Contact Yale President Maurie McInnis at [email protected] & urge her to defend Yale's legal rights, preserve the university's institutional governance, & communicate transparently with faculty, students, staff, & alumni.

At least 15 medical schools around the country have received similar DOJ letters. If Yale reaches a settlement, it could pressure other colleges and universities nationwide to also settle. Settlement by Yale could shape how other universities respond to future political and legal challenges.

These negotiations could extend far beyond the medical school and shape the future of the university. Agreements made behind closed doors could affect admissions policies, academic freedom, shared governance, and Yale's institutional independence.

As a Yale AAUP member this is very very worrying

🚨🚨URGENT CALL TO ACTION: Calling ALL Yale Students, Alumni, Faculty, and Staff!!🚨🚨 According to The New York Times, Yale has reportedly entered settlement discussions with the U.S. Department of Justice over allegations involving admissions at the Yale School of Medicine.

It's not too late to weigh in on the proposed OMB rule, which would put ALL federal grant making in the hands of political commissars. www.defendpublichealth.org/campaign/cri...

One week remains to submit a comment to the OMB! Use the link below to share your thoughts and objections to the proposed rule. fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/163...

www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/u... an ominous trend: graduate admissions are down 15 percent from last year, on top of an 11 percent decrease from the previous year we are destroying our seed corn

Proposed federal rule threatens far more than scientific research | Opinion www.pressherald.com/2026/07/06/p...

The students of the Yale College Council have made an outstanding statement calling on the university not to cut a deal with the federal government at the expense of their rights: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwX1...

Harvard and Yale are long time rivals. But now @crimsoncourage.bsky.social is joining with #StandUpforYale to oppose Yale's capitulation to the Trump Administration. Appeasement never works.

You might think that the chancellors & presidents of the country’s leading R1 research universities, faced with such an existential crisis, would speak up, loudly & collectively against the authoritarian assault on their institutions. Alas, you would (still) be sadly wrong. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Bravo #YaleCollegeCouncil! While #Yale President Maurie McInnis and the trustees may capitulate, faculty and alumni stand with students against appeasement of the Trump Administration. #NoSettlement with DoJ. youtu.be/nwX1FqqaqjY?...

Our senior Senator from Connecticut, Richard Blumenthal, thinks it's a bad move for #Yale to capitulate to Trump's Department of Justice. He's right on target. Appeasement doesn't work. yaledailynews.com/articles/blu...

Call to Action: Tell Yale Leadership not to cut a deal with the Trump Administration. aaupyale.org

Appeasement doesn't work. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Big, bad changes are now in effect for student loan borrowers. We partnered with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund to give you the run down on what to expect. Check out aft.org/pslf for our guide that walks through what you need to do right now.

The Trump administration has decided to move forward with closing USDA’s flagship campus, even after enormous public pushback. They just gave researchers until Sept 30 to clear out their labs. New by my for @science.org 🧪🪲🌎

“It’s demoralizing to read — to get this information from the New York Times..." #DefendHigherEd @yaleaaup.bsky.social

Useful webinar on how to provide public comment on the proposed OMB regs (the nitty gritty on submitting a comment is towards the end). Deadline is July 13. m.youtube.com/watch?v=QNBR...

BREAKING: Trump’s rule change for the Office of Management and Budget will not only require agencies to ensure grants advance the president’s priorities, it will also kill up to 5,000 clinical trials — including 1,000 cancer treatment studies fight2win.standupforscience.net @standupforscience.net

Very bad news -- Yale leadership needs to hear from you on this. If Yale wants to restore trust in higher ed it should not be Paul Weiss here - it should be standing up for higher ed and our students. Contact info below! www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/u...

It's really easy to conclude that the American people have lost trust in American higher education when right-wing think tanks and partisans have spent $$ millions over three decades seeking to discredit HE institutions for teaching and researching topics they object to on ideological grounds.

Stand Up for Yale, a group representing thousands of #Yale alums condemns the Trump administration investigation and warns against settlement, calls on the university to defend its students, its independence, its lawful commitment to an inclusive academic community. More at www.standupforyale.org

Defend Scientific Research, Defend Our Universities, and Defend Our Communities! AAUP NC Call to Action on Proposed OMB Rules and on UNC Institutional Neutrality Policy drive.google.com/file/d/1VtEm... Text follows 1/

“Academic freedom is the foundation of open inquiry. Tenure, shared governance, faculty speech, independent research are conditions under which genuine inquiry happens. Neutrality is a strategy that sometimes serves those conditions, but it’s not the source of those conditions.” —Todd Wolfson

Last week, one of New York's most iconic universities, The New School, laid off 19 full-time faculty and 68 staff members. Along with coerced "voluntary" separations and early retirements since December 2025, these mass firings constitute a major gutting of The New School's full-time faculty.

