Strategies to Protect Yourself Online in the Current Climate A Guide from the AAUP and Faculty First Responders www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...

The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.

Before 9/29, comment on a proposed rule that international students will only have a fixed time during which they are permitted to stay in the United States:

If you are a researcher in the LA area, please join the Science Fair for Suspended Research, sponsored by the UCLA Faculty Association and the UCLA Brain Research Institute!

"Faculty understand the stakes of the moment, feel firsthand the hunger of most students for knowledge and understanding, and carry on against heavy headwinds. Intimidation and pressure have not succeeded in silencing faculty or breaking the field."

"This guide is for anyone studying or working in universities, or in research environments within healthcare, local government, NGOs, charities, or other health and social care organisations. It is designed to help you calm, focus, connect in order to prioritise your safety, rights and wellbeing."

Gift link to my op-ed ( @wearehighered.bsky.social ) share.inquirer.com/M8nPzg

Update: we are at 379 signatures in support of Lisa Cook and Fed independence! The letter be open for signatures through Sun. (Link to sign at the top). If you are on X or listservs, please spread the word there! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I have an op-ed at @inquirer.com today. All of us who care about democracy need to decide how we'll respond as we see our institutions, our work, and our communities being attacked. Many of us in academia are standing up for our values and our students. www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

🎓 The GOP’s reconciliation bill is a direct hit on higher ed: – $351B in cuts education & workforce programs – eliminating subsidized student loans – Taxes on scholarships & endowments – & more. ACE calls it a “full-out assault” on access to college. Read below ⬇️ www.acenet.edu/News-Room/Pa...

The National Academy of Sciences is a private, non-profit institution. No one made them host a speaker who said that DEI "degrade our scientific enterprise." Would be nice to see some Academy members speak out on this (or what's the point) www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st...

Great article with lots of perspectives from scientists who are scared to speak out — and other scientists who are scared of what will happen if they don't. Trump & Musk & Kennedy are devastating U.S. research and setting progress back decades www.science.org/content/arti... on @science.org

Me and @andrewleber.bsky.social did it and neither of us has guaranteed lifetime employment! What's holding you back?

NYT: "I Came to Study Aging. Now I’m Trapped in ICE Detention" Kseniia Petrova "is a Russian scientist who works in a lab at Harvard Medical School. She told her story through a Times Opinion editor, Alex Ellerbeck, over multiple calls from an ICE detention center." A 30 y.o. who erred at Customs.

Congratulations, University of Wisconsin faculty!!!! Well-done. #standtogether #highered @maddow.msnbc.com We'll be adding you to the UMass Amherst #MADC tracker. This is a national movement. And this is just the beginning.

Wow! The momentum is really taking off! If your institution isn't pursuing a mutual defense compact, how do we get you started?

Rutgers leads the way! @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social @ruaaup-ptl.bsky.social @aaup.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/n...

AERA folks: I'm in Lobby F of the Colorado Convention Center with @wearehighered.bsky.social stickers now until noon. Across from the Mile High Market. I'll leave some stickers on one of the little tables by the long bench as well.

At least 13 university/college senates have passed Mutual Academic Defense Compact resolutions to unite against the current attacks on higher ed! Let's keep this momentum going. We're keeping track and posting links to the MADCs at wearehighered.org.

Emergency action if you are in Wisconsin and can attend: www.mobilize.us/wfpower/even...

Hopefully this sticks! www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

Also @michaelyarbrough.bsky.social is tracking the #MADC efforts (mutual academic defense compact, right?) and another great follow/part of @wearehighered.bsky.social

"Our international students are panicking," said one professor with @wearehighered.bsky.social. Campus organizers have been protesting attacks on academic freedom around the nation.

Extraordinarily proud to announce that Hunter College Senate leads New York State by passing a resolution in our senate for a mutual defense compact of our public institutions, SUNY & CUNY, to stand up for higher ed & our students!! Onwards! nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

The National Security Archive's Rachel Santarsiero is featured in a new BBC story on "the despearate rush to save decades of US scientific data from deletion" @rsanta.bsky.social www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Proud to say the Hunter College Senate passed a resolution today to build a New York State Alliance in Defense of Higher Education. We call on other New York colleges and universities to join us by passing resolutions and organizing with us as we move forward.

Are you attending AERA in Denver? Want a WeAreHigherEd sticker? Can you help hand them out? @rachelefish.bsky.social will be at the conference registration area Thursday 10:15-11:15am with a stack of stickers (more times and locations coming soon).

The presidents of 200 US colleges declare: "As leaders of America’s colleges, universities, and scholarly societies, we speak with one voice against the unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education." Good! www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...

Lots of news today - my op-ed is now out in the Albuquerque Journal. Science is for all. Let's take a stand, together! #StandUpForScience @standupforscience.bsky.social @sufsnewmexico.bsky.social @wearehighered.bsky.social @insidehighered.com @govmlg.bsky.social

Signature collection for this alumni petition is closing Sunday 4/20 at 8PM. Please add your name and pass it on to your fellow alumni.

PROFESSORS ARE INSISTING THEIR CAMPUSES STAND UP FOR DEMOCRACY AND HIGHER EDUCATION. Today, we are releasing letters - most organized in under a week - with over 5000 signatures calling on campus leadership to stand up to Trump & fight for our values & our students. bit.ly/CampusLettersTally

On this day of action, faculty from around the country have one message for our boards and presidents: it's time to join together and fight back! scatter.wordpress.com/2025/04/17/5...

𝗛𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗼𝗳𝗳 𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀! 𝗛𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗼𝗳𝗳 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗘𝗱! Rally for the Right to Learn 🪧 April 17, 2025 | 4:00 pm | Foley Square Join us: psc-cuny.org/RightToLearn #HandsOff #KilltheCuts #HandsOffOurColleges #HandsOffOurStudents

TOMORROW! Stand Up for Higher Education! Join an action in your area! @actioninhighered.bsky.social @higheredlabor.bsky.social

Our client Rümeysa Öztürk has not been charged with any crime. She is being held in ICE detention in retaliation for her political beliefs. Writing an op-ed is not a deportable offense.

Now there's a memorable stat! "Colleges and universities are among America’s most competitive international exporters. In dollar terms, last year, the United States sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and coal combined." wapo.st/3EvzMCI

Canadian Association of University Teachers advises academics against non-essential travel to the U.S. www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...

Please contact us if you have information about campus abductions and visa revocations. We are tracking them live here, and are working on getting gofundme links and other ways to take action up soon. www.wearehighered.org/campus-abduc...

Join an action in your area this Thursday, April 17! National Day of Action for Higher Education: