@sfndhe.bsky.social is working with @aaup.org's CDAF and the Critical Legal Collective to imagine new futures for #highered. Join us for our next webinar in the series!

Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Ed@sfndhe.bsky.social · 7mo ago

SAVE THE DATE Upcoming webinar in the series Forgotten Pasts, Alternative Futures "How to Build a College: Experimental Alternatives in the History of Higher Ed" Mon 3/16 4:00-5:30pm ET/1:00-2:30 PT Co-sponsored with @aaup.org Center for Def of Acad Freedom and Critical Legal Collective

Imaginative aspirations for new higher ed must grapple with material realities: funds, faculty and staff employment, land or online infrastructure, students, and accreditation. This webinar will examine past examples of how others organized to make their alternative ideas into tangible reality.

"...we maintain this weird double standard: Soldiers in combat zones must refuse unlawful orders, but civilians facing unlawful force from domestic law enforcement must submit." publicseminar.org/2026/01/the-...

The Moral Right to Defend Yourself Against ICE - Public Seminar

If you saw an armed stranger forcing his way into your neighbor's home at dawn, would you have the right to stop him?

publicseminar.org

At #LibCon2025: @dandrezner.bsky.social and @jenmittelstadt.bsky.social

"As I went through the papers of [the American grassroots movement], their private papers and their organizational papers both, what I found was this deep and abiding expression of anti-internationalism, which they then redefined as a defense of sovereignty." - @jenmittelstadt.bsky.social

@wendymink.bsky.social @sarahfrose.bsky.social @noahzatz.bsky.social @jenmittelstadt.bsky.social @eileenboris.bsky.social @kmtani.bsky.social @kaaryngustafson.bsky.social @brycecovert.bsky.social

Dr. Felicia Kornbluh@vtfeminist.bsky.social · last yr.

How the GOP bill in Congress would ensure poverty: open.substack.com/pub/feliciak...

Thanks to @rolandpeters.bsky.social for such a thoughtful conversation about anti-internationalism, sovereigntism, and the right.

Roland Peters@rolandpeters.bsky.social · last yr.

Donald #Trump is a sovereigntist, says historian @jenmittelstadt.bsky.social from Rutgers University. What does that mean for his foreign policy? And where does the movement come from? An interview. (Published in German)

Donald #Trump is a sovereigntist, says historian @jenmittelstadt.bsky.social from Rutgers University. What does that mean for his foreign policy? And where does the movement come from? An interview. (Published in German)

Trump ist politischer Wiedergänger der 1930er-Jahre

Weiß, rassistisch und protestantisch waren die ersten anti-internationalen Graswurzelbewegungen in den USA. Geistig verwandt fühlten sie sich mit dem deutschen Faschismus. Bislang hätten sie nur Niede...

n-tv.de

Naval Academy forced, by SECDEF personally, to remove nearly 1000 books seen as promoting diversity from its library, including MLKs autobiography or books about Jackie Robinson. College students - and faculty - not allowed to read about MLK? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...

Naval Academy Takes Steps to End Diversity Policies in Books and Admissions

The defense secretary’s office has ordered that some books be removed from circulation in its library, and the academy has ended the use of affirmative action in admissions.

nytimes.com

As the tournament moves to its next venues, let's see some #marchmadnessteachin action in other cities. Sports fans know what's up...

Philip Eil@phileil.bsky.social · 2y ago

A few photos from the teach-in organized by @sethrockman.bsky.social in downtown Providence this afternoon.

www.npr.org/2025/03/21/n...

Military's DEI purge seen putting its future — and its history — at risk

Many Pentagon materials now labeled as "DEI" were a bit more like advertisements — aimed at recruits who have shown a willingness to serve, military experts tell NPR.

npr.org

The full effects of cuts to federal funding for #highered— the view from March Madness schools.

Seth Rockman@sethrockman.bsky.social · 2y ago

In honor of #MarchMadness, let's talk about how all 8 men's teams playing in Providence this week are threatened by the Musk/Trump Admin. If you love college sports, you're going to have to stand up for colleges!!!!

This -- Pentagon-directed site inspections to ensure compliance with anti-DEI / anti-gender directives -- will be happening for all the Services, not just USAF. www.airandspaceforces.com/air-force-va...

Air Force Sending Teams to Make Sure Bases Are Following Executive Orders

The Department of the Air Force is sending teams to nine bases to make sure they’re implementing President Donald Trump’s executive orders.

airandspaceforces.com

Just received notice that my 2018 op-ed for the USAWC's War Room, "Less War, More College," was being purged from Army website as per the #DEI guidance from #DOD secretary #hegseth. It discussed the value of diverse perspectives and people in the USAWC classroom.

Some good news! Friday the US District Court of Maryland granted a nationwide injunction on parts of a pair of EOs issued by Trump related to DEI & accessibility mandates, policies, programs & activities among federal government grantee including colleges & universities. www.aaup.org/news/win-aau...

