CUIMC Stands Up

We published our 6 calls to action for the CU board of trustees today: www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025... “We are at a crossroads in history where we can either succumb to authoritarianism or stand up against it.”

Abdul El-Sayed is the kind of champion we need for American higher education. 🔥🔥🔥 Let’s Go! #HigherEdVoter #DefendHigherEd

And to think, we used to think it was a good idea to attract top-tier global talent to American universities…🤷🏻‍♀️

TONIGHT @7PM ET! Fight Back Against Trump’s “Secret Weapon” to take complete control of higher education. REGISTER HERE: 👇👇👇

The AAUP & AFT condemn the recent directive from the War Dept that publicly places 30 universities under suspicion & gives them 2 weeks to investigate years of academic activity. The directive represents another threat of funding-based coercion that undermines scientific research & innovation.

Read the AAUP’s analysis of Department of Education’s Compact 2.0 here: 8

The AAUP stands with Mohsen Mahdawi & other faculty members, graduate students, & academic workers whose speech the federal government is attempting to censor. An injury to one is an injury to all. Full Statement: www.aaup.org/news/we-stan...

This is absurd. The administration's proposal would sacrifice the post-war American research system that sparked unprecedented scientific advancement in favor of an ideological loyalty test that would reduce groundbreaking scientific discovery to a game of bureaucratic compliance. #academicsky

The largest biomedical research organization in the world is being decimated by the Trump administration. This defunding will have a drastic impact on the health & well being of American families & deepen the crises on our campuses that carry out critical research. This is insanity. #TrumpsCutsKill

The Trump admin’s rewriting of rules governing college accreditation “obliterates” autonomy & is is being described as “a cluster bomb being dropped on American higher education.”

“Faculty members & students continue to speak up & organize to oppose the radical reconfiguration of American institutions launched by the Trump administration & its private-sector allies. Frequently, this has included organizing outside the gates.” — Reinhold Martin & Robert Newton, Columbia AAUP

Admin at The New School are threatening the cancellation of 23 academic programs. Students, faculty, & staff are fighting back, demanding a public meeting & an end to the manufactured austerity crisis. Check out this powerful song produced by TNS students: @newschoolaaup.bsky.social

The far right's new politicized higher ed accreditor is illegitimate. "Rather than protecting educational quality, the CPHE appears designed to give partisan political actors a powerful new tool to pressure universities to conform to a narrow ideological agenda" — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

💥💥💥 Congrats to Columbia AAUP on successfully standing up against ICE recruitment on campus. Let's keep organizing and go all out to get ICE off our campuses. @swcolumbia.bsky.social @aaupcu.bsky.social

“Judge Young affirmed unequivocally, without a doubt, that non-citizens lawfully present here in the US have the same free speech rights as everyone else. He established that the federal government clearly & unconstitutionally pursued a policy of discrimination against pro-Palestinian speech.”

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...

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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

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