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Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Ed

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We are a group of scholars, educators, and writers in higher ed working and collaborating to demand financial accountability and total realignment of funding to make education a public good with fair tuition and fair labor. Public higher ed for all!

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Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Ed @sfndhe.bsky.social · Jul 14

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We created toolkits so we can all make higher education a true public good. These ready-made resources can be adapted to your institutions and campuses. If you have a proposal to create another toolkit, please let us know.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 17h

UPDATE: Following the firing of the director of the student newspaper, Indiana University has now cut the print edition of the newspaper entirely.

www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

Indiana University cuts IDS print entirely, hours after firing student media director
By IDS staff
Oct 15, 2025 1:23 pm · Updated Oct 15, 2025 1:23 pm

IU previously directed the Indiana Daily Student to stop printing news coverage in our newspaper. Upon pushback, the university fully cut print, including our special editions. The IDS was not involved in the decision.

Media School Dean David Tolchinsky sent the order to IDS leadership in an email responding to its appeal that the school not censor the newspaper. And the dean attributed the decision to “the campus.” He has not yet responded to a message for clarification.

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Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Ed @sfndhe.bsky.social · 12h

Follow that $$$$$$$$$$
Any corporate consultant jargon is a major flag:
$750,000 to cut cut cut

UConn AAUP @uconnaaup.bsky.social · 1d

www.courant.com/2025/10/15/u...

UConn paying $700K for ‘budget transformation initiative’. It’s raising fears about layoffs.

The consultant contract is not to exceed $750,000, according to a budget presentation presented to the UConn Board of Trustees.

www.courant.com

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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 18h

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Texas Systems Review Course Descriptions, Syllabi

Syllabi and course information are becoming increasingly public and Texas institutions are scrambling to scrub them of topics like gender identity.

www.insidehighered.com

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 18h

NEW: America’s unions are launching the Workers First Initiative on AI, which provides a blueprint for how employers and lawmakers can advance AI implementation at work so it benefits both working people and our economy, and respects workers’ rights. aflcio.org/press/releas...

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AAUP @aaup.org · 18h

SATURDAY

Stand Up. Fight Back.

#NoKings

Find an event near you.

www.nokings.org#map

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Academe @academemagazine.bsky.social · 16h

We're excited to share the new call for papers for next year's volume of the Journal of Academic Freedom: www.aaup.org/CFP

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UPTE-CWA Local 9119 @uptecwa.bsky.social · 13h

UC thought it could get away with unlawfully and abruptly laying off twenty researchers. We can come out in force to make a little noise earlier today at the UCSF Mission Bay campus. #UC #UCSF #ResetUCPriorities

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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 5d

www.statesman.com/opinion/colu...

Great opinion piece from UT Austin faculty member Lisa Moore. 👏🏽👏🏽

After 35 years at UT Austin, I hardly recognize my university | Opinion

What was once a beacon of access and discovery is now fighting for its soul and mission as political attacks upend norms, rules and rights, Lisa L. Moore writes.

www.statesman.com

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AAUP @aaup.org · 5d

Professor Karma Chávez of @utaustinaaup.bsky.social explaining how the abolishment of faculty senates in Texas strips away democracy & any notion of shared governance in TX higher education.

#defendhighered

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Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Ed @sfndhe.bsky.social · 5d

Understanding tenure as a labor protection and as a protection of academic freedom does not preclude shifting to a system that is not 60-70% contingent. It means understanding the history of this system and demanding employment conditions that extend these two protections to majority faculty.

Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Ed @sfndhe.bsky.social · 10d

This is about greed -- and about the impacts of it. Oligarchy, lack of public services for the public good, increasing violence among everyday people, hunger, environmental destruction, climate change acceleration.
Austerity cuts for the ordinary people while giving to the wealthiest.

Liz Shuler @lizshuler.bsky.social · 10d

Let’s call this what it is: greed.

We don’t have to accept an economy where the top 10% can buy a second yacht while working families live paycheck-to-paycheck. A union contract is how we level the playing field and get our fair share.

The wealth of the top 1% reaches a record $52 trillion

All wealth groups saw gains over the past year, according to recent Fed data. But the growth has been fastest for those at the very top.

www.cnbc.com

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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 10d

“The Faculty Senate of the University of Virginia firmly opposes this Compact as written + calls upon Interim President Mahoney and the Board of Visitors to also reject this Compact outright as well as any similar proposal compromising the mission, values, and independence of the University.” ❤️

North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social · 10d

UVA Faculty Senate with a clear statement of values: facultysenate.virginia.edu/resolution-o...

