"Academic freedom is being eroded internally by university administrators as well as externally by politicians." -USC @aaup.org president Laura Isabel Serna in the LA Times

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Ben Parsons's Bad Grammar: Teachers, Crime, and the Law in Late Medieval and Early Modern England

This is disgusting both in content and process. Academic reorganization at institutions with functioning governance centers faculty expertise in decision making.

I actually started my research on academic freedom, in part, because I attended a Davis, Markert, Nickerson Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom at UM 25 years ago. I was fascinated and horrified and wanted to know more. It has kept me busy: facultysenate.umich.edu/davis-marker...

I am trying to get home from a conference in Providence so that I can try to fly to Denver on Wed. I am, so far, lucky. Just finished brunch with two colleagues who had a second flight canceled while we were eating. They are now booked for tomorrow, with flight legs added.

As I am sure you know, Schrecker, early on, said this is worse.

Such an important book. And the Ely case gets held up as a victory because it resulted in the famous "sifting and winnowing" statement, but it was not a great defense of the principle. Ely argued it on the wrong lines. He agreed he should be fired if he did what was charged, just claimed he did not.

Either Bari Weiss or I misunderstood the meaning of ‘No Kings’

If it were me, I’d probably rather visit a seat of democracy.

Don’t worry, we can also do tariffs. That is sure to work.

That was bad. It was either 17-0 or 10-7. Those were the options.

I’m on board with this idea

Wow. What a fundamental violation of shared governance. It does not shock me at UNC, but it is still is bad.