"Many faculty feel kind of in the dark about these processes" --Daniel Martinez HoSang (President of Yale AAUP), calling for more participation from faculty, students, and staff in budget priorities, as Yale considers potential layoffs @yaleaaup.bsky.social

This is one of the most important documents produced this year. At a time when many of our professional organizations are punting, @aaup.org has been leading on EdTech, AI, academic freedom & faculty governance. I'm humbled to be joining the team that authored this report.

“We wanted to address a frustrating narrative we’ve been hearing more frequently—that Yale has somehow been exempted from the funding freezes and disruptions affecting other institutions” -- Daniel HoSang, President of Yale AAUP @yaleaaup.bsky.social

We @uam-umd.bsky.social won. Faculty packed town halls, talked to their colleagues and collected hundreds of petition signatures. Now UMD is coughing up $8.75m, during a deficit, to fund faculty whose research is under attack. Not enough, but a helluva thing for a union the state calls illegal.

“It’s not inconceivable to me why they haven’t been more vocal; I just challenge the idea that people haven’t paid a price. I think faculty have paid a price, and students have paid a price.” #AcademicFreedom @yaleaaup.bsky.social @aaup.org

The unity of students, faculty & staff powered our legal victories against the Trump admin! Administrators & elected officials are not the ones filing the lawsuits against the Trump admin when our universities are under attack. Rather, faculty, students & staff are the ones defending higher ed.

Again, this is an existential crisis for the entire financial & academic model of 🇺🇸 public universities, but the public doesn’t understand this, in part because our leaders have been <totally absent from the public square> on this issue. It’s maddening: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Great piece on the @crimsoncourage.bsky.social and #Standup4Yale tailgate yesterday. Pabst, Pamphlets and a Petition: A Harvard-Yale Tailgate in the Trump Era www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...

Great piece on yesterday’s tailgate with Stand Up for Yale! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u... Please sign and share our joint letter: crimsoncourage.fillout.com/yale-harvard... #HYjointhefight #harvard #yale #academicfreedom #thegame

Thanks to @senatorblumenthal.bsky.social for handing out stickers and telling us that it was “the most fun he’s had all year!” ❤️💙 Sign our joint Harvard/Yale alumni letter in support of academic freedom: crimsoncourage.fillout.com/yale-harvard... #hyjointhefight #TheGame #Yale #Harvard

#Harvard and #Yale alums, faculty, staff and students came out today in support of higher education in America now under vicious assault from the #Trump administration (thanks to @blumenthal.senate.gov and @gtconway.bsky.social for coming out to help us today at the #Harvard #Yale game!).

Very simple lesson here: Faculty governance will defend academic values, like academic freedom, even when it is unpopular. Political appointees who serve as Regents will blow with the ideological winds, which in Texas are anti-speech.

“Given the findings from federal judges that Trump has flouted the legal safeguards against abrupt and arbitrary grant cancellations in favor of illicit bullying, the question facing universities trying to negotiate their way out is: What is there to negotiate?” www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Faculty senates are under attack from new legislation that sidelines faculty voices and undermines academic freedom. The latest AAUP report defends independent, representative governance as essential to higher ed’s integrity. @aaup.org academeblog.org/2025/11/18/i...

The one thing that will get me to the Harvard Yale tailgate!! Join us tomorrow, and stand up for academic freedom - going to be fun. @yaleaaup.bsky.social

The Trump admin weaponized Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to attack DEI programs, protections for trans people & freedom of speech at our universities. We took the Trump admin to court over this in AAUP v. Trump and WON. AAUP General Counsel Veena Dubal discusses what prompted the lawsuit👇

Our most recent AAUP TV episode breaks down AAUP v. Trump, a historic wall-to-wall labor union lawsuit that resulted in a preliminary injunction stopping the Trump-Vance administration's attempt to stifle free speech & academic freedom across the University of California system. Full episode here👇

Lots going on but don’t lose track of the Trump attacks on biomedical research and cancer cures. @jeremymberg.bsky.social posted a leaked #NIH memo today. I want to highlight a few scary parts. They’re about taking power from scientists and experts and giving it to the president’s hacks. 1/ 🧪

In this new @usnews.com article, five law profs (including me) with vastly different views on most issues explain why colleges should reject Trump's "Compact" with higher ed, for both constitutional and policy reasons: www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...

Your dues pay for these legal victories (and much more at the chapter level). Join AAUP today!

@aaup.org Report Defends Shared Governance Amid Political Attacks https://bit.ly/484zptP

“This move is neither streamlining nor reform–it’s an abdication and abandonment of America’s future. Rather than show leadership in helping all students seize their potential, it walks away from that responsibility.” — @rweingarten.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/11/18/p...

"The state department is proposing to suspend 38 universities including Harvard and Yale from a federal research partnership program because they engage in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) hiring practices, according to an internal memo and spreadsheet obtained by the Guardian." Read more👇

Going to The Game? #Harvard and #Yale are rivals on the field but off the field, we’re working together with alumni from other schools around the country to defend academic freedom against the Trump administration’s authoritarianism. Come join us. yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/11...

