Solidarity to all students & higher ed workers across the country standing up to build a better future today! #DefendHigherEd

Happy 11/7 to all who are building a world where students are free to learn. Rise up against billionaires and their loyalty oaths!

Good morning NYC! Are you ready?

“From attacks on academic freedom to the defunding of life-saving scientific research to arresting peaceful student protesters, Trump’s higher ed policies have been catastrophic for our democracy. We’re excited to build a coalition of workers & students fighting back." – AAUP president Todd Wolfson

NYC, come out 11/7 and say: Billionaires out of our classrooms! Stand with @aaup.org @aft.org @debtcollective.bsky.social @psc-cuny.org @uupinfo.bsky.social. @higheredlabor.bsky.social @nysut.bsky.social @fordhamaaup.bsky.social @aaupcu.bsky.social, NYU AAUP, SDS, & many more

Harvard AAUP's Ryan Enos explains the importance of colleges working together to combat Trump’s attempts to shake down universities. #defendhighered @ryanenos.bsky.social

💥💥💥 DEFEND HIGHER ED STARTER PACK! We are building a movement to defend US higher education & have created a starter pack of AAUP chapter & ally accounts to follow. Please Share! (This list is not exhaustive. If you have suggestions, please shoot us a DM!) #DefendHighEd ⬇️⬇️⬇️ go.bsky.app/3YidJ7k

Public universities that sign onto Trump's "Loyalty Oath" will violate the constitutional rights of their students.🤯 AAUP General Counsel Veena Dubal breaks down why in this clip from our recent AAUP TV update. @veenadubal.bsky.social #DefendHigherEd

"Conservative strategists seem to understand that their agenda on higher education, including defunding universities, intimidating international students and privatizing loans, has little public support." -Yale AAUP President Daniel HoSang on the AI-fueled propaganda campaign against higher ed

TONIGHT! Join AAUP president Todd Wolfson & AAUP General Counsel Veena Dubal for an update on the AVALANCHE of universities rejecting Trump’s loyalty oath compact & how the compact violates the US Constitution. 7:30PM ET / 4:30 PM PT Live on both IG & YouTube. Link: youtube.com/live/h-H-ETa...

And now there are SEVEN. UofA president Suresh Garimella announced today that the school will reject Trump’s loyalty compact. “Principles like academic freedom, merit-based research funding & institutional independence…must be preserved." Vanderbilt, TX: all eyes on you. 👀 #DefendHigherEd

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The fall issue of #Academe is out today! Contributors examine a range of threats to academic freedom, freedom of expression, and shared governance on campuses today. Check out the full issue here:

UVA has rejected the compact! And on the heels of a 1000 person rally today. When we organize we win!!! First public university to reject Trump’s poisonous loyalty oath. ❤️❤️ cvillerightnow.com/news/208802-...

BOOM! After over a thousand students, faculty, & workers gathered on campus to demand a rejection of Trump’s bribe, UVA SAYS NO LOYALTY OATH! ✊🏼✊🏿✊🏻✊🏾 M.I.T. ☑️ BROWN ☑️ PENN ☑️ USC☑️ UVA ☑️ This is People Power in Action. #DefendHigherEd

UPDATE: 4 Down 5 to Go Who’s Next? When students, faculty, & our communities are united, nothing can stop us. Join us for our national teach in on the growing resistance movement to Trump’s ‘Loyalty Oath’ Compact today at 2PM ET: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #DefendHigherEd

TOMORROW Friday, October 17, 2PM ET Join us to learn more about the nationwide coordinated resistance to Trump’s loyalty oaths & unprecedented assault on higher education. Together, we are turning the tide.

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

BOOM! 💥💥💥 Brown REJECTS Trump’s loyalty oath! “I’m concerned the compact, by its nature & provisions, would restrict #academicfreedom & undermine the autonomy of Brown’s governance, critically compromising our ability to fulfill our mission.” — Christina H. Paxson, Brown University President

Brown's rejection of the compact would not have been possible without the amazing mobilization of faculty, students and staff last week! When we fight, we win!! Score this as another victory for workers and students! @aaup.org

We're excited to share the new call for papers for next year's volume of the Journal of Academic Freedom: www.aaup.org/CFP

"Once you start teaching loyalty instead of critical thinking, you stop creating scholars & you start creating followers. That's not the America we signed up for." #noloyaltyoaths #academicfreedom

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

“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

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

The Trump admin’s offer to give preferential treatment to institutions that toe the party line reeks of bribery in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological agenda. This is corruption. Adherence to ‘loyalty oaths’ would usher in a new era of thought policing in American higher education.

