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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 It Should Be Rescinded.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 · 23/07/2026

The AAUP stands with Mohsen Mahdawi & other faculty members, graduate students, & academic workers whose speech the federal government is attempting to censor. An injury to one is an injury to all. Full Statement: www.aaup.org/news/we-stan...

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AAUP @aaup.org · 01/06/2026

This is absurd. The administration's proposal would sacrifice the post-war American research system that sparked unprecedented scientific advancement in favor of an ideological loyalty test that would reduce groundbreaking scientific discovery to a game of bureaucratic compliance. #academicsky

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OMB Proposes Rules Establishing Political Oversight of Grants

The Office of Management and Budget published long-expected proposed rules for how federal agencies must carry out Trump’s order to put “senior appointees” in charge of deciding who gets funded. The p...

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AAUP @aaup.org · 22/04/2026

The largest biomedical research organization in the world is being decimated by the Trump administration. This defunding will have a drastic impact on the health & well being of American families & deepen the crises on our campuses that carry out critical research. This is insanity. #TrumpsCutsKill

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AAUP @aaup.org · 13/04/2026

The Trump admin’s rewriting of rules governing college accreditation “obliterates” autonomy & is is being described as “a cluster bomb being dropped on American higher education.”

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Experts: New Accreditation Rules Threaten Academic Freedom

The draft proposals, up for discussion this week, could change how accreditors oversee colleges and what they measure, but some say they violate existing federal law.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 01/04/2026

“Faculty members & students continue to speak up & organize to oppose the radical reconfiguration of American institutions launched by the Trump administration & its private-sector allies. Frequently, this has included organizing outside the gates.” — Reinhold Martin & Robert Newton, Columbia AAUP

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Opinion | The Hostile Takeover of Higher Education

Business interests captured governing boards long before Trump.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 27/03/2026

Admin at The New School are threatening the cancellation of 23 academic programs. Students, faculty, & staff are fighting back, demanding a public meeting & an end to the manufactured austerity crisis. Check out this powerful song produced by TNS students: @newschoolaaup.bsky.social

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What A Wonder School (This Would Be)

YouTube video by Austerity Singers

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AAUP @aaup.org · 06/03/2026

The far right's new politicized higher ed accreditor is illegitimate. "Rather than protecting educational quality, the CPHE appears designed to give partisan political actors a powerful new tool to pressure universities to conform to a narrow ideological agenda" — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

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New CPHE Accrediting Body Is Illegitimate

Rather than protecting educational quality, the CPHE appears designed to give partisan political actors a powerful new tool to pressure universities to conform to a narrow ideological agenda—backed by...

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AAUP @aaup.org · 23/01/2026

“Judge Young affirmed unequivocally, without a doubt, that non-citizens lawfully present here in the US have the same free speech rights as everyone else. He established that the federal government clearly & unconstitutionally pursued a policy of discrimination against pro-Palestinian speech.”

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Boston judge warns Trump officials on changing plaintiffs’ immigration status

The ruling from U.S. District Judge William Young follows a prior ruling in which he found the Trump administration violated the Constitution.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 18/10/2025

The snake is growing. ✊🏽✊🏻✊🏿✊🏾✊🏼 Vanderbilt, Texas, AZ…now’s the time. The world is watching. The resistance is here. #NoLoyaltyOaths #NoKings #DefendHigherEd

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AAUP @aaup.org · 16/10/2025

Students, faculty, & campus workers are leading this incredible pushback. We will not back down in defense of higher education & our democracy. There is an unstoppable wave of unified rejection of Trump’s authoritarian agenda cresting throughout higher education. Join Us. #DefendHigherEd

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AAUP @aaup.org · 16/10/2025

🚨🚨🚨 And THREE stood up! Penn has joined MIT & Brown in rejecting Trump’s loyalty oath compact. When we join together and fight back, WE WIN! No amount of federal bribery is worth surrendering the freedom to question, explore, and dissent. LET’S GO! #DefendHigherEd @aaup-penn.bsky.social

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Penn rejects White House proposal for special funding treatment

With the decision, Penn becomes the third university to decline the offer.

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CUIMC Stands Up @cuimcstandsup.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

🎙️ Last week, a group of Columbia professors — most of them Jewish — took a stand. Risking reprisal, they publicly rejected the university’s recent incorporation of a controversial definition of antisemitism. Their statements, excerpted here, can be read in full at cu-standsup.org/events/free-....

