🎷Get up and get down for higher ed 🎷 Our coalition rejects the compact! We believe that higher education should be free from partisan interference and billionaire influence including that of Marc Rowan, who spearheaded Trump’s dangerous loyalty oath compact! @aft.org

Important new report out from AAUP & MESA, “The data…offers a detailed account of how landmark civil rights legislation – and particularly Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act – has become a primary tool to restrict speech on campus.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

if Mamdani PR is listening I humbly request a victory speech cut to Mobb Deep

The hundreds of thousands of Black & Latino men who were subjected to stop-and-frisk did not have the option to “leave NYC.” They endured the reign of Bloomberg - the beloved choice of elite New Yorkers - who even supported changing the law to give Bloomberg a 3rd term.

Andrew Cuomo has been endorsed by the Chambers Street subway station.

I've lived my whole life in NYC + Chicago. As far back as I can remember, I've only ever detested, loathed, despised, abhorred, cursed, reviled or been outright horrified by the mayor. not sure I'm ready for this strange new chapter. what will I even call these unsettling feelings of admiration?

Complicity of liberal institutions with the crackdown on student protest paved the way for the crisis of academia. To defend our work we must sever the link with the security state. Come join us at U of C tomorrow, where we will discuss how to confront the hiring of the inveterate liar John Kirby.

“All across NYU, students and colleagues have been undeterred in their organizing. NYU leadership should follow the example of their courage and tell the Trump administration and grifters like Rowan to keep their hands off higher education.” — @zachsamalin.bsky.social, NYU AAUP #DefendHigherEd

I just don’t think we’re freaking out enough about this SNAP cut. I have spent my whole career working with people who rely on SNAP for food. People who work multiple jobs. Who have kids. What do you think happens when 1/8th of the population can’t buy food anymore? Everything is going to collapse.

They don’t even know who they’re killing. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/u...

1st Circuit in Stand with Us v. MIT: "[O]ur Constitution bars the government from forcing a private university to prohibit students from voicing vehement support for, or opposition to, the policies and conduct of the United States and its allies." www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/fi...

Libraries are where kids & adults go to learn, socialize & connect. Now more than ever we need to invest in our public institutions. They are an essential good — the literal stuff of democracy. New Yorkers, please write & demand this budget increase! actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

I'm excited to share that our first on the record official YES to our demand is Council Member Lynn Schulman of District 29!!!! If Council Member Schulman is your representative, please thank her for supporting our public libraries. nycplan.org/scorecards/l...

Earlier on Canal Street, as agents attempted to disperse, one who I recognize from the courts pulled out a taser and threatened protester with it. @thecity.nyc

Master Plan Step 1. Arrive Step 2. Steal jewels

U of Arizona says NO to the Compact: president.arizona.edu/sites/defaul...

In the richest city in America, we cannot simply accept that 500,000 kids go to bed hungry every night.

CUNY is the nation’s largest urban public university system and an engine of social mobility for the city's working class. But like so many of our public institutions, Andrew Cuomo subject it to years of disinvestment and neglect as Governor. That record cannot be forgotten.

Just over one year after launching my own walking tour company, my work now has a feature profile in THE NATION: “I don’t want New York to be seen as just a collection of monuments and structures. I want it to be understood as a collective of stories and people.” www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Found this just incredibly depressing, more than anything.

WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"

Remember that as a professor you can be a member of @aaup.org

⬇️ NEWS: “This is a historic ruling that should have immediate implications for the Trump administration’s policies. If the First Amendment means anything, it means the government can’t imprison people simply because it disagrees with their political views." knightcolumbia.org/content/in-l...

An enormous legal victory for @aaup.org, MESA, and the Rutgers, NYU, and Harvard chapters of AAUP, in a case that Judge Young describes as "perhaps the most important ever to fall within the jurisdiction of this district court."

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:

An incredible book by an incredible person

AAUP chapters brought this suit

Enormous victory for @aaup.org in aaup v Rubio www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

www.chronicle.com/article/a-cl... The Chronicle of Higher Education offers some background on the academic freedom crisis at Texas A&M. Note that by the end of yesterday the professor was fired, raising due process as well as academic freedom concerns.

Team Adams really putting the “utz” back in “putz”

📢 if you're someone who is pursuing PSLF or just someone who thinks it's important, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE participate in the notice & comment process to at least delay the horrific changes the DOE is trying to implement (including an ideological screen) www.regulations.gov/commenton/ED...

"critics call it extortion" gee thanks @nytimes.com pls let us know when you find out what's going on

@knightcolumbia.org has filed an almost-200-page brief describing evidence presented during trial in our AAUP v. Rubio case challenging the Trump admin’s policy of arresting, detaining, and deporting noncitizen faculty & students for their pro-Palestinian advocacy. knightcolumbia.org/content/post...

The Columbia settlement is an “astonishing transfer of autonomy and authority to . . . an administration whose disdain for the values of the academy is demonstrated anew every day.” New @knightcolumbia.org analysis of the Columbia settlement, just published. knightcolumbia.org/blog/what-th...

The “deal” that Brown made with the Trump admin is much more extreme than is being reported. It includes government oversight of course evaluations and no barrier to government interference in faculty hiring. Read it for yourself here: www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

💥IN DEFENSE OF CUNY LAW PROF RAMZI KASSEM💥 We REJECT Rep. Elise Stefanik's baseless attacks! "Any discipline against Kassem for his representation of Mr. Khalil would violate AAUP standards on academic freedom & tenure & the terms of CUNY’s faculty labor contract." Read the full letter here⬇️

Recent law grads — we're now hiring for legal fellows to begin in Fall 2025. Our First Amendment rights are under daily assault. I hope you'll consider applying to work with us at @knightcolumbia.org to push back. knightcolumbia.org/page/legal-f...

1/ I represent 5 anti-zionist students and faculty challenging the outrageous claim that the Palestine Solidarity Encampment was a "Jew exclusion zone". UCLA refused to defend. Today they agreed to pay millions instead. I can't overstate how dangerous this is. 🧵 www.latimes.com/california/s...

A colleague has to meet with the university’s Office of General Counsel who want edits to their program’s website that basically amount to deleting every instance of the word “Black”

A school that voluntarily does this to its own students is practicing authoritarianism, not "capitulating" to it

This mighty book has arrived and I’m eager for it to be in your hands! It can orient us term by term to past struggles in higher education and the ones ahead. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽

In Boston, the most consequential and far-reaching trial of the second Trump Presidency has been set in motion: A.A.U.P. v. Rubio, which challenges the Administration’s systematic campaign to arrest, detain, and deport pro-Palestinian student protesters.

Must read www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Today:

At the AAUP/AFT 2025 Summer Institute, we are developing the tools we need to help build a movement to truly realize our vision for higher education & democracy. #organizefightwin @afthighered.bsky.social @chenjerai.bsky.social

This was truly bonkers: the State Dept official who signed off on the abductions of Öztürk, Khalil et al testified today that *ANY* criticism of Israel is potential grounds for visa revocation. Wtaf?!

Testimony in #AAUPvRubio today offered another disturbingly clear view of the inner bureaucracy of our fascist immigration apparatus: ICE agents offering matter-of-fact descriptions of their ideological targeting of students like Rümeysa Öztürk for Palestine advoacy www.politico.com/news/2025/07...