After the "S.T.O.P. Woke Act" was found to violate the First, Amendment, The Alliance for Higher Education asks what we should do as a sector next. Patricia Okker, former New College president, Leah Watson, Senior Staff at ACLU, and 📅 Tuesday, August 4. 12-1pm ET 🔗 bit.ly/4fJQ9eF

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In a landmark decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit struck down key higher education provisions of Florida's "Stop W.O.K.E. Act," concluding that the law's restrictions on class...

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President Trump’s influence in sports and sporting events is anything but apolitical. Trump and his movement’s focus on sport of late seems to match the attacks on higher education, legal, media, voting, and other sectors than they do cultural debates. open.substack.com/pub/michaelh...

Sports is next for Authoritarians

No sector is safe, and all signals are that sports will be the next sphere focused on to pit Americans against each other.

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After the "S.T.O.P. Woke Act" was found to violate the First, Amendment, The Alliance for Higher Education asks what we should do as a sector next. Patricia Okker, former New College president, Leah Watson, Senior Staff at ACLU, and 📅 Tuesday, August 4. 12-1pm ET 🔗 bit.ly/4fJQ9eF

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: What’s Next for the Freedom to Think and Learn After the Florida Ruling?. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar...

In a landmark decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit struck down key higher education provisions of Florida's "Stop W.O.K.E. Act," concluding that the law's restrictions on class...

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Sports will be the next cultural sphere authoritarians seek to control: the 'shut up and dribble' crowd is now focusing on ways to use sports to re-segregate us. Building off work from @pablo.show and more. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Sports is next for Authoritarians

No sectors is safe, and all signals are that sports will be the next sphere focused on to pit Americans against each other.

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"Rebuilding public trust in higher ed goes beyond saying more positive things more frequently to more audiences" says Alliance President @michaelhgavin.bsky.social. We have to also reject the false narrative that access and inclusion are bugs, instead of assets. www.theeduledger.com/institutions...

Americans’ Confidence in Colleges Continues Long-Term Slide

A new Gallup-Lumina survey shows faith in higher education has dropped sharply since 2015, especially among Republicans and, more recently, Democrats.

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As usual, higher education leaders shouldn't change operations. The rhetoric in this letter is meant to incite fear based on false accusations. If only there was a place in America where deep study of race and institutions would reveal best practices. 🙃 www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

Dear Colleague Letter Asks Colleges to End Affinity Housing

The Trump administration alleges that housing that caters to minority students violates the Fair Housing Act. Experts say the guidance is unlikely to withstand legal challenges.

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On the Future Trends Forum, @edufuturist.bsky.social and @michaelhgavin.bsky.social discussed the new OMB proposal: "It's bad for the country. It's bad for knowledge. It's bad for democracy." Join us and @standupforscience.net to submit pub comment: fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/omb...

For the sports should stay out of politics crowd this tracks: we have seen politicians attend events, but not events come to them. And just as has happened with curriculum, citizenship, voting, segregationist rhetoric is being amplified by politics in sport culture.

George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸@gtconway.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Absolutely no bottom with these people.

This article gets it right...I would only add the other major glaring error is the omission of institutions like community colleges (to name one kind) from the report--despite that they teach over 50% of humanities in higher ed. Glaring omission. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

The Question Haunting the Vanderbilt/Wash U Report (opinion)

A new report criticizes a turn toward politicized scholarship in the humanities. But could it be that a more diverse academy is asking different questions?

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@bakerdphd.bsky.social Dominique Baker--a member of Alliance for Higher Education's Knowledge for Democracy Collective--does it again. "No other country will come and save U.S. higher education. A minority of faculty, of those willing to leave, will be www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

No One Is Coming to Save Us

The realization can either break you or liberate you.

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Over the decades the president‘s presence has served as a mythological unifier for better or worse until tonight. www.bloomsbury.com/us/sports-in...

Sports in the Aftermath of Tragedy

In an era characterized by news that caters to extreme ends of the political spectrum, sporting events are one of the last refuges to which people of divergent…

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Much of sports and society analysis rightly focuses on protests of black and women athletes in particular moments: 1968 with Tommie Smith & John Carlos; Ali & Vietnam War, eg. What happens when an authoritarian comes to see the @ny-knicks.bsky.social play a team with a coaching legacy of Popovich

Too much of higher ed is focused on gatekeeping rather than net building. We need to bring more students in and find ways to fund them. The current federal budget proposals are threatening to keep students out. The @alliancehighered.bsky.social has tools to advocate for all.

