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Todd Wolfson

@proftwolf.bsky.social
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President of American Association of University Professors, VP of American Federation of Teachers, Professor at Rutgers University, Dad, Author, Against Fascism! College4All!

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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 19h
We should revisit her research as it points toward solutions. Also may Peggy rest in peace and power
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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 19h
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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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 19h
www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
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CORNELL AAUP | Statement Against Sexual Violence
The Cornell chapter of the American Association of University Professors expresses their outrage against the culture of misogyny at Cornell and calls on all members of the Cornell community to attend ...
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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And this was after the administration there at Bowie State received tens of millions of dollars from Mackenzie Scott. It’s appalling, and there is not nearly enough accountability in the USM system for how money is spent. Writing as a member of the USM faculty advisory council (CUSF). @aaup.org
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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
❤️❤️🔥🔥
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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Together we fight
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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is the TRUTH! College4ALL
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Make no mistake: Trump's EO changing NIH funding isn't about improving lives or public health. It's about attacking our colleges & universities for failing to fall in line with his extreme authoritarian agenda. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/s...
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White House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants
Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hundreds of thousands of Americans submitted public submitted comments calling on Trump to stop politicizing research funding. The Trump administration's EO ignores the will of the people, doing an end run around Congress & around what voters want. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
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Key senators reject White House proposal on NIH grants
Sens. Susan Collins and Patty Murray are rejecting efforts by the Trump administration to give the White House control of National Institutes of Health grant funding.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The NIH funds lifesaving research into treatments for Alzheimer’s, heart disease, diabetes, cancer & more. Handing funding control to political appointees instead of independent review boards won't make us healthier or safer. It’s the opposite. www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...
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What a Trump order to put political appointees in charge of NIH funding would mean for science
Advocates and scientists warn that giving political appointees power over research grants would “upend” U.S. science
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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The NIH funds lifesaving research for Alzheimer’s, heart disease, cancer & more. Handing funding control to political appointees instead of independent boards makes us less healthy, & sets a dangerous precedent. www.scientificamerican.com/article/what... @rweingarten.bsky.social @aaup.org @aft.org
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What a Trump order to put political appointees in charge of NIH funding would mean for science
Advocates and scientists warn that giving political appointees power over research grants would “upend” U.S. science
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AFT @aft.org · 16/09/2026
@rweingarten.bsky.social & @proftwolf.bsky.social respond to Linda McMahon’s “Compact 2.0”: “Rather than expanding educational access and preserving academic freedom, your administration has led a coordinated scorched-earth campaign of ideological demands, funding threats and grant terminations.”
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AAUP and AFT Call on Linda McMahon to Halt Unlawful Political Interference and Protect Academic Freedom
WASHINGTON—Today, in a direct response to Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s “A National Call to Action to University Presidents and Governing Boards” (often known as “Compact 2.0”), American Associa...
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Wrapping up our @standupforscience.net trip to Paris. We are working to get out the vote of Americans abroad, met with leadership of several NGOs and Sciences Po to discuss science and democracy in 2026, opened the CERI academic year with @proftwolf.bsky.social, and met with the French Senate!
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Rebecca Givan @rkgwork.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We have some questions for Secretary McMahon. Crucial letter from @proftwolf.bsky.social and @rweingarten.bsky.social. www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
When AI is used in schools, parents & educators deserve transparency, students deserve safety & everyone deserves strong privacy protections. That’s what this agreement between @aft.org, @uft.org & @microsoft.com delivers w/enforceable safeguards that put students & families & educators first.
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UC-AFT Local 1474 @ucaft.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
At the August 27 bargaining session in San Diego, UC-AFT lecturers advanced six proposals and challenged the UC on layoffs. Read the details and join our fight for a fair contract!✊ weteachuc.org/2026/09/09/b...
Unit 18, UC-AFT Bargaining Update" dated August 27, 2026.

The text states: "We brought six article proposals to the table, focused on the issues UC-AFT members identified as top bargaining priorities, including: job security; protections from workplace discrimination, abuse and retaliation; support and protections for faculty on non-immigrant visas; access to benefits”

At the bottom, it says "More information @ weteachuc.org". A circular inset photo shows a large group of people sitting at tables in a conference room.
