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Penn State University Chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP–PSU)

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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 06/06/2025
An American citizen and Los Angeles native, @seiucalifornia @seiuusww President David Huerta was injured and detained when ICE terrorized a working neighborhood. We demand his immediate release!
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
BREAKING The President of California’s largest union has been detained during an ICE raid.
SEIU California President David Huerta Injured, Detained at ICE
Raid in Los Angeles
Los Angeles - David Huerta, President of SEIU California and SEIU- United Service Workers West was injured and detained at an ICE raid in Los Angeles today while exercising his First Amendment right to observe and document law enforcement activity.
Tia Orr, Executive Director of SEIU California, made the following statement:
"SEIU California members call for the immediate release of our President, David Huerta, who was injured and detained at the site of one of today's ICE raids in Los Angeles. He is now receiving medical attention while in custody.
"We are proud of President Huerta's righteous participation as a community observer, in keeping with his long history of advocating for immigrant workers and with the highest values of our movement: standing up to injustice, regardless of personal risk or the power of those perpetrating it.
"We call for an end to the cruel, destructive, and indiscriminate ICE raids that are tearing apart our communities, disrupting our economy, and hurting all working people. Immigrant workers are essential to our society: feeding our nation, caring for our elders, cleaning our workplaces, and building our homes."
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SEIU California @seiuca.org · 06/06/2025
Let’s be clear: ICE injured and detained the president of SEIU California for peacefully observing. ICE picked the wrong side. The wrong state. The wrong person. and the wrong union. David Huerta stood up. And now 750,000 SEIU workers are standing up behind him. seiuca.org/press-releas...
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SEIU California | SEIU California President David Huerta Injured, Detained at ICE Raid in Los Angeles
We are proud of President Huerta’s righteous participation as a community observer, in keeping with his long history of advocating for immigrant workers and with the highest values of our movement…
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AAUP @aaup.org · 16/05/2025
AAUP President Todd Wolfson calls on the Penn State Board of Trustees to reject proposed campus closures and go back to the drawing board to develop a plan that will serve all Pennsylvanians. @aaupsu.bsky.social
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Penn State Board Should Reject Closure Plans
The news that Penn State President Neeli Bendapudi has asked university trustees to approve closing seven of its campuses despite the fact that university finances are strong is dismaying. So is the f...
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BSUAAUP @bsuaaup.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
We support PEN America's condemnation of the Indiana University investigation of Dr. Ben Robinson after IU chose to file an anonymous complaint about his in-class example as an SB 202 "intellectual diversity" violation pen.org/press-releas...
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Indiana University Investigation of Tenured Professor for “Intellectual Diversity” Law an Egregious Threat to Academic Freedom - PEN America
Indiana University investigation of tenured professor is weaponizing intellectual diversity undermining autonomy of the state's public universities.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 27/04/2025
“The workers and the unions, faculty, students, staff are leading and developing the fight in how to respond to the Trump administration, and we’re sort of dragging the universities along with us, slowly,” said Todd Wolfson, the president of the AAUP.
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Hope as US universities find ‘backbone’ against Trump’s assault on education
Anxious Americans find solace as university leaders start to mount more muscular defense of academic freedom
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AAUP @aaup.org · 02/05/2025
Thanks to Saja for sharing her story with AAUP members at this week's discussion hosted by our Committee on Race & Solidarity. We heard first-hand testimonies about how the destruction of universities and schools has impacted lives. www.linkedin.com/posts/saja-a...
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Help a Gazan Girl Pursue Her Dream Of A Masters In Ireland | Saja Alkhayyat
By the Grace of God, I Am Thrilled to Announce My Acceptance to Trinity Business School-Ireland for My Master's Program It is both a profound privilege and a heartfelt responsibility to be admitt...
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C.M. Lewis 🦬⚔️ @thehousered.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
John Fetterman needs to resign.
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Penn State AAUP @aaupsu.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
It’s time for academics to organize. We’re stronger together ✊
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Penn State AAUP @aaupsu.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
The Penn State administration's decision to close commonwealth campuses is a dereliction of its duty. www.centredaily.com/news/local/e...
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Penn State AAUP calls on administration to keep commonwealth campuses open
“Penn State AAUP finds the administration derelict in its duty to the students, faculty, staff, and community members of the Commonwealth when it announced statewide campus closures.”
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AAUP @aaup.org · 24/04/2025
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. 🧵
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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...
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Ohio Conference AAUP @ohaaup.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
They don't have much of anything to say these days, do they?
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Ohio colleges mum on details as dozens of international students face visa revocations
At least 56 students across 12 Ohio colleges have had visas revoked, with one OSU student filing a lawsuit against the Trump administration claiming First Amendment violations.
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The Academic Resistance @academicresistance.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Cuts to federal research funding hurt colleges, slow innovation, and undermine public knowledge. Attacking higher ed is an attack on America’s future. #HigherEdCrisis www.highereddive.com/news/educati...
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Institute of Education Sciences cuts imperil high-quality research, lawsuits allege
Two separate complaints say the U.S. Department of Education’s downsizing of IES was unlawful and will erode data collection and analysis.
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University of Denver Chapter of the AAUP @udenveraaup.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
We are thrilled to be participating in the @actioninhighered.bsky.social National Day of Action for Higher Education this Thursday April 17th! We have a packed day of teach-ins and we're fired up 💪
National Day of Action for Higher Education 

9-10 AM (Sie 1020): Protecting International and Noncitizen Students

*10-11 AM (Sie 1020): Free Speech, Gaza, and Campus Repression

11-Noon (Sie 1020): The CAHE (Council for Action in Higher Education) Day of Action: Organizing for Higher Education

Noon-2 PM (Maglione Hall): Legislation for Unions in Colorado

2-3 PM (Sie 1020): Higher Education Under Attack: DEI and Academic Freedom

3-4 PM (Sie 1020): AAUP No Confidence Vote and Discussion 

*4-5 PM (Sie 1020): Financial Analysis of the University of Denver (pt. 1)
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UConn AAUP @uconnaaup.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
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Ilya Somin @ilyasomin.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
In this post, I commend universities that filed amicus brief in AAUP case challenging speech-based deportations of foreign students, but also explain why this isn't adequate substitute for universities bringing a case of their own: reason.com/volokh/2025/...
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Over Eighty Universities File Amicus Brief in Case Challenging Trump's Speech-Based Deportations of Non-citizen Students
In a previous post, I urged universities to band together to file a lawsuit challenging Donald Trump's policy of speech-based deportation of foreign
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The Academic Resistance @academicresistance.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Mark your calendars! This Thursday, April 17, faculty, students, and higher ed workers across the U.S. are uniting for a National Day of Action to defend academic freedom, fight for tuition-free education, and advocate for higher ed as a public good. www.diverseeducation.com/faculty-staf...
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Faculty, Students to Hold Nationwide Day of Action Defending Higher Education
Faculty, students, and higher education workers across the country are preparing to participate in a National Day of Action this Thursday, April 17, to defend academic freedom and advocate for higher ...
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UNC-CH AAUP @unc-ch-aaup.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
The UNC-CH chapter of the AAUP strongly and unequivocally condemns the targeting of international students and scholars. In light of the April 8 revocation of six UNC student visas, we call on UNC-CH to take concrete steps to support students and scholars at risk: unc-ch-aaup.org/news#2025-04...
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Mo Torres @motorres.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Finally joined @aaup.bsky.social today after checking in with my local chapter about my eligibility. The AAUP has done more for academic freedom in these last two years than any university administration has. Seems like a good investment in the Trump era.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 11/04/2025
“The Trump administration’s illegal campaign against universities isn’t just an attack on the people who work and study at them. It’s an attack on the local communities that thrive alongside them.” – Nikolas Bowie, Harvard law professor and Harvard AAUP member
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Hoping to steel Harvard’s resolve against Trump demands, Cambridge officials will host a rally - The Boston Globe
It's an unusual move, officials say. But these are unusual times.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
everyone at a university who is not in AAUP and/or a union should fix that ASAP
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Ben Lockwood, PhD @benlockwood.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Yesterday we delivered a letter do Rep. Glenn Thompson with over 300 signatures from the Penn State community, telling him to #KillTheCuts to research and higher education. @aaupsu.bsky.social radio.wpsu.org/2025-04-09/e...
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Educators, health care workers call on Rep. Thompson to come out against Trump funding cuts
A group of educators, health care workers and supporters delivered a petition to U.S. Rep. Glenn “GT” Thompson’s Bellefonte office Tuesday, calling on him to come out against cuts in federal funding f...
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
NEWS: It began with Mahmoud Khalil. Now the Trump admin is trying to deport *hundreds* of students by vaguely saying they have criminal records—making them guess why. Some have traffic violations. Some didn't even commit a crime. One's "criminal record"? Apparently being a domestic violence victim.
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Trump Is Trying to Deport Students Who Show Up in a ‘Criminal Records Check.’ But Many Have Never Been Convicted
What began with Mahmoud Khalil has now expanded into widespread immigration status revocations with no explanation and little apparent recourse.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 08/04/2025
Right Now across the nation: scientists, educators, students, & healthcare workers are STANDING UP to #KILLTHECUTS. Every life-saving breakthrough in healthcare starts w/research. No research, cures. Trump’s cuts to NIH are a direct attack on our health, our families, & our future.
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UAW @uaw.org · 08/04/2025
Thousands of @uawregion6.bsky.social members and community members are gathering across the University of California (UC) campuses to #KillTheCuts! 📸 from UC Santa Barbara, UCLA, UC Berkeley, and UC San Diego
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AFT @aft.org · 08/04/2025
Hello from Newark, NJ! We’re joining our union family from @aaup.bsky.social, @afscme.bsky.social, @cwaunion.bsky.social, @seiu.org, @neatoday.bsky.social, and more to call for an end to the cuts to medical research. #KillTheCuts www.youtube.com/live/pFU0Lvo...
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Rally to "Kill the Cuts" to Research, Healthcare, and Higher Education
YouTube video by AFT
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AAUP @aaup.org · 08/04/2025
UCLA standing up to #KillTheCuts! Thousands of research, healthcare, & education workers across the country are out on campuses & in the streets today to demand that our elected officials #KillTheCuts to lifesaving research.
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UE @ueunion.org · 08/04/2025
UE has joined 8 other national unions, including @uaw.org & @seiu.org, in issuing a statement calling for the release of abducted union members & political organizers who are being swept up in the Trump Administration’s campaign of terror against working people.
UE and other unions demand an end to the assault on the right to organize and protest
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Susan Greenberg @susanhgreenberg.insidehighered.com · 08/04/2025
Never before have so many of our sources requested—or been granted—anonymity to share their stories of being detained by ICE and/or having their student visas revoked. And no one is following the story more closely than @liamknox.bsky.social. www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
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Trump Admin Broadens Scope of Student Visa Terminations
Immigration officials are rapidly revoking hundreds of student visas. Many more are going unreported at small colleges anxious to avoid federal scrutiny.
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UConn AAUP @uconnaaup.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
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Ben Lockwood, PhD @benlockwood.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Add Penn State to the list of colleges where students' visas have been revoked www.psucollegian.com/news/campus/...
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Several Penn State international students have visas revoked
Several Penn State international students have visas revoked, according to a letter sent out by Interim Vice Provost of Penn State Global Sabine Klahr.
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RutgersAAUP-AFT @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
🗞️“We need to fight with all we have to keep building spaces of research, learning, & service that focus on the public good.” — Jessica Hunsdon, program coordinator at Rutgers & VP of URA (Union of Rutgers Administrators). 📣 Then join us at 4PM📍 in Military Park Newark #KillTheCuts 🔗 loom.ly/Zg592hA
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Protests Against Trump, DOGE Education Cuts Continue In Newark
Some staff layoffs are already taking place at Rutgers, a union spokesperson said. A rally is planned for Tuesday at Military Park.
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BSUAAUP @bsuaaup.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Hands Off IN higher ed! We oppose SB448. inaaup.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
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Penn State AAUP @aaupsu.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
300+ signatures delivered to Rep Glenn Thompson, telling him to #KillTheCuts to research and higher ed. @aaup.bsky.social
Organizers holding a long letter Organizers holding an AAUP banner
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Penn State AAUP @aaupsu.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Nearly 300 people in the Penn State community signed our letter to tell Rep Thompson to #KillTheCuts We’ll be delivering it to his office later today ✊ @aaup.bsky.social
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AAUP @aaup.org · 07/04/2025
Folks: Saturday was HUGE, POWERFUL, & HISTORIC! Now we have to keep the pressure on. Join us tomorrow, April 8, as workers across the country stand up & demand NO cuts to education & life-saving research. Every life-saving breakthrough in healthcare starts w/ research. www.killthecuts.org
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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
I was scheduled to give a talk on Palestine at a student conference at @notredame.bsky.social. The University rescinded my talk a week in advance citing an extremely flimsy excuse. It is truly disgusting. Attached is the letter I received and my reply, link below...
Dear Dr. Abdelhadi,



The Keough School of Global Affairs, which houses the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, recently learned of your keynote speech at their student conference next weekend. The University of Notre Dame requires that all events or lectures related to Israel/Palestine have ND Police security and planning.  We were unaware of your planned lecture, and since this conference overlaps with two other annual events on campus, we cannot provide security at short notice. For this reason, we respectfully request that you do not participate in the conference. The Kroc Institute will honor any honorarium that was awarded for this event. We apologize for any inconvenience. 



