Reposted by Cornell AAUPIndivisible Tompkins County NY @tompkindivisible.bsky.social · 4hRally for Jane Doe Sunday October 4th 1pm Bernie Milton Pavilion Organized by Students at Ithaca College. 032
Reposted by Cornell AAUPTej Nagaraja @tejnagaraja.bsky.social · 14hEvery year at Cornell, I teach about Working Women United. It was Cornell workers who first put a name to "sexual harassment" — reaching a wider conscience. They did not see abuses as individualized tragic events. They saw gender & sexual abuses in terms of social hierarchy & institutional power. 095
Reposted by Cornell AAUPEli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social · 12hWhen non-violent protests happened at Cornell, Trump cancelled hundreds of millions in grants in the name of "student safety." Now that an actual student safety crisis has been fully revealed it's crickets from the Feds. We all know why 0122
Reposted by Cornell AAUPJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 12hThe US Commission on Civil Rights has formally rebuked the Trump administration's legal strategy for its "anti-antisemitism" on campus campaign, citing Jewish Studies scholars arguing that "Zionism is not an ethnic or ancestral trait." www.usccr.gov/reports/2026...usccr.govThe Federal Response to Antisemitism on American College and University CampusesThe Federal Response to Antisemitism on American College and University Campuses examines how institutions of higher education and the federal government have responded to allegations of antisemitism ... 36534
Cornell AAUP @cornellaaup.bsky.social · 16hThe Cornell AAUP Chapter is outraged by the sexual violence that was committed at Chi Phi in 2024. We call for the community to come together on Monday, October 5 at 4:30pm in Ho Plaza, to stand in support of the survivors of sexual violence. Our full statement is here. 23315
Reposted by Cornell AAUPDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"Scholars of colour described overpreparing for presentations, ruthlessly analysing their own results before exposing them to scrutiny, softening their conclusions or avoiding research on race altogether." The level of checks I go through often astounds some colleagues 120663
Reposted by Cornell AAUPTodd Wallack @twallack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026There's been an effort in some red states to restrict tenure at public universities. Now the Trump administration is taking action at the US service academies. wapo.st/4hDFceJwapo.stHegseth bars military academies from hiring civilians as tenured professorsThe move marks the latest effort by the Trump administration to exert more control over faculty at service academies. 252
Reposted by Cornell AAUPTexas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 28/09/2026😡 😡 😡 thehill.com/homenews/edu...thehill.comEducation Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ studentsThe Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati… 026
Reposted by Cornell AAUPAAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Of course it’s viewpoint discrimination. 054
Reposted by Cornell AAUPEileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 30/09/2026@kennyjacoby.bsky.social on X: NEW: I analyzed seven years of Cornell's sexual violence case data. Expulsions are very rare. 1,216 reports of sexual assault, DV and stalking, 2018-2024 162 formal investigations. 51 findings of fault. 14 suspensions. 7 expulsions or dismissals.usatoday.comCornell rarely expels students in sex assault cases | ExclusiveA third of undergraduate women say they've been sexually assaulted. But on average, Cornell reported expelling just one attacker per year. 46338
Reposted by Cornell AAUPKate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 531857611
Reposted by Cornell AAUPDan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026In case it's useful to anyone, I put together a collection of links about a horrific 2024 sexual assault at Cornell and recent uproar about Cornell's response to that event. scatter.wordpress.com/2026/09/29/s...scatter.wordpress.comsexual assault at cornellAs most readers here likely know, Cornell has been in the spotlight this week as new details came out about a sexual assault that took place at a fraternity in 2024. This post contains a collection… 12214
Cornell AAUP @cornellaaup.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“No student should ever be left wondering whether the institutions meant to protect them will listen and act,” Hochul wrote. “There are also serious questions about Cornell’s campus culture and its systems for prevention, reporting, and response.”cornellsun.comGov. Kathy Hochul Requests ‘Independent Review’ of Cornell's Response to Alleged Chi Phi Gang RapeGov. Kathy Hochul (D-N.Y.) has called for a review by "outside counsel" of the University's response to allegations of sexual assault and rape at the Chi Phi house in 2024. 1299