@sethcotlar.bsky.social Including reclaiming NYC as sovereign territory.

Jennifer Mittelstadt@jenmittelstadt.bsky.social · 2y ago

Among other things, Lee’s bill includes long held dream of anti-internationalists to revoke the “sovereign territory” ceded to UN in Manhattan in 1947.

@sethcotlar.bsky.social Here come the sovereigntists!

Jennifer Mittelstadt@jenmittelstadt.bsky.social · 2y ago

The sovereigntist agenda: Mike Lee’s bill to pull the US out of the UN. www.lee.senate.gov/services/fil...

The sovereigntist agenda: Mike Lee’s bill to pull the US out of the UN. www.lee.senate.gov/services/fil...

Among other things, Lee’s bill includes long held dream of anti-internationalists to revoke the “sovereign territory” ceded to UN in Manhattan in 1947.

The sovereigntist agenda: Mike Lee’s bill to pull the US out of the UN. www.lee.senate.gov/services/fil...

Hegseth on PME is a disaster for civilian control of the military and civ-mil relations. My 2018 case for “less war, more college” at the US war colleges. warroom.armywarcollege.edu/articles/too...

TOO MUCH WAR, NOT ENOUGH COLLEGE

In "Too Much War, Not Enough College," Jen Mittelstadt provides a civilian academic's perspective to the balance between preparing senior leaders for brigade command or leadership at service or joint ...

warroom.armywarcollege.edu

For my current project on sovereignty, I have made five trips to the Wilcox Collection in the Spencer Library at KU. Just got word that they are hiring an archivist for this incredibly important collection in American politics. employment.ku.edu/jobs/faculty...

Job Posting

employment.ku.edu

Not the only thing. Also great conversations with super smart people who invite you to talk and then teach you thing. @hpe-project.bsky.social as an example.

Jennifer Mittelstadt@jenmittelstadt.bsky.social · 2y ago

The amazing archival collections of repositories around the country are the only things that make this research possible. Thx libraries at U of O, KU, Yale, and Brown, @nypl.bsky.social, and others!

Super smart analysis of Trump's approach to foreign policy by historian @jenmittelstadt.bsky.social. Trump is not a dovish isolationist. He's carrying forward a 100+ year tradition of US "sovereignty politics" that is often quite belligerent vis a vis other nations. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...

Opinion | The Lost Tradition That Explains Trump’s Obsession With the Panama Canal

Inside the lost tradition in American foregin policy that explains the president’s overseas obsessions.

nytimes.com

The amazing archival collections of repositories around the country are the only things that make this research possible. Thx libraries at U of O, KU, Yale, and Brown, @nypl.bsky.social, and others!

Jennifer Mittelstadt@jenmittelstadt.bsky.social · 2y ago

A less recognized genealogy for US foreign policy in the current era, from the book I'm writing on movements for sovereignty in the US. Thanks to @nytopinion.nytimes.com. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...

A less recognized genealogy for US foreign policy in the current era, from the book I'm writing on movements for sovereignty in the US. Thanks to @nytopinion.nytimes.com. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...

Opinion | The Lost Tradition That Explains Trump’s Obsession With the Panama Canal

Inside the lost tradition in American foregin policy that explains the president’s overseas obsessions.

nytimes.com

"[I]n adopting the private money paradigm, the very same defenders of public education presuppose that the only alternative to the existing university loans system is one in which higher education is funded by the taxpayer."

UK Universities in Crisis? Time to Transform Higher Ed Finance

by Rob Hawkes and Scott Ferguson Universities in the UK are in crisis. Job cuts in the sector are reaching ‘cataclysmic’ levels, with an estimated 10,000 already lost and many more at risk. Just da…

moneyontheleft.org

“We will do everything in our power to protect our institutions, faculty, staff and students and stand up against those seeking to violate academic freedom and the core principle of higher education.” - Todd Wolfson truthout.org/articles/aca...

Academic Labor Unions Are Key to Fighting Trump’s Repressive Higher Ed Agenda

AAUP president Todd Wolfson says unions like his are key to fighting Trump’s attacks on the bedrock of democracy.

truthout.org

TONIGHT! Join @sfndhe.bsky.social to hear from a wide range of national #highered organizers and leaders about how to continue the fight for the common good in the next four years. @higheredlabor.bsky.social, @aaup.bsky.social, @texasaaup.bsky.social, @pasenatorsaval.com and more.

Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Ed@sfndhe.bsky.social · 2y ago

Virtual forum among higher ed leaders from across the country. Thu 12/5 7:00pm Eastern @aaup.bsky.social @aftunion.bsky.social @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social @ruaaup-ptl.bsky.social Sign up and help spread the word about the event. Here is the link to register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...