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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Yale’s Office of Public Affairs banned reporters from Yale’s campus today. It’s corroborated by Francie Diep in her story for the @chronicle.com. This was an attempt to squelch press coverage today of the rally protesting Yale’s attacks on freedom of expression, their pending deal with Trump. 1/

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UMiami AAUP @aaupumiami.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

No Response to DOE Letter Without Faculty Governance Involvement static1.squarespace.com/static/67f6d...

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Been waiting for this to be officially stated. The Vanderbilt faculty were never consulted about the so-called "Declaration of First Principles" and whew doggy my alma mater has some issues. Mini thread! vanderbiltaaup.org/2026/08/11/v...

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VU AAUP Releases Statement Against the BoT’s “Declaration” and the Dept. of Education’s “Call”

On July 29, 2026, the Vanderbilt Board of Trust published online A “Declaration of First Principles,” and on August 3, 2026, the U.S. Department of Education released a “National Call to Action to …

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Via this article, I see that Vanderbilt has issued a statement of principles. I don't know the statement came to be, but it says nothing about university governance and does not appear to include any input from faculty, staff, or students. This is not the way.

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Vanderbilt’s Board Declares War Against Academic Freedom

A new policy punishes faculty for speech the trustees deem strays from the core purpose of the university.

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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Best take on AI usage in business via Peter Girnus@gothburz long 🧵 but I'll guarantee, it's worth it Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees. $30 per seat per month. $1.4 million annually. I called it "digital transformation." The board loved that phrase. 1/

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

The Department of Education has hung a massive banner honoring a racist college dropout who built a lucrative career out of targeting professors for harassment

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UMiami AAUP @aaupumiami.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Palantir unwelcome party Tuesday 3/3

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

More cowardly bending of the knee from another US institution who should be showing that they would win in court against a government seemingly made up of the worst “lawyers” in the country.

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UMiami AAUP @aaupumiami.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

“Is it possible that some institutions have avoided the ire of the federal government by preemptively undermining academic freedom? Perhaps. But if so, these practices are already doing the work that the compact would have done. They are not protecting scholarship but sacrificing it.”

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Scot Evans @evanssd.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

“Awesome display of conviction MSU. “If I wasn’t explicitly invited, I wouldn’t explicitly decline to participate.” www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

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More College Leaders Speak Out Against Trump’s Compact

Experts say the mixed messaging reflects confusion over the Trump administration’s muddled rollout of the agreement and a desire to keep all options open.

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Tim Watson @timwatson.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

University of Miami folks: if you want to encourage the president and provost not to have the university sign on to the extortion scheme known as the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education, please sign this open letter (anonymously if you prefer).

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AAUP @aaup.org · 29/10/2025

Surprise, surprise… 🙄

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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

"Vanderbilt is failing in its moral responsibility to push back against rising authoritarianism and political coercion." My effort to convince Vanderbilt (and all universities) to take a stand for the rule of law, the Constitution, and our democracy. www.tennessean.com/story/opinio...

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Here's why Vanderbilt's response to the Trump higher ed 'compact' is not enough | Opinion

With the deadline looming for colleges to sign Trump's "compact," Vanderbilt must resist, says one university professor.

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UMiami AAUP @aaupumiami.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

We invite all University of Miami faculty, students, staff, and alumni, to join our letter. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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UMiami-AAUP Statement on the "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education"

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UMiami AAUP @aaupumiami.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

www.aaup.org/sites/defaul... “The compact is a step in the wrong direction,” the statement reads. “The dictates set by it are harmful for higher education and our entire nation, no matter your politics.”

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

W/ @genevievelakier.bsky.social, the @aaup.org today released a letter to the Offices of the General Counsel at US colleges & universities. We detail why the Compact violates the Constitution & urge that no one signs it. www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Q: but what if a full Epstein investigation also takes down Bill Clinton????? A:

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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

www.amnestyusa.org/press-releas... “It is gravely concerning that the Trump admin is demanding universities surrender their right to freedom of thought, expression & discourse. This compact threatens to dismantle the foundations of higher education and unravel the social fabric of university life.”

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Academic Freedom Cannot Exist Under Political Coercion: President Trump’s Compact Threatens Higher Education

Universities across the country must stand firm in defending their student body. Political coercion has no place in higher education.

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bkwartler.bsky.social @bkwartler.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Columbia University historians: The death threats incited by Turning Point USA are not just an attack on anti-fascist scholar Professor Mark Bray and his family but also on academic freedom in general, and, as such, it has implications for all faculty. www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...

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We recognize in the case of Rutgers historian Mark Bray a threat to us all

We, the undersigned historians at Columbia University and Barnard College, write to express our profound dismay at the events involving historian Professor Mark Bray, a scholar of anti-fascist politic...