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AAUP @aaup.org · 07/10/2025

NO LOYALTY OATHS IN HIGHER ED! Trump's attacks on our universities are an attempt to consolidate power. This loyalty oath directly undermines our right to academic freedom & goes against every democratic principle our country should uphold. Please click below, sign, & share. #DefendHigherEd

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University Administrations: Reject Trump's "Loyalty Oath" Compacts

The Trump administration is trying to blackmail schools to let him and his unqualified bureaucrats run our schools. They want to dictate what schools teach, who they admit and hire, what researchers s...

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AAUP @aaup.org · 30/09/2025

BREAKING: WE WON!!! 💥 💥 💥 Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment. Full ruling here:

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Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #261 in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-10685) – CourtListener.com

Judge William G. Young: ORDER entered. FINDINGS OF FACT AND RULINGS OF LAW, PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(Sonnenberg, Elizabeth) (Additional attachment(s) added on 9/30/2025: # 1 Main Document) (J...

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AAUP @aaup.org · 21/09/2025

The AAUP & @aft.org are fighting back to remind our elected leaders that higher education & public health research are transformative public goods. We must keep life-saving NIH research fully funded & stop the Trump admin’s devastating funding cuts that are halting medical breakthroughs.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 07/09/2025

The Resistance Is Inevitable. We’re sick & tired of ICE & FBI agents profiling, harassing, & violently arresting our neighbors. #wearealldc Incredible turnout in DC yesterday, including a strong AAUP contingent. @aaupmason.bsky.social @gwaaup.bsky.social @afthighered.bsky.social

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AAUP @aaup.org · 04/09/2025

In April, the AAUP & our Harvard chapter sued the Trump admin for demanding that Harvard censor speech & restructure core operations or else face $8.7 billion in funding cuts. We hope this decision clarifies to Harvard’s administration that bargaining w/ tyrannical authoritarians is unacceptable.

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CUIMC Stands Up @cuimcstandsup.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

TODAY! 4–5:30pm ET Zoom panel discussion by CU-AAUP: LEGAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE COLUMBIA AGREEMENT An expert panel of law professors will address questions about CU’s resolution agreement. Open to Barnard & Columbia faculty. MUST register by 12pm, link here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Legal Perspectives on the Columbia Agreement. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

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CUIMC Stands Up @cuimcstandsup.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

“Columbia must resist narratives that single out some students for protection while ignoring the suffering of others…The current lopsided treatment of students by this administration regarding the war in Gaza risks worsening the very divisions it claims to address.” (6/6)

Columbia must resist narratives that single out some students for protection while ignoring the suffering of others.
These narratives misrepresent the nature and causes of campus tensions and provide the cover for outside attacks that undermine our university's mission.
Columbia must reject pressures-whether from donors, alumni, political actors, or internal stakeholders-to privilege some views and silence others in the name of safety or institutional reputation. At its best, a university defends the full spectrum of intellectual freedom, not only fostering inclusion based on identity, but also protecting the right to protest, question, critique, and hold power accountable. This means respecting students and scholars across political, religious, and ideological spectra and protecting their civil rights. The current lopsided treatment of students by this administration regarding the war in Gaza risks worsening the very divisions it claims to address.

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CUIMC Stands Up @cuimcstandsup.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

‼️🚨WHAT’S AT STAKE: Higher ed “has long served as a necessary counterweight to authoritarianism… But that crucial role is possible only if universities support discourse that includes dissent and uphold their core values of inclusion, equity, and academic freedom consistently, not selectively” (5/6)

What's at stake
Across the country, universities are under intensifying political pressure to suppress protest, narrow intellectual discourse, and align with authoritarian narratives.
Higher education has long served as a vital space for critical thinking and dissent-a necessary counterweight to authoritarianism and the abuse of power.
But that crucial role is possible only if universities support discourse that includes dissent and uphold their core values of inclusion, equity, and academic freedom consistently, not selectively.