President @michaelhgavin.bsky.social was a superb guest today: thoughtful, direct, inspiring. Recording coming soon. @alliancehighered.bsky.social

On the Future Trends Forum just now @michaelhgavin.bsky.social says we should expect a major conservative push on general education this fall. @alliancehighered.bsky.social

Thank you @edufuturist.bsky.social for hosting me today--such a great group of thinkers and a great forum. I appreciate the opportunity to join you!

Bryan Alexander@edufuturist.bsky.social · 2mo ago

On the Future Trends Forum just now @michaelhgavin.bsky.social says we should expect a major conservative push on general education this fall. @alliancehighered.bsky.social

Can the Alliance for Higher Education help defend colleges and universities under attack? Join us Thursday as we meet the group's president, Michael Gavin, to discuss. georgetown.zoom.us/meeting/regi... @alliancehighered.bsky.social @michaelhgavin.bsky.social

There are no workarounds against the multi-decade, multi-billion-dollar movement to dismantle higher education. The harm is indeed to democracy and our students. For example, the state-level assaults on higher education began prior to the current substack: substack.com/home/post/p-...

There are No Work-arounds to Authoritarianism

Institutions that seek to keep their head down have not found success; our work needs to be recast

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Excited to join @edufuturist.bsky.social on Thursday to discuss the Alliance for Higher Education and how we can collectively work for a better democracy. @alliancehighered.bsky.social

Bryan Alexander@edufuturist.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Can the Alliance for Higher Education help defend colleges and universities under attack? Join us Thursday as we meet the group's president, Michael Gavin, to discuss. georgetown.zoom.us/meeting/regi... @alliancehighered.bsky.social @michaelhgavin.bsky.social

Was honored to write the forward to Edna B. Chun and Alvin Evans' new book, The Future of DEI in the The Higher Education Workforce. Their case studies & raising of histories offer pathways forward for us all provides well-founded hope. www.routledge.com/The-Future-o...

The Future of DEI in the Higher Education Workforce: Present Controversies and Future Strategies

The Future of DEI in the Higher Education Workforce takes readers through an in-depth and probing analysis of the evolving and contentious landscape surrounding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) ...

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Following the conclusion of the AIM Committee and Dept. of Education negotiated rulemaking meetings, Alliance President and CEO @michaelhgavin.bsky.social issued the statement below:

Latest Substack: If we consider oppression as a symptom of a sick body politics, the studies under fire—from Women’s to African American—are part of the core research arm meant to find the policy, law, narratives, cultural, and social mechanisms to heal those illnesses. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Lived Experience vs. Expertise: Why Everyone Thinks they are an Authority on Race

David French's revelation that racism exists is more telling about us than him

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Thank you @eloyoakley.bsky.social for having me on The Rant, and for the summary here: From community colleges to four-year universities, we explore what meaningful outcomes should look like, why ROI is not the whole story...and how higher education www.youtube.com/watch?v=880p...

Accreditation Under Fire

YouTube video by Eloy Oakley

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Our work for a better nation is hyper local and hyper national at the same time.

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"We gotta take the fight locally. Every state's dynamic is different, so we have to stand up in the moment in each state" Derrick Johnson, NAACP President w/ @aprildryan.bsky.social at All Roads Rally in Montgomery, AL

In order for democracy to thrive higher ed needs to be free from partisan influence, students must have the freedom to learn, and for all people to thrive as a result of better access to college. Read more of @michaelhgavin.bsky.social interview: collegewatch.substack.com/p/seeking-st...

Seeking Strength in Numbers

Sixty schools have joined an alliance to push back against the Trump administration

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Big thank you to @modernlanguage.bsky.social, @historians.org and ALCS who won a case on the side of knowledge, and fair opportunity. Because when we talk about the humanities and diversity, equity, and inclusion, we are talking about the infrastructure of a multiracial democracy.

"Providing hope is the other element to the work that we have to be engaged in, hope for people in the higher ed sector – and in democracy in general – who care about knowledge."

A key element of our forward-looking vision is Democracy's Campus 2036, which brings together dozens of organizations to create a blueprint for what higher education should look like a decade from now to advance a multiracial democracy.

Avoiding identity in curriculum is segregationist, and what the Trump administration called its 'secret weapon' in on its way to being deployed. Consider following @alliancehighered.bsky.social for details on what you can do.

"I have so much hope for this country.... There's a lot more people who believe in students, who believe in the mission of higher ed than you may feel." Thank you @stuaffairsnow.bsky.social for hosting @michaelhgavin.bsky.social and Liliana M. Garces for this timely conversation about our work!

Student Affairs Now@stuaffairsnow.bsky.social · 3mo ago

In these times of sustained & coordinated assaults on higher education, the @alliancehighered.bsky.social is trying to bring a fragmented industry together into a coalition with agency. Learn about the Alliance's pushback against regressive legalism. studentaffairsnow.com/the-alliance...