www.chronicle.com/article/view...

I didn’t choose the headline!! DM if you need a version that isn’t paywalled.

“This is extortion, plain and simple.

It is not hyperbole to say that the future of higher education.. requires that every university reject it…The only solution is solidarity and collective action against this effort at federal control over higher education.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

This conversation was very good and well worth watching:
www.youtube.com/live/RB1FLkR... @aaup-penn.bsky.social @aaup.org @chenjerai.bsky.social @proftwolf.bsky.social

Once again, it is *faculty*—not administrators—who brought this case and won. Including UC Faculty Association chapters of the AAUP.

“Put most bluntly: Viewpoint diversity is anathema to academic freedom.” JHU-AAUP President Lisa Siraganian presents seven theses against viewpoint diversity and the dangers it poses to academic freedom in a new article for #Academe.

@lsiraganian.bsky.social

I appreciate how @lsiraganian.bsky.social is seriously engaging claims about "viewpoint diversity" and "intellectual pluralism" and how they're weaponized by the Trump administration and other actors to launch attacks against Higher Ed. A Well-researched, compelling, and important read. #academicsky

Good morning & happy Labor Day 🌞

Let’s all give a shout out to our labor unions. I’m a member of @aaup.org & @aft.org!!!

#UnionStrong
#Solidarity

www.hopkinsaaup.org/teach-in

What does trump mean for Hopkins? Find out! Come one and all to our Hopkins teach in! 1-3 today, Gilman 132

Eager to share this cluster on modernism in comics, now on @mmodernity.bsky.social Print Plus! With contributions from @lkonstan.bsky.social, @lsiraganian.bsky.social, Paul Peppis, Jean Lee Cole, Marie Sartain, Mike Classon Frangos, and @kinohi.bsky.social.

More here:

gothamist.com/news/armenia...

Go Nicole!

Chartering an AAUP chapter at Georgetown. Please join AAUP, please join us to stand up for our profession, our colleagues, our students, staff, and rights. Email me if you need more info. Trying to end social media forever but needed to announce for colleagues interested.

This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...

Twenty prominent law professors have joined a letter defending academic freedom and the First Amendment against the Trump Administration’s recent treatment of Columbia. Among those from right of center: Michael McConnell, Eugene Volokh, Keith Whittington, Steve Calabresi, and Richard Epstein.

It’s unbelievable

Wow - as NLRB/MSPB arguments kick off at DC Circuit, Judge Henderson asks if Trump's removal powers are so sweeping that he could fire all female agency heads, or all those over 40. Dep AG says yes! Trump-appointed Judge Walker swoops in to try to salvage: 'don't have to go there' due to the 14th A

Everyone--EVERYONE--in higher education has to understand that this is Trump's plan for you, too: federal control over scholarship, curricula, discipline, admissions--everything. They want you to submit. Your only other option is to stand up, together.

www.law.utoronto.ca/events/2025-...

If you’re in Toronto today, I’m here too!

"The question the embattled university president asked [me], in effect, was how a university fights an authoritarian regime."

"I told him to frame his fight to gain as many allies as he can."

Note FIGHT. Universities must act. Keeping their heads down won't work. 1/4

www.chronicle.com/ar...

happy ides of March, the time when we celebrate a Senator stabbing you in the back

NEW: Family of Mahmoud Khalil just released footage of his arrest

“Stop resisting”
“He’s not resisting”

Agents seen continuing to ignore Mahmoud’s wife as she asks basic questions

Every Armenian remembers when Trump proudly announced that he had negotiated an end to the 2020 War and that Azerbaijan had agreed to a ceasefire.

(There was no ceasefire. And there were no consequences.)