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569 Dartmouth faculty members have signed a petition urging College President Sian Leah Beilock not to sign the Trump administration’s “Compact”

www.politico.com/news/2025/10... “It’s pretty vague what the advantages are of signing the compact,” said Teresa Sullivan, the former president of the University of Virginia, one of 9 colleges the Trump administration is trying to court. “If you’re thinking of this as a deal, it’s a one-sided deal.

Join Together and Reject Trump's Loyalty Oath for Higher Ed-Penn, USC, Vanderbilt, University of Virginia, University of Arizona, UT-Austin, MIT, Brown & Dartmouth. @aaup.org @aaup-penn.bsky.social @utaustinaaup.bsky.social @aaupbrownchapter.bsky.social

Made by @aaup-penn.bsky.social member!

Thank you @nytopinion.nytimes.com for publishing this rot. Marc Rowan has run hundreds of companies into the dust to extract profits from their failure and bankruptcies. Now he wants to do the same to American higher education. Do not believe a word this man says. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

PFT members at Thurgood Marshall know that we can withstand any storm if we stick together. Solidarity helped us win a contract that protects us from skyrocketing health care costs; there will be NO increase in our existing premiums for the next 3 years! #PhlEd #PFTstrong #RedFriday

And also, if you can’t stand on principle, stand on self preservation. Signing won’t stop this regime from attacking. Signing signals weakness, that you’re an easy target. There is absolutely nothing to be gained by signing this.

MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration. MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone." orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

join a coalition of University of Chicago unions Weds Oct 15th at 2pm!

Over the past 9 months, @aaup.org and the 100's of branches have proven that WHEN WE FIGHT, WE WIN. We are building a "Wall of Wins" to help faculty, students, and staff see the power of unity. HELP US by quote-posting with links to your own stories about #AAUPwins to be collected on a new website.

📢Solidarity! This is the time for solidarity among universities, among faculty of different persuasions, between public & private universities, between students, staff, faculty, administrators, alumni, and donors. Fight the authoritarian takeover of higher education together! Fight the Compact! ✊🏽✊🏼✊🏾

Our university purchased faculty subscriptions to the Calm app and then doubled many of our course loads. Join your faculty union and be the thorn in their side in your senates or assemblies.

Marc Rowan says the "compact" will "protect free speech," but First Amendment scholars across the political spectrum are of one mind that the compact is flagrantly unconstitutional, and every major free speech org--from the ACLU to FIRE to PEN--agrees. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

“There is no place in American higher education for death threats against professors,” Todd Wolfson, the president of the AAUP, said in a statement. “We stand with Professor Bray against this gross assault on academic freedom and freedom of speech.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

#AAUPwin at CSU - Following AAUP-CSU's advocacy postcard campaign, the Colorado State University has withdrawn ALL changes to the university's "Free Speech and Peaceful Assembly" policy. #AAUP-CSU FOUGHT AND WON back speech rights for all employees and students rights. aaupcsu.org/2025/10/08/c...

Over 100 Brown U students & 20 faculty members gathered outside the campus today to demand that the university reject Trump’s loyalty oath compact. Professors & students taped their mouths shut to symbolize the compact’s threat to free speech, #academicfreedom & diversity of thought. #DefendHigherEd

NEW: L.A. Times journalists just voted to authorize the newsroom’s first open-ended strike. Eighty-five percent of the @latguild.bsky.social voted to support the strike. Just over 200 workers — 98% of members — took part in the historic vote.

I know this case is all over - & it should be - but Turning Point USA has waged a harassment campaign against faculty for more than a decade. I know of at least a half dozen other faculty, personally, who have received death threats and several of those who felt so unsafe they too left their homes

Now and forever, AAUP-Penn stands in solidarity with GETUP-UAW. Read our public statement today, as GETUP members held a massive practice picket to show they are ready to win a fair contract aaup-penn.org/statement-of...

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

“If we aren't free to pursue research and teaching based on wherever the knowledge leads us, we are not truly working in the service of the public.” — Rana Jaleel, associate professor at UC Davis & Chair of the AAUP’s Committee A on Academic Freedom & Tenure

Now and forever, AAUP-Penn stands in solidarity with GETUP-UAW. Read our public statement today, as GETUP members held a massive practice picket to show they are ready to win a fair contract aaup-penn.org/statement-of...

