UPDATE (October 16): President Jameson announced earlier today that Penn will not sign the Compact! Thank you to all who made their voices heard. As was made clear by this petition, the recent Faculty Senate Resolution, and many other acts opposition, the Penn community is strongly united against threats to our academic freedom and shared governance. This success is evidence that when we stand together, we have the power to shape the future of our university.

UPDATE (October 7): This petition and the accompanying statement urging the administration to say no to the Compact are co-sponsored by GETUP-UAW and RAPUP-UAW. All members of the campus community are encouraged to sign the petition and to come together on October 17th at 3pm to stand publicly against the Compact (details forthcoming).

On October 1st, the University of Pennsylvania was one of nine targets of the Trump Administration's "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." Through it, Trump asks once again for universities to either adopt his ideologically-extremist positions or face the loss of federal funding. Tell Penn's leadership that there is nothing to be gained by signing away the rights of its students, faculty and staff: the right to free speech, the right to teach and to learn without government interference, the right for students around the world to study in the U.S., and the right of the people of the University to be the ones making the decisions about its future.