ChaunceyABC
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September 27, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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@utaustinaaup.bsky.social President Polly Strong: “If faculty who teach about the wide range of gender identities…can now be fired for not flagging that content in a course catalog…there is no end to the number of instructors who may lose their jobs.” 👏👏
www.statesman.com/opinion/colu...
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Manufactured outrage is killing academic freedom in Texas | Opinion
Enough with the "gotcha" attacks like the recent firing of a Texas A&M instructor. Let professors teach. Let students learn, writes Pauline Turner Strong.
www.statesman.com
September 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
@utaustinaaup.bsky.social President Polly Strong: “If faculty who teach about the wide range of gender identities…can now be fired for not flagging that content in a course catalog…there is no end to the number of instructors who may lose their jobs.” 👏👏
www.statesman.com/opinion/colu...
www.statesman.com/opinion/colu...
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Can’t send revenge porn to Trump anymore
April 29, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Can’t send revenge porn to Trump anymore
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🚨🚨SB37 has now passed the Texas Senate with a thirteen-page amendment entered at the last minute which gives governing boards even greater control over public #HigherEd, including the power to shut down degree programs! Our fight now moves to the House! Join us! 👊👊👊
April 15, 2025 at 9:23 PM
🚨🚨SB37 has now passed the Texas Senate with a thirteen-page amendment entered at the last minute which gives governing boards even greater control over public #HigherEd, including the power to shut down degree programs! Our fight now moves to the House! Join us! 👊👊👊
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☎️☎️Calling all Texans who care about the future of #HigherEd! The Senate will likely hear SB37 tomorrow. Please let your state senator know you do NOT support the state takeover of our public colleges and universities! Form below.⬇️
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Tell Your Senator: Don’t Allow a State Takeover of Higher Education!
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April 14, 2025 at 1:28 PM
☎️☎️Calling all Texans who care about the future of #HigherEd! The Senate will likely hear SB37 tomorrow. Please let your state senator know you do NOT support the state takeover of our public colleges and universities! Form below.⬇️
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“SB37 + SB2714…threaten the teaching of U.S. history in TX public colleges + universities...If signed into law, these bills would undermine the liberty to learn + to think that has long been at the core of American institutions of higher education.” 👇
www.statesman.com/story/opinio...
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Texas bills invite political interference in the teaching of U.S. history | Opinion
SB 37 and SB 2714 would undermine the liberty to learn and to think that has long been at the core of American institutions of higher education.
www.statesman.com
April 14, 2025 at 1:33 PM
“SB37 + SB2714…threaten the teaching of U.S. history in TX public colleges + universities...If signed into law, these bills would undermine the liberty to learn + to think that has long been at the core of American institutions of higher education.” 👇
www.statesman.com/story/opinio...
www.statesman.com/story/opinio...
Signatories to a Berkeley petition against the war in Gaza being investigated
"At the University of California, the Office of the President (UCOP) disclosed last week the personal and demographic information of over 850 UC faculty members after being subpoenaed by the U.S. EEOC as part of its investigation of antisemitism at UC campuses."
cucfa.org/2025/04/cucf...
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Federal Investigations of UC Faculty Members – The Council of UC Faculty Associations
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April 4, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Signatories to a Berkeley petition against the war in Gaza being investigated
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Opinion | Austin Statesman |By Pauline Strong, President of AAUP chapter UT Austin
Higher ed bill would weaken Texas universities | SB 37
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Higher ed bill would weaken Texas universities | SB 37
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March 23, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Opinion | Austin Statesman |By Pauline Strong, President of AAUP chapter UT Austin
Higher ed bill would weaken Texas universities | SB 37
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Higher ed bill would weaken Texas universities | SB 37
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Columbia is reportedly even agreeing to the departmental receivership—though perhaps under a more “agreeable” name. Let’s see, how about capitulationship? www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
Exclusive | Columbia Is Nearing Agreement to Give Trump What He Wants
The university faces a Thursday deadline to yield to the administration’s demands.
www.wsj.com
March 20, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Columbia is reportedly even agreeing to the departmental receivership—though perhaps under a more “agreeable” name. Let’s see, how about capitulationship? www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
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Constitutional lawyers, including our own David Rabban say:
“The government may not threaten funding cuts as a tool to pressure recipients into suppressing First Amendment–protected speech.”
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
“The government may not threaten funding cuts as a tool to pressure recipients into suppressing First Amendment–protected speech.”
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A Statement from Constitutional Law Scholars on Columbia | Eugene Volokh, Michael C. Dorf, David Cole
We write as constitutional scholars—some liberal and some conservative—who seek to defend academic freedom and the First Amendment in the wake of the
www.nybooks.com
March 20, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Constitutional lawyers, including our own David Rabban say:
“The government may not threaten funding cuts as a tool to pressure recipients into suppressing First Amendment–protected speech.”
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
“The government may not threaten funding cuts as a tool to pressure recipients into suppressing First Amendment–protected speech.”
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
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“France’s research minister said a French scientist was denied entry to the US this month after immigration officers at an airport searched his phone and found messages in which he had expressed criticism of the Trump administration.”
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French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found
France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched
www.theguardian.com
March 20, 2025 at 12:37 PM
“France’s research minister said a French scientist was denied entry to the US this month after immigration officers at an airport searched his phone and found messages in which he had expressed criticism of the Trump administration.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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“It is crucial that university leaders see the measures taken against Columbia…as a test for how far the education system can be subjugated. In other words, it is not an isolated problem for one place but a collective challenge that requires a collective response” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Academic freedom in America needs to be defended. Here’s how | Jan-Werner Müller
To begin with, universities should not be intimidated by the claim that public opinion is turning against them. That’s not necessarily true
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March 20, 2025 at 3:09 AM
“It is crucial that university leaders see the measures taken against Columbia…as a test for how far the education system can be subjugated. In other words, it is not an isolated problem for one place but a collective challenge that requires a collective response” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Here’s the information you need to become an advocate for higher education in Texas. Thursday is your chance to oppose SB 37! aaup-texas.org/blog/f/ways-...
Ways to oppose Tx Leg. bills censoring teaching & research
Texas Conference of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) affiliated with the Texas AFT
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March 18, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Here’s the information you need to become an advocate for higher education in Texas. Thursday is your chance to oppose SB 37! aaup-texas.org/blog/f/ways-...
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We condemn in the strongest possible terms any university that would sacrifice its own students to the demands of an authoritarian government.
This is absolute cowardice & capitulation to an administration hellbent on the destruction of American higher education.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/n...
This is absolute cowardice & capitulation to an administration hellbent on the destruction of American higher education.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/n...
Columbia Disciplines Students Who Occupied Campus Building Last Year
Sanctions for the Hamilton Hall occupation include expulsions and suspensions.
www.nytimes.com
March 14, 2025 at 12:12 AM
We condemn in the strongest possible terms any university that would sacrifice its own students to the demands of an authoritarian government.
This is absolute cowardice & capitulation to an administration hellbent on the destruction of American higher education.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/n...
This is absolute cowardice & capitulation to an administration hellbent on the destruction of American higher education.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/n...
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Texas leads the nation in terms of #HigherEd with more Tier 1 research universities than any other state. Why are lawmakers over-regulating our colleges and universities when they are already thriving???
www.texastribune.org/2025/03/13/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/03/13/t...
Texas bill would increase oversight of universities’ hiring, curriculum and compliance
Senate Bill 37 would create a state office to investigate complaints against universities and require governing boards to ensure courses don’t endorse certain ideologies.
www.texastribune.org
March 13, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Texas leads the nation in terms of #HigherEd with more Tier 1 research universities than any other state. Why are lawmakers over-regulating our colleges and universities when they are already thriving???
www.texastribune.org/2025/03/13/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/03/13/t...
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Deepening the attack against intellectual, academic freedoms: “Senate Bill 37 would create a state office to investigate complaints against universities and require governing boards to ensure courses don’t endorse certain ideologies.” @jessicapriest.bsky.social www.texastribune.org/2025/03/13/t...
Texas bill would increase oversight of universities’ hiring, curriculum and compliance
Senate Bill 37 would create a state office to investigate complaints against universities and require governing boards to ensure courses don’t endorse certain ideologies.
www.texastribune.org
March 16, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Deepening the attack against intellectual, academic freedoms: “Senate Bill 37 would create a state office to investigate complaints against universities and require governing boards to ensure courses don’t endorse certain ideologies.” @jessicapriest.bsky.social www.texastribune.org/2025/03/13/t...
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University of Leeds is offering scholarships at undergraduate or postgraduate level for "citizens of Gaza who have been displaced as a result of the ongoing conflict in the region and are living in a different country (outside of the UK)".
www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...
www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...
Gazan Humanitarian Scholarship
We offer scholarships for citizens of Gaza who have been displaced as a result of the ongoing conflict in the region and are living in a different country (outside of the UK).
www.leeds.ac.uk
November 28, 2024 at 8:52 AM
University of Leeds is offering scholarships at undergraduate or postgraduate level for "citizens of Gaza who have been displaced as a result of the ongoing conflict in the region and are living in a different country (outside of the UK)".
www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...
www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...
Look at this doofus
December 10, 2024 at 5:31 AM
Look at this doofus
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The White House gave Israel the coordinates of an American family in Gaza, ostensibly to protect them. Israel used those coordinates to bomb them.
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The White House Gave Israel Coordinates to Save an American’s Family. Then Israel Bombed Them Again.
The Alsayed brothers lost their mother in the first bombing. They thought the White House could help save the survivors.
theintercept.com
December 6, 2024 at 9:08 PM
The White House gave Israel the coordinates of an American family in Gaza, ostensibly to protect them. Israel used those coordinates to bomb them.
theintercept.com/2024/12/06/i...
theintercept.com/2024/12/06/i...
It’s ok, blep is here
November 14, 2024 at 4:57 AM
It’s ok, blep is here
Just what Jay Hartzell is looking for: a Dean willing to run scared
I have been concerned for years that states will block faculty from attending certain conferences or accepting some grants. It looks like that is now happening at North Texas.
www.chronicle.com/article/a-te...
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November 14, 2024 at 3:29 AM
Just what Jay Hartzell is looking for: a Dean willing to run scared
The chair of the TX senate subcommittee on higher education seems to want to remove faculty senates from having any say in the approval or renewal of academic programs. For him programs are only legitimate if they lead to high paying jobs.
November 11, 2024 at 10:14 PM
The chair of the TX senate subcommittee on higher education seems to want to remove faculty senates from having any say in the approval or renewal of academic programs. For him programs are only legitimate if they lead to high paying jobs.
UT says that they can ban protected speech if the vibes are off
UTAustin: "In an educational setting... when we have a reasonable basis to believe a planned activity will disrupt campus, we can lawfully decide that activity cannot proceed..."
Actually you can't. The #1A doesn't allow it. Neither should the courts. Ask Maryland.
www.statesman.com/story/news/e...
Actually you can't. The #1A doesn't allow it. Neither should the courts. Ask Maryland.
www.statesman.com/story/news/e...
UT suspends student for 'unauthorized' pro-Palestinian protest; student seeks to stop move
After holding a pro-Palestinian protest in April against UT wishes, the student was suspended. He has now filed a restraining order against suspension
www.statesman.com
October 25, 2024 at 9:20 PM
UT says that they can ban protected speech if the vibes are off