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Alumni Free Speech Alliance

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Alumni Free Speech Alliance

@afsaalumni

The Alumni Free Speech Alliance is dedicated to preserving free speech, academic freedom, and viewpoint diversity on college campuses. RT≠ endorsement.

Washington DC

Joined March 2023

Alumni Free Speech Alliance
@afsaalumni
May 29, 2025
Stanley Zhong had a 4.42 GPA, a 1590 SAT, and ranked in the top 1% of the USA Computing Olympiad (Platinum). He built a free e-signing platform, reached the semifinals of Google Code Jam, and placed 2nd in MIT’s Battlecode. Still, 15 of 18 colleges rejected him — including
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Alumni Free Speech Alliance
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Apr 2, 2025
Bill Maher asks the question many higher-ed critics want to know about college administrators... "Yale has 5,307 undergrads and 3,500 administrators. What do they do?" @dbessner highlights the "consumer-centered transformation," where students are now treated as consumers, and
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Alumni Free Speech Alliance
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Mar 10, 2025
For those that are confused about what is going on with Columbia grad student Mahmoud Khalil, @TheFP's @SulkinMaya is here to set you straight. "No one is telling Khalil and students like him that they cannot peacefully protest or even say things that we disagree with, but what
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Alumni Free Speech Alliance
@afsaalumni
Jun 23, 2025
Rabbi David Wolpe, former Harvard faculty fellow, pulls no punches on foreign influence in American education. On the organized nature of campus protests: “Same brand of expensive tents, handbooks found afterwards—this was all organized.” But his sharpest warning? Foreign
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Alumni Free Speech Alliance
@afsaalumni
Apr 28, 2025
Dartmouth Alumni, Faculty, Students and Friends are standing up for President Sian Beilock as she faces attacks from radical faculty who think she's too neutral. The breaking point? She refused to cave and did not sign the AAC&U open letter. Under her bold leadership, Dartmouth
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Alumni Free Speech Alliance
@afsaalumni
May 27, 2025
President Trump intends to cancel all of Harvard's federal funding. Could this have been avoided? @BillAckman thinks so—and he has some sharp advice for Harvard’s leadership. Let's hear from one of Harvard's all-time alums🧵 Bill Ackman says Harvard’s in deep trouble. President
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Alumni Free Speech Alliance
@afsaalumni
Apr 11, 2025
Camille Paglia and @jordanbpeterson talk about the troubling state of higher ed... Paglia has nothing but contempt for administrators. “These people are corporate types who love bureaucratic regulation and have totally usurped academia. There's not one voice raised against the
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Alumni Free Speech Alliance
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Jul 9, 2025
“There Are No Truly Private Universities Anymore” Speaking for the Stand Columbia Society, Tao Tan is urging elite institutions—especially Columbia—to drop the illusion that they’re purely “private” when their survival increasingly depends on public money. “It wasn’t that long
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Alumni Free Speech Alliance
@afsaalumni
Jan 8, 2025
NEW on the "Alma Matters" substack: Why Political Life at @Princeton is Relatively Placid: alumnifreespeechalliance.substack.com/p/why-politica… Interesting insights about the "Orange Bubble" from @PrincetoniansFS Writing Fellow Khoa Sands '26 #princeton @princetonian #ivyleague #campusprotests
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Alumni Free Speech Alliance
@afsaalumni
May 7, 2025
The @ManhattanInst's @RenuMukherjee1 drops some truth about racial preferences—and even The New York Times was stunned 👀 “It’s always a shock when I speak to those on the political left that support racial preferences... when you get individuals who are racially Black or
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Alumni Free Speech Alliance
@afsaalumni
May 29, 2025
“My son had a 4.4 GPA and a 1590 SAT — and was rejected by 16 colleges.” That’s the reality for Stanley Zhong — a top student who received a full-time job offer from Google straight out of high school, but was denied admission to multiple elite universities, including five UC
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Alumni Free Speech Alliance
@afsaalumni
Jun 19, 2025
This clip of @ishapiro hits hard—but he’s not wrong. It’s a sharp breakdown of what most college presidents are really like: not radicals, but careerists afraid to challenge the illiberal status quo. “They’re spineless cowards… not woke radicals… just climbers on the
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Alumni Free Speech Alliance
@afsaalumni
Jan 20, 2025
NEW on @TheFP: Inside @Columbia University’s ‘Museum of Terror’ thefp.com/p/columbia-uni… A recent exhibit presented the tools and planning behind the Hamilton Hall break-in, where a speaker called for a "Zionist-free NYC." #antisemitism #studentprotests #campusprotests
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Alumni Free Speech Alliance
@afsaalumni
Mar 5, 2025
In an age of limited attention spans, we implore you to watch every minute of University of California, Davis Professor Abigail Thompson share her story about what happened when she criticized diversity statements. "I became very concerned about the way diversity statements were
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