insidehighered.com for more.
Advancing the democratic purposes of higher education by promoting equity, innovation, and excellence in liberal education. aacu.org
A nonpartisan group of concerned alumni, faculty, staff, students, and allies of UNC-CH convened to restore local control and protect free speech at Carolina.
Crimson Courage was founded by a group of Harvard alumni. We are a growing, non partisan community standing up for academic freedom and democracy at Harvard and beyond. Learn more: crimsoncourage.com.
We defend and promote free speech for all Americans in our courtrooms, on our campuses, and in our culture.
Mobilizing the fight for science and democracy, because Science is for everyone 🧪🌎
The hub for science activism!
Learn more ⬇️
http://linktr.ee/standupforscience
We’re organizing against this fascistic clown show of a regime the only way that actually works — with on-the-ground, volunteer-led, communities of people power: https://linktr.ee/indivisibleteam
We stand at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect open expression in the U.S. and worldwide. Support and learn more at pen.org.
