College transitions & Higher Ed scholars! See our edited volume CFP Degrees of Uncertainty: Changing Higher Education Landscapes, which explores how students, especially historically and/or multiply marginalized students, confront/navigate uncertainties - the CFP is here: tinyurl.com/DegreeUncert...

We filed suit against the Trump administration (again) today to block the implementation of an unlawful executive order that seeks to undermine inclusion & equal opportunity, threatens government contractors w/ criminal prosecution, & chills protected speech. These are not normal times.

AAUP Joins Coalition Fighting Latest Trump Anti-DEI Order

The AAUP has joined a coalition challenging a new Trump executive order that seeks to undermine efforts designed to promote inclusion and help ensure equal opportunity.

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Democracy Forward@democracyforward.org · 6mo ago

We’re suing the Trump-Vance admin to stop an executive order targeting federal contractors and subcontractors' efforts to promote equal opportunity. This unconstitutional EO threatens civil and criminal prosecution for contractors who don't comply with an anti-DEIA agenda. We’ll fight it in court.

Alabama, Kentucky, Oklahoma & Tennessee legislatures are considering bills that will weaken tenure, academic freedom & shared governance at public colleges and universities. Inside Higher Ed breaks down the harmful impact of the bills and how AAUP chapters & leaders are responding to this threat⬇️

As higher education rapidly changes & youth face growing uncertainties, especially youth of multiply marginalized positions, my new pub is more & more relevant: “Intersectional Uncertainties: Race, Class, Gender, and College-Enrollment Anxieties” Sociological Forum. doi.org/10.1111/socf...

Intersectional Uncertainties: Race, Class, Gender, and College‐Enrollment Anxieties

Following rational choice frameworks, past scholarship often points to economic calculations and uncertainties informing college-enrollment decisions of marginalized students. I contribute by examini...

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The Fla. Department of "Education" dictates that Florida state colleges must teach their Introduction to Sociology courses without teaching several essential principles of sociology 📉 www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Florida Hands Down Sociology Curriculum to State Colleges

The sociology curriculum is likely just the state’s first foray into course development; the Florida Department of Education is already working on a similar framework for American history classes.

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This absolutely astonished me. Almost literal pandemic scale of destruction of lives (I know the detentions are a range of durations and outcomes and so the analogy isn’t right, but the scale! Holy shit)

Angus Johnston@angus.bsky.social · 8mo ago

One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.

Martin, an 18-year-old citizen and soccer player, traveled with his Madison-area team to Minneapolis for a Futsal tournament (which my kid's team was going to play in, then opted out). While there, ICE stopped Martin and took his mom, who has been detained since. www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...

Mother's immigration arrest leaves Madison soccer standout reeling

Federal immigration agents detained a Madison soccer player's mother while she was in Minnesota for her son's games. Now, he's struggling.

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ICYMI over the weekend @hebagowayed.bsky.social and I made the case for abolishing ICE in @us.theguardian.com. It’s not controversial to say an out of control agency that tear-gasses kids and shoots moms in the head shouldn’t exist. It’s basic decency.

Victor Ray@victorerikray.bsky.social · 9mo ago

In the first of what's likely to be many collaborations with @hebagowayed.bsky.social (and my @us.theguardian.com debut) we argue that abolishing ICE would be a good start.

Check out our open-access pub on youth of color responses to racism & COVID uncertainties: “‘Getting Rid of Systemic Racism:’ Youth of Color Critical Reflections and Identified Strategies During the Twin Pandemics.” Frontiers in Education. doi: 10.3389/feduc.2025.1626074

More people have died this year in immigration detention than any other year in decades. The best way to prevent abuse and deaths in ICE custody is for Congress to stop funding the ICE detention machine.

ICE is hiring dozens of health workers as lawsuits, deaths in custody mount

Nearly as many migrants have died in detention so far this year than over the four years of the Biden administration.

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W/ @genevievelakier.bsky.social, the @aaup.org today released a letter to the Offices of the General Counsel at US colleges & universities. We detail why the Compact violates the Constitution & urge that no one signs it. www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...

BREAKING: A court ordered the Department of Defense to stop censoring educational materials discussing race and gender in schools on military bases. Books removed from the schools must be returned to the shelves immediately.

The kids are not alright. Longitudinal research shows that rates of mental health distress among LGBTQ+ youth have increased since 2023, that they're less able to access mental health care, and that nearly 1/4 have been threatened with conversion therapy. www.latimes.com/science/stor...

LGBTQ+ youth's mental health struggles are getting worse, according to a new survey

A new survey from the Trevor Project found that between 2023 and 2025, LGBTQ+ youth reported an increase in anxiety, depression and suicide ideation.

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‼️DOJ Investigation at George Mason an attack on Academic Freedom‼️ “If the DOJ can investigate faculty governance bodies for citing a university’s own strategic plan…then no campus is safe. Today it’s Mason. Tomorrow it could be yours.” —Todd Wolfson, AAUP President www.aaup.org/news/aaup-pr...