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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Hey Virginia State: Reinstate the Fired Six NOW.
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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Happy Labor Day 2026
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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Thank you Aram
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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Join us
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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 29/08/2026
"network organizational structure, participatory democratic governance, and the use of communication tools as a binding agent--became essential parts of Indymedia and all Cyber Left organizations" by @proftwolf.bsky.social www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
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Digital Rebellion
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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We stand with Hofstra faculty
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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Don't shop at Target
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
While safeguarding national security is a legitimate govt priority, this demand creates a serious danger of racial & national-origin profiling that threatens academic freedom & undermines scientific innovation and research that benefits all Americans. www.aft.org/press-releas...
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AFT and AAUP on Department of War Directive Targeting 30 Universities
WASHINGTON—AFT President Randi Weingarten and American Association of University Professors President Todd Wolfson issued the following response to the Department of War directing 30 universities to b...
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Sean Johnson Andrews @skjandrews.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Thanks again to @proftwolf.bsky.social for taking the time to talk about all the important work @aaup.org and @aft.org are doing in their fight for academic freedom in Texas and elsewhere and to strengthen and transform U.S. higher education as a whole. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrO3...
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Breaking Culture Live - Higher Ed update with Todd Wolfson, AAUP president and AFT Vice president
YouTube video by Breaking Culture Live
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AFT @aft.org · 26/08/2026
"By threatening to pull vital federal research funding without disclosing the standards used to target these institutions, and without providing any public evidence of actual wrongdoing, the government may be bypassing due process." - @rweingarten.bsky.social & @proftwolf.bsky.social
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AFT and AAUP on Department of War Directive Targeting 30 Universities
WASHINGTON—AFT President Randi Weingarten and American Association of University Professors President Todd Wolfson issued the following response to the Department of War directing 30 universities to b...
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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
You are right, Bob. I'm not sure if we will go back and fix this mistake as it may take too much work, but we will be attentive to this, and we will not adopt their nomenclature in the future.
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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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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
They are actively trying to destroy higher education.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
economic sabotage culture detonation bigotry bomb
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Sean Johnson Andrews @skjandrews.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Looking forward to catching up with @proftwolf.bsky.social of the @aaup.org and @aft.org to discuss their recent actions to restore science funding, protect academic freedom, and endorse political candidates willing to push back against authoritarian attacks on higher ed. Join us tomorrow, noon CDT.
Image announcing the show and giving details of its broadcast - August 26 at noon Chicago time on the Breaking Culture Live Youtube channel.
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I had a great convo with @proftwolf.bsky.social, president of the American Association of University Professors. He discussed AAUP's endorsement of El-Sayed, the group's plans to make more endorsements this fall, and why universities are a core part of democracy. newrepublic.com/article/2146...
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Transcript: Why Professors Got Behind El-Sayed
AAUP President Todd Wolfson says that endorsing El-Sayed and other candidates is part of defending both higher education and democracy.
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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Thanks for the discussion @perrybaconjr.bsky.social!
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Target has shown that its leadership can change course. But it still refuses to call for an end to ICE’s occupation of the Twin Cities. Until Target stands with its own community, we’re asking members and allies to shop local instead. shopsmart.aft.org
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AFT @aft.org · 20/08/2026
"Higher education is not a luxury...It expands opportunity. It advances scientific discovery. It educates the people who build our economy. It prepares citizens to govern themselves. And it creates knowledge that no market can produce on its own." - @proftwolf.bsky.social @aaup.org
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Who Really Politicized Higher Education? (opinion)
It wasn’t the AAUP.
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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
We didn’t start the 🔥
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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
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Who Really Politicized Higher Education? (opinion)
It wasn’t the AAUP.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 18/08/2026
"Professors didn’t choose the battlefield, but we’re no longer willing to pretend we aren’t standing on one." — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
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Opinion | What professors gained by winning with El-Sayed
The American Association of University Professors' endorsement, back to school advice and more.
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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
🥱 Response incoming! www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | What the professors lost by winning with El-Sayed
The AAUP first-ever endorsement comes with political and professional costs.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 08/08/2026
Trump’s Compact 2.0 announced by Linda McMahon this week should be placed in the context of their failed 2025 “loyalty oath” compact that was defeated by students & faculty at every institution they offered it to. Organizing & collective pressure works. 1 🧵 www.aaup.org/issue/winter...
