>>>>>>>>>>>> Faculty in the South Survey is live. If you are faculty in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas

Matthew Boedy@matthewboedy.bsky.social · 2d ago

The 2026 @aaup.org Faculty in the South Survey is live. If you are faculty in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas please take a second to fill it out: forms.gle/iLheVskd4wcA...

BREAKING: We're suing Texas A&M over the university system’s unconstitutional censorship policy. Administrators are canceling or restricting courses that discuss race, gender, and sexual orientation. Public universities are meant for sharing knowledge — not banning it.

It's us! #BTHOcensorship #LetUsTeach

Texas A&M sued over teaching limits on race, gender

This is the second Texas university system sued over teaching restrictions in recent weeks.

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Check out our activities -- links to webinars, videos, articles, toolkits too. Let's go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Some of our partners @aaup.org @higheredlabor.bsky.social @rooseveltinstitute.org @oah.org @lawcha.bsky.social @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social

Harvard University has laid off the director of the College Writing Center as part of a "larger administrative consolidation in the Faculty of the Arts and Sciences." That laid-off director is Jane Rosenzweig, she has worked at Harvard for over two decades. @aaup.org @higheredlabor.bsky.social

Harvard Administrators Don’t Care About Student Learning

I know, news flash, right?

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Another day, another Chronicle essay about the dangers of "activist" scholarship. Today's contribution to the genre comes from an Ivy League social psychologist who is so worried about anthropologists' motivated reasoning that he has nothing to say about Jonathan Haidt.

"College closures are increasingly common part of higher ed, largely driven by declining enrollment, shifting federal funding, and rising operating costs. As more campuses face financial strain, what happens when a college can't survive on its own?" @aaup.org @rooseveltinstitute.org

When Colleges Close | Scholars Strategy Network

College closures are becoming an increasingly common part of higher education, largely driven by declining enrollment, shifting federal funding, and rising operating costs. As more campuses face finan...

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"The greatest danger confronting universities today is not simply that certain viewpoints may receive greater attention than others; it is that political authorities increasingly seek to determine which viewpoints may legitimately exist at all." truthout.org/articles/hig...

Higher Ed Can’t Be Neutral in an Age of Brutality. It Must Choose Democracy.

Contemporary proponents of “institutional neutrality” fail to grasp that universities have never been outside politics.

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I have a more cynical interpretation, which is that because of the degradation of humanities knowledge, people are more inclined to think that their uninformed views are authoritative and equal to those of experts.

Mateusz Fafinski@calthalas.bsky.social · last wk.

Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.

@higheredlabor.bsky.social has workshops and ways to build your tools and our collective power. 7/29 – Raise Hell for Pell: Double it NOW 7pm ET/4pm PT Online Join students, faculty, staff, alumni, community members for a Campus Organizing Assembly to launch the Raise Hell for Pell campaign $$$$$

On various administrative shenanigans at UMass - including, sadly, my own department: electronicintifada.net/content/mcca...

McCarthyism in Massachusetts

Historian of Iranian descent sues university over politically motivated "firing."

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organize, plan, propose -- we do not need NLRB recognition or a collective bargaining agreement (CBA/contract). organize!!!!!!

United Academics@local6741.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Pre-contract unionism" is another way to describe what all workplace organizing looked like before many workers fought for and won collective bargaining rights. That fight continues today with our recent AFT convention resolution to support pre-contract unionism in higher ed. @aaup.org @aft.org

Watch Founder & CEO of Stand Up for Science, @cdelawalla.bsky.social, speak with @holdenthorp.bsky.social, Editor-in-Chief of @science.org about the dangers of the OMB proposal to Federally Funded Science. youtu.be/qLHIpk1HU_E

Political engagement in the scientific community

YouTube video by Science Magazine Podcasts

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Looking to imagine and enact new systems - of higher ed, K-12, banking, electoral politics, climate mitigation? >> Next Systems Teach-ins It pops April 2027 Become site organizer for a teach-in Become sponsor by donating money Become convener and help drive the international project

Absolutely this. Right-wing capitalism wants to reinforce the idea that the only meaningful 'returns' on education or intellectual endeavor are economic. They've successfully restricted the meaning of 'return' to mean $, salary, ignoring or dismissing the non-economic returns of thinking.

Alice Wickenden@awickenden.bsky.social · last mo.

