Latest posts tagged with #DefendAcademicFreedom on Bluesky
Come on, Texas Tech! Consult your dictionary! To mention is not to advocate! When we mention the words “censorship” or “brainwashing” or “indoctrination” or “retaliation,” we are doing the opposite of advocating for those practices! #DefendAcademicFreedom #LetStudentsLearn #LetTeachersTeach
We stand in solidarity with colleagues and students at Texas A&M. #DefendAcademicFreedom #LetFacultyTeach #LetStudentsLearn
Just to be clear, even under the reactionary Senate Bill 37, teaching about gender identity is not illegal in the state of Texas. This lecturer was teaching adult students in the area of her expertise and was politically targeted. Keep tuned for a lawsuit against Texas A&M. #DefendAcademicFreedom
A coalition of AAUP chapters in Atlanta stood up today for the future of higher education and marched from Morehouse College to Clark Atlanta University!
@neatoday.bsky.social
#defendacademicfreedom
#DefendUCLA #DefendAcademicFreedom #MutualDefensePacts
Our Universities and colleges need to form mutual defense pacts immediately else they will be decimated one by one. The UC Santa Cruz faculty senate called for a mutual defense pact of the UC's. Now!
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/u...
Incredible that such measures are needed. One should think that this is needed for students unable to study in #China, #Hungary, #Iran, #Nicaragua, #NorthKorea, #Russia or any other autocratic regime, but is is the #USA in 2025!!!
#DefendAcademicFreedom
#Liberty #FightFascism
#SaveUniversities #CEU
‘It Felt Like Kidnapping,’ #MahmoudKhalil Says in First Interview Since Release
The #Columbia graduate and pro-#Palestinian activist returned to #NewYork after more than three months in detention. The #Trump administration is seeking to deport him.
from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
[gift article - link […]
Video of Mahmoud Khalil's return to Newark Airport on Saturday, June 21
from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
"Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian activist detained for his role in protests at Columbia University, returned to the East Coast on bail after 104 days of imprisonment in Louisiana." […]
#ICE Says It Has No Immediate Plans to Release #MahmoudKhalil
A federal judge ruled this week that the government cannot hold the #ColumbiaUniversity graduate under the rarely invoked law it used to detain him.
from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
By Jonah E. Bromwich
June 13, 2025, 11:04 a.m. ET […]
Judge says US effort to deport Mahmoud Khalil on foreign policy grounds is likely unconstitutional
from #AssociatedPress #AP #APNews
By JAKE OFFENHARTZ
Updated 6:58 PM EDT, May 28, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge said the #Trump administration’s effort to deport #MahmoudKhalil because of […]
#ProjectEsther: #NYT Details Right-Wing Plan to “Rebrand All Critics of #Israel” as #Hamas Supporters
from #DemocracyNow
Interview with-
Katie J.M. Baker
investigative reporter for The #NewYorkTimes
Stefanie Fox
executive director of #JewishVoiceForPeace […]
#MahmoudKhalil blocked from holding son for first time by #ICE, lawyers say
Detained #Columbia University graduate and #Palestinian activist forced to meet month-old baby from behind glass
from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Léonie Chao-Fong in Washington
Wed 21 May 2025 18.24 EDT […]
Graduates Boo #Columbia’s President at Commencement After a Fraught Year
Claire Shipman, the university’s acting president, noted the absence of #MahmoudKhalil, a graduate who continues to be detained by immigration authorities.
