Cornell AAUP
Cornell’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors
- ICE out of Ithaca! Join us tomorrow at the Bernie Milton Pavilion at 4pm.
- It’s very cold, and so it’s a perfect day to get rid of ICE!
- Reposted by Cornell AAUPTexas A&M ends its women's & gender studies program while hundreds of syllabi remain flagged and censored under top-down review policies. “I have never seen anything like this.” — Dr. Leonard Bright, @tamu-aaup.bsky.social President @texasaft.org @texasaaup.bsky.social @cwa-tseu.bsky.social
- Reposted by Cornell AAUPThe college at which I'm employed, which has signed a contract with the AI firm that stole books from 131 colleagues & me, paid a student to write an op-ed for the student paper promoting AI, guided the writing of it, and did not disclose this to the paper. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...
- Reposted by Cornell AAUPFamilies dig deep to pay for the rising cost of college. They expect an education that prepares them to think critically & lead in a changing world. Professors must defend the student learning experience from politicians that wish to limit classroom learning to a narrow ideological viewpoint.
- Reposted by Cornell AAUPEducation is a public good for all. When politicians censor classroom teaching in order to narrow the field of topics that students can engage in, they rob them of a stellar world class education. This is what is happening at Texas A&M & other institutions in the state. 🧵
- Reposted by Cornell AAUPMore than a year in this has mostly gone as I feared, and in some ways has been worse. But there have been two contrasting surprises: -- The speed and breadth of institutional capitulation -- The courage, ferocity, and resolution of regular people Our strength isn't our institutions. It's us.
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- Reposted by Cornell AAUPI will simply never recover from reading this sentence: "Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."
- Today, Luke Farrell (@lukef.bsky.social) explains how complex eligibility requirements have turned America’s safety net into a lucrative revenue stream for monopolistic private contractors.
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- Reposted by Cornell AAUP𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐃𝐨𝐰𝐧, 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐆𝐨! Three of the CUNY Fired Four have been reinstated. We celebrate this victory but will keep fighting until all four PSC members dismissed have been rehired. Send this 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐋𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 to Management today! --> psc-cuny.org/issues/reins...
- Reposted by Cornell AAUPTomorrow, we stand together and demand an end to censorship at Texas A&M. No more bans. Students deserve to learn without uncertainty, and faculty deserve to teach without retaliation. Join us. @tamu-aaup.bsky.social @texasaaup.bsky.social @texasaft.org
- Reposted by Cornell AAUP“A central premise of freedom in the United States is freedom to speak our minds, to engage in critical debate or conversation without fear of state reprisal.” — Veena Dubal, AAUP General Counsel
- Reposted by Cornell AAUPIf people have to tell a more honest story about George Washington it means they have to tell a more honest story about America. And if they have to tell a more honest story about America it means they have to tell a more honest story about themselves. And many people simply don’t want to do that.
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- Reposted by Cornell AAUPI met an absolutely lovely academic who asked whether my department back home is affected by ICE -- a question dramatizing how little info is getting out. For the record, the small example I chose: My dept has a carpool to pick up grad students of color who can't safely commute to campus alone.
- Reposted by Cornell AAUPLegalize Plato at Texas A&M. #DefendHigherEd @tamu-aaup.bsky.social @texasaaup.bsky.social @texasaft.org
- Reposted by Cornell AAUPIn the light of ICE's unjustifiable murder of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, AAUP President Todd Wolfson has released a statement urging that ICE should suspend all operation in American cities. Read full statement at link below 👇 and at the graphic in this thread 🧵 #AbolishICE #AcademicSky
- Reposted by Cornell AAUPIt's good to use the resources at hand to fight because sometimes you win. Also, I keep thinking of the period after this man was killed and how a group of people tried to impose a new social reality. It didn't work. This too is a lesson.
- Reposted by Cornell AAUP“I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato.” dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
- Reposted by Cornell AAUPDOGE was A LOT less likely to cancel contracts from companies that donated money to Republicans than companies that donated to Democrats.
- Reposted by Cornell AAUP"no statistically or substantively significant bias against conservative students in efforts to establish politically-oriented registered student organizations (Study 1) or secure campus space for a guest speaker to lecture on political issues (Study 2)" link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Reposted by Cornell AAUPTrump offering states a "deal" like the higher ed compact that would vastly and unconstitutionally expand the federal government's powers (in this case, over election administration)
- Reposted by Cornell AAUPKudos to @djpressman.bsky.social of the UConn AAUP who is quoted. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
- Reposted by Cornell AAUPTexas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
- Reposted by Cornell AAUPToday we, a supermajority of Registered Nurses at Cayuga Medical Center, are proud to announce that we are forming a union with @CWAUnion and have formally requested voluntary recognition.
- Reposted by Cornell AAUPI think it’s important to insist on recalling, at all available opportunities, that this was specifically an attack on a trans instructor over an assignment about gender. Neither of those details are incidental; they are the center of the story
- If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
- Reposted by Cornell AAUPThey’re not perfect, but golly, public universities are one of the best engines of economic mobility we have
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Marginal Returns to Public Universities,” by Jack Mountjoy: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
- Reposted by Cornell AAUP“Today’s rushed appointment of Scott Beardsley as University of Virginia president by UVA’s Board of Visitors, with little meaningful faculty input, is an affront to the entire UVA community in a time of crisis.” — joint statement from @proftwolf.bsky.social & @rweingarten.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Cornell AAUPPlease continue to sign our petition actionnetwork.org/petitions/pr...
