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Bethany Letiecq
@bletiecq.bsky.social
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Professor studying families, immigration, structural oppression. Community-based participatory action research. Academic freedom. NCFR President. GMU-AAUP Pres. VP of AAUP/AFT Local 6741. Mom/partner. Part of Twitter exodus. Posts mine.
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larryglickman.bsky.social
This is the essence of the story: three billionaires with no understanding of higher education are seeking to force Harvard to pay a bribe.
Three key figures have embraced the idea, all of them billionaires: Mr. Trump; the education secretary, Linda McMahon; and Stephen A. Schwarzman, the Blackstone chief executive and Harvard Business School alum, who has emerged as one of the university’s lead negotiators. In their view, Harvard, which has an endowment worth about $57 billion, should consider a fine as a business decision — a payment to revive what had been a longstanding and close partnership between Washington and Cambridge. But Harvard officials recoiled. Some view a cash payment as tantamount to a bribe and not commensurate with the accusations about what government officials say the school did wrong.
December 3, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Jesus, people, I'm not saying they'll all fall on their swords because we ask politely.

You demand a politician's resignation not because you think it will actually happen, but because you want to make it clear you think it *should* happen, you're that pissed off.

It's a vote of no confidence.
November 10, 2025 at 1:06 PM
bletiecq.bsky.social
Have y’all noticed that the @aaup is THE source for faculty voice across campuses and at @aaupmason.bsky.social .

Join us!
November 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM