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#AAUP
Resources on Immigration and Travel Safety from the AAUP
AAUP letter to college and university legal offices: Institutions Should Support Students Under Visa Threats with Legal Aid and Housing https://www.aaup.org/news/institutions-should-support-students-under-visa-threats-legal-aid-and-housing
Fact sheet on dealing with ICE on your campus (AAUP general counsel) https://www.aaup.org/sites/default/files/ICE-Flyer.pdf
Fact sheet on rights and risks for workers who are in the United States on visas (AFT) https://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/media/documents/2025/aftmembersonvisas.pdf
Issue brief on immigration-related campus concerns (American Council on Education) https://www.acenet.edu/Documents/Issue-Brief-Immigration-Related-Campus-Concerns-2025.pdf
Know Your Rights flyers (AFL-CIO)
https://aflcio.org/about/programs/adelante-we-rise/immigration-resources/know-your-rights-materials-immigrant-workers
Family Preparedness Plan template (Immigrant Legal Resource Center) https://www.ilrc.org/sites/default/files/resources/family_preparedness_plan.pdf
Immigration legal and digital security resources (AAUP Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom)
https://www.aaup.org/sites/default/files/CDAF_legal_personal_security_resources_1-pagers.pdf
Resources on Legislative Threats to Higher Education (regular updates as well):
https://www.mla.org/Resources/Advocacy/Resources-on-Legislative-Threats-to-Higher-Education
The #MLA is collaborating with other organizations, including #PEN Americaâs Freedom to Learn Network, the #ACLS, and the #AAUP, to speak out against state and local encroachment on higher education and gathering resources to help you navigate the current moment.
#Federal #judge ruled that Middle East Studies Association (#MESA) & #AAUP case over #Trump policy of arresting and threatening #deportation for lawful speech can go forward
#1stAmendment #FirstAmendment #USpol #FreePalestine #FreeSpeech
https://mailchi.mp/mesana/mesa-lawsuit-ideological-deportation-academic-freedom-us-13445714
Defend higher education and free speech!
Rally in Schenley Plaza - Oakland, PA.
Thursday, April 17th @ Noon.
Organized by United Steelworkers Local1088, Pitt, Point Park, and RMU faculty, and the American Association of University Professors. Endorsed by PittsburghDSA.
#Protest #Rally #AAUP #50501movement
#50501protest #Pittsburgh
#Harvard professors sue #Trump administration over funding cut threats
by Katie Cole, April 14, 2025, #WBUR
"The Harvard chapter of the American Association of University Professors sued the Trump administration Friday over what they call an 'unlawful and unprecedented' attempt to use federal funding cuts to restrict #FreeSpeech.
"The #DepartmentOfEducation announced in late March that it would review $8.7 billion in federal grants and contacts given to Harvard, alleging that the school failed to prevent #antisemitic discrimination on campus.
"The Trump administration then unveiled a broad set of demands on April 4 the university must agree to in order to keep getting federal funding, including cutting all diversity, equity and inclusion programming, and modifying any programming and departments that 'fuel antisemitic harassment.' The administration gave Columbia University a similar set of demands in March, which the school agreed to.
"The lawsuit by the professors' group, filed in #Massachusetts federal court, alleges that the administration's federal funding review violates the #TitleVI of the #CivilRightsAct, which prohibits discrimination in programs that receive federal funds. The court filing says the law requires specific procedures to cut federal funds and that the Trump administration has not taken any of those steps.
"The group said in a press release that the administration's actions are in effort to create a chilling effect among universities and faculty to stop speech that the president does not like.
" 'Eliminating discrimination and protecting all students is important,' said Nikolas Bowie, a Harvard law professor and the secretary-treasurer of the school's #AAUP chapter, in a statement. 'But Trump is defying the Civil Rights Act, terrifying students, and illegally holding hostage grants for hospitals and scientific research so he can accomplish his real goal of punishing academics for our politics.'
"The lawsuit says that the actions by the administration have 'already caused severe and irreparable harm by halting #academic #research and #inquiry at Harvard.'
