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100+ US CAMPUS PROTESTS TO CALL OUT TRUMP ATTACKS AND UNAFFORDABLE
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Jessica Corbett
November 4, 2025
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_ “Trump’s higher education policies have been catastrophic for
our communities and our democracy,” said one union leader as the
president pressures universities to sign a “loyalty oath.” _

University of Southern California academics protest the Trump
administration’s compact for higher education institutions in Los
Angeles on October 17, 2025., (Photo by Genaro Molina/Los Angeles
Times)

 

Aiming to “organize millions of students to disrupt business as
usual and force our schools and our political system to finally work
for us,” progressive groups and labor
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day of coordinated protests
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Friday, November 7.

Planned by Students Rise Up [[link removed]], in
coordination with the American Association of University Professors
(AAUP) and Higher Education
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(HELU), the upcoming demonstrations “will be the first in a series
of nationwide days of protests leading up to student strikes and
worker actions on May Day 2026,” according to organizers.

In addition to the unions, groups backing the effort include Campus
Climate Network, College Democrats of America, Gen-Z for Change,
Indivisible, Jewish Voice for Peace, March for Our Lives, and Sunrise
Movement [[link removed]], whose
executive director, Aru Shiney-Ajay, stressed in a Tuesday statement
that “everyone deserves an accessible, affordable, and quality
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“Everyone deserves to be safe at school—no matter their race,
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status,” Shiney-Ajay said. “Everyone deserves the freedom to
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joining with worker allies to demand our administrations and
politicians start fighting for an education system that works for our
generation.”

 
The plans for the protests come as campus administrations are
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President Donald Trump’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in
Higher Education,” which schools can sign for priority access to
federal funding and other “positive benefits.” Critics have
condemned it as “authoritarian
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an “extortion agreement,” and some top universities have declined
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Alicia Colomer, managing director at Campus Climate Network, said
Tuesday that “young people are making their message very clear:
Universities should be a place of learning, not propaganda machines.
That’s why students, workers
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country are taking action.”

As part of Friday’s protests, organizers said, participants will
urge campus leaders to reject
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Trump’s “loyalty oath” and, more broadly, “commit to freedom
of expression, college for all, and security for all at school.”

Asked to comment on the day of action, Madi Biedermann, deputy
assistant secretary for communications at the US Department of
Education—which initially offered the compact to a short list of
prestigious universities—repeated previous statements, telling
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Higher Ed_ that “the Trump administration
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reforms on higher education campuses that conservatives have dreamed
about for 50 years.”

“Institutions are once again committed to enforcing federal civil
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consistently, they are rooting out DEI and unconstitutional race
preferences, and they are acknowledging sex as a biological reality in
sports and intimate spaces,” Biedermann added, referring to
diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Meanwhile, AAUP president Todd Wolfson put out a statement taking aim
at the president’s assault on higher education.

“From attacks on academic freedom in the classroom to the defunding
of lifesaving scientific research to surveilling and arresting
peaceful student protesters, Trump’s higher education policies have
been catastrophic for our communities and our democracy
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excited to help build a coalition of students and workers united in
fighting back for a higher education system that is accessible and
affordable for all and serves the common good.”

_Jessica Corbett is a senior editor and staff writer for Common
Dreams._

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