In a landmark ruling in our case against the Trump admin on the deportation of international students for protected speech, Judge William Young rejected the government’s justification for the wearing of masks by ICE agents as “disingenuous, squalid & dishonorable.” #AAUPvRubio @knightcolumbia.org

Today I am especially happy to be an @aaup.org member.

Again and again over the past six months, the AAUP has shown that the key to fighting back against injustice and executive overreach is ... fighting back! There has never been a better time to join AAUP and help protect free speech at all US Universities. When we unite and fight, we win.

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:

"Declining international student enrollment is a piece of the larger puzzle undermining the financial health of higher ed. [We see] programs shut down, campuses shut down, smaller public or private institutions closing & a curtailment of opportunities for students." — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

Academic freedom will not survive by encouraging professors to censor themselves more. “Too much of the response to the Trump admin’s repression has been driven by fear & cowardice. We need to fiercely support #academicfreedom as a fundamental right for all.” — @johnkwilson.bsky.social

“Knowledge flourishes when inquiry is free and respectful." The AAUP supports statements affirming academic freedom in class syllabi! @aaupcu.bsky.social #DefendHigherEd #AcademicFreedom

A network of right wing “pink slime” faux news sites is targeting “anti-American” classes at colleges & universities nationwide. #DefendHigherEd

"Look, we are a labor union. We’re going to fight & respond to this moment...We're standing for what we always stood for...a powerful higher-education sector that leads to innovation & social mobility & is a bedrock of our democracy." —Todd Wolfson, AAUP President #DefendHigherEd #AcademicSky

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

“We will not allow authoritarians to dismantle higher education. We will not allow billionaires to profit while communities suffer. And we will not allow fear to silence students and workers who speak out.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President #DefendHigherEd #HigherEdBenefitsEveryone @aft.org

The AAUP notes with great alarm the rash of recent administrative actions to discipline faculty, staff, & student speech in the aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk. 1/4

“I believe that I am on the right side of history. How would you expect me to be silent, when my people are being killed on a daily basis, when my family members are still in prison, when I have lost dozens of family members?”

Important & hilarious deconstruction of Trump & the authoritarian far right's absurdly dangerous attacks on American higher education featuring a cameo from Michael Thaddeus, acting president of @aaupcu.bsky.social. #DefendHigherEd #Academicsky

We invite all Columbia AAUP Chapter members ‪@aaupcu.bsky.social‬ to join us at Stand Together for Higher Ed. We are fighting alongside the AAUP and building faculty and staff power across all US higher education: standtogetherhighered.org. We are building coalitions across states, universities

On the first day of classes, Columbia AAUP held a press conference sounding the alarm on threats to #academicfreedom in teaching & research. Several of Columbia’s most distinguished faculty spoke out on the government intrusions & administrative concessions that have harmed our institution. 🧵

Here’s a 🧵 on key points in Judge Burroughs’ order in the AAUP/Harvard AAUP’s lawsuit against Trump’s DOJ for ideological funding cuts at Harvard: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This is a HUGE win for American higher education! #DefendHigherEd www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

AAUP-HARVARD, AAUP, & UAW WON THE HARVARD CASE!!!! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

On the first day of classes, Columbia AAUP held a press conference sounding the alarm on threats to #academicfreedom in teaching & research. Several of Columbia’s most distinguished faculty spoke out on the government intrusions & administrative concessions that have harmed our institution. 🧵

Jorge Coronado, Treasurer of Northwestern AAUP & President of AAUP/AFT Local 6741: “Our sector can get through this if we unite.” #LaborDay #DefendHigherEd #Solidarity

Happy Labor Day to All Workers Everywhere! Now is the Time to Organize! Fight! & Win! #LaborDay #WorkersDeserve

We celebrate the hard work of today's college students struggling in an imperfect, under resourced system. "Community colleges, along with regional public universities, are the workhorses of higher education in the United States" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/u...