Cornell AAUP

Huh. Good on Cornell admin for this! (Assuming there’s not some catch like replacing it with some equally bad company.) ithacavoice.org/2026/10/corn...

Let's get this party started. #DefendHigherEd Starter Pack:

“A campus where students are pressured to stay silent about abuse, where students are doxxed, threatened and swatted for filing complaints, where victims are forced to share classrooms and living spaces with their abusers, is not a campus that respects physical safety or free speech.”

“The former student who accused seven men of sexual assault in a lawsuit that has rocked Cornell University wrote in a letter to faculty leaders last week that she felt “unsupported” and “disbelieved” by the school’s president, Michael Kotlikoff.”

“The men cheered: “I fucking love chi phi”; “CHI PHIII.” Masculinity is performed, proved and reveled in: You show yourself to be big men on campus by collectively preying on a vulnerable woman.“- Kate Manne www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/o...

Wow

Higher ed leaders wouldn’t understand solidarity if it grew arms and slapped them across the face. Congratulations on selling out to the Trump administration, UNC! www.nytimes.com/2026/10/19/u...

What, and I genuinely cannot stress this enough, the fuck

When we say that campus sexual violence is the canary in the coal mine, this is what we mean. These perpetrators graduate. A lot of them will ascend to extremely powerful positions in our society. And their violence will expand with time—especially if they’re always rewarded for it.

The campus sexual violence perpetration to ICE leadership pipeline is strong. Remember, Stephen Miller booked his first national interview platforming rape apologism during the Duke lacrosse case.

At the same time as the Chi Phi incident, another frat was calling in favors to get the Cornell police department to look the other way on various allegations. Incredible details here from a Cornell Sun alum, including some damning allegations of favoritism from Cornell VP of Student Life Lombardi.

“As faculty instructors and advisors, we want to be absolutely clear: this administration does not speak for us. We will not allow the horrific sexual violence experienced by Jane Doe and others in our community to be swept under the rug.” www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...

3 of them were children. One maybe a member. In an elementary school. I’m grieving and I’m praying for the families. But I’m also angry. I’m angry because we shouldn’t live like this. We don’t have to accept this as normal. It’s well past time for action www.kptv.com/2026/10/15/b...

The NYT covered our faculty senate meeting. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/n...

Heritage is explicitly saying they aim to “stigmatize” sociology academicfreedomontheline.substack.com/p/sociology-...

Cristobal Young pulled together data on the frats suspended at Cornell over the past 18 years. Together, we point at that data to argue that our current regulatory whac-a-mole strategy isn't working and we need to try radical reforms that amount to ending men-only residential frats.

As Cornell debates the role of frats, this 2019 piece on the history of hazing (and its connections to military torture as well as group sexual assault) is worth a read. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-34/ess...

It comes as no surprise that Kotlikoff rejects resigning. If he wasn’t going to resign after the incident in the spring, he’s not going to resign now. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/n...

Ithaca rallies for Justice for Jane Doe!

I remember reading some interview with a man who was “canceled” during #MeToo. His advice to other men facing consequences for sexual violence was to lay low for a year or two and then he’d come back to a bigger career than ever.

We’ve seen schools do this before. If this one-year party suspension doesn’t turn into a permanent ban, then it’s just a message to fraternities that they have true impunity. That even the worst, most violent behavior will result in a temporary slap on the wrist.

cc @cornellaaup.bsky.social @aaup.org @asociologist.bsky.social @alltoosuman.bsky.social

The one time this administration cares about antitrust. 🤦🏾‍♂️😒🙄

A real successful 1A day here on campus. Heavy hitters. Big student turnout. Engaged questions. My notes for the academic freedom panel is a sort of Cliff Notes of how I approach this thing. This is it. My whole talk.

I spent a year watching school administrators do their jobs—and interviewing the students most impacted. I spoke to @thecut.com in a long-form Q&A about what I saw. Mainly, a system designed to protect perpetrators and punish victims in each and every case.

🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: The AAUP is suing the Trump administration over new policies that threaten green card applicants with family separation. 1/

Cornell students, faculty, and staff stand with survivors!

I’m starting to get requests from people to evaluate proposed solutions to campus sexual violence. The best list of demands I’ve seen so far comes from the students at Cornell. They understand the role of power and the kinds of big structural and cultural shifts that are required to end violence.

TODAY ✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

[Guest post by Meena Krishnamurthy:] Cornell’s Students Make the Case for a Basic Right to Safety and Security on Campus digressionsimpressions.substack.com/p/guest-post...?

Whenever I see a current or former university president in the news for sexual misconduct, I think of this chart from 2015. (ABC seems to have pulled down the original Five Thirty Eight article, but here’s a Feministing blog about it.)

some descriptive statistics here on the civility industrial complex on college campuses that I haven’t seen analyzed before www.uncivilcollective.org/resources

Literal No Kings. Either Article I means something or it doesn't.

I'm not defending the "normal" system of policing, but at least the mayor of a city is subjected to degree of democratic oversight. Cornell PD does what the boss says, and the people who live and work at the university have zero mechanism for oversight.

"'In what world would the police learn from the victim that she had literally been gang-raped' and not elevate those allegations to the district attorney, Ms. Hochul said." A world in which the police report to a university president who was appointed by a wholly unaccountable group of rich people

“People around me were scared that they were going to be the next Mahmoud Khalil.” @veenadubal.bsky.social, General Counsel of @aaup.org, recalls the fear faculty and students felt when their free speech was threatened on campus. Watch the full interview: youtu.be/5VBJJKjwjFM

Big sigh. Cornell edited its faq after the NYT story about the CUPD omitting details from the victim statement: “Any mention of sharing “all investigatory information” with the district attorney had been removed from the page.” www.wskg.org/regional-new...

We stand in solidarity with our colleagues at Cornell AAUP, and all who are outraged by the violence against Jane Doe and the Cornell administration’s response to it.  aaup-cornell.org/statements-a...

Glad that Tish James is on the Cornell case. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/n...

Rally for Jane Doe Sunday October 4th 1pm Bernie Milton Pavilion Organized by Students at Ithaca College.

Every year at Cornell, I teach about Working Women United. It was Cornell workers who first put a name to "sexual harassment" — reaching a wider conscience. They did not see abuses as individualized tragic events. They saw gender & sexual abuses in terms of social hierarchy & institutional power.

When non-violent protests happened at Cornell, Trump cancelled hundreds of millions in grants in the name of "student safety." Now that an actual student safety crisis has been fully revealed it's crickets from the Feds. We all know why

The US Commission on Civil Rights has formally rebuked the Trump administration's legal strategy for its "anti-antisemitism" on campus campaign, citing Jewish Studies scholars arguing that "Zionism is not an ethnic or ancestral trait." www.usccr.gov/reports/2026...

The Cornell AAUP Chapter is outraged by the sexual violence that was committed at Chi Phi in 2024. We call for the community to come together on Monday, October 5 at 4:30pm in Ho Plaza, to stand in support of the survivors of sexual violence. Our full statement is here.