Sincerely,

Mary Gallagher


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Mary E. Gallagher
Marilyn Keough Dean
Keough School of Global Affairs
University of Notre Dame
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Penn State AAUP @aaupsu.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
We're sending a letter to Rep Glenn Thompson (PA-15) telling him to publicly oppose the cuts to federal funding for research, healthcare, and education. #KillTheCuts @aaup.bsky.social If you're part of the Penn State or State College community, sign the letter here👇 www.jotform.com/form/2508870...
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Kill the Cuts: Letter to Representative Thompson
Please click the link to complete this form.
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AAUP-Ohio State @osuaaup.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
We must stand up for all of our students. The federal government's targeting & treatment of international students is completely unacceptable. International students are core members of the Buckeye community and we won’t be silent as they are scapegoated in this way www.dispatch.com/story/news/e...
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5 Ohio State University international students have visas revoked by Trump administration
Ohio State University is the latest college to report having international students whose visas were revoked by the Trump administration.
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Cory McCartan @corymccartan.com · 05/04/2025
Great turnout in State College to tell the fascists #HandsOff our freedom and our government! Also realized I need to massively up my sign game. Everyone is so creative.
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C.M. Lewis 🦬⚔️ @thehousered.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Didn’t get any good shots, but easily 500+ for Hands Off! demonstration in State College despite the rain. ✊✊
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Lisa Schiff @lschiff.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
@aaup.bsky.social Please also ask him to publicly oppose #censorship of research!! defendresearch.org
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Corinna Loeckenhoff @loeckenhoff.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Support my Alma Mater Penn State as it faces devastating cuts to its research and local economy.
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Penn State AAUP @aaupsu.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
We're sending a letter to Rep Glenn Thompson (PA-15) telling him to publicly oppose the cuts to federal funding for research, healthcare, and education. #KillTheCuts @aaup.bsky.social If you're part of the Penn State or State College community, sign the letter here👇 www.jotform.com/form/2508870...
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Kill the Cuts: Letter to Representative Thompson
Please click the link to complete this form.
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Genevieve Lakier @genevievelakier.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
AAUP has just published a memo laying out the many legal reasons why universities should not hand over the names & nationalities of their students or faculty, as the Trump admin has asked. Please share freely with your friendly university admin! @aaup.bsky.social www.aaup.org/news/institu...
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Institutions Should Not Provide Student and Faculty Info To Enable Deportations
In response to news reports that the Office for Civil Rights in the US Department of Education has requested the names and nationalities of students and faculty who may have been involved in alleged T...
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Academe @academemagazine.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
“Saving ourselves is an important first thing, but making it our business to save America is everything.” President of Trinity Washington University Patricia McGuire discusses the vital role higher ed must play in defending democracy. www.aaup.org/article/high...
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Higher Education and the Defense of Democracy
This article is part of a preview to the spring 2025 issue of Academe. The full issue will be published in May. In the first few weeks of the second Trump administration, a blizzard of executive order...
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Stolen Relations @stolenrelations.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Friends, we are disappointed to report that our NEH grant was terminated overnight. The same was true for thousands of other projects. Please join us in protesting these outrageous actions by the Trump administration. aaslh.org/take-action-...
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Take Action to Save the National Endowment for the Humanities
After effectively shutting down the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) this week, the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency is now targeting the National Endowment fo...
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 03/04/2025
Tufts University petitions a federal judge to release student Rümeysa Öztürk, who was grabbed off the street by immigration officials. The move is some of the strongest public pushback by a school against the Trump administration's arrests of foreign students.
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Tufts University pushes for release of student grabbed off the street by immigration officials
The school's declaration in federal court on behalf of Rümeysa Öztürk is some of the strongest pushback by a university against the Trump administration's arrests of foreign students.
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