Reposted by Cornell AAUPLisa Wade @lisawade.bsky.social · 28/09/2026All the news about the Cornell 7 has inspired some folks, like the fantastic @jessicavalenti.bsky.social, to re-up their calls for banning historically White fraternities. 10 years ago I reviewed the history of these orgs, arguing they were un-reformable. I stand by my argument. In my new book...time.comWhy Colleges Should Get Rid of Fraternities for Good'Reform is simply not possible' 611235
Reposted by Cornell AAUPEli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Remember how the Feds and university sprung into action to expel non-violent protestors in 2024? That happened at precisely the same time these men were engaging in actual monstrous behavior against other students, with most getting a slight rap on the knuckles as punishment.nytimes.comCornell Sexual Assault Investigation to Be ReopenedAfter outrage over allegations in a lawsuit, the Tompkins County district attorney will revisit the decision not to pursue criminal charges against seven fraternity members. 12410
Reposted by Cornell AAUPNeil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the investigation of alleged 'gang rape' at a Cornell University fraternity in 2024 after a civil lawsuit filed earlier this month sparked outrage about the incident." abcnews.com/US/district-...abcnews.comDistrict attorney reopens case of alleged Cornell University 'gang rape'Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the case of alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity. 24012
Reposted by Cornell AAUPNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Trump rescinded prior guidance on Title IX during his first year in office, then put out a new regulation that experts warned would retraumatize survivors and offer perpetrators impunity. It literally had provisions designed to allow confessed perpetrators to get away with rape.time.comA New Title IX Rule Essentially Allows Accused Sexual Assailants to Hide Evidence Against ThemA mere three months after its release, the DeVos administration’s new Title IX rule goes into effect on Friday, August 14. With the rushed timeline... 3434130
Reposted by Cornell AAUPNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The main reason you haven’t heard about campus sexual violence in a few years is because Trump and SCOTUS have made it much, much harder for survivors to come forward. You might vaguely remember that Title IX was a big battleground in his first term. And that we lost. 31865637
Reposted by Cornell AAUPNaomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 28/09/2026I read the late Peggy Sanday's work over 30 years ago. A harrowing assignment, but among those that convinced me to study anthropology. At the time, I naively believed that though much of this book is about how power & privilege protect rapists, surely the lid was blown off NOW? Not even close. 074
Reposted by Cornell AAUPBen Eidelson @beidelson.bsky.social · 28/09/202611/ As the report makes clear, current law does not support most of the threats being made based on alleged tolerance for anti-Israel protests and the like, and the First Amendment offers robust protection for schools & universities willing to invoke it. 1112
Reposted by Cornell AAUPBen Eidelson @beidelson.bsky.social · 28/09/20261/ The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights just released its report on campus antisemitism and Title VI. I testified at the hearing. The report is unanimous, bipartisan, & debunks the main legal theories behind recent attacks on universities for allegedly tolerating antisemitism. 🧵 27457
Reposted by Cornell AAUPKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Student journalists still believe that it’s more important to hold powerful people to account than it is to hold on to access to those powerful people. They haven’t become Savvy Insiders yet 252744493
Reposted by Cornell AAUPCharles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I attended a meeting today organized by my union on AI in higher education and I was encouraged both by all the work being done to protect members against AI in our day-to-day work *and* a desire to collectively fight AI surveillance on SUNY campuses in the form of Flock cameras. 3487
Reposted by Cornell AAUPjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/09/2026the literal position of the trump administration is that any school that has any more than a smattering of black students is engaged in illegal racial discrimination against whites www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/b...nytimes.comTrump Moves to Strip Tax Exemption From Schools That Aid Minority Students (Gift Article)The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools. 9041661394