"This is the second suit that the Harvard AAUP chapter has filed against the Trump administration this year. The first was a joint suit with other chapters, including one from Columbia, over federal efforts to deport #MahmoudKhalil and students that engaged in #ProPalestinian #activism."
https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/04/14/harvard-aaup-trump-funding-cuts-lawsuit
#SilencingDissent #CharacteristicsOfFascism #Fascism #Authoritarian #Authoritarianism #BibiIsAWarCriminal #FreeMahmoudKhalil #FreePalestine #AcademicFreedom #FreeSpeech #TrumpIsABully #DEI #Erasure #Censorship
Happening Saturday in Cambridge, MA:
STAND UP HARVARD!
Rally to STOP the domino effect!
Join Cambridge community leaders in solidarity with Harvard faculty to call out federal overreach for what it is: an attack on academic freedom - and democracy itself.
RAIN OR SHINE!
SATURDAY APRIL 12th, 2025
12 PM - 2 PM
CAMBRIDGE COMMON, HARVARD SQUARE
Harvard Chapter of the American Association of University Professors, 50501, and City of Cambridge
https://www.reddit.com/r/CambridgeMA/comments/1jvfq0l/rally_on_cambridge_common/
The #AAUP and others are sponsoring a National Day of Action for Higher Education on April 17th.
https://www.dayofactionforhighered.org/
I haven't seen anything about it on Mastodon but I admit I might have missed it.
For the #PennState (or central #PA) people across the #fediverse â Sign this letter to tell congressman Glenn Thompson (PA) to publicly oppose the cuts to federal funding for research, healthcare, and education.
We'll be delivering the letter to his office on 4/8 as part of the #killthecuts national day of action â
Please give this post a boost so it gets to the right people
A faculty-led open letter (with union co-sponsorship) about USC's response to federal actions went to #USC administrators today! 270 signatures from faculty, staff, & students initiated by our #AAUP chapter
American Association of University Professors [#AAUP] v. #Rubio
A case challenging the #Trump administrationâs policy of ideological deportation.
"On March 25, 2025, the Knight Institute filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administrationâs policy of arresting, detaining, and deporting noncitizen students and faculty who participate in pro-Palestinian activism. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), AAUPâs #Harvard, #NYU, and #Rutgers campus chapters, and the #MiddleEastStudies Association, argues that the policy chills noncitizens from speaking and, by extension, robs these organizations and their U.S. citizen members of noncitizensâ perspectives on a matter of significant public debate.
"The lawsuit responds to a climate of repression and fear on university campuses. Federal agencies are attempting to deport multiple individuals for their #ProPalestinian advocacy, including #MahmoudKhalil, a leader of protests at Columbia University. These actions have sent chills through the community of noncitizen students and faculty on campuses around the country, causing some to pull out of academic conferences, stay home from #protests, and withdraw from other forms of public advocacy and engagement.
"The lawsuit alleges that the administrationâs policy of ideological deportation violates the First Amendment right of the plaintiffs to hear from and associate with noncitizen students and faculty, that it is unconstitutionally vague, and that it violates the Administrative Procedure Act. The suit seeks a court order declaring that the policy is unlawful and enjoining the federal government from enforcing it."
Status: Complaint filed on March 25, 2025.
Case Information: American Association of University Professors v. Rubio, No. 1:25-cv-10685 (D.Mass).
https://knightcolumbia.org/cases/aaup-v-rubio
#YunseoChung #RightToProtest #SilencingDissent #USPol #CharacteristicsOfFascism #law
#immigration #FreeSpeech #MarcoRubio #Trump #FreedomOfAssembly #Authoritarianism #Palestine #CriminalizingDissent #HigherEducation
Looks like the American Association of University Professors agrees with me!
#AAUP, Allies Sue over #Trump Policy of Arresting and Threatening to Deport #Students and #Faculty for #LawfulSpeech
"The national AAUP; chapters at #Harvard, #Rutgers, and #NYU; and the #MiddleEastStudies Association today filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests, detentions, and deportations of noncitizen students and faculty members who participate in #ProPalestinian #protests and other protected #FirstAmendment activities.
"We believe that the administrationâs ideological-deportation policy violates the First Amendment by targeting constitutionally protected speech that Americans have a right to hear and engage with. The policy has created a climate of fear and repression on campuses around the country. We are represented in the case by the #KnightFirstAmendmentInstitute at #ColumbiaUniversity, #AhilanArulanantham, and Zimmer, Citron & Clarke LLP.
