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Caroline B. Heafey

@carolineheafey.bsky.social

Assistant Director @GIHNYU.bsky.social. Doctoral Candidate in English at UMass Amherst.

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Caroline B. Heafey@carolineheafey.bsky.social · last yr.

It’s now incumbent on all members of university communities to understand how the funding for institutions of higher ed works. This interview offers some insight into how complex these issues are and some strategies for protecting academic freedoms.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · last yr.

President Trump has frozen billions of dollars in federal funds in an attempt to rid higher education of what he calls its woke ideology. Our reporter spoke to the president of Princeton University, Christopher L. Eisgruber, who has vowed to fight. Listen to "The Daily."

Modern Language Association@modernlanguage.bsky.social · last yr.

We've put together a list of resources on legislative threats to higher ed. Visit the site for tips for NEH grantees, webinar recordings, tool kits, MLA statements, and more. www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...

Resources on Legislative Threats to Higher Education

The MLA is collaborating with other organizations, including PEN America’s Freedom to Learn Network, the ACLS, and the AAUP, to speak out against state and local encroachment on higher education and g...

mla.org

jon ben-menachem@jbenmenachem.com · last yr.

Princeton has announced that it is considering selling approximately $320 million of taxable bonds. The bonds are a way for the University to raise short-term funds. The major credit-rating agencies rate University bonds AAA, the highest level of creditworthiness.

Princeton considers issuing bonds same day as federal government pauses grants

The University announced its consideration to sell approximately $320 million of taxable bonds on Tuesday, following a notification from government agencies about the suspension of research grants.

dailyprincetonian.com

Patrick Radden Keefe@praddenkeefe.bsky.social · last yr.

Happy pub day to @forestissacj.bsky.social, whose new book GOOD TROUBLE tells the story of how the movement for Catholic civil rights in Northern Ireland was inspired and influenced by the civil rights movement in the U.S. www.derryjournal.com/news/people/...

As world commemorates Selma, Forest Issac Jones traces close links between the civil rights struggles in Derry and US

As the world commemorates the 60th anniversary of the seminal events at Selma a fascinating new study has cast fresh light on the affinities between the Civil Rights struggles in the United States and...

derryjournal.com

Elizabeth Warren@warren.senate.gov · last yr.

This arrest is the latest in an alarming pattern to stifle civil liberties. The Trump admin is targeting students with legal status and ripping people out of their communities without due process. This is an attack on our Constitution and basic freedoms — and we will push back.

Tufts PhD student on visa arrested by immigration authorities, school says

Rumeysa Ozturk is a Turkish national, according to her lawyer, Mahsa Khanbabai.

abcnews.go.com

Sarah J. Jackson@sjjphd.bsky.social · last yr.

This is also true for womens/gender studies programs and student spaces like LGBTQ+ resource centers which arrived via not just scholarship but mass movements. While many programs and centers feel institutionalized now, attacks need to be historicized as attacks on the movements that birthed them.

Sarah J. Jackson@sjjphd.bsky.social · last yr.

For folks who don’t know, ethnic studies programs like African American/Africana Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicano Studies and the like come directly from civil right era campus activism. Attempts to disempower such programs should be framed as attacks on civil rights same as much else rn.

Jonathan V. Last@jvl.bsky.social · last yr.

Foreign students pay full tuition so that universities can give financial aid to students from the US.

Georg Weizsäcker@georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · last yr.

"Last week, Vance said foreign students at elite U.S. universities are 'not just bad for national security,' but also 'bad for the American dream, for American kids who want to go to a nice university but can’t because their spot was taken by a foreign student.'" www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

Beth Popp Berman@epopppp.bsky.social · last yr.

This isn't going to get the attention of Columbia, but it's at least as bad: the University of Maine is having its funding cut off because the governor of Maine dared to challenge Trump.

Congresswoman Chellie Pingree@pingree.house.gov · last yr.

I'm appalled by the USDA's decision to pause funding to the University of Maine System. This will hurt our farmers, halt critical research, and impact students throughout Maine. Once again, our state is being targeted for retribution—all because our officials are standing up for the rule of law.

AAUP@aaup.org · last yr.

The assault on First Amendment rights being jointly committed by the federal government & Columbia University are an attack on all workers who dare to protest, speak out, or exercise their freedom of association under the US Constitution. uaw.org/in-shocking-...

In Shocking Move, Columbia University Fires Union President One Day Before Contract Negotiations Begin, in Further Crackdown on Free Speech - UAW | United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implem...

In the latest assault on First Amendment rights, Columbia University has expelled and fired Grant Miner, President of UAW Local 2710, which represents thousands of Columbia student workers.

uaw.org

Caroline B. Heafey@carolineheafey.bsky.social · last yr.

Had the privilege of listening to @markhennessy.bsky.social speak today at @gihnyu.bsky.social about Common Ground from the @irishtimes.com. The project is an impressive display of journalism on an immensely complex topic, and I’m looking forward to reading more. www.irishtimes.com/common-ground/

Common Ground | Evolving Islands – Ireland & Britain | The Irish Times

A special Irish Times series exploring the complex relationship between the two islands, the nations within, their cultural and political differences and similarities and what the future lies.

irishtimes.com

Adam Bonica@adambonica.bsky.social · last yr.

1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.

Title: Both Liberal and Conservative Judges Rule Against Trump Description: A scatter plot showing the rulings of judges against or in favor of Trump, categorized by ideology using the DIME score. The x-axis represents Judge Ideology (DIME Score), ranging from liberal (-1) to conservative (1), and the y-axis represents the case outcome (against or for Trump). • Blue dots represent liberal judges, purple dots represent moderate judges, and red dots represent conservative judges. • Some judges are labeled, including Rudolph Contreras, Lauren King, John Coughenour, and James Emanuel Boasberg on the liberal to moderate side, and Carl Nichols, Richard J. Leon, and Joseph N. Laplante on the conservative side. • A note mentions that Boasberg, though slightly right-leaning, was initially appointed by George W. Bush. • The visualization suggests that judges from both ideological backgrounds ruled against Trump.