WOW!! over 27k actions taken to fight against the OMB proposal through the #StandUpforScience action portal. Americans are taking action across the country, because scientific funding decisions should be guided by the expertise & the evidence, not political appointees & political ideology. 🧵:

Russell Vought's one rule to rule them all isn't in effect yet. Write to Congress AND comment on the proposed rule by 13 July. WE CAN STOP IT. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne...

Russell Vought is the director of the Office of Management & Budget. He is promulgating a new rule to install political control over ALL federal grant-making. Forget the experts. Russ is the decider-in-chief now. Write your members of Congress today. And share this. actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...

Making noise (and organizing!) works

The AAUP chapters at Vanderbilt & Wash U have issued a joint statement denouncing the “State of Scholarship” report commissioned by their chancellors. Please, let’s make this as widely read as the gaslighting to which it responds.

“We’re seeing the unfolding of a decades-long effort by right-wing think tanks to weaken the accreditation system..at stake is a systemic effort to make higher ed more vulnerable to political interference & to cost-cutting, quality reducing measures.”

Here are the notes from my @aaup.org Legal Update, delivered by the incredible @sbagen.bsky.social at the Biennial this last week! academeblog.org/2026/06/15/a...

“We have shown that when the government tries to turn fear into policy, the AAUP will answer with law, with organizing, with solidarity, & with the oldest commitment we have: the defense of academic freedom for the common good.” 💥💥💥

That’s a Wrap! What a POWERFUL Higher Ed Summit this week in Chicago centering the work of building a strong movement to defend the quality & promise of higher ed & our democracy in this pivotal moment. LET’S GO! #AAUP2026 👊🏽👊🏿👊🏻👊🏼👊🏾

“I want faculty to leave here recognizing that for us to transform our situation—whether it’s in our classrooms, in our departments, on our campuses, in our states or nationally—we have everything we need to do it. We can play a role in transforming our democracy.” — AAUP President Todd Wolfson

Contract Faculty United-UAW has demonstrated what unions can do — including prioritizing the lowest paid faculty.

The Vanderbilt report and Trump’s attack on the NIH and NSF are part of the same right-wing effort to attack the authority of all peer-reviewed knowledge so that they can police what researchers write, say, publish, and think to ensure it complies with corporate-friendly aims.

To the extent that people are angry (as they very much should be!) about the horrific war on science, they also need to get angry about this outrageous war on the humanities. Both attack peer reviewed research that doesn’t happen to fit with a center-right worldview.

“As authoritarians attempt to tear it down, we must fight for a fully funded education system in service of a robust democracy. And that’s what we will do. Full stop.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President #AAUP2026

Still all quiet on the #NSF front. No new awards in the past week. REMINDER: We still are hearing of trickles of terminations, suspensions, and money being held back from grantees, which NSF isn't reporting. We need your help - please report! 🧪 grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0...

The AAUP is doing what SACSCOC apparently will not. Thank God! Faculty across Texas have raised concerns about censorship, political interference, program closures, and attacks on shared governance. Those concerns deserve independent scrutiny. If accreditors won't act, someone must. bit.ly/4okOu1R

Russell Vought has a plan for science, but so do we. Join the fight by taking action against the latest OMB grant funding proposal at the link in our bio, or go here 👉 zurl.co/brp0W #StandUpForScience #Science #OMB #Vought #SaveScience

It's important to speak out on this immediate and long-term political threat to science, health, arts and society without delay (the link has suggestions on what to do). 🧪 fight2win.standupforscience.net

How do you control unruly academics? Through their trustees, of course. This right-wing group has a national network to push their agendas on universities across the USA. @aaup.org www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...

This puts all federal grants and contracts under the thumb of a commissar. It is profoundly anti-democratic and destructive. Political control will be instituted over science and every cent the USG disburses. Speak up now. This is really bad. It cannot stand. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/o...

The AAUP’s Report: Political Interference & Academic Freedom in Florida’s Public Higher Education System received a cameo on the show. We have a lot to say about New College. 🍍@newcollegeoffl.bsky.social🍍 Check out the report here:

ICYMI: John Oliver’s hilarious & thorough takedown of the dysfunctional “complete shit show” hostile takeover of New College of Florida that led to the most corrupt, financially inefficient public university in the state. 👀 ➡️ @newcollegeoffl.bsky.social youtu.be/jFMc07F1UUU?...

Demanding answers to the $1T question; on Friday #AFTCT activists joined fellow #union members, faith leaders, advocates to denounce cruel healthcare cuts. #CodeREDCT @aft.org @afthighered.bsky.social @afthealthcare.bsky.social @aaup.org @yaleaaup.bsky.social @seiu.org @ctforall.bsky.social