The snake is growing. ✊🏽✊🏻✊🏿✊🏾✊🏼 Vanderbilt, Texas, AZ…now’s the time. The world is watching. The resistance is here. #NoLoyaltyOaths #NoKings #DefendHigherEd

Students, faculty, & campus workers are leading this incredible pushback. We will not back down in defense of higher education & our democracy. There is an unstoppable wave of unified rejection of Trump’s authoritarian agenda cresting throughout higher education. Join Us. #DefendHigherEd

🚨🚨🚨 And THREE stood up! Penn has joined MIT & Brown in rejecting Trump’s loyalty oath compact. When we join together and fight back, WE WIN! No amount of federal bribery is worth surrendering the freedom to question, explore, and dissent. LET’S GO! #DefendHigherEd @aaup-penn.bsky.social

🎙️ Last week, a group of Columbia professors — most of them Jewish — took a stand. Risking reprisal, they publicly rejected the university’s recent incorporation of a controversial definition of antisemitism. Their statements, excerpted here, can be read in full at cu-standsup.org/events/free-....

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

Spread the word: when scientific training and research funding is cut, EVERYBODY loses. @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2025/06/27/b...

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:

🚨🚨🚨 NEW AAUP Report Analyzes Trump Admin Weaponization of Title VI to Undermine Civil Rights Protections. #Academicfreedom #AcademicSky #DefendHigherEd

The AAUP & @aft.org are fighting back to remind our elected leaders that higher education & public health research are transformative public goods. We must keep life-saving NIH research fully funded & stop the Trump admin’s devastating funding cuts that are halting medical breakthroughs.

The Resistance Is Inevitable. We’re sick & tired of ICE & FBI agents profiling, harassing, & violently arresting our neighbors. #wearealldc Incredible turnout in DC yesterday, including a strong AAUP contingent. @aaupmason.bsky.social @gwaaup.bsky.social @afthighered.bsky.social

In April, the AAUP & our Harvard chapter sued the Trump admin for demanding that Harvard censor speech & restructure core operations or else face $8.7 billion in funding cuts. We hope this decision clarifies to Harvard’s administration that bargaining w/ tyrannical authoritarians is unacceptable.

TODAY! 4–5:30pm ET Zoom panel discussion by CU-AAUP: LEGAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE COLUMBIA AGREEMENT An expert panel of law professors will address questions about CU’s resolution agreement. Open to Barnard & Columbia faculty. MUST register by 12pm, link here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Out today in the Columbia Spectator — faculty from CUIMC Stands Up & CU Faculty Alliance reframe the narrative about antisemitism at Columbia through an analysis of the HEALS data. Read it here ⬇️ www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...

Thank you to Rise Up, Columbia for the astute analysis as usual and the footnote shoutout to CUIMC Stands Up! We’re a group of medical campus faculty & staff firmly against the exchange of our values for grant funds, even as our jobs & careers are at risk. 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/riseupco...

Latest on Columbia with words by historian Ellen Schrecker www.vqronline.org/spring-2025/...

At Columbia, we’re also facing challenges as layoffs continue, threatening the integrity of research + diversity driving our excellence. We need ACTION to protect academic freedom, scholars, & research. We demand our leaders: 🧬 Protect science 🔬 Preserve innovation 👩‍🔬 Support education & research

So far ~250 Columbia affiliates have signed a petition calling to remove Shoshana Shendelman from CU Board of Trustees + boards of CUIMC & VP&S: www.bit.ly/Remove-Trustee After an FDA warning letter ‼️ she allegedly misled investors re: company prospects Read more: theintercept.com/2025/05/27/c...

@columbiamed.bsky.social posted this on X? CUIMC has many obesity medicine docs, dietitians, etc. who study nutrition. Trustee Shoshana Shendelman isn’t one of them She’s been sued for fraud (hiding FDA concerns). Faculty have a petition to remove her from CU leadership: bit.ly/Remove-Trustee

Still thinking about the official Columbia Medical Center @columbiamed.bsky.social X account posting about the “importance of collaboration” between pharma and Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) as if MAHA is a legit org and not a gov. committee & broader movement, both widely considered unscientific

"A reduction in federal research funding on the scale currently contemplated for fiscal year 2026 will have a catastrophic effect on the advancement of biomedical & biotechnology capabilities in the United States." This is utter madness. Massive cuts to US scientific research will harm everyone.

Spread the word: when scientific training and research funding is cut, EVERYBODY loses. @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2025/06/27/b...

June 30, 2025 Columbia University ICE Protest - NYC Activists with the Irving Medical Center held photos of students that have been targeted for deportation due to political speech. Instagram: @cufaculty_alliance Instagram: @cuimstandup Bluesky: @cuimcstandsup.bsky.social Facebook: CUIMC Stands Up

This week’s Columbia vigil will be at 116th & Broadway tomorrow (Monday) at noon. All are welcome, bring a friend or colleague! We will again be holding photographs of ALL targeted students. They’re out of detention, but still targeted with attempted deportation for political speech #CampusVigils

Still thinking about the official Columbia Medical Center @columbiamed.bsky.social X account posting about the “importance of collaboration” between pharma and Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) as if MAHA is a legit org and not a gov. committee & broader movement, both widely considered unscientific

@columbiamed.bsky.social posted this on X? CUIMC has many obesity medicine docs, dietitians, etc. who study nutrition. Trustee Shoshana Shendelman isn’t one of them She’s been sued for fraud (hiding FDA concerns). Faculty have a petition to remove her from CU leadership: bit.ly/Remove-Trustee

We’re thrilled that Mahmoud Khalil has been reunited with his family Our weekly vigils will continue at Columbia in protest of ICE detentions, deportations & displacement Join us tomorrow 6/23 @ 12pm 📍Broadway & 116th Please wear black, bring sun protection & water. We’ll be out for at least 30m

Rise Up, Columbia published a helpful breakdown of latest report from CU’s Task Force on Antisemitism: “In presenting a report that shows (and explicitly says it shows) basically equal levels of fear and discomfort on the part of Muslim and Jewish students… (cont.) open.substack.com/pub/riseupco...