"Following executive orders issued by President Trump in January, the federal agencies that enforce immigration laws have arrested and detained several people associated with U.S. colleges and universities, including a legal permanent resident, on the basis of constitutionally protected speech and association.
"Todayâs filing argues that the ideological-deportation policy has created a climate of #repression and intense fear on university #campuses, 'terrorizing students and faculty for their exercise of First Amendment rights in the past, intimidating them from exercising those rights now, and silencing political viewpoints that the government disfavors.'
"'The Trump administration is going after international #scholars and students who speak their minds about #Palestine, but make no mistake: they won't stop there. They'll come next for those who teach the history of #slavery or who provide #GenderAffirming health care or who research #ClimateChange or who counsel students about their reproductive choices. We all have to draw a line togetherâas the old labor movement slogan says: an injury to one is an injury to all,' says AAUP President Todd Wolfson.
"'The First Amendment means the government canât arrest, detain, or deport people for lawful political expressionâitâs as simple as that. This practice is one weâd ordinarily associate with the most repressive political regimes, and it should have no place in our democracy,' says #JameelJaffer, executive director at the Knight First Amendment Institute."
Source:
https://www.aaup.org/news/aaup-allies-sue-over-trump-policy-arresting-and-threatening-deport-students-and-faculty-lawful
#RightToProtest #SilencingDissent #USPol #CharacteristicsOfFascism #law
#immigration #FreeSpeech #MarcoRubio #Trump #FreedomOfAssembly #Authoritarianism #Palestine #CriminalizingDissent #HigherEducation
Update. Here are some press releases and news stories on the lawsuit against the #Trump admin by American Association of University Professors (#AAUP) and the American Federation of Teachers (#AFT).
* From the AAUP
https://www.aaup.org/news/aaup-allies-sue-over-trump-policy-arresting-and-threatening-deport-students-and-faculty-lawful
* From the AFT
https://www.aft.org/press-release/faculty-unions-sue-trump-admin-no-halting-science-research-suppress-speech
* From The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/25/pro-palestine-student-deportation-lawsuit?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
* From the NYTimes
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/nyregion/professors-sue-trump.html
#Academia #Censorship #DefendResearch #MahmoudKhalil #Protests #Travel #Universities #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics
@academicchatter
#Trump demands unprecedented control at #ColumbiaUniversity, alarming scholars and speech groups
By COLLIN BINKLEY and JAKE OFFENHARTZ
Updated 7:52 PM EDT, March 14, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) â "The Trump administration brushed aside decades of precedent when it ordered Columbia University to oust the leadership of an academic department, a demand seen as a direct attack on academic freedom and a warning of whatâs to come for other colleges facing federal scrutiny.
"Federal officials told the university it must immediately place its #MiddleEasternStudies, #SouthAsianStudies, and #AfricanStudies Department under 'academic receivership for a minimum of five years.' The demand was among several described as conditions for receiving federal funding, including $400 million already pulled over allegations of #antisemitism.
"Across #academia, it was seen as a stunning intrusion.
"'Itâs an escalation of a kind that is unheard of,' said Joan Scott, a historian and member of the academic freedom committee of the American Association of University Professors [#AAUP]. 'Even during the #McCarthy period in the United States, this was not done.'"
https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-mahmoud-khalil-ice-arrests-1921e26f6b5a8585ad5cbda790846324
#CharacteristicsOfFascism #USPol #Censorship #DumbingUsDown #Authoritarianism #SilencingDissent #AcademicFreedom #Fascism
"Sacrificing the principles and independence of the University in the short-term hope of pacifying the administration will not work. By abandoning our most vulnerable and stigmatized colleagues, we would simply invite further threats and the eventual destruction of things that are worth fighting for."
Profs. Vincent Brown and Walter Johnson of the #Harvard History Department on standing up to #Trump
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/3/7/brown-johnson-harvard-trump-dei-aaup/
Attention #Cornell students:
"What the fuck is happening? The end of American democracy?"
Join faculty for a TEACH-IN on recent executive orders. Sponsored by Cornell chapter of #AAUP
#fascism #uspolitics #university #highered #coup #students #academic #education
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