CUNY Alliance to Defend Higher Education (CADHE)
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While this is a HUGE WIN, there's more work to do. It's time to DOUBLE DOWN in pressuring Congress. They need to revoke the OMB Proposal. Members of Congress who fail to stop the Proposal will be out of a job January 3rd, 2027, we will make sure of it. 🧵
Word to the wise: any president or board that responds to this letter without formally consulting their faculty and staff through established governance bodies and after a public comment period is abdicating their fiduciary responsibility. #MakeSharedGovernanceMatterMore www.ed.gov/media/docume...
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A few hot takes on the letter, which I will refer to as Compact 2.0: 0) I appreciate the shift from outright extortion to (theoretically) open-ended questions. 1) Nevertheless, both the framing of the questions and wording of several rest on a thin evidence base and unexamined assumptions.
Dominique Baker@bakerdphd.bsky.social · 2d agoMe on the AAU "The AAU claims to be comprised of America’s leading research unis...But if the member presidents choose the guise of institutional neutrality as a way to gain political cover, they may now be leading higher ed toward greater authoritarianism." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
Queens deserves better
PSC-CUNY@psc-cuny.org · 2d ago“There’s been a lot of fiscal mismanagement by our administration, and they’re solving it by laying off part-time workers...We are a primary engine of social mobility in the city, so we need the support of our state legislature, our governor, and our city council as well.” qns.com/2026/07/quee...
Heartwarming. Faculty is being bullied. Suppression is happening, but people are fighting back and winning. Nonetheless, I can't imagine how difficult it is for them to courageously and tenaciously confront this authoritarian government. @cadhe.bsky.social www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Fired Over Speech, Professors Take Their Employers to Court
The recent spate of censorship and academic freedom violations is the worst since the McCarthy era, according to one lawyer. But as faculty rack up legal victories, universities may start to think twi...
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"The ratified contract includes raises in each of the five years of the agreement, as follows: 4.5 percent, 4 percent, 3.5 percent, 3 percent, and 3 percent."
Governor Hochul Announces Ratification of Five-Year Labor Agreement With United University Professions
Governor Hochul announced the ratification of a five-year labor agreement with the United University Professions (UUP) which includes approximately 42,000 SUNY faculty and professional employees.
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On May 15, 2024, several hundred heavily armed police were called in to break up a peaceful encampment at UC Irvine in solidarity with the people of Gaza. Among those arrested that day was UC Irvine G...
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She studied at Queensborough Community College for two years and then transferred to #CUNY’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
Fallen soldier from Ozone Park always wanted to serve, family says
Sgt. Angel S. Rampersad was a calming and determined presence who was proud to serve the country she came to as a child, her family says.
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The president of my college is finally resigning in disgrace, but the situation remains bleak. Our search for a chief librarian was canceled and the adjuncts we hired as stop-gaps when we couldn't replace retired faculty have all been cut. How are we supposed to support students in these conditions?
Save Queens College: deep cuts hurting campus - PSC CUNY
Devastating cuts at Queens College are impacting workloads, services and education. PSC members are fighting back.
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“The people who lost their health care–that money is going into the pockets of the rich…We must tell @governor.ny.gov Hochul again – as we did last year – she must go and get the money that belongs to the people of New York back. Tax the rich! ” said Gaboury. www.youtube.com/shorts/BKsAX...
PSC First Vice President Jen Gaboury speaks at Invest in Our NY Press Conference - July 22, 2026
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PSC First VP Jen Gaboury joined Senator Rivera, PSC members & a coalition of unions & progressive groups at Montefiore Hospital today to demand that @governor.ny.gov and the Legislature defend NYers from Trump’s Medicaid cuts, #taxtherich, & fund the healthcare & services that NYers need.
Trump, Vought, and RFK Jr's version of "using AI in science" apnews.com/article/cali...
White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants
Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COV...
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“At the same time the Trump administration has issued an executive order and extolled the value of HBCUs, it’s cutting their research and limiting their research topics." - @scott-delaney.bsky.social @katiemangan.bsky.social on the unique research struggles MSIs and HSIs face, @chronicle.com.
The Research Cuts No One Is Talking About
Minority-serving institutions are quietly being denied funds key to their aspirations. Their leaders don’t want to discuss it.
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We’ve been calling for NYS to make its public higher education systems THE most affordable in the nation and to fund, staff, and govern them as the indispensable public goods they are. NYS has taken key steps in recent years, but we need to pick up the pace! news.gallup.com/poll/712748/...
Just 12% of Americans Say Four-Year Colleges Are Affordable
About one in eight U.S. adults say four-year colleges or universities are doing an "excellent" or "good" job providing an affordable education.
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I'm just wondering how many people would end up being traumatized! @cadhe.bsky.social @psc-cuny.org www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
Border Surveillance Scholar Denied Tenure at UT Austin
Border-surveillance scholar Iván Chaar López was denied tenure at the University of Texas at Austin after being recommended by more than 30 scholars, The Austin-American Statesman reported.