- Reposted by Cornell AAUPIt’s now a thing that when your institution gets shot up, largely because one political party refuses to limit firearms, that same political party will then seize the opportunity to come for you viciously with lies and try to destroy the institution
- Reposted by Cornell AAUPThe New School owns about a billion dollars worth of art, most of which is not on display. They could sell the two Warhols they own and raise $100 million tomorrow. But they’d rather close academic departments.
- Reposted by Cornell AAUPRather than heeding calls for a fair and transparent process, the UVA Board of Visitors rushed the appointment of a new university president with little meaningful faculty input. It's an affront to the entire UVA community. Read my & @proftwolf.bsky.social's statement ⬇️ www.aft.org/press-releas...
- Reposted by Cornell AAUPIt is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines. It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States. And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
- Reposted by Cornell AAUP“OU’s decision to place an instructor on administrative leave following a routine grading dispute—& subsequent failure to defend her from harassment & discrimination…raises serious concerns about the University’s commitment to educational standards, academic freedom, & instructor safety.”
- Sending love and solidarity to all our colleagues at Brown. Gun control is an education issue. How can we teach and expect our students to learn with the specter of mass shootings hanging over classroom?
- Reposted by Cornell AAUPWe're finally here. We all thought that surely some other effort would already be under way (remember "Cornell Matters"?) Late start. Deal was just around the corner. Even the petition group was too late. Don't think it would've swayed them. We're now stepping up to make sure things don't get worse.
- Reposted by Cornell AAUPNote that it was the @aaup.org and faculty standing up for themselves, not UCLA as an institution, that successfully went to court to arrest Trump’s overreach here.
- Reposted by Cornell AAUPThis -- a model bill to effectively decimate non-STEM research by requiring 3-3 teaching loads outside of "STEM or Americanism and western civilization" -- seems...extremely bad but also quite plausible.
- Reposted by Cornell AAUPNEW: Trump’s DOJ Pressured Lawyers to “Find” Evidence That UCLA Had Illegally Tolerated Antisemitism An investigation by ProPublica and @chronicle.com reveals how the U.S. government ignored due process to gin up its attack on the University of California.
- Reposted by Cornell AAUPSign on to this petition demanding that management at The New School stop the devastating budget cuts, which propose a massive layoff of 40% of full-time faculty⬇️ @newschoolaaup.bsky.social
- Reposted by Cornell AAUPMassive turnout of organized higher ed workers to protest the brutal austerity measures proposed by The New School management ✊ @newschoolaaup.bsky.social
- Reposted by Cornell AAUP"Hundreds rallied outside the New School during a board meeting today to protest sweeping faculty and program cuts that many say will be devastating to the century-old institution’s progressive social research mission." @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/hundreds-ral...
- Reposted by Cornell AAUPOne theme here is the speed of American institutional collapse. “It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”
- Reposted by Cornell AAUPIf you've noticed that ChatGPT is improving, it's probably because I've spent so much time grading its work.
- Reposted by Cornell AAUP“We are sold the myth that the language of legality is preferable to the language of morality because it is impartial and fixed. But as this whole dispute makes plain, that is least apt to be true precisely when it matters most.” Joseph Margulies on Trump’s murders in the Caribbean:
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- Reposted by Cornell AAUPOn Florida's DOGE request to review course materials: “Faculty members are demoralized and scared because it’s not just this one thing. They also feel like they need to catch up with these draconian restrictions on their speech on a weekly basis now." — @uff-fsu.bsky.social President Robin Goodman
- Reposted by Cornell AAUPAAUP University of Nebraska - Lincoln is demanding that UNL Leadership and Board of Regents stop proposed cuts to academic programs and vote NO on December 5! Program closures put key industries at risk, threaten students' futures and harm us all. Sign the petition below to stop the cuts! 👇
- Reposted by Cornell AAUPProfessors have launched a Political Action Committee! We are going to fight for the legislation that all faculty, students, staff, and higher ed workers deserve. A new future for higher education is possible. Join us in the fight!
- That’s right and we are gonna fight for free public higher ed, and end to student debt, an end to contingent and a new compact that prioritizes academic freedom, freedom of speech, shared governance and the right to assembly & protest on campus! JOIN US! @aaup.org news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...
- Reposted by Cornell AAUPIt sucks that meeting a new class now involves not just going over the syllabus, setting expectations, and trying to establish a rapport, but also trying to deduce whether any of your new students are vigilante right wing operatives out to seek viral controversy at the expense of your job
- Reposted by Cornell AAUPThe AAUP chapter at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln is organizing a week of action to fight devastating budget cuts! UNL is proposing to slash around 27 million dollars and to close 4 programs at the university. These cuts will be disastrous. Let's stand with AAUP - UNL and stop the cuts!