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CUIMC Stands Up @cuimcstandsup.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

“The findings…fall short of capturing the range of experiences of Jewish students on campus… Columbia's prevailing discourse…oversimplifies and obscures these complex and painful realities, thereby undermining our community's ability to address the challenges.” (4/6)

The findings presented in the task force's report fall short of capturing the range of experiences of Jewish students on campus. Embedded within the data, and reflected in accounts since October 7, 2023, are the facts that many Jewish students have reported feeling alienated for criticizing Israel's assault on Gaza and some have been targeted by alumni and professors, or labeled as "self-hating Jews" for their support of Palestinian rights. In addition, Jewish students, like students of all backgrounds, have been exposed to threats, harassment, administrative punishment, arrest, and physical attacks for participating in a noble tradition of Columbia student protests against global injustices.
Therefore framing all of the "immense challenges faced by our Jewish students" as a problem of antisemitism as Columbia's prevailing discourse does, oversimplifies and obscures these complex and painful realities, thereby undermining our community's ability to address the challenges.

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CUIMC Stands Up @cuimcstandsup.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

“The current framing—which is endorsed by Columbia's leadership, exploited by the federal government, and echoed by their allies in the media—oversimplifies and obscures, and risks deepening divisions rather than healing them.” 🎯 (3/6)

The University's responsibility is to respond to these complexities, not reduce them to a singular narrative of antisemitism. The current framing-which is endorsed by Columbia's leadership, exploited by the federal government, and echoed by their allies in the media- oversimplifies and obscures, risks deepening divisions rather than healing them.

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CUIMC Stands Up @cuimcstandsup.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

“The administration's narrative obscures these facts, marginalizes the pain and suffering of Muslim students, and erroneously homogenizes Jewish students' experiences by ignoring the pressures many encountered for protesting Israel's assault on Gaza.” (2/6)

The data reflects a campus community struggling with grief, moral urgency, intense polarization, and the failure of University administration to broker the ensuing tension in a constructive manner.
As described below, these struggles affect Jewish students and Muslim students at comparable rates. The administration's narrative obscures these facts, marginalizes the pain and suffering of Muslim students, and erroneously homogenizes Jewish students' experiences by ignoring the pressures many encountered for protesting Israel's assault on Gaza.
Changing our understanding of the problem changes the solutions needed to address it.

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CUIMC Stands Up @cuimcstandsup.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Out today in the Columbia Spectator — faculty from CUIMC Stands Up & CU Faculty Alliance reframe the narrative about antisemitism at Columbia through an analysis of the HEALS data. Read it here ⬇️ www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...

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Reframing the narrative on antisemitism at Columbia: What the data says

In March, President Donald Trump’s administration abruptly terminated numerous federally funded scientific research projects at Columbia. According to personal correspondence with multiple Columbia Un...

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CUIMC Stands Up @cuimcstandsup.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

“But, looking at this agreement, one has to think that it wasn’t worth it. What value is there to saving lives and extending them if these lives are lived in a world of restricted speech, arbitrary arrest, and cheerful physical violence?” Read more here: open.substack.com/pub/riseupco...

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Columbia's Agreement with the Federal Government

The Columbia administration has finally done what many of us have urged it not to do: it has signed a bad agreement with the federal government to address the government’s phony concerns about Columbi...

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CUIMC Stands Up @cuimcstandsup.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

We couldn’t have said it better ourselves: “I don’t think the values of the Trump administration are the values of the Columbia medical faculty. In fact, I am certain they are not. We have made a deal with the devil. Those don’t usually work out.” We can confirm ‼️

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CUIMC Stands Up @cuimcstandsup.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Thank you to Rise Up, Columbia for the astute analysis as usual and the footnote shoutout to CUIMC Stands Up! We’re a group of medical campus faculty & staff firmly against the exchange of our values for grant funds, even as our jobs & careers are at risk. 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/riseupco...

Columbia's Agreement with the Federal Government
RISE UP, COLUMBIA
TODAY AT 12:17 PM
The Columbia administration has finally done what many of us have urged it not to do: it has signed a bad agreement with the federal government to address the government's phony concerns about
Columbia. Here is the document. And here, importantly, is President Shipman's letter outlining her view of the document.

