Friday, November 28, 2025

Universities can say no to Trump

MIT rejects "the Compact" orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

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— Jay D. Aronson (@jaydaronson.bsky.social) October 10, 2025 at 9:06 AM

Vanderbilt AAUP press release about the Vanderbilt Faculty Senate voting overwhelmingly to adopt a resolution opposing the President's proposed Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education as an unconstitutional & illegal infringement on rights & freedoms. vanderbiltaaup.org/2025/10/09/v...

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— Jonathan Gilligan (@jgilligan.org) October 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM

'Take A Stand': Obama Rips Trump On Last Episode Of Marc Maron Podcast: The former president warned the country is “being tested right now” as the comedian's pioneering show bowed out. Graeme Demianyk, HuffPost, Oct 13, 2025

Some are still saying yes

BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university Full statement from NU below:

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— Matthew Eadie (@mattheweadie.bsky.social) November 28, 2025 at 7:31 PM

Some can't wait to be given an opportunity to say yes (shrug)

The president of Oakwood University said the school wants to sign on to the Trump administration's Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education — if the DOE makes some changes. religionnews.com/2025/11/24/a...

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— RNS (@rns.org) November 28, 2025 at 8:30 AM

A consequence

Families Bring Legal Challenge Against Yale, CCMC For Capitulating To Trump On Trans Youth Care: Yale New Haven Health and Connecticut Children's Medical Center abruptly ended care for transgender people earlier this year. Erin Reed, Dec 17, 2025

If you cave, as Brown did, you don't save yourself. The regime will just take away your funding anyway: "On Monday [Dec 22, 2025], the Department of Education announced that it would conduct a 'program review' of Brown to determine if it had violated safety and security requirements that schools must meet to receive federal aid."

"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." surreal times dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

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— Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò (@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social) January 7, 2026 at 5:36 AM

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

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— Jonathan Birch (@birchlse.bsky.social) January 8, 2026 at 12:38 PM

The works of Plato are now being banned at schools in the United States. Tell me again how censorship is a European problem? 🤔

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— Dave Keating (@davekeating.substack.com) January 8, 2026 at 4:34 AM

Texas A&M Bans Philosophy Prof. From Teaching Plato Because of "Gender Ideology": “Silencing 2,500-year-old ideas from one of the world’s most influential thinkers betrays the mission of higher education.” s. baum, Erin in the Morning, Jan 09, 2026

Resist

Michael Roth - how universities can fight back (watch on The Ink)

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