Colleges Must Reject Trump’s ‘Compact’ To Protect Our Democracy
The White House’s proposition violates the very freedoms that make American higher education the envy of the world.
By Rick Garnett, Serena Mayeri, Amanda Shanor, Ilya Somin and Alexander Volokh
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Can't wait to read this book by the fabulous @serenamayeri.bsky.social! Serena's work is always fascinating, illuminating and original. Congrats Serena and can't wait to read! www.amazon.com/Marital-Priv...
TIME has named Dorothy E. Roberts to its 2025 The Closers list, honoring 25 Black leaders working to end racial equity gaps. A renowned legal scholar, Roberts has spent her career exposing systemic inequities in in health and social service systems. www.law.upenn.edu/live/news/17...
Tess Wilkinson-Ryan L’05, G’06, PhD’08, Golkin Family Professor and Professor of Psychology, has received the 2025 Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching—Penn’s highest teaching honor for standing faculty.
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It’s sad that it requires courage right now for a university president to file something as straightforward as this, but it does. Thanks to Tufts University President Sunil Kumar for filing this. www.tufts.edu/president/sp...
Great piece by @debpearlstein.bsky.social - & the latest EO targeting Jenner & Block should convince any wavering firms that commitment to the rule of law & interest in self-preservation run in the same direction here - they have to challenge these orders
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Here’s the end of the opening statement I gave yesterday morning before a hearing on recent rulings against the Trump administration - via @democrats-judiciary.house.gov & @raskin.house.gov
Columbia AAUP chapter on the administration's unprecedented assault on Columbia U and higher ed generally: "At this fraught moment we must all stand together against the external assault on our institution."
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Early voting in the election to fill an open seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court - a crucial race Musk-affiliated PACs are spending millions on - starts today. My take:
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For @newrepublic.com, I wrote about the administration is cynically using the issue of antisemitism to attack higher ed, free speech/assembly, and due process, how some Jews sincerely support this, and why they are wrong
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Jewish leaders need to stand up against unconstitutional & illegal activities that violate rights & erode democracy. @emilyctamkin.bsky.social on why none of these actions help fight antisemitism. Don't let political rulers act as if they do. newrepublic.com/article/1925...
In case there was any debate about the false pretense of keeping Jews safe, Title VI compliance will soon be a thing of the past: www.propublica.org/article/educ...
Proud to be one of the OVER 2000 Jewish faculty who will not allow Judaism to become weaponized by Trump to destroy universities, attack free speech, and deport students. We say: NOT IN OUR NAME.
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I am proud to be one of more than 2000+ Jewish faculty, students & staff who signed this stmt to make clear that the targeting & deportation of pro-Palestinian activists does not keep us safe, and cannot be justified in our name. We are only safe when all of us are. docs.google.com/document/d/e...
Knight Institute statement. knightcolumbia.org/content/knig...
"To our knowledge, no major university leadership has publicly denounced the attack on Columbia or Mahmoud Khalil. In the face of an open assault on a peer Ivy League institution and basic principles of free speech, Harvard remains silent." www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
The Trump admin's thuggish letter to Columbia is garbage, legally speaking. The admin has no statutory authority to make these demands, and many of them are unconstitutional. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-ti...
I call bullshit: Jewish safety is pretext. Make no mistake, the Trump administration is using antisemitism as an excuse to obliterate Title VI, undermine civil rights and incapacitate higher education.
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