AAUP TV — WEDS, NOV 19 @ 7 PM ET! Veena Dubal, AAUP General Counsel, and Todd Wolfson, AAUP President, will discuss the historic victory in AAUP v. Trump and what it means for the UC system & higher ed! @proftwolf.bsky.social @veenadubal.bsky.social Tune in on IG or YouTube (link in thread)!

WILL IS FREE FROM ICE! After months in detention, Tae Heung "Will" Kim, a scientist at Texas A&M developing a vaccine to treat Lyme disease & longtime US permanent resident, has been released! Our movement to defend higher ed means protecting higher ed workers from ICE. @texasaaup.bsky.social

WE WON!!! The US District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a preliminary injunction in AAUP et al v. Trump et al (the wall to wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of Title VI to reshape the University of California system. Read the order here:

It’s a rainy morning in California, but our future is bright! ☀️ We are reveling in this incredible win for academic freedom and higher education. www.latimes.com/california/s...

“This represents saving higher education, saving public research and the standing up of faculty and staff and students”—AAUP, one of the parties that brought the case against the Trump administration

BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!! We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org

“Dubal…said…she was “kind of in tears” after the ruling. “This represents saving higher education, saving public research and the standing up of faculty and staff and students,” said Ms. Dubal, who is also a law professor at the University of California, Irvine.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...

Once again, the AAUP takes the lead in defending higher education. If you teach or conduct research in higher education, join now @aaup.org

"Any proposed agreement should have been presented to the University Faculty & other governing bodies...The Cornell administration’s acceptance of this agreement without any faculty governance involvement is a betrayal of shared governance structures. " - AAUP Cornell @cornellaaup.bsky.social

This is designed to tank public health & primary care by excluding public health professions, advanced nursing practice, physical & occupational therapy from loans that can cover the cost of education. This is going to make an existing workforce crisis worse. aspph.org/department-o...

“We... wanted to address a frustrating narrative we’ve been hearing more frequently—that Yale has somehow been exempted from the funding freezes and disruptions affecting other institutions,” HoSang wrote... “The idea that Yale has been untouched is simply wrong."

Our November 7 day of action to defend higher education has taken the country by storm! ✊ “There is only one way forward in saving higher education and democracy writ large and that is students, faculty, staff united...We have to become a new political force.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

"We are calling on our institutional leadership, our governor and our state officials to stand up, speak up, and have the courage to protect academic freedom and reject the federal administration so called compact for higher education" --Neena Qasba, vice president of UCHC-AAUP

“We... wanted to address a frustrating narrative we’ve been hearing more frequently—that Yale has somehow been exempted from the funding freezes and disruptions affecting other institutions,” HoSang wrote... “The idea that Yale has been untouched is simply wrong."

Professors from across CT say, No Loyalty Oaths in Higher Ed! www.ctinsider.com/news/educati...

Connecticut state senator and professor at Quinnipiac University, Sujata Gadkar-Wilcox, calls for the rejection of Trump's loyalty oath compact! Reject the compact and defend the democratic right for higher ed workers to dissent! @aftct.bsky.social

Higher ed workers say: Condemn the Compact! Here is CSU-AAUP, AFT Local 6745 member A. Fiona Pearson, professor of sociology at Central Connecticut State University, calling for us to unite in the face of these attacks on higher ed! @aftct.bsky.social

CSU-AAUP co-hosted a press conference with other American Association of University Professors chapters from across the state to demand that CT leaders reject the Trump administration's higher education "compact" and protect our freedoms.

A coalition of AAUP chapters in Atlanta stood up today for the future of higher education and marched from Morehouse College to Clark Atlanta University! @neatoday.bsky.social #defendacademicfreedom

The Cornell AAUP chapter has consistently stated that any deal with the Trump administration would be strategically unwise and a betrayal of Cornell’s principles. This remains the case. At best, we can say that this deal could have been worse. Read our full statement here:

"We are calling on our institutional leadership, our governor and our state officials, to stand up, speak up and have the courage to protect academic freedom and reject the federal administration so called compact for higher education." — Neena Qasba, Vice President of AAUP - UConn Health Center

Hear @proftwolf.bsky.social: “OUR compact is: higher education as a public good—that means free college for all; that means an end to student debt; that means work with dignity for everyone on our campuses; it means freedom to teach and freedom to learn without Big Brother on our back!”

Tomorrow! Wesleyan-AAUP hosts a "One Campus" rally to celebrate Wesleyan faculty, staff, and students who refuse to live in fear. Academic Freedom! Freedom of Speech! Solidarity across campus!

It’s time for us to reconnect with the radical, system-changing spirit that was once at the heart of our field. #publichealth #episky #medsky #activism www.thenation.com/article/acti...