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AAUP–Penn @aaup-penn.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

“We defeated the compact at Penn, we defeated it at Brown, MIT, and USC. Now they’ve extended it to every university in the country; that’s because they’re losing” —Todd Wolfson proftwolf.bsky.social

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AAUP @aaup.org · 17/10/2025

BOOM! After over a thousand students, faculty, & workers gathered on campus to demand a rejection of Trump’s bribe, UVA SAYS NO LOYALTY OATH! ✊🏼✊🏿✊🏻✊🏾 M.I.T. ☑️ BROWN ☑️ PENN ☑️ USC☑️ UVA ☑️ This is People Power in Action. #DefendHigherEd

Big crowd with signs reading “Don’t Fold”

“Don’t Surrender”

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

"Are we cowardly Lions who cower in front of a false prophet or in the face of a blustering, empty wizard in Washington who is trying to destroy our autonomous universities?" www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...

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Columbia must now show courage and empathy

Dear Columbia leaders,

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AAUP @aaup.org · 09/10/2025

Over 100 Brown U students & 20 faculty members gathered outside the campus today to demand that the university reject Trump’s loyalty oath compact. Professors & students taped their mouths shut to symbolize the compact’s threat to free speech, #academicfreedom & diversity of thought. #DefendHigherEd

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

So, at the very least, we all need to be joining or starting an AAUP chapter: www.aaup.org/chapters/fin...

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Find a Chapter

A list of AAUP chapters, both unionized and nonunionized. (You can also see a list of just union chapters.)

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

569 Dartmouth faculty members have signed a petition urging College President Sian Leah Beilock not to sign the Trump administration’s “Compact”

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More than half of Dartmouth faculty members sign petition against Trump compact

The petition states that signing the compact would “undermine” the College’s “academic freedom.”

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UMiami AAUP @aaupumiami.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

www.aaup.org/seven-theses... "...if viewpoint diversity means committing oneself to a robust debate about truth and values, then the movement should be open to responding to and refuting the following theses challenging its premises and fundamental arguments."

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Seven Theses Against Viewpoint Diversity

Demands for “viewpoint diversity,” a pillar of the Right’s strategy to remake higher education, collide with the pursuit of truth.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 13/10/2025

Absolutely love to see it. Where you at alumni? bsky.app/profile/karl...

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Jennifer Ruth @jenniferruth.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Trump is calling the destruction of academic freedom his "Great Reform Agenda in Higher Ed." One political party breaking and then remaking higher ed. along its preferred ideological lines is not "reform," it's authoritarianism. Say No to the Compact.

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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Join Together and Reject Trump's Loyalty Oath for Higher Ed-Penn, USC, Vanderbilt, University of Virginia, University of Arizona, UT-Austin, MIT, Brown & Dartmouth. @aaup.org @aaup-penn.bsky.social @utaustinaaup.bsky.social @aaupbrownchapter.bsky.social

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Rob Milton @therobmilton.com · 07/10/2025

- put down the damn AI.

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Ian Petrie @icpetrie.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Penn historian Ben Nathans with an op-ed in our campus newspaper: "No self-respecting university that values its autonomy and the integrity of its teaching and research should sign the compact."

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Benjamin Nathans | Autonomy or obedience

Guest Columnist Benjamin Nathans urges Penn’s leadership to resist the White House’s demands in its “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.”

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AFT @aft.org · 05/10/2025

VIDEO: Listen to Ph.D. candidate Caitlin Brabble Rose explain why government programs like a grant she got from the National Science Foundation are essential for the next generation of scientists and innovators. #HigherEdBenefitsEveryone @aaup.org @afthighered.bsky.social

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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Of course it’s a trap. “They would reward campuses that toe the party line and punish those that cherish their independence,” a statement from AAUP and AFT says. “In doing so, it would commit the very viewpoint discrimination it claims to redress.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

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Trump Offered Universities an Invitation for a Deal. Some See a Trap.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Universities considering capitulating to the Trump “conditions” should use this real world example to understand they will simply be destroying their own institution. bsky.app/profile/nich...

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North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

UNC Chapel Hill has reinstated Prof. Dwayne Dixon. Rather than conduct a threat assessment of a faculty member based on spurious accusations, UNC should conduct an assessment of its own administration's threat to First Amendment rights and academic freedom. @aaup.org www.wral.com/news/local/u...

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UNC professor reinstated after investigation into alleged ties with politically motivated group

UNC-Chapel Hill has reinstated a professor who was linked to groups believed to call for politically motivated violence. An investigation found that Dwayne Dixon posed no threat to the campus communit...

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AAUP @aaup.org · 04/10/2025

UC’s Academic Council calls on the Office of the President & the UC Board of Regents to unequivocally reject governmental demands that compromise institutional autonomy and #academicfreedom. This is the way. #DefendHigherEd

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GMU-AAUP @aaupmason.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

UVA is one of nine schools to receive Trump's letter offering "preferred" funding status in exchange for, well, their souls and their dignity. Interim President Mahoney: under no circumstances can you accept this corrupt bargain.

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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

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Trump Offered Universities an Invitation for a Deal. Some See a Trap.

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

That's the only way to play this. The only form of resistance that can work to this kind of authoritarian power-grab is resistance where universities all refuse to voluntarily give up autonomy over what they teach, write, and allow their students and faculty to say. Then fight in court, one by one.

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