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Historian trying to navigate distopia

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Emmaia Gelman@mishmoshk.bsky.social · 6d ago

I'm not on here enough to post beefs, but this is a conversation that's so often repeated in private, and it's just come up again... What are the politics of ignoring movements and academic research *while* claiming expertise on the same work? It really feels like Beinart lives alone on earth.

HF@h95f.bsky.social · 6d ago

Thanks @insidehighered.com and @ryanquinn.bsky.social for demonstrating what we are fighting against: bland catering to the “political polarization” crowd. @aaup.org @local6741.bsky.social @debtcollective.bsky.social www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

AAUP Embraces Political Role With Candidate Endorsements

The group says the move is a first in its over-100-year existence, and part of countering government threats. Critics say AAUP has lost its neutrality.

insidehighered.com

HF@h95f.bsky.social · 4w ago

Shout out to all the academic workers seeking to disrupt new forms of higher ed hostage-taking! @aaup-sc.org @ncaaup.bsky.social @texasaaup.bsky.org @local6741.bsky.social @aaup.org @actioninhighered.bsky.social

AAUP-South Carolina@aaup-sc.org · 4w ago

We join with faculty in Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, and Texas to note with dismay that central tenets of the AAUP have disappeared from the Principles of Accreditation of the Commission on Colleges and Universities (formerly SACSCOC). 🧵 1/8 sacscoc.org/principles-r...

@scholarsforsj.bsky.social · 4w ago

We demand that Chancellor Gillman, the UC Irvine Administration, and the Academic Senate drop all disciplinary charges against Dr. Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, who peacefully exercised her right to free speech and academic freedom in solidarity with the people of Gaza! Sign here: bit.ly/4wPwMa7

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Veena Dubal@veenadubal.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Pls read the 161 page opinion. I want to highlight some information that came out in discovery & at trial that folks might have missed. (1) Asst Director Hatch, is the senior director in the Office of Intelligence. He oversees intelligence reports known as Reports of Analysis (ROA)....

Sasha Senderovich 🌻@returnstosender.bsky.social · 12mo ago

A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.

I've now been allowed and asked to share more details about what's going down at the University of Oregon, which involves imminent announcement of firings, among others, of tenure-track and tenured faculty. Given the units impacted (see below), please share this with your professional networks in related disciplines and start getting ready to put pressure (or begin putting pressure already) on the University of Oregon upper admin to abandon this alleged plan before they finalize it. It appears that, with no prior consultations, the departments of Religion and Classics (two separate units), and the programs in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, German & Scandinavian, Judaic Studies, Arabic Studies, and Holocaust Studies (the latter five all parts of a previously-consolidated mega unit called the Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages) are facing imminent announcement of elimination (expected the week of Sept 7), with layoffs of pre-tenure, tenured, and career faculty in these units. The reason given is "financial exigency" -- upper administrations of several universities across the country (and in blue states like Oregon also) appear to be giddy to use the context of Trump attacks on higher ed to dismantle the humanities. Faculty at OU won a faculty union not long ago; this may be, in part, a retaliation for that, I've been told. The union is working with AAUP, etc.; my understanding is that the maximum spotlight is needed at this point.
AAUP@aaup.org · last yr.

“If the DOJ can investigate faculty governance bodies for citing a university's own strategic plan, then no campus is safe. "Let's call this what it is: a gross misuse of federal power to chill speech, silence faculty, & undermine shared governance.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

DOJ Investigation into George Mason Faculty Senate Sparks Academic Freedom Concerns

AAUP President calls federal probe "gross misuse of power" as university faces fifth inquiry in five weeks.

diverseeducation.com

AAUP@aaup.org · last yr.

❌AN AGREEMENT THAT SETTLES NOTHING❌ "Far from being legal settlement, the Agreement fulfills the Trump administration’s desire to dominate a prominent university, to diminish autonomy & to silence critical speech." Columbia AAUP for Academe Blog @aaupcu.bsky.social @academemagazine.bsky.social

An Agreement That Settles Nothing

BY THE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY CHAPTER OF THE AAUP The Agreement between the federal government and Columbia University announced on July 24, 2025, has been presented as a settlement of Title VI violat…

academeblog.org

Veena Dubal@veenadubal.bsky.social · last yr.

The @aaup.org submitted a letter to @cuny.edu leadership supporting the academic freedom & constitutional rights of Prof Ramzi Kassem in response to the outrageous suggestion by Rep. Stefanik that he be disciplined for representing Mahmoud Khalil. Read it here: www.aaup.org/news/aaup-le...

AAUP Letter Supports CUNY Law Professor Ramzi Kassem

Yesterday the AAUP sent a letter of support for Ramzi Kassem, a professor of law at the City University of New York singled out by US Representative Elise Stefanik in a recent hearing of the US House ...

aaup.org

GMU-AAUP@aaupmason.bsky.social · last yr.

Join us THIS FRIDAY 8/1 for a Day of Action in Merten Hall (ffx campus) during the BOV meeting, 8:30am - 1pm. Tell the BOV to Stand up for Mason and Protect GMU President Washington! Pack the BOV mtg in the morning. Join our community assembly and press event at 12noon!

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AAUP@aaup.org · last yr.

“Advocacy chapters can act like unions! We need to act like fighting, organized unions.” “United faculty for the common good!” — Leadership of AAUP-AFT United Academics Local 6741, Summer Institute 2025, #OrganizeFightWin

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AAUP@aaup.org · last yr.

"If you destroy higher education in this country, you harm the ability of every day kids to build a better life, you kill innovation, & you undermine democracy because higher ed gives us the skills to create a critical, thriving democracy...I think that's part of the intention." — Todd Wolfson, AAUP