This disgusting, misogynistic UM regent wants to be re-elected.

Lewd messages linked to University of Michigan regent who led campaign against pro-Palestinian students

Jordan Acker, who pushed legal action against protesters, is running for re-election in race reflecting tensions on Israel

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Jordan Acker used his position as Regent of the @umich.edu to wage a vendetta against student protesters and to dox faculty who wouldn't serve as his mouthpiece. Now, he wants to be reelected. This is his campaign photograph.

If you’re registered Democrat in Michigan, please join me to support Amir Makled for UM Regent at the convention in April.

How Amir Makled will change UMich for the better

I sat down with Makled in the Michigan Union atrium to see whether he could be that change. In our conversation, I found a leader who listens. His policies — taking no corporate money, protecting gend...

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Thanks to @isaackamola.bsky.social for this generous endorsement of In the Spirit of H. Chandler Davis. Released today! Available everywhere. To order > disobediencepress.com

PUB DAY of In the Spirit of H. Chandler Davis, the remarkable set of essays inspired by the UMich prof fired in 1954 for refusing to testify to HUAC. The book’s 12 contributors argue against the suppression of protest, the policed campus, and other enemies of academic freedom. disobediencepress.com

The University of Alabama has put allegiance to Trump over the 1st Amendment. They’ve shut down the student magazines that focus on experiences of women and Black students.

University of Alabama suspends student magazines amid DEI crackdown

Kendal Wright, editor in chief of the University of Alabama's Nineteen Fifty-Six magazine, reacts to the suspension of two student publications amid a federal crackdown on campus DEI policies.

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Declining accommodations for a cancer patient?? New low at UMich

Rebekah Modrak@rebekahmodrak.bsky.social · 9mo ago

A @michigandaily.bsky.social investigation: hundreds of @umich.edu employees who looked to Work Connections for support/medical leave during an illness report years-long pattern of misconduct. 2 key complaints: WC disregarded physicians’ recommendations, and WC employees were hostile/demeaning.

When I chaired the Faculty Senate last year, Regent Jordan Acker, enraged that he couldn’t control faculty voice, doxxed me on social media. UM police installed security cameras on my home to protect me from his threats. Now Acker wants to be re-elected. @aft.org is considering an endorsement

Shall we sacrifice the people, families, businesses, and environmental well-being of Yspilanti on the altar of TechBro fantasies? This UM prof says NO. @silkyweineck.bsky.social @umdeidefense.bsky.social @rebekahmodrak.bsky.social

Stopthedatacenter@stopthedata.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Excellent article just dropped by Nathan Kim at the MDaily! "Judging from the lab’s activity as a whole,[...] there seems to be no reasonable possibility that the data center will be independent from LANL’s primary mission of nuclear weapons development." www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...

UM Regents Paul Brown and Jordan Acker are trying to get on ballot for re-election. They refused to hear reports from Faculty. Dismantled DEI at UM. Stopped gender-affirming care at UM Medicine. Expelled students who criticized Israeli actions in Gaza And yet, aft.org is considering endorsing them

@umich.edu faculty call for an honorary degree for Trump “We have proven that we have no hard moral principles and no hill on which we will die.” www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...

Why Trump would be perfect for an honorary U-M doctoral degree

Awarding Trump an honorary doctoral degree would be an opportunity to recognize the long way the University has walked in less than two years. U-M juniors may still remember times when the campus code...

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“The African American unemployment rate has surged over the past four months, from 6 to 7.5 percent, while the rate for white people ticked down slightly to 3.7 percent.”

Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.

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From the @michigandaily.bsky.social Editorial Board: “We now see [the University of Michigan administration’s changes to the student code of conduct] as a catalyst, accelerating the construction of a disciplinary apparatus that the University can aim at whoever it deems threatening.”

UMich weaponizes the rules in new student code of conduct

The administration has created a space where rules only cut one way. For those that still doubt the severity of the situation on campus, Grasso and the regents stated their intentions clearly — discip...

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Some public school teachers are courageously protecting kids rights to access all material, despite threats and retaliation. Thank you to @palan57.bsky.social at @forbes.com for shining a light on their remarkable stories. More than ever, we need heroes to be visible.

Book Shares Teacher Voices From The Culture Wars

Many of those stories have been covered by journalists, but the book Trouble In Censorville features educators who tell their own stories.

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This Tuesday in Ann Arbor. A reading about attempts to intimidate and silence academics.

University of Michigan faculty and staff speak up about what we want in our new president. (post-Ono) @michigandaily.bsky.social @silkyweineck.bsky.social @sbagen.bsky.social @basit-zafar.bsky.social @yiliw.bsky.social @drgigiawad.bsky.social

U-M faculty and staff on the next University president

On May 4, University President Santa Ono announced that he was departing from the University of Michigan. His controversial tenure — from his handling of pro-Palestine activism to his decision to cut ...