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Come for the discussion of AI, stay for the analysis of the costs of college. The real kicker, though, is the value of shared governance. A thread on how we can make shared governance matter more. 1/x
Dennis Hogan@dennismhogan.bsky.social · 3w agoMany faculty have been sounding the alarm about the problems generative AI poses for student learning. Strangely, some higher ed administrations seem have emerged as major AI boosters. Why? As I write in the latest @hedgehogreview.bsky.social it's a labor story: hedgehogreview.com/issues/the-f...
"These patterns suggest that growing ideological divides in health behaviours are leaving conservative Americans increasingly vulnerable to preventable health risks." www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The political polarization of health outcomes in the USA - Nature Human Behaviour
Using individual-level medical data and death records, this study finds that conservatives in the USA experienced worse health and higher mortality than liberals during the 2010s. No significant gaps ...
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Academic Freedom and the Palestine Exception at Princeton
BY JOAN W. SCOTT Princeton University President Christopher Eisgruber has carefully curated his public reputation as a defender of free speech and academic freedom against the wanton attacks by the…
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Here it is (successfully submitted through the proper portal at 11:20 pm; shared in this format FYI) @standupforscience.net @publicgoodu.bsky.social @alliancehighered.bsky.social @standhighered.bsky.social @cadhe.bsky.social docs.google.com/document/d/1...
OMB Public Comment (7/13/2026)
I am an Associate Professor of English at the State University of New York at Fredonia (SUNY Fredonia) and President of the SUNY University Faculty Senate (SUNY UFS). I have been the lead author on re...
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Citizen of Somewhere Else@citizense.bsky.social · 3w agoOf course my personal comment will be submitted after a late dinner with my mom in Clinton!
I’ve sent in my comments. Please do so too. @cadhe.bsky.social @psc-cuny.org
Phil Plait@philplait.bsky.social · 4w agoWhoa, over a quarter million people (so far!) have left a comment on the egrgious openly fascist takeover attempt of the OMB. You can too! @standupforscience.net has instructions and everything you need. It's not hard, and it's critically important to science. fight2win.standupforscience.net
CUNY celebrates Disability Pride Month by recognizing the leadership, talent and perspectives of disabled students, alumni, faculty and staff across our 26 campuses. Their knowledge, advocacy and accomplishments help shape a stronger University for all.
Same block as #CUNY central which has been evacuated (reportedly)
Live Updates: Mamdani Warns That Midtown Manhattan Building Remains Unstable
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Read the whole thing, which includes extended storm warnings, a timeline of SUNY and CUNY governance body actions in the last year, key readings, and useful resources, here: hdl.handle.net/1951/89081
The State of Shared Governance: Independence Day 2026
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that the cause of higher education, in the United States and beyond, is in great measure the cause of all humanity; that higher education’s function is to secu...
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Public Good U@publicgoodu.bsky.social · last mo.Here’s the opening to The State of Shared Governance: Independence Day 2026. You can keep reading and join as a signatory to this declaration from 13 SUNY and CUNY governance leaders here. www.change.org/p/the-state-...
![The State of Shared Governance: Independence Day 2026
July 4, 2026
Support our declaration; add your John Hancock here [link in post]
Preamble
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that the cause of higher education, in the United States and beyond, is in great measure the cause of all humanity; that higher education’s function is to secure human equality, expand human rights, and liberate human potential; and that colleges and universities are instituted, and derive their just powers, from their commitments to the following foundational principles:
the provision of educational programs and services so all students have fair opportunities to learn and thrive in the safest and most supportive environment possible;
the pursuit of knowledge, truth, and wisdom for the public good;
the safeguarding of the integrity of academic research, teaching, and learning so as to foster an informed citizenry and push the boundaries of human understanding and potential;
the practice of academic freedom, shared governance, and peer review for the sake of institutional autonomy, democratic competence, and democratic accountability;
the advancement of diversity, equity, and inclusion so that we may become a more perfect union;
the cultivation of freedoms of thought, inquiry, speech, expression, assembly, and association for the future of democracy in, and beyond, the United States of America.
Yet we write today, with heavy hearts, out of the conviction that the present state of U.S. higher education remains alarming to everyone who is capable of reflection.
Last July 4, SUNY and CUNY governance leaders warned that Public Good U was under attack. One year later, the emergency has not passed. It has deepened. It has normalized. And it has moved, in many places, from open spectacle to administrative routine.
America at 250: The State of Shared Governance in U.S. Higher Education
Today, on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence,… [~660 characters cut]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xoefvgnwxry3hridogp7mbhn/bafkreieltokpjekmputdxa4nmxvwerzb622qgrtptwiafcbk7xrecralfe)
The Trust Agenda was one of nine major documents we recommended for further reading in our The State of Shared Governance: Independence Day 2026 declaration. hdl.handle.net/1951/89081
The State of Shared Governance: Independence Day 2026
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that the cause of higher education, in the United States and beyond, is in great measure the cause of all humanity; that higher education’s function is to secu...
hdl.handle.net
American Association of Colleges & Universities (AAC&U)@aacu.org · last mo.AAC&U's @jeremycyoung.bsky.social joined the Changing Higher Ed podcast to discuss “The Trust Agenda” and how colleges and universities can strengthen public trust through action, accountability, and community engagement. Listen here: https://bit.ly/3QQu70o