Last week I wrote about how Texas politicians’ “free speech” campaign has led to a campaign of academic censorship in the state’s universities that exceeds even the McCarthy era (🎁🔗) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
North Carolina Conference of the AAUP
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We are an association of all AAUP members in North Carolina #highered. Join us as we advocate for all faculty and instructors through the state. Become involved in a local chapter or start one! AN INJURY TO ONE IS AN INJURY TO ALL! https://www.aaupnc.org/
"Despite billions of dollars that firms around the globe have invested in AI over the past few years, major returns remain to be seen: 90% of executives say AI efforts have yet to translate to productivity gains at their companies... " www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Companies rushed in on AI. Now some are pulling back
Rapid AI adoption left workers cleaning up a flood of errors and low-quality work
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Fantastic piece on the need to shut down business schools. Replace them with schools of political economy. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/18/o...
Opinion | I Teach at a Business School. It’s Time to Shut Them Down. (Gift Article)
Students come in with noble intentions and leave with flawed expertise.
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Perhaps this is an example of why universities shouldn't be falling all over themselves to invent use cases and teach students vague "AI competencies" and mysterious "AI skills" at the expense of teaching them how to think, read, write, and interact with other human beings.
Futurism@futurism.com · 23h ago"We're driving the truck and building it at the same time, and that's a problem."
There was only one radical theocrat in that room last night, and it wasn't El-Sayed
jamelle@jamellebouie.net · yesterdaythe second el-sayed chose to treat tommy as an equal and not a nuisance, tommy was cooked
In all 50 states and around the world, people took to the streets today with one message: No Kings. Next up, we're going to protect the election and enforce the results. Because democracy is worth defending, and We the People are ready. RSVP to learn more: http://bit.ly/whatsn.... #NoKings ❌👑
This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.
#nokings in Burlington NC today So proud of Alamance County, the Alamance Hour of Action (40 weekly actions this year!) and @alamanceresists.bsky.social If you’d have asked me in 2020 if this place could do this, I’d have laughed. But some great & talented organizers organized …and here we are!
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Race to the Bottom Continues with Revised SACSCOC Accreditation Standards
BY KATIE RAINWATER This post follows up on, and covers new developments related to, the author’s June 15 Academe Blog post. In June, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACSCOC)…
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Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...
Katie Zacharia's tenure as Press Secretary lasted just a bit longer than the new degree programs that UNC System President Peter Hans wants to implement
“Our biggest concerns are on how loose the language is on academic freedom. It opens the door to bad interpretations. SACSCOC also weakened their standard on shared governance. Genuine shared governance is substantially more than requiring ‘faculty input.’” – Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 3d agoA Planned Intellectual Diversity Accreditation Standard Draws Opposition The @aaup.org president told the Commission on Colleges and Universities that institutions shouldn’t “be expected to prioritize intellectual pluralism on settled scholarly questions.” https://bit.ly/4jqqH0k
There are many ways to destroy a university. Texas Tech, Texas A&M + the University of Texas have each taken a different approach…But the result will be the same: substandard education, substandard research + graduates who are less prepared for their future… + more prepared to obey without question.
All The Things You’re Not Allowed To Say In Texas
The state now controls what professors can teach.
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“To save the research university, faculty must cultivate solidarity across disciplinary lines and organize with our students to raise public awareness of the Christian nationalist attacks on our institutions.” academicfreedomontheline.substack.com/p/sociology-...
Sociology Is Being Used as a Wedge to Destroy the Research University
Solidarity across disciplines is a must.
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Six days after ICE shot him in the Bronx, Oscar Belgal remains in MDC Brooklyn, and still hasn’t gotten surgery to remove the bullet in his neck. “He has experienced a loss of sensation in half of his face, as well as hearing loss in his left ear.” Gift link: www.nydailynews.com/2026/10/14/l...
ICE never identified themselves during NYC shooting of Oscar Belgal, who still has bullet in neck: lawyers
The Legal Aid Society, which now represents the 28-year-old father, filed a habeas corpus petition in Brooklyn Federal Court Wednesday, seeking his “immediate release on reasonable conditions.”
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“Students deserve an education of the first class from a university of the first class, and we’re pretty worried that that’s not the direction we’re heading in.” — Karma Chávez, UT Austin AAUP President @texasaaup.bsky.social
AAUP chapter @UT Austin@utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 5d ago"Written by Ben Shapiro"
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Forbes@forbes.com · 6d agoThe Daily Wire’s new movie, written by Ben Shapiro, features a cast including Rob Lowe, James Franco and Jennifer Jason Leigh, as the conservative media company ramps up its filmmaking efforts.
“We are facing an onslaught like we’ve never seen before. We need a movement that is wall to wall, every single worker, and coast to coast.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
Google Gemini is having a campus fair at NC State. They want your data. We want you to be safe.
A haunted house where every room has an assistant dean for teaching excellence and vice chancellor for finance
Mar Hicks@histoftech.bsky.social · 7d agoA haunted house where every room has several colleagues to whom you owe work, or email responses
🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: Today, the AAUP announced a slate of 12 national political endorsements for the 2026 midterm elections. These candidates will champion higher education as a public good, protect academic freedom, advance debt-free education, & protect the collective bargaining rights of workers. 1/
AAUP Endorses Midterm Election Candidates
Today, the AAUP announced a slate of twelve national political endorsements for the 2026 midterm elections. The endorsed candidates for Senate and congressional races will champion higher education as...
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Reposting our op-ed. Not looking forward to having Google Gemini on campus next week, shamelessly hawking their products to our students. If we actually cared about student mental health the way we always claim to, we'd protect our students from these predators. ncnewsline.com/2026/10/08/w...
Commentary: Would your campus host credit card companies or Big Tobacco? Then why Big Tech? • NC Newsline
Like many other universities, NC State is introducing generative AI products into workspaces, classrooms, and learning management systems, but, to my knowledge, they are not informing students and par...
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Today, and every day, we stand with the Somali community.