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Ohio State University has banned land acknowledgements. But there's no ban on ceding the land and the institution to indigenous people. Even the Heritage Foundation recommends this. Buckeyes, this is your moment. www.heritage.org/progressivis... @ohiostatelaw.bsky.social @osuhistory.bsky.social

Native Land Whiners Should Match Words With Deeds

Over the last several years, an odd ritual known as a “land acknowledgment” has become the fashionable way to begin academic, arts and other elite events. Like a woke version of the “Pledge of Allegia...

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A lakh is 100,000, so ~300,000 (331,602 to be exact in 2024) students from #India study in US every year, paying $8 billion to US economy. There were ~1300 #Indian students at UMich alone. I met one recently, and he's counting days to finish degree and leave US Our campus will lose millions of $

RichardJR@electricbluesfan.bsky.social · 11mo ago

11/13 "The public mood in India has hardened against Trump and his administration," Pant told CBC News. This shift solidified after Trump claimed credit for ending India-Pakistan conflict over Kashmir—a claim Indian officials denied, irking Trump.

Why we need DEI

Rebekah Modrak@rebekahmodrak.bsky.social · last yr.

Just watched Monica Coles' devastating testimony about being fired on her 3rd day teaching K-5 art—for wearing pants and short hair in a monoculture of teachers w/ long hair, heels and dresses—in a conservative public school district where the PTA funds the school. www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_Qm...

Guidepost Solutions' chairman is monitoring the extortion of Columbia by Trump. U. of Michigan regents, all on their own, hired "consultants" from Guidepost last year to comb through video tapes to harass and attempt to expel students who protested the war on Gaza.

Regent Bernstein makes a mockery of First Amendment rights. According to the state charter, regents have no authority to meddle in hiring decisions, let alone to subject members of our campus to their petty whims and biases. Donating $$ to the Dems shouldn’t protect him.

Fired D.E.I. Administrator Sues the University of Michigan

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U-Mich's Regent Bernstein overrides the assessment of UM administrators and tells the General Counsel to immediately terminate Rachel Dawson, our director of multicultural initiatives. Our regents have turned U-M's campus into a theater where they act on their biases and pettiness.

Former DEI administrator sues University of Michigan, alleges discrimination in firing

Rachel Dawson claims the University of Michigan deviated from its normal disciplinary process to fire her.

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I love the Michigan Daily. “the relative silence from the regents surrounding their efforts to commit acts of espionage against their own student body is alarming. Their response …shows that even despite the accusations, the regents have no interest in taking responsibility for their actions.”

From The Daily: The Regents must answer for the surveillance of students

It is crucial to explicitly condemn those responsible for this assault on students: the University’s Board of Regents. This Editorial Board believes regents who authorized the payments to Amerishield ...

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Bravo to the Mississippi educators seeking a restraining order to the law prohibiting educators from teaching students about issues "related to race, sex, color, gender identity, sexual orientation or national origin.” @insurgentprof.bsky.social

@cantb.bsky.social on the federal government forcing UVA's president to resign. (Inside Higher Ed)

Here's the problem: Universities' recent embrace of "institutional neutrality" policies are at odds with their goals to help students develop as thoughtful, moral citizens. Gift link.

A White Nationalist Wrote a Law School Paper Promoting Racist Views. It Won Him an Award.

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“Accordingly, the Trump administration has engaged in selective outrage about discrimination, focusing disproportionately on a supposed rampant anti-White racism problem in this country that is not supported by data, while remaining silent about prevalent discrimination against racial minorities.”

Fact vs. Fiction: The Trump Administration’s Dubious War on Reverse Discrimination

The Trump administration’s focus on “reverse discrimination” against White people is not backed by data and reflects a political narrative of White grievance.

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"At a moment when higher education is in the political crosshairs, Ono appeared to some like he was more interested in joining the snipers than fighting back alongside his academic brethren." www.chronicle.com/article/he-w...

“Leadership requires moral clarity, not strategic evasion. Students were followed, harassed, and criminalized under your watch. History will remember.” @professorjvh.bsky.social May U-M Faculty report to regents re: excessive surveillance: regents.umich.edu/files/meetin...

Exposed: University of Michigan Hired Undercover Spies to Target Students

As a second-generation alum of the University of Michigan, I’ve often reflected on how this institution shaped my life. The Diag, the center of campus with its steady hum of voices calling out inju…

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How did Santa Ono lose a one-man race? Professor @silkyweineck.bsky.social writes: “Perhaps it was the instinctive bipartisan contempt most of us feel for blatant pandering: Ono’s assurances that he would follow orders had .. an eagerness to humiliate himself that does not signal leadership.”

Opinion | The Ruination of Santa Ono

When an accomplished man is reduced to pandering, it’s a sad spectacle.

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