I agree with all the takes about an attack on the humanities being an attack on critical thinking, &c. It’s also about joy, though. ‘Why bother studying that’ is always also a sneer at — why do you think you should get to do something you enjoy? Grow up and be miserable all the time!

The reason why it is essential to read IN BULK when studying history is not simply to amass empirical knowledge—though that is important, too, of course—but because *interpretation* requires thick contextual awareness, and there is NO SHORTCUT for building that up that awareness.

I've read this piece by Mitchell every summer since it was published in 2019, and I read it again today. If you work at a university, you might want to read it too. thenewinquiry.com/summertime-s...

Summertime Selves (On Professionalization)

The summertime self discloses the logic of the utopian university fantasy: Probably never are we more of it than when we think we’re outside of it.

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“[Public Good U] is how we fund, staff, govern, and protect the public higher education institutions that deliver opportunity to individuals from all walks of life and strengthen culture, civil society, the polity, and the economy for all of us.”

Public Good U@publicgoodu.bsky.social · last mo.

It’s sundown in Western New York, and night time is the right time for some fireworks on behalf of @publicgoodu.bsky.social from 13 current and former leaders of SUNY and CUNY governance bodies. Please read, share widely, and encourage everyone in your networks to sign on! hdl.handle.net/1951/89081

It’s sundown in Western New York, and night time is the right time for some fireworks on behalf of @publicgoodu.bsky.social from 13 current and former leaders of SUNY and CUNY governance bodies. Please read, share widely, and encourage everyone in your networks to sign on! hdl.handle.net/1951/89081

Joe McCartin joined the Valley Labor Report to talk about the way we approach the history of the United States this July 4. Interview begins at the 44 minute mark. #america250 @georgetownkilwp.bsky.social @josephamccartin.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo-U...

Talking to a Lawyer About SCOTUS Decisions Affecting Working People - TVLR 7/4/26

YouTube video by The Valley Labor Report

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Public schools support students year-round. This week's #PublicSchoolProud stories celebrate educators and school staff helping children thrive—from ensuring families have access to summer meals to strengthening literacy and creating classrooms where students can do their best learning.

“I do not believe that the meaning of the Constitution was forever ‘fixed’ at the Philadelphia Convention. Nor do I find the wisdom, foresight, and sense of justice exhibited by the Framers particularly profound.” —Thurgood Marshall

Celebrating the constitution, by Thurgood Marshall

A dissent

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“The conservative education-reform movement is a fragmented one, and only some of its aims line up with those of MAGA and the larger GOP.” Ann Manov on civic centers and the future of the liberal arts.

Republican Machines, by Ann Manov

Can the GOP save the humanities?

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Peoples250: Greg Afinogenev, president of the Georgetown chapter of the AAUP, talks about the importance of union organizing in higher education. #Peoples250 #america250 #americanhistory #highereducation #aaup youtube.com/shorts/wK5P2...

Greg Afinogenev, AAUP #peoples250

Peoples250: Greg Afinogenev, president of the Georgetown chapter of the AAUP, talks about the importance of union organizing in higher education. #Peoples250 #america250 #americanhistory #highereducat...

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The 2027 LAWCHA Conference call for proposals is now available. The conference will take place at UMass Boston from June 24-26.

Giant corporations that pay nothing in federal taxes are investing big into politics. And the return on investment is HUGE — 3,000%. We need to get big money out of politics.

The Trump administration is further gutting the Department of Education and undermining special education and civil rights. Every student deserves a quality education, not chaos and uncertainty. This is a reckless decision that could hurt some of the most underserved students.

Trump further guts Education Dept. by shifting oversight of special ed, civil rights

The moves to the federal departments of Health and Human Services and Justice, respectively, would further dismantle an agency that President Donald Trump has vowed to close.

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Salary $200,000-$450,000

Sarah E. Bond@sarahebond.bsky.social · last mo.

So many things I wish I could say. jobs.chronicle.com/job/38003953...

Each module fuses scholarly content and teaching, nesting the source in a core question, a brief context essay based on the latest scholarship, and a teaching plan that suggests varied ways to dissect the primary source. High school social studies teachers and college professors!

Authoritarianism 101 - AHA

Authoritarianism 101 A Global History About Authoritarianism 101: A Global History is a set of 30 primary source-driven teaching modules designed to offer teachers and students a broad perspective on ...

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