Trump's Compact 2.0
Universities should not be made answerable to the political program of a particular administration.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
@NYSUT.bsky.social President @MelindaJPerson.bsky.social is right. Kids don’t need a robot teaching them. They need more human connection to learn most effectively. www.latimes.com/world-nation...
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abdullah @ashihipar.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Dr. Abdul El Sayed, Melat Kiros and Darializa Avila Chevalier (the latter two are PhD candidates) examples of academics who successfully went out of the ivory tower and talked to regular people and resonated with them. but you'll never hear of this as an example of higher ed being engaged.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Congratulations! Our members in Michigan backed Abdul El-Sayed : he wants money out of politics, he supports public schools and higher ed, and he knows that healthcare is a right. Now let's do the work and send him to the US Senate. bsky.app/profile/abdu...
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AAUP @aaup.org · 04/08/2026
“By embarking on a campaign of censorship, Texas A&M has abdicated its responsibility to support students’ right to learn & faculty’s right to teach. A university that censors Plato & other texts abandons its obligation to truth, free inquiry, & the public trust.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP president 5
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AAUP President Todd Wolfson: An Institution That Censors Plato is Not a Serious Institution of Higher Learning
Censoring Plato is an academic absurdity and a textbook violation of academic freedom. Barring a foundational philosopher who is a cornerstone of Western thought because his work touches on race or ge...
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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
“The American Association of University Professors is joined in the Texas A&M lawsuit by four faculty plaintiffs, each of whom says the policy prompted their course to be canceled or not offered.” www.chronicle.com/article/what...
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‘What Are We Even Doing Here?': New Lawsuit Challenges Ban on Race and Gender Topics at Texas A&M
Plaintiffs included four faculty members whose courses were canceled or not offered.
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Jonathan Feingold @jpygold.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Everything is big in Texas. Including the racism, bigotry & law breaking across Texas’ public universities. And the resistance. The lawsuits are here. First one hit Tech. This one hits A&M. UT just matter of time. @texasaaup.bsky.social @aaup.org
Cancelled courses include: Religions of the World; Introduction to Race and Ethnicity; Ethics in Public Policy; and a course focused on LGBTQ+ literature. Professors have been forced to edit their syllabi to comply with the policy, removing works like Plato’s “Myth of Androgyne;” Kevin Kruse’s “White Flight;” and even the Academy Award-winning film “Moonlight.” One history professor was allowed to teach Phyllis Schlafly’s campaign against the Equal Rights Amendment, but not about how the Fourteenth Amendment expanded to protect women and LGBTQ+ people.
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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Booooooom 💣
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AAUP @aaup.org · 04/08/2026
The Trump admin is back with version 2.0 of its higher ed compact. The reason is simple: The first one failed. Compact 2.0 lacks egregious elements of its predecessor. That’s a victory & affirms that the answer to authoritarianism is organized resistance—not compliance. www.aaup.org/news/new-com...
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New Compact Shows Resistance Works, but Fight for Higher Ed Isn’t Over
The Trump administration is back with a second version of its higher education compact. As with its predecessor, the best path forward is for higher education workers to organize and demand that their...
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AFT @aft.org · 04/08/2026
“As with [Trump's] first compact, the best path forward is for higher education workers to organize and demand that their administrations and governing boards reject Compact 2.0. There is every reason to believe we can do so again." - @rweingarten.bsky.social & @aaup.org's @proftwolf.bsky.social
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AFT, AAUP Respond to Trump Compact 2.0
WASHINGTON—AFT President Randi Weingarten and American Association of University Professors President Todd Wolfson issued the following response to the Trump administration’s new higher education comp...
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
WHEN WE FIGHT, WE WIN. It's time to APPLY HEAVY PRESSURE. Call you Senators NOW: fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/omb... I know, everyone hates calling. But this is CRITICAL. Make the calls today! (Use our super easy autodialer tool linked above) www.politico.com/live-updates...
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Top senators consider blocking Trump’s grant shakeup in spending stopgap
It’s now “up to leadership” whether to head off the controversial changes, Sen. Susan Collins said.
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