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Cornell’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors

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Indivisible Tompkins County NY @tompkindivisible.bsky.social · 4h
Rally for Jane Doe Sunday October 4th 1pm Bernie Milton Pavilion Organized by Students at Ithaca College.
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Tej Nagaraja @tejnagaraja.bsky.social · 14h
Every 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.
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Eli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social · 12h
When 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
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 12h
The 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...
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The Federal Response to Antisemitism on American College and University Campuses
The 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 ...
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Cornell AAUP @cornellaaup.bsky.social · 16h
The 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.
We are outraged by the continued culture of misogyny and by the continued pervasiveness of violence against women at Cornell and at universities and colleges across the country. We are outraged that so many women at Cornell have reported experiencing nonconsensual sexual contact. 

We are deeply disturbed by Cornell University administration’s response and communications to the community, initially in 2024 and now. Cornell administrators point community members to resources, but do not exercise leadership in creating space to process the harm, the outrage, and to change the culture of misogyny. In moments of crisis such as this, we need leaders, not administrators. 

The Cornell administration’s responses reveal its failure to understand and respond appropriately to actual harm and threats to safety on campus. It has used its internal communications to issue elaborate accusations, and it has imposed excessive discipline against students for political protests where there was no threat of harm or violence. And yet, when it comes to sexual violence, Cornell’s communications have been oblique or silent, leaving the community frustrated, fearful, or angry about the administration’s lack of transparency about how it will take effective responses.

We stand in solidarity with victims of sexual violence. We are outraged by the treatment of Jane Doe. We stand in solidarity with student organizations who have been demanding better, with faculty, staff, and students who have been organizing spaces to process and demand change. We do not yet know precisely how or why this case was so egregiously mishandled. What we do know is that it is the most recent example of the systemic failure of Cornell to protect its community — from patients at Cornell Weill to Cornell students — from sexual violence. This system must change.
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Dominique 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
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Todd Wallack @twallack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There'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/4hDFceJ
wapo.st
Hegseth bars military academies from hiring civilians as tenured professors
The move marks the latest effort by the Trump administration to exert more control over faculty at service academies.
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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
😡 😡 😡 thehill.com/homenews/edu...
thehill.com
Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students
The 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…
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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Of course it’s viewpoint discrimination.
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Eileen 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.com
Cornell rarely expels students in sex assault cases | Exclusive
A third of undergraduate women say they've been sexually assaulted. But on average, Cornell reported expelling just one attacker per year.
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I 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...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As 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.
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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In 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...
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sexual assault at cornell
As 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…
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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.com
Gov. Kathy Hochul Requests ‘Independent Review’ of Cornell's Response to Alleged Chi Phi Gang Rape
Gov. 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.
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Lisa Wade @lisawade.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
All 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.com
Why Colleges Should Get Rid of Fraternities for Good
'Reform is simply not possible'
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Eli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Remember 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.com
Cornell Sexual Assault Investigation to Be Reopened
After outrage over allegations in a lawsuit, the Tompkins County district attorney will revisit the decision not to pursue criminal charges against seven fraternity members.
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Neil 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.com
District 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.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump 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.com
A New Title IX Rule Essentially Allows Accused Sexual Assailants to Hide Evidence Against Them
A 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...
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The 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.
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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 28/09/2026
I 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.
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Ben Eidelson @beidelson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
11/ 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.
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Ben Eidelson @beidelson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
1/ 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. 🧵
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Student 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
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I 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.
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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 07/09/2026
professors are workers
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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Happy Labor Day 2026
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/09/2026
the 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.com
Trump 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.
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Tej Nagaraja @tejnagaraja.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
My 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!
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Cornell AAUP @cornellaaup.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Cornell AAUP will be there!
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Dan 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.org
What’s Left of The New School? - Dissent Magazine
Leadership 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 ...
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Emory AAUP @emoryaaup.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Hey 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...
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Member Benefits
The tangible benefits of AAUP membership.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/08/2026
Did I miss the big open letter signed by a hundred academics opposing this?
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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This 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.
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Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
It is extremely embarrassing that West Point thinks cadets can’t handle learning about climate change www.stripes.com/branches/arm...
stripes.com
West Point professor fired after pushing back on limitations to teaching climate change, lawsuit says
Adam Kalkstein pushed back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change, the lawsuit says.
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Jay D. Aronson @jaydaronson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
CMU 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...
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Carnegie Mellon faculty form advocacy group amid increasing pressures in higher education
More 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...
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AAUP @aaup.org · 26/08/2026
The 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.
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Department of War Directive Undermines Scientific Innovation. It Should Be Rescinded.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 26/08/2026
Faculty of the South! Please take a few moments to fill out the 2026 AAUP Faculty In The South Survey:
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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Sometimes—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.
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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
If 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.
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
23% 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/...
Graph of visas issued to students per month in 2024 and 2025
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Dan "Scary" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
And 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?
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Join
Joining the AAUP says that you’re concerned about academic freedom, and about the way that basic freedom protects your teaching and research. Join today.
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Dan "Scary" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Theee @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.
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Nate Ela @nateela.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
An important thread on the ongoing sabotage of scientific inquiry in the U.S.
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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Zero sociology awards from the NSF. It's effectively gone. (Including, but not limited, to the ASA Dissertation awards.)
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
In 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.edu
Artificial Intelligence Policy
Effective 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 […]
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AFT Higher Education @afthighered.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
No 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...
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September Virtual Town Hall - Emergency Campaign to Support Higher Education
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AAUP @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 #academicsky
insidehighered.com
Who Really Politicized Higher Education? (opinion)
It wasn’t the AAUP.
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Dan 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.
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Extorted Compliance: A Threat to Institutional Autonomy, Academic Freedom, and Shared Governance
Published 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...
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Eli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
This law is a real nightmare, creates a legal grounding for the state's assimilationist colonial campaigns
bbc.co.uk
Can 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.
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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Once 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.com
EDITORIAL | One Month Since: An Investigation in Name Only
The 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...
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Dan 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.com
EDITORIAL | One Month Since: An Investigation in Name Only
The 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...
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