I had a lot of fun chatting about the history of grades with @llassabe.bsky.social for the American Campus podcast! americancampuspodcast.buzzsprout.com/2396665/epis...
History of college grading with Joshua R. Eyler - American Campus Podcast
On class rank, Latin honors, the 4.0 grading scale, and other old traditionsReferences and suggested readings:Joshua R. Eyler. 2024. Failing Our Future: How Grades Harm Students, and What We Can Do Ab...
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Red States: We're cutting the humanities at our public universities to spend more money on right-wing indoctrination Blue States: We're cutting the same programs, but to spend more money on AI and the business school.
Asheesh Kapur Siddique@asheeshks.org · 2mo agoCentrist Democrats hate humanities scholarship just as much as Republicans do - the difference is that Democrats think humanities teaching is important in the elite private institutions they aspire to send their kids to, but not the actual laborers.
A good summary of major parts of the Trump administration's campaign against higher ed:
AAUP@aaup.org · 3mo agoOUT TODAY, the AAUP just released the first comprehensive account of how the Trump administration has taken the same playbook it's used on law firms & foreign governments & turned it on American universities. US higher ed has, in effect, become a target of a massive extortion racket. 🧵
Has anyone coined a term for when colleagues send you slop for feedback? Like they’re too important to spend time on it but surely I am not. (Am I being treated like AI? Or is AI being treated like I?)
Neil Selwyn@neilselwyn.bsky.social · 3mo agoWhy are academics using GenAI to write articles, grade assignments, compose emails and a lot of other tasks that they would/should otherwise be doing themselves? A brief summary of our anonymous survey of over 200 academics' 'grey uses' of GenAI ... researchwhisperer.org/2026/07/21/a...
Hi, pretty new to this app. Could someone point me to the Lindsey graham jokes pls?
The collective journalistic freakout over someone disliking a cafeteria sandwich at Oberlin or some Yale students asking their peers to be less racist at Halloween has generated far more copy and uproar than multiple universities illegally firing faculty for nonconservative speech they disliked.
U Tennessee to Pay Millions to Prof Fired for Kirk Comments
The University of Tennessee System will pay $1.9 million to settle a lawsuit brought by a former professor who was fired for comments she made about the late conservative pundit Charlie Kirk, Knox New...
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Loved this interview! My interim dean proudly sent us S&P and Moody’s reports & ratings for our uni. @cnewf.bsky.social told us in 2008 that the university “exists to SPEND money” and Idk why all the MBAs and wannabe finance bros can’t get their head around this.
John Warner@biblioracle.bsky.social · 4mo agoI'm pretty well informed on the dynamics that threaten higher ed and academic freedom, but I did not wholly appreciate the role "debt" plays, and not just student loan debt. An eye opening convo with Jason Wozniak of @debtcollective.bsky.social. academicfreedomontheline.substack.com/p/debt-an-un...
I'm pretty well informed on the dynamics that threaten higher ed and academic freedom, but I did not wholly appreciate the role "debt" plays, and not just student loan debt. An eye opening convo with Jason Wozniak of @debtcollective.bsky.social. academicfreedomontheline.substack.com/p/debt-an-un...
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The newest episode of Academic Freedom on the Line, "Organizing Lessons from Resisting ICE on Campus," addresses why higher education workers must resist ICE and the rising tide of fascism on and off campus, and get organizing lessons from the front lines. Check it out here ⬇️
Organizing Lessons from Resisting ICE on Campus - AAUP Presents
On today’s episode of Academic Freedom on the Line, we’re talking about students, labor, migration, and what happens at the intersection of all those categories. We talk about how and why higher educa...
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After two days on strike, nearly 1,000 faculty at NYU won huge concessions from the university. Everyone in the CFU-UAW union will now get a raise of at least $14,000. The deal also includes 3.5% raises each year of the contract, better job security, and more.
By the NYU provost who just ordered the police to arrest three professors, classified as “persona non grata”
annnnnnnd workers at Rt 1 Knox-College Park Shopping Center in College Park, MD also unanimously voted to unionize bc they know 🗣️OUR UNION IS STRONG💪
“Do universities such as GMU routinely send phalanxes of police officers in military fatigues and armored vehicles, and carrying assault rifles, to break down the front door and raid the homes of students during the pre-dawn hours over an allegation of spray painting?”
The Intercept@theintercept.com · 2y ago“It’s clear that the university and police—local and federal—are working in tandem to intimidate, penalize, and criminalize student activism around Palestine,” said attorney Abdel-Rahman Hamed. https://interc.pt/3BawOlC
If you think the limitations on books in our public schools are bad o have terrible news for you about what incarcerated people are allowed to read
Haymarket Books@haymarketbooks.org · 2y agoHelp us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