AAUP President: DOJ investigation at George Mason an attack on Academic Freedom

On July 25, the US Department of Justice Civil Rights Division sent a letter launching an investigation into the George Mason University Faculty Senate—because faculty members dared to show support fo...

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Intensive mothering expectations & the anti-immigrant climate exacerbate intersecting burdens faced by Latina mothers- check out “”Giving Back”: Filipina and Latina Mothers’ Intersecting Burdens in Schools and Community-Based Organizations” at @asanews.bsky.social @sociusjournal.bsky.social

Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World@sociusjournal.bsky.social · last yr.

🧡 Gratitude, but at what cost? New #Socius study by Drs. @gastmelanie.bsky.social, Ovink & Amoatey shows how #undocumented Latina mothers face intersecting burdens of #immigration, #motherhood & #deservingness — feeling pressure to “give back” in schools & CBOs. Read: doi.org/10.1177/2378...

Immigrant mothers face multiple, intersecting challenges, exacerbated more now by the current anti-immigrant climate - check out Our article ““Giving Back”: Filipina and Latina Mothers’ Intersecting Burdens in Schools and Community-Based Organizations” at Socius doi.org/10.1177/2378...

Want to brush up on your skills about fighting back against repression and political interference in #highered? Join an online session for the April 17 #DayofActionforHigherEd. Register: www.dayofactionforhighered.org/events

Kentuckians! Please sign & share this UCW Kentucky letter of solidarity with international students & workers!

Katie Kleinkopf@katiekleinkopf.bsky.social · last yr.

Please sign and share this UCW Kentucky open letter of solidarity with international students and workers at Kentucky universities: actionnetwork.org/forms/united...

Death to higher Ed funeral today in KY. But “we must also organize, agitate, educate and fight back against those who would use all the power of government in attempts to force… exclusion on all our universities, classrooms and curriculum” kentuckylantern.com/2025/03/27/k...

KY bills ending DEI in public colleges, stirring uncertainty about tenure's future become law • Kentucky Lantern

With a veto-proof supermajority, Republican lawmakers in Kentucky overturn Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s vetoes on two notable higher education bills.

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As DEIB initiatives are being cut, our new Journal of Diversity in Higher Education article shows the multiple levels of exclusion, discrimination, lack of support, etc felt by faculty of color & women faculty in a HWI & the importance of campus-wide DEIB psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

Kentuckians! Sign & share this petition by Sunday night, urging Governor Beshear to VETO House Bill 424 (anti-tenure bill) actionnetwork.org/forms/petiti...

Petition for Governor Beshear to VETO House Bill 424

Dear Governor Beshear, We, the undersigned faculty members at Kentucky’s public universities, along with the administrators, staff, students, and community supporters who have signed this letter in s...

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Ariana Levinson@levinsonariana.bsky.social · 2y ago

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Petition for Governor Beshear to VETO House Bill 424

Dear Governor Beshear, We, the undersigned faculty members at Kentucky’s public universities, along with the administrators, staff, students, and community supporters who have signed this letter in s...

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these folks are unreconstructed segregationists and it isn’t even speculative or a difficult argument at this point

Saying it’s ‘about hate,’ Beshear vetoes ban on DEI in Kentucky public higher education kentuckylantern.com/2025/03/20/s...

Saying it's 'about hate,' Beshear vetoes ban on DEI in Kentucky public higher education • Kentucky Lantern

Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear issues expected veto of a Republican-backed bn on diversity, equity and inclusion in Kentucky’s public colleges.

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Kentucky lawmakers vote to ban DEI spending at public colleges www.highereddive.com/news/kentuck...

Kentucky lawmakers vote to ban DEI spending at public colleges

Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear is unlikely to sign the bill, but Republican lawmakers hold a veto-proof supermajority in the Legislature.

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🧵 IN SHOCKING MOVE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY FIRES UNION PRESIDENT ONE DAY BEFORE CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS BEGIN, IN FURTHER CRACKDOWN ON FREE SPEECH

Kentucky lawmakers move forward with passing HB4, a GOP anti-DEI bill in higher ed. GOP Sen. Douglas, the first Black Republican in Kentucky Senate, supported HB4 saying that slavery ended in 1805. www.lpm.org/news/2025-03...

Kentucky lawmakers debate systemic racism in crucial vote to ban DEI in public colleges

A bill to ban diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives at public colleges and universities passed out of the Senate Wednesday. It’s likely to head to the governor’s desk once the House concurs.

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From JCKFTC via IG: House Bill 4, the college anti-DEI bill in KY, had its first reading in the Senate today. This dangerous bill must be stopped! Email the entire Senate Education Committee ASAP (qrco.de/KY-EdJustice) and leave a phone message for them: 800-372-7181

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org