This week, our colleague Dr. Mark Bray came under attack by Turning Point USA’s Rutgers chapter for his public scholarship. Rutgers AAUP-AFT and the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union condemn this campaign and stand in solidarity with our colleagues. Read our full statement here: https://loom.ly/BDXasRY

To sign this loyalty oath, as AAUP-Penn president Jessa Lingel says, “would be a total betrayal of our values” whyy.org/articles/pen...

Federal workers in Chicago rallied today to demand that Congress pass a budget that works for all Americans, not billionaires. Trump has been shutting down public services & federal workers for months. It's time for Congress to hold the line to protect the healthcare & public services we all need.

News coverage: www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...

#JustIn: Democrats in the state Senate say "future budget considerations" could impact UVA if it signs onto the Trump administration's education compact.

Looking good, GETUP-UAW! ❤️✊

Did you know GETUP-UAW members have been in negotiations with Penn for a year now? They are serious about winning a fair contract, and it is well past time. Practice picket right now on College Green—come out!

Philly Inquirer nails it: “No amount of money is worth what the Trump administration is asking for.”

"We are living through a multi-decade moral panic that’s been manufactured against higher education." @aaup.org @isaackamola.bsky.social

The Trump administration is trying to blackmail higher ed so they can dictate what schools teach, who they admit and hire, what researchers study, and who's able to be safe at school. Sign on to this petition to reject Trump's "Loyalty Oath" compact! https://loom.ly/GGoLaDI

The question journalists need to be asking is: WHY is the government trying this? It’s because they want to control universities in unlawful ways that courts will not allow; it’s not working; so they’re trying to get universities to sign up “voluntarily” for unlawful levels of government control.

Get ready! Be there!

Check out AAUP’s statement denouncing the Trump admin’s compact and undemocratic loyalty oaths here👇

Did you know that UC leadership has *refused to share* the demand letter it received from the Trump administration? We deserve to know what's in it. On Sept. 30, UCLA's Legislative Assembly, which represents senate faculty across campus, voted UNANIMOUSLY to call on admin to show us the letter.

Well, well, well www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

you can often tell the fake academic freedom/free speech heroes from the real ones because when asked to think of ways to defend freedom, the fake ones don’t generally think of unions, and in fact often blame them. wrongo!!

Finally, check out AAUP-Penn’s statement that clearly frames the compact as a “threat, not an invitation.” No to partisan interference in higher education! @aaup-penn.bsky.social Statement here👇

Say NO to Trump’s loyalty oaths and extortion of our universities! We will NOT throw our students, faculty, and staff under the bus to comply with undemocratic and partisan ideological agendas.

3/ The AAUP/AFT statement calling on "all college and university governing boards, campus administrations, academic disciplinary organizations...to reject such collusion with the Trump administration and to stand firmly on the side of free expression" www.aaup.org/news/univers...

4/ A statement from the always awesome @aaup-penn.bsky.social reminding the admin that they already made concessions and are now being extorted once again (hey, admin out there, listen to your AAUP chapters!): aaup-penn.org/news/

Check out me & @chenjerai.bsky.social & Lorena Grundy of @aaup-penn.bsky.social break down the new Trump compact for higher ed…. Otherwise known as loyalty oaths. This is AAUP TV. @aaup.org @aft.org @higheredlabor.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/RB1FLkR...

Wake up Sheraton!

“‘The compact represents a total violation of academic freedom, shared governance and an open democracy,’ [AAUP-Penn president Jessa Lingel] wrote. “So now we'll get to see what kind of university we have—one that stands up to tyranny or one that capitulates.” www.thedp.com/article/2025...

This conversation was very good and well worth watching: www.youtube.com/live/RB1FLkR... @aaup-penn.bsky.social @aaup.org @chenjerai.bsky.social @proftwolf.bsky.social

Grateful to @aaup-penn.bsky.social speaking out against the Trump administration’s latest attempt to recruit Penn and other universities to sign on to a government takeover of higher education in exchange for a favored status in receiving federal grants. aaup-penn.org/statement-by...

This case … squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us.” “The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally ‘yes, they do’. — Judge William G. Young #AAUPvRubio

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: