Dear John,

Please join us today, Friday, October 17, at 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT, for a national teach-in about Trump’s loyalty oath demands and our plan to combat them. Register here.

Speakers include AFT president Randi Weingarten, Michael Steinberg of the Brown AAUP chapter, Jesse Hagopian of the Zinn Education Project, and Kaden Ouimet of Public Citizen. They'll share concrete lessons about how they're winning loyalty oath compact rejections, which will help equip members nationwide to protect and defend higher ed.

The Trump administration has imposed unprecedented demands on institutions of higher education, pressured them with coercive funding threats, extorted promises to fall in line with right-wing ideology, and upended long-held principles of civil rights, academic freedom, freedom of speech, and equality of opportunity.

Now the administration is going further. Currently, the federal government funds research based on peer review and scientific merit. Under the proposed Trump loyalty oath compacts, it would make awards based on ideological fealty.

The Trump compact is not just wrong—like many of the Trump administration's attacks, it is unconstitutional. It violates the First Amendment by forcing universities to surrender their rights of free speech and academic freedom in exchange for federal funds.

But faculty and higher ed communities are organizing to fight the compacts and so far four presidents at the original nine targeted universities have rejected them.

Join us to learn more about the compacts and the coordinated fight back against them.

In solidarity,
Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

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