Chapman
Solidarity
Updated June 17, 2025
Welcome to the
Chapman Faculty Solidarity Web page.
Members of Solidarity came together to catalog, analyze, and resist the current
US administration’s assault on the values we share as teachers and as United
States citizens.
Our
Mission:
Chapman University faculty created Solidarity to explore how we will act
collectively to address the Trump administration’s assault on education, on
science and the arts, on the environment and our health, on our civil rights
and freedom of expression, and on democracy and the rule of law. We believe
that, as university faculty, we are called upon to resist that assault.
To that end, Solidarity will share insights, events, and proposed actions by
our professional organizations. We will organize forums open to students,
staff, and administrators. We will work together with the faculty of other
colleges and universities to find ways to protect the rights of immigrants and
refugees, to protect our environment, and to uphold academic freedom, the rule
of law, and our shared moral and ethical values.
Solidarity’s
blog page, where we share coming events, is here. This page includes useful and related links.
Solidarity Events
Allied Organizations
Faculty and University Statements of Solidarity
Take Action
News Stories Detailing the Administration’s Assault on
Education & Science
Relevant Opinions
·
“Echoes,
Rhymes, & Contrasts: 1930s Germany & the US Today.” A two-day
conference at Chapman. The tentative
dates are February 20-21, 2026.
·
No
Kings Day rally – on Glassell off Bert Williams Mall at Chapman. June 14, 2025.
·
Chris
Kluwe visits Chapman.
Celebrated former Minnesota Vikings kicker, arrested after peacefully
protesting at a Huntington Beach city council meeting. April 24, 2025.
Allied Organizations:
·
Indivisible. “Our democracy is under threat. But we will
not yield to fascism. We will stand together and we'll
fight back in defense of our rights, our communities, and our values. Join us.”
·
50501.
“Join us in the fight to uphold the Constitution and to end executive
overreach.”
·
AAUP.
“American Association of University Professors: Advancing academic
freedom and shared governance; defining professional values and standards;
promoting the economic security of those who teach and research in higher
education; organizing to make our goals a reality; and ensuring higher
education’s contributions to the common good.”
·
Pen America. “The Freedom to Write: PEN America
stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect free
expression in the United States and worldwide. We champion the freedom to
write, recognizing the power of the word to transform the world.”
· Union of
Concerned Scientists:
“Science for people and the planet. The Union of Concerned
Scientists is a member-supported nonprofit that’s fighting for a safer and
healthier world.”
Faculty and University Statements of Solidarity
·
Big
Ten Mutual Defense Pact: Resolution
to Establish a Mutual Defense Compact for the Universities of the Big Ten Academic
Alliance in Defense of Academic Freedom, Institutional Integrity, and the
Research Enterprise.
·
UMass
Resolution to Establish Mutual Defense Pacts among land-grant universities.
·
Harvard
University’s response to Trump demands. “[D]emands that, in contravention
of the First Amendment, invade university freedoms long recognized by the
Supreme Court. The government’s terms also circumvent Harvard’s statutory
rights by requiring unsupported and disruptive remedies for alleged harms that
the government has not proven through mandatory processes established by
Congress and required by law.”
Take Action
·
Contact Young Kim, who represents the 40th
congressional district, which includes Chapman. (714) 984-2440.
·
Indivisible
Rallies every
Tuesday, 5:30-7:30pm, in the Orange Circle (Glassell & Chapman).
News
Stories Detailing the Administration’s Assault on Education & Science
·
Scientific
American: “Top
U.S. Scientists Speak Out against ‘Climate of Fear’ Wrecking U.S. Research.”
3/31/2025.
·
NPR:
“All the ways the Trump administration is going after
colleges and universities.” 6/10/2025
·
Rewire
News Group: “‘I’ve Never Seen Such a Threat on Higher Ed’: How Universities
Are Fighting Trump’s Attacks.” 6/13/2025
Relevant Opinions
·
Guardian: “Why a professor of fascism left the
US: ‘The lesson of 1933 is – you get out’”
·
Guardian:
Robert Reich – “Americans disagree on much, but this week we have found
common ground.” An ode to solidarity.
·
Guardian: “We Are Witnessing the First Stages of
a Police State.”
·
Washington
Post: “They are not
good at this: Nearly five months into Trump’s new reign of error, his
administration’s mistakes are multiplying.”
·
Guardian: “Stop
bending the knee to Trump: it’s time for anticipatory noncompliance”
· Washington
Post: “This is what a war on knowledge looks like”
This page is maintained by Richard Ruppel. Address any questions or suggestions to ruppel@chapman.edu.