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Financial Aid is being positioned as a weapon to assert ideological control over higher education. The process is wonky and most of us don't pay attention to it. This year, we must. Consider attending. You will learn what is happening & what you can do.
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I agree, but think that it relates to the challenge of doing historical research. There is very little funding, so all of it becomes more competitive and more cumbersome to get. A lot of historians that I know pay to do their research while colleagues pay themselves summer salaries from grants.
I don't think people are paying enough attention to the changes that are being made to accreditation. The short-term goal is to reduce its influence and the long-term goal is to eliminate it. Accreditation might not be perfect, but I trust peer reviewers a lot more than partisan political actors.
I'm rooting for Denver, but Jokic just getting an off-setting technical is ridiculous star protecting.
I need more details. Are we asking about Charles Koch?
The public syllabi mandate can make instructors vulnerable to doxxing.
“This institution doesn’t mind if you are picked off one by one. You’re not important to us in ways that make us do the hard work of getting good plans in to place.”
—Abigail Hatcher, Interim VP of @unc-ch-aaup.bsky.social
My situation is also different than most. My classes are all small (6-18 students), so things are easy to navigate informally. A class of 40 or more might change my approach and make the using the CMS, even while cumbersome, worthwhile.
I accept papers by email or on paper. I find our course management system to be cumbersome and requiring multiple extra steps for each action. It is no harder for students to email a paper than to log into the system and drop it in, and a lot easier for me than navigating layers of the system.
I'm hoping that I can attend this. My copy of the book arrived on Saturday and I read most of it this weekend. A thoughtful, inspiring, and at times difficult collection of essays (new and previously published). And, the panelists are great.
This is an excerpt of "Mounting Your Defense," an installment part of the "Faculty on the Front Lines" initiative in the AAUP's Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom. This installment features a conversation among Dr. Sang Hea Kil, Dr. Rupa Marya, and Dr. Henry Reichman. Full episode here👇
Join us Tuesday, Feb. 17! The @alliancehighered.bsky.social will focus on the DOE’s decision to stop defending its 2025 Dear Colleague Letter, why it matters & how to move forward and rebuild.
Tuesday, February 17. 12-1pm ET
Register for the Zoom webinar here: bit.ly/4cldGRS
Very proud to have authored this brief with @dvegas24.bsky.social and the Bluesky-less Alyssa Stefanese Yates on the experiences of student-mothers of color drawing on data from two national studies of nearly 150 student-mothers
I am too! His work is important
"But if the member presidents choose the guise of institutional neutrality as a way to gain political cover, they may now be leading higher ed toward greater authoritarianism."
Well the AAU is gonna love this (miniest of threads)
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
They are both crucial. The language in the Sweezy decision is powerful (without AF "civilization will stagnate and die"; "four essential freedoms"). Uphaus v. Wyman makes it even more important (as the ruling was different because Uphaus was not an academic). But Keyishian was a big step forward.
I talked about G. Harris Daggett today. You might not know him. He was central to the case that led to the Supreme Court's 1957 Sweezy v. New Hampshire decision--in which Warren wrote that without academic freedom "civilization will stagnate and die." First time the Court endorsed academic freedom.
See, Dan, just when I was drafting an op-ed for you on tenure, you had to ruin it for all of us.
Thanks to @isaackamola.bsky.social for this generous endorsement of In the Spirit of H. Chandler Davis.
Released today!
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“We will not be intimidated into silence.”
—Dr. Leonard Bright, AAUP Texas A&M
This fight is bigger than Texas A&M—it is about whether public universities will serve democracy or fear it.
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I first met and got to know her when... we were stuck in an elevator together at HES in Cambridge 15 years ago. It took more than an hour for the firefighters to get us out, so we had time to talk (with Chris Ogren, who is also great).
Karen's book is great! And I love her even more as a person. She is so grounded, kind, and so thoughtful. The chapter is for Higher Education: Handbook of... I initially said no (because those chapters are hard), but changed my mind when Columbia capitulated.
If you all figure out a reading list, let me know. As I've mentioned to Dominique, I am writing a historiography of academic freedom since 1941 and don't want to miss things. To be fair, I think I have spent more time buying books (most recently on the Johns Committee) than on reading and writing.
I am sure that you will! Feel free to reach out if you want someone to bounce ideas off of.
Hah! Feel free to let it send. A random email from you is a good thing. I am truly happy for our field (and people outside of our field) that will learn from you and this column.
Glad to see this in the wild, Dominique. Congratulations and thank you.
Will?
How did I get to the place that I am watching a Cal v. SMU football game because it affects Duke's place in the ACC Championship game? A lot of bad decisions were made, only some of them by me.
