“I don't know what they expect us to do,” Melissa Checker, chair of the Urban Studies Department at @queenscollegecuny.bsky.social, told the Eagle. “How do they expect us to be able to run this college with so many ongoing cuts?” queenseagle.com/all/2026/7/3...

Queens College faculty calls for CUNY to reverse cuts — Queens Daily Eagle

Faculty members at Queens’ largest City University of New York college are pushing back against budget cuts, which have led to a number of cancelled classes and layoffs of adjunct professors.

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If you are an expert on air quality and have 10-15 minutes to talk to me today or tomorrow about important things journalists should know while reporting on wildfires and smoke, my DMs are open, or you can email me at karen at OpenNews dot org.

Harvard is embarking on a new and exciting experiment to determine whether one truly needs to have a university that does university things in order to maintain an endowment the size of a small nation’s GDP.

A reminder that UC _faculty_ and Faculty Associations — not the universities themselves nor their administrators — are waging this battle in court, demonstrating great bravery and moral clarity.

White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants

Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COV...

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UT Austin’s denial of Iván Char Lopez’ tenure is enraging and disheartening, not least because it demonstrates how the recent dismantling of faculty governance across UT has left little recourse for independent oversight to appeal this type of one-sided decisions:

Texas Conference of the AAUP@texasaaup.bsky.social · 2w ago

🚨Lauren Gutterman, former chair of the American Studies department and AAUP UT Austin Chapter VP: “Iván’s case is a warning for all faculty across the university, because it suggests that achieving excellence in your field is no longer enough to secure tenure and promotion.” ⬇️

Really captures Massachusetts politics

most murders are committed by someone the victim knows - a partner, neighbor etc. but in cases where there is no relationship between murderer & victim? the killer is a cop about a third of the time. if you are killed by a stranger, there is a 1 in 3 chance that stranger is a cop.

Violence in Blue

‘One-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police.’

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Hey, I have these postcards of my book's cover (by Vera Villanueva for Yale UP). I'd love to mail you one. Will you send me a screenshot of 1) your pre-order OR 2) your (free!!) request that your library purchase the book? And of course an address to mail it to.

@BerkeleyLaw is hiring a tenured professor in AI, Law and Society, as part of an interdisciplinary campus-wide cluster. Please spread the word, and consider applying! Deadline is September 4. Happy to field questions. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05397

Professor - Artificial Intelligence, Inequality, and Society - School of Law

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Why Graham Platner should be the next president of Harvard.

Also working-class autodidacts didn't just read alone - they read in groups, set up libraries and reading rooms, and battled for Mechanics' Institutes (many long ago merged into unis) to teach music, history, and politics. They built the public adult education infrastructure that's being destroyed

Peter Whitewood@pwhitewood.bsky.social · last mo.

This misses the point. Self-education has become more accessible in the last 20 years than at any point in history, though not through ‘amateur reading’. The problem isn’t access to information but learning how to evaluate it critically - and that brings us back to universities (and Humanities)

Come be my colleague! American University's History Department is searching for a tenure-track assistant professor of science, tech and society. I am chair of the search and pleased to answer any questions either on here or email (grao at american) american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/AU/job/Main-...

Have they considered reading the textbook and actually attending class?

There are less than two weeks left to secure 0.5% of the NYC City Budget for libraries! Write to your City Council Member today to let them know how vital funding our libraries is for our communities. actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries!

In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...

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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, which is orders of magnitude more "politically incorrect" than The Office, is in fact still being made today

If I am ever so fortunate as to become a very senior academic, let me not become so addled by junior scholars’ failure to pay me obeisance that I am co-opted into signing my name to a report whose malevolent intentions are clear to literally everyone else. 🙏

Wrote a little about the work the U.S. put into helping academics escape fascism during WWII and why we can't rely on that for our future 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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The New School announced that the program I've been teaching for ~10 years will close after the current students finish next year. I stumbled onto The New School's 1919 founding document. Reading it feels like a diagnosis of exactly what's happening there right now. medium.com/@leesean/the...

The New School Has Become What It Was Designed to Resist

The New School is in the middle of an “identity crisis.”

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As an alum, I wrote this to the NS President. "Another similarity exists between my experience at the New School and my current experience at UM-Flint—the experience of sacrifice. I know many students, including myself, sacrificed quite a bit to come to the New School. 1/

The New School AAUP@newschoolaaup.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The New School chapter of the American Association of University Professors condemned what it described as “a major gutting of our full-time faculty body”… saying that no explanation had been provided for why certain jobs were cut. www.chronicle.com/article/its-...

A really crucial source of these sexist & anti-feminist sentiments by left/liberal pundits is their insecurity that their soft-handed lives of white collar work mean that they're not real men. They think they can reconcile with masculinity through an aspiration to a kind of brutish, hostile sexism.

Emperor Snapper@emperorsnapper.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Among the more useless opinions are those of soft millionaire's sons/Harvard grads telling us what "real men" are. If he's so insecure, Matt should quit his think tank job give away his assets and go live his truth as a roofer or a delivery driver. Then maybe he will realize Platner is also a fake.

In the last 48 hours, The New School has fired almost two dozen colleagues in humanities and social sciences, many of them tenured faculty of color, and multiple staff members, including in social justice.

Job Opportunity! The Department of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is seeking outstanding candidates for an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) position in the history of U.S. political economy from the Civil War to the present. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/profess...

Professor of History - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

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BREAKING: New proposed OMB regulation, applying to all federal grants, requiring grant reviews by senior political appointees and re-emphasizes that "peer review remains advisory and does not replace agency discretion". #standupforscience public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10817.pdf

IT.IS.OFFICIAL. Our bill—giving 9K faculty across MD collective bargaining rights—was signed into law today! Huge thanks goes to @govwesmoore.bsky.social @senbillferg.bsky.social @mdhousedems.bsky.social @aaup.org @aft.org @aftmaryland.bsky.social @afthighered.bsky.social @local6741.bsky.social!

one member of Los Angeles County's board of supervisors has more constituents than the U.S. senators of 12 states

The UNC Trustees have again demonstrated that they are not worthy of our trust. www.theassemblync.com/news/educati...

UNC-Chapel Hill Trustees Reject Hiring of Tenured Women’s Studies Professor

The rare move comes a year after the Board of Trustees delayed dozens of votes to confer tenure, sparking outcry from faculty.

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FWIW, I don’t think the major problem in my field, or related ones, is that people need to move faster & produce more. I read a lot of papers as part of the job, and I’m increasingly convinced we’d benefit from fewer papers and better ones, not more mediocre work produced ever more “efficiently.”

“Video footage obtained by The Sun shows Students for a Democratic Cornell members Aiden Vallecillo ’26 and Hudson Athas ’27 being struck by the car. In the video, no person can be seen touching the vehicle before it drove into Vallecillo and Athas.” www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...

Kotlikoff Drives Into Student and Recent Grad Following ‘Harassment’

President Michael Kotlikoff backed his car into a student and drove over the foot of a recent graduate after what he called a "harassment and intimidation incident" in a Friday email blast to the...

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"In Louisiana, where Black people make up roughly a third of the population, the congressional maps were specifically drawn so that a third of the districts were majority Black. Does that seem fair to you?" www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/we-...

We Believe That Combating Racism Is the Real Racism

“In Louisiana, where Black people make up roughly a third of the population, the congressional maps were specifically drawn so that a third of the districts ...

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