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CUIMC Stands Up @cuimcstandsup.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

At Columbia, we’re also facing challenges as layoffs continue, threatening the integrity of research + diversity driving our excellence. We need ACTION to protect academic freedom, scholars, & research. We demand our leaders: 🧬 Protect science 🔬 Preserve innovation 👩‍🔬 Support education & research

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CUIMC Stands Up @cuimcstandsup.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

So far ~250 Columbia affiliates have signed a petition calling to remove Shoshana Shendelman from CU Board of Trustees + boards of CUIMC & VP&S: www.bit.ly/Remove-Trustee After an FDA warning letter ‼️ she allegedly misled investors re: company prospects Read more: theintercept.com/2025/05/27/c...

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Columbia Trustee Got Sued for Securities Fraud — Then Left Her Pharma Firm Under a Cloud

Columbia trustee Shoshana Shendelman sold millions in stock as she was going back and forth with the FDA. Then the drug got rejected.

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CUIMC Stands Up @cuimcstandsup.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

@columbiamed.bsky.social posted this on X? CUIMC has many obesity medicine docs, dietitians, etc. who study nutrition. Trustee Shoshana Shendelman isn’t one of them She’s been sued for fraud (hiding FDA concerns). Faculty have a petition to remove her from CU leadership: bit.ly/Remove-Trustee

Screenshot of a X post from @ColumbiaMed: Obesity is a serious public health issue nationwide, affecting nearly 20% of children in the U.S. To effectively address this crisis, @columbiaps' Dr. Shoshana Shendelman stresses the importance of collaboration between the pharmaceutical industry and community organizations like Make America Healthy Again (MAHA)
@: columbiamed.link/4eeUeFr

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CUIMC Stands Up @cuimcstandsup.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Still thinking about the official Columbia Medical Center @columbiamed.bsky.social X account posting about the “importance of collaboration” between pharma and Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) as if MAHA is a legit org and not a gov. committee & broader movement, both widely considered unscientific

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AAUP @aaup.org · 01/07/2025

"A reduction in federal research funding on the scale currently contemplated for fiscal year 2026 will have a catastrophic effect on the advancement of biomedical & biotechnology capabilities in the United States." This is utter madness. Massive cuts to US scientific research will harm everyone.

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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

June 30, 2025 Columbia University ICE Protest - NYC Activists with the Irving Medical Center held photos of students that have been targeted for deportation due to political speech. Instagram: @cufaculty_alliance Instagram: @cuimstandup Bluesky: @cuimcstandsup.bsky.social Facebook: CUIMC Stands Up

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CUIMC Stands Up @cuimcstandsup.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

We will also be adding photographs of LEQAA KORDIA, a Palestinian woman arrested last year at a protest outside Columbia, now held in detention in Texas, as well as DYLAN & DERLIS, two NYC high school students also in ICE detention. We hope their communities will join us.

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CUIMC Stands Up @cuimcstandsup.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

This week’s Columbia vigil will be at 116th & Broadway tomorrow (Monday) at noon. All are welcome, bring a friend or colleague! We will again be holding photographs of ALL targeted students. They’re out of detention, but still targeted with attempted deportation for political speech #CampusVigils

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CUIMC Stands Up @cuimcstandsup.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Not to mention that MAHA also isn’t your typical community health org. It’s a politically charged initiative tied to RFK Jr., with a shaky scientific foundation and commercial interests. Columbia should be more transparent about who they’re using their platform to promote.

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CUIMC Stands Up @cuimcstandsup.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Not to mention that MAHA isn’t your typical community health org. It’s a politically charged initiative tied to RFK Jr., with a shaky scientific foundation and commercial interests. Columbia should be more transparent about who they’re using their platform to promote.

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CUIMC Stands Up @cuimcstandsup.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

We’re thrilled that Mahmoud Khalil has been reunited with his family Our weekly vigils will continue at Columbia in protest of ICE detentions, deportations & displacement Join us tomorrow 6/23 @ 12pm 📍Broadway & 116th Please wear black, bring sun protection & water. We’ll be out for at least 30m

Close up photo of people’s hands holding black and white photos of 3 people’s faces: Mahmoud Khalil, Yunseo Chung, and Ranjani Srinivasan, three Columbia students who have faced government persecution for pro-Palestinian speech

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CUIMC Stands Up @cuimcstandsup.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

“and we, for some reason, continue to let them pretend” This is why we will continue to make visible the actual intentions behind the attacks on our university and higher education and science at large, and urge that how we respond to these attacks must be aligned with these true intentions.

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