In response to our YaleAAUP campaign to get codified academic freedom protections - which shockingly we do not have - Yale has created a committee to make a "statement." A sign that we are making progress. But nowhere close to where we need to be. More here --> yaledailynews.com/articles/pro...
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College for All Jubilee School: Kickoff (virtual) Mar 5, 2026 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm EST In the United States, higher education has been careening toward collapse as a result of state and federal disinvestment, institutional segregation, the erosion of academic labor, plutocratic governance, and the explosion of for-profit higher education that cynically leverages Americans’ lack of time and opportunity. As a result, public support for colleges and universities is eroding.
College for All Jubilee School: The Making of the Student Debt Crisis (virtual) Mar 12, 2026 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm EDT Speaker: Astra Taylor In this session, Debt Collective co-founder Astra Taylor will unpack the roots of the current crisis, discuss current threats to our movement, and talk about the Debt Collective’s Right to Learn work to explore how we arrived at this current moment and define the work ahead. This session is a part of the larger Jubilee School... Part of our Rethinking and Reinventing Higher Education Series
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"In a rapidly evolving situation, the best way to assess the specific challenges+ leverage that workers have is to go out to our departments or labs to figure out who is currently working, what their jobs are, obstacles they might face, and what next steps workers could collectively build towards."
mapping power is so hot right now
longhaulmag.com/2026/02/27/a...
bad news: 3-1 down at half-time
good news: six play-off spots in the championship next season
Love this
Tried power mapping with my big lecture class and was pleased with the way it went. The assignment is here if you're interested in the logistics of it. docs.google.com/presentation...
a photo of Justice Powell from his time on the Supreme Court
Depending on who you ask, Lewis Powell Jr. is either: an ideological mastermind of the Right who led the corporate counter-revolution OR the Supreme Court’s quintessential “swing justice" upholding liberal positions in some of the Court’s most high-profile cases (from affirmative action to abortion)
Does anyone want an academics in the Epstein files episode with @andyhines.bsky.social
ONE LIKE and I’ll release it Sunday
hahaha low bar but we’ve cleared it!
Screenshot reads: She and other publishing specialists question whether LeapSpace’s limited reach is worth the cost. Users will need either an institutional subscription (based in part on the institution’s size and amount of research) or an individual one, which costs $32 a month. Many libraries are already struggling to afford existing subscriptions. And if users want to read the cited content, they will need a separate subscription to that content’s publisher—akin to paying for multiple video-streaming services.
The inevitable next stage of academic publishers profiting from academics' work is here - scraping it for AI then charging subscriptions for access to the AI summaries, and then again for the citations. Academic content assetization as we called it in a recent paper. www.science.org/content/arti...
Kansas May Withhold Millions From Universities With ‘DEI-CRT’ in Gen Ed
www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...
Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it.
Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:
The Epstein files revealed new details of multiple meetings over several years between convicted pedophile Epstein, Apollo CEO Marc Rowan and his Apollo co-founder and former CEO Leon Black. The AAUP & AFT are demanding that the Securities & Exchange Commission open an investigation.
@aft.org
Deeply disturbing confessions from Heritage. Creating new accreditors like CPHE is simply part of their Plan B. Plan A is to eliminate federal funding and oversight, and turn higher ed into a cesspool of unaccountable charter schools and state patronage schemes. 👎
www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
yes absolutely
we all love having to understand a faculty practice plan
This story is wild and also worth staring at this revenue breakdown, noting the outsized share of medical center activities here
This thread is a ride!
In our latest, we speak with Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social about fascism as an antagonistic politics of social reproduction, some of the particular features of the crackdowns on care in Trump’s second term, and Alberto’s book Late Fascism
www.patreon.com/posts/150947...
If you appreciated my @nybooks.com article, you'll love my new book Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves, out from @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social in April. Order with discount code BLUE20 at www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/stuar...
“Attacks on the administrative state, the public sector and unions, and the transformation of border control agents into a personal militia can be understood as parts of a broader programme to extend the rule of master and servant to the entire economy.”
How and why police actually support the federal invasions—I have been working on this article for ~6 months, trying to make sense of Trump’s nationwide surge of DHS officers, how it has evolved, what brought us here, and what will remain after it ends.
Melinda Cooper on the household servitude economy in general, and in extreme form (Epstein).
www.equator.org/articles/eps...
no worries, mine to you was on my list for awhile too! ☺️
Yes! Let’s get to work!
“I don’t understand why so many people have conceded that the university is a left space. Can someone show me a Marxist university president?”
Read this fantastic roundtable that @andyhines.bsky.social put together featuring faves Vineeta Singh, Annie McClanahan, Dan Nemser, and Rana Jaleel. The possibility of the university lives!
Within three years, the college would find itself unable to refinance its staggering debt load, scrambling to meet its obligations and ultimately appealing to Gov. Gavin Newsom for a $20 million taxpayer-funded bailout. Months after receiving the state funds, CCA, the last remaining nonprofit art and design school in Northern California, announced it would close in 2027 and sell its campus to Tennessee's Vanderbilt University. CCA students who aren't graduating by then will likely have to find new schools in other cities. All of CCA's 530 faculty and staff will lose their jobs, though Vanderbilt could rehire some. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, though the university is likely to have assumed some or all of CCA's outstanding loans.
It was not just a story of bad timing. Since the late 1990s, the college's growth in San Francisco had increasingly overlapped with the personal financial interests of several trustees, some of whom owned property in Potrero Hill and entered into real estate deals with the school, blurring the line between fiduciary stewardship and private gain. And when the school's growth strategy ultimately failed, its leadership - backed by a politically connected board - got help from Newsom.
“California College of the Arts gambled on a major campus expansion. Here’s what went wrong” archive.ph/KnydJ
and I mean, as @mattseybold.bsky.social put it, "every session of Claude Code is like running a dishwasher" -- if academics aren't fighting the widespread adoption of these things then what are we even doing, and that includes IMO acknowledging the underlying compulsions
