The editorial board of _Progress in Community Health Partnerships_ (Johns Hopkins University Press) condemns the Trump admin censorship of science and refuses to change its independent editorial policies.
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/970147

"In January 2025 the new Administration began issuing executive orders to limit the scope of scientific research, to limit or restrict the publication of scientific research that focuses on topics the administration deems no longer of priority, and to ban the use of certain terms on government websites and in manuscripts submitted to scientific journals. Progress in Community Health Partnerships (PCHP) condemns these attempts to interfere with or censor scientific research and publication and will make no changes to our editorial policies."

PS: This is the 18th academic journal editorial I've found to this effect. See my collection in this Google doc (I'm using a deep link to the relevant subsection).
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y5_fjGPNh4_1Hgc0Q68Hr2vJhVIOK1Qc-KynfIG6fZI/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.b7h09z33t43x

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The editorial board of _Progress in Community Health Partnerships_ (Johns Hopkins University Press) condemns the Trump admin censorship of science and refuses to change its independent editorial policies.
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/970147

"In January 2025 the new Administration began issuing executive orders to limit the scope of scientific research, to limit or restrict the publication of scientific research that focuses on topics the administration deems no longer of priority, and to ban the use of certain terms on government websites and in manuscripts submitted to scientific journals. Progress in Community Health Partnerships (PCHP) condemns these attempts to interfere with or censor scientific research and publication and will make no changes to our editorial policies."

PS: This is the 18th academic journal editorial I've found to this effect. See my collection in this Google doc (I'm using a deep link to the relevant subsection).
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y5_fjGPNh4_1Hgc0Q68Hr2vJhVIOK1Qc-KynfIG6fZI/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.b7h09z33t43x

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Update. The NYTimes has a good collection of institutional responses as of Oct 2, the day after Trump sent his letter to nine colleges and universities.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/us/trump-universities-compact-funding.html

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Update. The #UCalifornia Academic Council unanimously called on the UC President and Regents "to unequivocally reject governmental demands that compromise institutional autonomy and academic freedom."
https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/reports/council-chair-to-president-council-statement-ucla-demand-letter.pdf

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Update. The American Association of Colleges & Universities (#AACU, @aacu) just issued a statement on #Trump's “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”.
https://www.aacu.org/newsroom/aac-u-statement-on-the-trump-administrations-compact-for-academic-excellence-in-higher-education

"College and university presidents cannot bargain with the essential freedom of colleges and universities to determine, on academic grounds, whom to admit and what is taught, how, and by whom. They cannot trade academic freedom for federal funding—and should not be asked to do so."

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"The damage done."
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-025-03994-z
( #paywalled)

"When #ClinicalTrials are suddenly halted by US funding cuts, there are repercussions for investigators and patients, and they do not stop at borders."

#DefendResearch #Funding #Medicine #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

"Free to Think: Report of the Scholars at Risk [@scholarsatrisk] Academic Freedom Monitoring Project."
https://www.scholarsatrisk.org/resources/free-to-think-2025/

"Even in societies that have long had strong and stable democratic institutions, elected officials with autocratic impulses are using both the levers of democracy and extralegal administrative measures to undermine democratic institutions, including universities."

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Trump tries bribery.

"Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/us/politics/trump-college-funding.html

"The White House on Wednesday sent letters to nine of the nation’s top public and private universities, urging campus leaders to pledge support for President Trump’s political agenda to help ensure access to federal research funds."

#Arizona, #Brown, #Dartmouth, #MIT, #Penn, #USC, #Texas, #Vanderbilt, #Virginia

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From PEN America (https://pen.org/report/the-normalization-of-book-banning/), "The Normalization of Book Banning."
https://pen.org/report/the-normalization-of-book-banning/

"In 2025, book censorship in the United States is rampant and common. Never before in the life of any living American have so many books been systematically removed from school libraries across the country. Never before have so many states passed laws or regulations to facilitate the banning of books, including bans on specific titles statewide. Never before have so many politicians sought to bully school leaders into censoring according to their ideological preferences, even threatening public funding to exact compliance. Never before has access to so many stories been stolen from so many children."

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"White House Ramps Up Effort to Remove and Alter Information on Climate Change; Orgs Working to Rescue Climate Data Before It Disappears."
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/climate-change-transparency-project/2025-09-30/disappearing-data-part-ii-distorted

"In a follow up to a previous posting on the administration’s first two weeks of environmental data overhaul, the National Security Archive’s Climate Change Transparency Project today publishes an update of the most recent actions the administration has taken to “disappear” climate information and what some advocates are doing to try to rescue and archive the data before it is removed from federal websites. The update also includes “before and after” screenshots of climate-related webpages deleted under the Trump administration."

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The U of California Council of Faculty Associations has launched an "SOS" coalition -- when SOS stands for Save our System! Support our Students! Save our Science! and Support our State! One purpose is to organize the response from faculty to attacks from the Trump admin. Well-done.
https://cucfa.org/sos-coalition/

"The UC SOS Coalition stands against any agreement with the federal government that will have adverse consequences for employment, healthcare access, the diversity of our community members, student speech, and academic freedom at the UC. We propose a path for Californian independence from federal overreach, including (1) the release of emergency funds to stem the losses researchers and workers at UC are currently facing and (2) the creation of a new, long term funding solution for higher education in California."

h/t @lschiff

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The U of California Council of Faculty Associations has launched an "SOS" coalition -- when SOS stands for Save our System! Support our Students! Save our Science! and Support our State! One purpose is to organize the response from faculty to attacks from the Trump admin. Well-done.
https://cucfa.org/sos-coalition/

"The UC SOS Coalition stands against any agreement with the federal government that will have adverse consequences for employment, healthcare access, the diversity of our community members, student speech, and academic freedom at the UC. We propose a path for Californian independence from federal overreach, including (1) the release of emergency funds to stem the losses researchers and workers at UC are currently facing and (2) the creation of a new, long term funding solution for higher education in California."

h/t @lschiff

#Academia #AcademicMastodon #DefendResearch #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics #Universities