The title for this piece should read something more like, “Texas A&M Smothers Students’ Freedom to Learn and Professors’ Freedom to Teach.” Texas A&M clearly is no longer in the business of encouraging open learning and has instead embraced censoring speech. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Texas A&M Requires Approval for Courses That “Advocate” Certain Ideologies

Many faculty members decried the new restrictions on race- and gender-related courses as an assault on academic freedom. Meanwhile, the board also discussed a once-per-semester systemwide course revie...

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Have folks been paying attention to what’s going on at Auburn University? Faculty are being asked to sign neo loyalty oaths — this will have a chilling effect on faculty’s freedom to teach and students’ freedom to learn. This is not what college education should be. www.al.com/news/2025/11...

Auburn University requires faculty to review courses to comply with anti-DEI law

Auburn's provost office posted a web site on how to comply with state and federal DEI mandates on Oct. 31.

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I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Listen in to the Student Affairs Now Campus Context Podcast. I joined alongside @heather-shea.bsky.social & @cantb.bsky.social deciphering between noise and real policy signals in higher ed. I also discussed the proposed elimination of our EDAD Department at UNL studentaffairsnow.com/current-camp...

Current Campus Context: Making Sense of the Signals Amid the Noise

In this September episode of Current Campus Context, host Heather Shea welcomes back Dr. Crystal Garcia and Dr. Brendan Cantwell for a timely conversation on the state of higher education. The discuss...

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When educators say that educational leadership preparation within a university is expendable, we are in a scary place. This is about my department, my university and is cause for alarm for educators everywhere. If they cut the only ed leadership PhD program in our state, whose will be next? (1/2)

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University of Nebraska–Lincoln Proposes Cutting Ed Administration Programs University leaders say they need to slash the budget. Education administration professors say it’ll sever a pipeline to education leadership roles. https://bit.ly/42D0qCw

I can live without Disney. I can live without CBS. I can live without NBC. America cannot live without the Freedom Of Speech

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

Every time I feel like I know a lot about the rise of fascism in Germany, I learn something new.

Adam Bonin@adambonin.bsky.social · last yr.

My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?" Turns out, mom was right.

📢 Our latest issue of the Journal of Sorority and Fraternity Life Research and Practice (JSFLRP) is now available! You can read the full issue here: journal.libraries.wm.edu/jsflrp

Higher Ed colleagues, join us today for a session on Higher Ed Advocacy in This Moment! August 26, 1pm-2pm EST We will discuss current advocacy needs and resources available. Registering with a non-university affiliated email address is recommended us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Getting our @unlincoln.bsky.social EDAD study abroad in Seoul, South Korea started with a culture/language lesson! 💖 #GoBigRed

Hi, yeah, who’s going to tell Trump that’s not how universities work? It really shows how little he understands higher ed. His ignorance will continue to hurt students & colleges/universities as a whole—let’s see how long it takes to figure out how important they are to our state/national economies.

Omaha just elected Democrat John Ewing to replace 3 term Republican mayor Jean Stothert—seems like more of these reps need to be listening to their constituents or they may just lose their seat 💅👀

Pushing back on the attacks on education? You’re not alone, even if it feels that way. There are many folks within our University system (and beyond) pushing back—we have to keep it up www.dailynebraskan.com/news/afire-f...

Last day of class for my Nebraska EDAD history of higher education course! A fantastic group of college educators finishing up the last semester of their master’s program! 🎉 🎉🎉

I can unequivocally say that MANY of the rural, poor and working-class students in my research credit TRIO to their success and continued enrollment in college. These cuts would be devastating to communities like where I come from. Write your congresspeople. www.insidehighered.com/news/student...

How Trump’s Proposed TRIO Cuts Could Hamper College Access

The Trump administration wants to eliminate the federally funded student support program. That could be devastating for low-income students and the institutions that serve them.

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Republicans voted to allow ICE to cancel student visas with no due process. This would have an incredibly chilling effect (compounding on previous actions) on future international students pursuing education in the U.S. Our institutions DEPEND on those students’ tuition & fees dollars.

Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal@jayapal.house.gov · last yr.

Last week, Republicans voted to let ICE cancel student visas with no due process. As the only member of the Judiciary Committee who has actually been on a student visa, I wanted to explain what the process is like — and why that vote was so harmful. Listen👇🏾

Drs. @oiyanpoon.bsky.social & @crystalegarcia.bsky.social join @heather-shea.bsky.social to unpack the reshaping of HE—from executive orders & agency overhauls to attacks on DEI, student protections, and institutional autonomy. studentaffairsnow.com/currentconte...

100 Days In: Power, Policy, and Pushback in Higher Education - Student Affairs NOW

In this episode (recorded on May 1), Dr. OiYan Poon and Dr. Crystal Garcia join Dr. Heather Shea to reflect on the first 100 days of the current administration and what they reveal about its prioritie...

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Ummm have y’all seen the antics Trump has been up to on social media since yesterday? Apparently conjured up an AI image of himself as the Pope, posted on his truth social account, and also now on the official White House social media (see Instagram landing page below). This is our president? 🥴

The Trump budget cuts from education & research is devastating to humanity. TRIO, Work Study, FIPSE, NEH, NEA, AmeriCorps, IML, NSF Broadening Participation, & more gone. Nearly all NSF general research & ed funding eliminated. NIH would be a shell of itself. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

Feds claim they can suspend due process for international students. “not subject to court challenges.”

New ICE Policy Puts International Students at Greater Risk

A week after restoring foreign students’ legal status, immigration officials detailed plans for a new policy granting unprecedented leeway to terminate their residency. It could foreshadow a new round...

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they are literal segregationists apnews.com/article/scho...

The Justice Department ended a decades-old school desegregation order. Others are expected to fall

The Justice Department is lifting a school desegregation order in Louisiana dating to the Civil Rights Movement, calling its continued existence a “historical wrong” and suggesting that others across ...

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Trump on Day One: Your costs will be lower immediately. Trump on Day 100: Your kids will now have fewer toys and also you're going to pay higher prices.

Most often when we refer to “diversity, equity, and inclusion” what we are really talking about is civil rights efforts. Folks should really start using this language instead —it’s not about cutting “DEI” this is about cutting civil rights progress and protections.

Our University leadership is letting us down. The College of Arts & Sciences at UW is trying to lay off over 200 people - our departmental staff in an ill-planned (barely planned) attempt to cut costs by centralizing staff (they have not talked to... anyone about this) www.defendcasstaff.com

Remember that time in the WH press conference when someone said “I can attest to the deportations in Florida. My Uber drivers finally speak English again so thank you.” The blatant racism and classism is beyond appalling. Such a disgrace.

Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women Unreal www.science.org/content/arti...

NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women

The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings

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My statement to the University of Nebraska Board of Regents against complying with anti-diversity, equity, and inclusion guidance. Now is the time to be brave and to keep fighting for the future of education.