Resolution Opposing the "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education" | Faculty Senate, U.Va.

facultysenate.virginia.edu

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Will Jones @willpjones.bsky.social · 10d

Gift link - because we need to remember this now: @afacwa.org www.nytimes.com/2019/02/22/b...

The Shutdown Made Sara Nelson Into America’s Most Powerful Flight Attendant (Published 2019)

www.nytimes.com

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 10d

"Mischaracterised by university leaders as financial ‘saving’, austerity is in truth vandalism. It ravages decades of training, accrued and accredited knowledge, and publicly funded research."

UK Universities in Crisis? Time to Transform Higher Ed Finance

by Rob Hawkes and Scott Ferguson Universities in the UK are in crisis. Job cuts in the sector are reaching ‘cataclysmic’ levels, with an estimated 10,000 already lost and many more at risk. Just da…

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Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Ed @sfndhe.bsky.social · 10d

As states like Florida and Texas gut tenure protections for university faculty, many assume the greatest loss is to academic freedom. But tenure is not just about academic freedom. It also is, and has always been, about labor protection.
@aaup.org @afthighered.bsky.social @lawcha.bsky.social

The Real History of Tenure

If academics want to protect the idea of tenure, they need to understand how and why it became the norm.

time.com

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Jane Goodall Institute of Canada @janegoodallcan.bsky.social · 12d

"You have it in your power to make a difference. Don't give up. There is a future for you. Do your best while you’re still on this beautiful Planet Earth that I look down upon from where I am now."

Those were Dr. Jane's last words, as released by Netflix.

Photo: Katherine Holland

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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 14d

Thank you to our colleagues at the State University of New York for this statement of solidarity! “Texas is the Lone Star State, but faculty in Texas must not be left to fight alone.” ✊❤️

SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 14d

Here’s (the corrected link to) our Executive Committee’s statement in support of @texasaaup.bsky.social and shared governance in Texas. Please share this post widely.

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Academe @academemagazine.bsky.social · 13d

New on Academe Blog: academeblog.org/2025/10/02/a...

A New Project Exploring Attacks on Academic Freedom

BY JOHN WARNER AND ANNA FEDER The following is a repost of a piece that originally appeared on “Academic Freedom on the Line,” a Substack run by Center for the Defense of Academic Freed…

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Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Ed @sfndhe.bsky.social · 12d

After the historic success of the Stand Up Strike in 2023, UAW President Shawn Fain called on the rest of the labor movement to join our union in preparing to strike on May Day 2028. May Day is the international worker’s day.

Ready to Stand Up against corporate greed? Join the May 1, 2028 movement!

YouTube video by UAW

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Matthew Boedy @matthewboedy.bsky.social · 13d

Still time to register for Monday's @aaup.org webinar on the state-backed threat to independent higher education accreditation www.aaup.org/event/politi...

Politicizing Accreditation in the South and Beyond

This webinar will explore the historic importance of independent accreditation systems for maintaining professional norms and standards for public higher education and examine the threats a politicize...

www.aaup.org

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 13d

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report

Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

www.mediaite.com

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UConn AAUP @uconnaaup.bsky.social · 17d

www.courant.com/2025/09/28/f...

Free speech and academic freedom in Connecticut: ‘Everyone is scared’

In the wake of the shooting death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, Connecticut professors and leaders are concerned about a broader crackdown on free speech and academic freedom.

www.courant.com

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Ms. Magazine @msmagazine.com · 18d

Signed 60 years ago this week, Executive Order 11246 was a landmark step by President Lyndon Johnson to advance equal opportunity in employment. But just two days into his second term, President Trump revoked EO 11246— a significant rollback of protections that had stood for six decades.

From Berlin to Beijing to U.S. Congress, Women's Courage to Convene Propels Us Forward

Weekend Reading for Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation in politics, sports and entertainment, judicial offices and the private sector—with a little…

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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 17d

Next Wednesday, we're announcing something we think could really shift the landscape for tenant protections.

Join us — and Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib — as we roll out a new legal-tech tool and novel strike.

RSVP: BIT.LY/DEBTSTRIKE2025

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Indivisible Central Ohio @indivcentraloh.bsky.social · 18d

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