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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17h
A real successful 1A day here on campus. Heavy hitters. Big student turnout. Engaged questions. My notes for the academic freedom panel is a sort of Cliff Notes of how I approach this thing. This is it. My whole talk.
Notes app reads: Neoliberalism weaponizes bias to justify austerity. Austerity creates corporate universities. Corporate universities are unhealthy organizations. Unhealthy organizations cannot inculcate or defend academic freedom. Without academic freedom to check administrative power,  corporate universities will translate austerity into financialized predation. Predation undermines public trust in higher education. Death spiral accelerates.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I spent a year watching school administrators do their jobs—and interviewing the students most impacted. I spoke to @thecut.com in a long-form Q&A about what I saw. Mainly, a system designed to protect perpetrators and punish victims in each and every case.
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The Reason Why Colleges Still Fail to Address Sexual Violence
The “Cornell Seven” case highlights what’s wrong with Trump’s Title IX rules — and how the system was always designed to fail.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 05/10/2026
🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: The AAUP is suing the Trump administration over new policies that threaten green card applicants with family separation. 1/
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Cornell AAUP @cornellaaup.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Cornell students, faculty, and staff stand with survivors!
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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We condemn the Cornell University police department’s mishandling of evidence and the university administration’s unwillingness to hold Chi Phi fraternity sufficiently accountable for the alleged rapes. @aaup.org @cornellaaup.bsky.social www.aaup.org/news/ending-...
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Ending Campus Misogyny: Student Safety Over Brand Protection
The AAUP stands with the Cornell AAUP chapter and share their outrage of the continued culture of misogyny and pervasiveness of violence against women at Cornell and at universities and colleges acros...
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Cornell AAUP @cornellaaup.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Here's that list: "The immediate resignation and/or termination of Cornell administrators ... The expulsion or revocation of the degrees of all Chi Phi brothers involved... The abolition of all Interfraternity Council (IFC) Greek Life... And the dissolution of the Office of Student Conduct..."
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From the Cornell community on Reddit: CGSU takes a stance - email
Explore this post and more from the Cornell community
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I’m starting to get requests from people to evaluate proposed solutions to campus sexual violence. The best list of demands I’ve seen so far comes from the students at Cornell. They understand the role of power and the kinds of big structural and cultural shifts that are required to end violence.
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Sara Pritchard @sarabpritchard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
TODAY ✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
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Digressionsimpressions @nescio13.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
[Guest post by Meena Krishnamurthy:] Cornell’s Students Make the Case for a Basic Right to Safety and Security on Campus digressionsimpressions.substack.com/p/guest-post...?
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[Guest post by Meena Krishnamurthy:] Cornell’s Students Make the Case for a Basic Right to Safety and Security on Campus
Safety is a basic right, and Cornell and the State of New York owe its protection to the students
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Here is the original (found it in the Wayback Machine): web.archive.org/web/20150315...
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College Presidents Appear To Be Delusional About Sexual Assault On Their Campuses
About a third of U.S. college presidents believe sexual assault is a problem on American college campuses, but only 6 percent believe it's a problem on their own campuses. That's according to Insid...
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Whenever I see a current or former university president in the news for sexual misconduct, I think of this chart from 2015. (ABC seems to have pulled down the original Five Thirty Eight article, but here’s a Feministing blog about it.)
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Chart of the Day: College presidents think rape is only a problem at other schools
According to Inside Higher Ed’s annual survey, US college and university presidents demonstrate some very wishful thinking when it comes to sexual assault. While about a third believe that it is preva...
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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My PhD advisor, Peggy Sanday, published Fraternity Gang Rape (1990). She found gang rape functions as male bonding through domination: men use women to prove masculinity, gain status, & demonstrate loyalty. Group norms normalize coercion, erase consent, & institutional privilege shields perpetrators
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
some descriptive statistics here on the civility industrial complex on college campuses that I haven’t seen analyzed before www.uncivilcollective.org/resources
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Literal No Kings. Either Article I means something or it doesn't.
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Eli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I'm not defending the "normal" system of policing, but at least the mayor of a city is subjected to degree of democratic oversight. Cornell PD does what the boss says, and the people who live and work at the university have zero mechanism for oversight.
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Eli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"'In what world would the police learn from the victim that she had literally been gang-raped' and not elevate those allegations to the district attorney, Ms. Hochul said." A world in which the police report to a university president who was appointed by a wholly unaccountable group of rich people
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Hochul Rebukes Prosecutor’s Handling of Cornell Case
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Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 02/10/2026
“People around me were scared that they were going to be the next Mahmoud Khalil.” @veenadubal.bsky.social, General Counsel of @aaup.org, recalls the fear faculty and students felt when their free speech was threatened on campus. Watch the full interview: youtu.be/5VBJJKjwjFM
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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Big sigh. Cornell edited its faq after the NYT story about the CUPD omitting details from the victim statement: “Any mention of sharing “all investigatory information” with the district attorney had been removed from the page.” www.wskg.org/regional-new...
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Cornell quietly edits FAQ page about fraternity sexual assault allegations amid public backlash
On Wednesday, the university removed a sentence stating that campus police “shared all investigatory information with the Tompkins County District Attorney's Office.”
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AAUP-Ohio State @osuaaup.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We stand in solidarity with our colleagues at Cornell AAUP, and all who are outraged by the violence against Jane Doe and the Cornell administration’s response to it.  aaup-cornell.org/statements-a...
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Cornell Chapter of the AAUP
Defending academic freedom, shared governance, the economic security, the rights of all those who teach or conduct research in higher education, advocating for the interests of the broader communit…
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Glad that Tish James is on the Cornell case. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/n...
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Hochul Names Letitia James as Special Prosecutor in Cornell Case
Gov. Kathy Hochul appointed the state attorney general to investigate a former Cornell University student’s allegation of rape. The woman has sued seven men in connection with the alleged assault.
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Indivisible Tompkins County NY @tompkindivisible.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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 · 01/10/2026
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 · 01/10/2026
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 · 01/10/2026
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 · 01/10/2026
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
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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...
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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.
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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.”
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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...
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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.
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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-...
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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.
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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...
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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.”
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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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