Reposted by Cornell AAUPTej Nagaraja @tejnagaraja.bsky.social · 01/09/2026My new book is out this month! “Troop Movements: Labor, Race, and Global Freedom Struggles in America’s World War II” — by Tejasvi Nagaraja Buy it! Get in touch with me — if you have any ideas?: * book review * book-tour event * assigning it to teach * interview or podcast Thanks — Stay tuned! 15123
Reposted by Cornell AAUPDan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 01/09/2026“tenure at the New School ultimately offered no protection at all… [Administration] later decided that, by virtue of extensive bureaucratic reorganization, it had closed and reopened the entire university. It could therefore fire anyone, anywhere at the school.”dissentmagazine.orgWhat’s Left of The New School? - Dissent MagazineLeadership at the iconic progressive university has declared war on its own workforce, fired tenured professors, and shuttered whole departments. But what’s happening to the school is an increasingly ... 085
Reposted by Cornell AAUPEmory AAUP @emoryaaup.bsky.social · 31/08/2025Hey Emory faculty! The AAUP is fighting for academic freedom, financial support for the academic enterprise, and the freedom for our colleagues and students to work, study, and live without government harassment. Join now to support these and to protect your own career! www.aaup.org/membership/m...aaup.orgMember BenefitsThe tangible benefits of AAUP membership. 0157
Reposted by Cornell AAUPDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/08/2026Did I miss the big open letter signed by a hundred academics opposing this? 171276306
Reposted by Cornell AAUPShane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026This reinstatement happened for one reason: a union contract. She was brought back against managements wishes because she won the highest level of the grievance procedure, arbitration. This is how you can take the power back from people like Jeff Bezos: form a union. 153288838
Reposted by Cornell AAUPCharlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 27/08/2026It is extremely embarrassing that West Point thinks cadets can’t handle learning about climate change www.stripes.com/branches/arm...stripes.comWest Point professor fired after pushing back on limitations to teaching climate change, lawsuit saysAdam Kalkstein pushed back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change, the lawsuit says. 67515
Reposted by Cornell AAUPJay D. Aronson @jaydaronson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026CMU friends and colleagues: we now have an @aaup.org advocacy chapter on campus. Reach out to me if you want to join or just learn more. We are stronger together! triblive.com/news/educati...triblive.comCarnegie Mellon faculty form advocacy group amid increasing pressures in higher educationMore than 40 Carnegie Mellon University faculty members have formed an advocacy chapter, an effort they say gives them more teeth to respond to university decisions during a time of increasing pressur... 36617
Reposted by Cornell AAUPAAUP @aaup.org · 26/08/2026The AAUP & AFT condemn the recent directive from the War Dept that publicly places 30 universities under suspicion & gives them 2 weeks to investigate years of academic activity. The directive represents another threat of funding-based coercion that undermines scientific research & innovation.aaup.orgDepartment of War Directive Undermines Scientific Innovation. It Should Be Rescinded. 35939
Reposted by Cornell AAUPAAUP @aaup.org · 26/08/2026Faculty of the South! Please take a few moments to fill out the 2026 AAUP Faculty In The South Survey: 11517
Reposted by Cornell AAUPJames Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Sometimes—and more often than it may seem at first—you will win and actually help stop or reverse the takeover. But even if you don't, you buy time and space for the rest of society to regroup and resist. On a scale of years rather than weeks, that may be the best thing you can do for your mission. 093
Reposted by Cornell AAUPJames Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026If you are responsible for a civil society organization, you will do more to advance your organization's mission—and preserve civil society as a thing that meaningfully exists—by forcing an authoritarian government to spend time and effort crushing it than by complying with its illegal damands. 11312
Reposted by Cornell AAUPProf Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 26/08/202623% drop in student visas to US in 2025 57% drop from India alone catastrophic for research and learning, here and abroad www.insidehighered.com/news/global/... 271256475
Reposted by Cornell AAUPDan "Scary" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 25/08/2026And if you're not a member? Well you should be. Dues scale with income and they fund the national lawsuits and the local organizing (like the lunch we ordered for new organizer training!). What are you waiting for?aaup.orgJoinJoining the AAUP says that you’re concerned about academic freedom, and about the way that basic freedom protects your teaching and research. Join today. 0129
Reposted by Cornell AAUPDan "Scary" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Theee @aaup.org is holding its first all-member meeting 9/3 7PM ET. Details in your inbox. The war is on; you either get in the fight or you sit and watch our schools die. 162
Reposted by Cornell AAUPNate Ela @nateela.bsky.social · 20/08/2026An important thread on the ongoing sabotage of scientific inquiry in the U.S. 014
Reposted by Cornell AAUPDan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Zero sociology awards from the NSF. It's effectively gone. (Including, but not limited, to the ASA Dissertation awards.) 48144
Reposted by Cornell AAUPLeonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026In case you are an academic who is currently being gaslit into believing that you're a caveman who wants their students to be jobless if you resist allowing AI in your classrooms... I present to you Berkeley Law's response, which can be summarized as "Fuck off directly into the sun."law.berkeley.eduArtificial Intelligence PolicyEffective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […] 231900796
Reposted by Cornell AAUPAFT Higher Education @afthighered.bsky.social · 19/08/2026No student should have to take on crushing debt to achieve their degree. Join @emergencycampaign.bsky.social and AFT Higher Ed members to Raise Hell for Pell on 9/1! Take action and use your voice to protect Pell Grants! emergency-campaign-to-support-higher-education.solidarity.tech/september-vi...emergency-campaign-to-support-higher-education.solidarity.techSeptember Virtual Town Hall - Emergency Campaign to Support Higher Education 123
Reposted by Cornell AAUPAAUP @aaup.org · 20/08/2026“Academic workers did not create this crisis. But we intend to fix it by building a system of higher education worthy of this country—affordable & accessible to every qualified student, governed once again by those who teach & learn within it.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP president #academicskyinsidehighered.comWho Really Politicized Higher Education? (opinion)It wasn’t the AAUP. 14724
Reposted by Cornell AAUPDan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 22/07/2026"resistance has been most effective—indeed, it may only have been effective—where faculty members have taken independent action." A new @aaup.org report on the Trump administration's "extorted compliance" of higher ed.aaup.orgExtorted Compliance: A Threat to Institutional Autonomy, Academic Freedom, and Shared GovernancePublished July 2026.This report was prepared by a joint subcommittee of the Association’s Committee A on Academic Freedom andTenure and the Committee on College and University Governance and was appro... 042
Reposted by Cornell AAUPEli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social · 02/07/2026This law is a real nightmare, creates a legal grounding for the state's assimilationist colonial campaignsbbc.co.ukCan China target critics abroad with its new 'ethnic unity' law?Rights groups fear the new law gives Beijing legal authority to go after people beyond its borders. 14834
Reposted by Cornell AAUPJames Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Once again, the Cornell Daily Sun shows a better understanding of the work of a university than Cornell’s president and trustees do. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...cornellsun.comEDITORIAL | One Month Since: An Investigation in Name OnlyThe Editorial Board argues that Cornell's investigation into President Kotlikoff's actions on April 30 lacked transparency and independence, criticizing the University for releasing only a brief state... 053
Reposted by Cornell AAUPDan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 26/06/2026“How can we as students trust the results of this investigation without any public reports and only an understanding that Kotlikoff allegedly “recused himself”?” www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...cornellsun.comEDITORIAL | One Month Since: An Investigation in Name OnlyThe Editorial Board argues that Cornell's investigation into President Kotlikoff's actions on April 30 lacked transparency and independence, criticizing the University for releasing only a brief state... 001