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The AAUP wholly condemns this punitive weaponization of federal grant funding. This attempt to discipline & control a university campus is a transparent hallmark of authoritarian rule & harshly violates the central mission of education to serve the public good. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/n...

nytimes.comWhite House Cancels $400 Million in Grants and Contracts to ColumbiaThe Trump administration blamed the university’s failure to protect Jewish students from harassment during protests last year over the war in Gaza.

10/3/25, 5:38 pm90 reposts206 likes

Wendy M. A. Darling

@wendymadarling.bsky.social

11 Mar 2025

Although the silver lining is that Columbia's president will take the heat, and she is truly a terrible person. That said, it's shitty.

AAUP

@aaup.org

10 Mar 2025

Full statement from AAUP President Todd Wolfson here: www.aaup.org/news/aaup-co...

aaup.orgAAUP Condemns Trump Admin’s Punitive Weaponization of Federal Grant Funding at ColumbiaThe Trump administration has taken the unprecedented move of cancelling $400 million in federal contracts and grants to Columbia University in alleged response to “inaction by Columbia’s administratio...

Well said

@danvitkus.bsky.social

10 Mar 2025

Yes! King Trump's real motive is this: cripple any potential site of organized resistance to oligarchy and autocracy. But the NYT headline hides the fact that this "failure" to protect students is and was a fabrication of those who wish to silence any criticism of Israel and its war crimes.

Ken Aizawa

@kenaizawa.bsky.social

11 Mar 2025

Where is the AAUP on Trump’s threat to sixty universities?