Columbians Against Kings! 🦁❌👑 We had such a vibrant Columbia contingent at the NYC No Kings March!! 💙✊ Columbia faculty and staff will continue standing up for our research, our teaching, and most crucially, our students! 📸: @ninaber.bsky.social #NoKings #RiseUpHigherEd #HandsOffOurStudents

Columbia: Join our weekly vigil tomorrow (6/16) 12–1PM to say Hands Off Our Students & Colleagues facing government persecution for speech 📍MAIN CAMPUS: 116th & Broadway 📍CUIMC: Haven Plaza Please wear black & remain silent during this 1-hr vigil #CampusVigils #HandsOffOurStudents #RiseUpHigherEd

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Last week, faculty & staff across @columbiauniversity.bsky.social campuses gathered questions for the Board of Trustees on postcards then delivered them during their meeting on campus! 📬 HUNDREDS of CU community members wrote postcards w/ questions or submitted them online ✉️✍️ Read them here ⬇️

The Trump administration’s attempt to strip Columbia University of its accreditation is yet another authoritarian attempt to control what can be said, thought, taught, and learned on college campuses. Full statement from AAUP President Todd Wolfson:

Our “Defunded Science Fair” was a huge success! Thank you to all who showed up to present. We had such great conversations with alumni on campus for alumni weekend. If you missed it, we hope to host another — stay tuned!

If you'd like to participate as a researcher, you can still sign up to present a poster (like that one you have rolled up in your office....): bit.ly/defunded-science Or you can just show up to participate or support & we'll have a sign for you to hold! Alt location: Sidewalk on Broadway & 115th.

TODAY (5/31) 12pm: Columbia University researchers whose grants have been cut will be at our "DEFUNDED SCIENCE FAIR" 🧬🔬🔭🥼🧪🌍🌋📊 Come out to College Walk to hear about our work, why funding was terminated, & how this defunding will impact the Columbia community — and health care & science everywhere.

Today, faculty and staff from across Columbia's campuses again stood together in silence for one hour to call for an end to the persecution of our colleagues and students. 📸: @ninaber.bsky.social #CampusVigils #HandsOff #RiseUpHigherEd

Columbia community! Join us for a SPECIAL VIGIL TOMORROW (5/30) at 12pm at the Sundial on Morningside campus. Our silent vigils call for an end to the government persecution of our students and colleagues. Please wear black if you’d like to stand with us for this 1-hour vigil.

RFK Jr. plans to bar NIH scientists from top journals like NEJM & JAMA, replacing them with government-run outlets. This would delegitimize taxpayer-funded research, warns Dr. Adam Gaffney of Harvard Medical School. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Check out the Weather and Climate livestream — starting today (5/28) at 1pm! More info here:

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

📣 BREAKING NEWS: Harvard sues Trump administration over foreign student ban, calling move unconstitutional and a threat to academic freedom. “Harvard is not Harvard without its international students,” the university writes. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

‼️Action item for Columbia affiliates‼️ We urgently need to stand up for shared governance at Columbia! Please sign our petition in support of CU-AAUP’s recommendations for moving forward — grounded in democratic values: bit.ly/cu-defend-sh...

Over 90% of Americans rely on federally funded science, But only 10% are worried about losing access to it. That’s a dangerous disconnect. Help us close the gap. Join our #SummerFightForScience and help spread the word about how essential science is to everyday lives. www.npr.org/2025/05/06/n...

The severe impact of federal grant terminations on critical health research and training is why we have been calling on CU leadership to provide backup funds for researchers. Instead, nearly 200 researchers have already been let go. Protect our research! gothamist.com/news/soul-cr...

Today Columbia faculty & staff again gathered, now at both Morningside & CUIMC, for silent vigils calling to end the persecution of our students & scholars. Concurrent vigil on campuses across the country will all continue weekly — Mondays, 12pm ET. Join us. #CampusVigils #HandsOff #RiseUpHigherEd

Columbia faculty & staff again gathered, now at both Morningside & CUIMC for silent vigils calling to end the persecution of our students & scholars. Concurrent vigils held on campuses across the country will all continue weekly — Mondays, 12pm ET. Join us. #CampusVigils #HandsOff #RiseUpHigherEd

Tomorrow! 5/12 @ Noon ET‼️ Columbia faculty, staff, & students will again come together for a silent vigil calling for the release of our fellow scholars & for an end to their unlawful persecution We’re gathering weekly as long as we need to 2 locations: 📍Morningside: Sundial 📍CUIMC: Haven Plaza

Tomorrow! 5/12 @ Noon ET‼️ Columbia faculty, staff, & students will again come together for a silent vigil calling for the release of our fellow scholars & for an end to their unlawful persecution We’re gathering weekly as long as we need to 2 locations: 📍Morningside: Sundial 📍CUIMC: Haven Plaza

Yesterday, faculty and staff at Columbia, Tufts and Georgetown Universities launched Campus Vigils for Abducted Students Professors & staff at 3 universities whose students have been abducted held simultaneous vigils to call for their release, and will do so weekly until every abductee comes home