from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
[gift article - link can be shared […]
Freed from #ICE custody, Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi graduates from Columbia to cheers
from #AssociatedPress #APNews
By JAKE OFFENHARTZ
Updated 5:46 PM EDT, May 19, 2025
"NEW YORK (#AP) — Less than three weeks after his release from an immigration jail, the #Palestinian activist […]
In #Graduation Speech, #NYU Student Condemns U.S.-backed #Israeli War in Gaza
University Withholds Student’s Diploma, in Latest Flashpoint over Free Speech on U.S. Campuses
from #WorldOutlook
May 16, 2025
[contains transcript of his speech]
“We commend Logan for using this opportunity to […]
NYU withholds diploma of student who condemned Israel in graduation speech
University says it ‘strongly denounces’ commencement speech by Logan Rozos, who called out ‘atrocities’ in Gaza
From #TheGuardian
Maya Yang
Thu 15 May 2025 14.19 EDT […]
#Indian academic held over pro-#Palestinian views released from #ICE jail
Georgetown postdoctoral fellow Badar Khan Suri had visa revoked and was arrested by immigration officials in March
from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Marina Dunbar and agency
Wed 14 May 2025 17.47 EDT
"US district judge […]
Tufts student returns to Massachusetts after release from immigration custody
from #Reuters
By Nate Raymond
May 10, 202510:12 PM EDT
[article contains 5 nice photos :-) ]
** Summary**
* Ozturk returns home after release from immigration detention center
* Judge in Vermont grants bail, citing […]
Turkish #TuftsUniversity student released from Louisiana immigration detention center [#RümeysaÖztürk]
from #AssociatedPress #AP #APNews
By KATHY McCORMACK
Updated 8:33 PM EDT, May 9, 2025
'“Despite an 11th hour attempt to delay her freedom by trying to force her to wear an ankle monitor […]
Rümeysa Öztürk, Tufts student held by Ice, released from Louisiana jail
PhD student arrested in March for political speech released on Friday after federal judge’s ruling
from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Maya Yang and Noa Yachot in New York and agencies
Fri 9 May 2025 19.32 EDT
"#RümeysaÖztürk […]
Tufts student released from US immigration custody after judge's order
from #Reuters
By Nate Raymond
May 9, 20258:09 PM EDT
***Summary***
* #RumeysaOzturk ordered released immediately from Louisiana detention center
* Ozturk was detained after pro-#Palestinian campus advocacy
* Judge said her […]
Court orders detained #Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk returned to #Vermont
Lawyers say the Turkish national, who has been held in a Louisiana Ice center for two weeks, was illegally detained
from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Sam Levine and agencies
Wed 7 May 2025 12.35 EDT
"A federal appeals court on […]
#Michigan AG Drops Charges Against Pro-Palestinian Campus Protesters
"Our First Amendment rights should never be criminalized. Speaking up against genocide should be lifted up, not slammed with felony charges. #Palestinians deserve safety and dignity," said Rep. #RashidaTlaib.
from […]
#NYPD shared a Palestinian protester’s info with #ICE. Now it’s evidence in her deportation case
from #AssociatedPress #AP #APNews
By JAKE OFFENHARTZ
Updated 8:31 PM EDT, May 2, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — #NewYorkCity’s police department provided federal immigration authorities with an internal […]
Detained #Columbia student #MohsenMahdawi speaks from prison
[on April 29, before he was freed on April 30]
from #NPR #NationalPublicRadio [USA]
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5377484
#StopGazaGenocide
#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#ReleaseRümeysaÖztürk […]
We updated the title of our ASEE paper to: "Community of Transformation to Support Inclusive and Equitable Change in Engineering: An Unlawfully-Terminated NSF IUSE Project." Our amazing leadership team includes Nadia Kellam, Vanessa Svihla, Susannah Davis, Katharine Getz, Kristen Ferris, and Earl E. Lee. Our project, along with hundreds of others, was unlawfully terminated under political pressure targeting DEI-focused research. Now, the NSF is not just minimizing the harm—it is actively reframing these terminations as efforts to "safeguard our nation’s security" in their recent Updates on NSF Priorities. In reality, these actions undermine the very goals they claim to support. Suppressing equity-centered research weakens scientific progress, exacerbates inequities, and threatens our collective future. Ending research that builds inclusive and just systems is not safeguarding national security—it is abandoning it. We refuse to be erased. We are renaming our work, reclaiming our narrative, and resisting the political suppression of academic freedom and equity in STEM. If your NSF grant was terminated, we encourage you to revise your paper titles too. Visibility is resistance. They may have terminated our grants, but they will not terminate our impact.
#HigherEd #EngineeringEducation #DEI #AcademicFreedom #NSF #EquityInSTEM #RadicalHope #WeWillNotBeSilenced #ProtectDEI #DefendAcademicFreedom
#Democratic lawmakers call for release of #Tufts student from #ICE detention
Jim McGovern and Ayanna Pressley exhort authorities to free Rümeysa Öztürk, calling her treatment ‘repression’
from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Anna Betts
Fri 25 Apr 2025 13.02 EDT
A group of high-profile Democratic […]
Michigan's #Democratic AG Under Fire After Armed Agents Raid Homes of Palestine Defenders
"We are totally convinced that, but for their viewpoints, these students would not have been targeted," said one attorney.
Brett Wilkins
Apr 23, 2025
" Federal and local law enforcement officers smashed […]
‘National disgrace’: US lawmakers decry student detentions on visit to Ice jails
Delegation visits jails where #MahmoudKhalil and #RümeysaÖztürk are being held and denounce ‘authoritarian’ #Trump
from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Dani Anguiano
Tue 22 Apr 2025 20.31 EDT
"#Öztürk, a #TuftsUniversity […]
'Do You Realize That This Is Kafkaesque?':
#Trump's Attacks on Foreign Students Stun Judges
"Disenrolling students was already a blatant capitulation, and now it is a wholly inexcusable one," said one attorney.
from #CommonDreams
Brett Wilkins
Apr 22, 2025 […]
