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Timothy R Cain @timcain.bsky.social · 1d

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

Timothy R Cain @timcain.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sitting outside in DuPont Circle, drinking a beer, listening to the Cubs, and working on a field guide to help protect academic freedom (being put together by the AAUP’s Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom). It is a pretty great way to spend a Wednesday night.

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AAUP-South Carolina @aaup-sc.org · 4d

Join us! Monday at 7. www.aaup.org/event/politi...

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AAUP @aaup.org · 6d

“Trump’s restrictions on H-1B visa applications will lead to less lifesaving research, reduced innovation, & diminished competitiveness. This short-sighted policy will hurt every American by slowing research breakthroughs, weakening our economy & putting our global leadership at risk.”
—Todd Wolfson

Groups File Suit Over Trump’s $100,000 H-1B Visa Fee

www.nytimes.com

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · Sep 9

It's publication day for UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS. Across 27 sharp essays, the book offers a critical account of the political economy of US higher education, how it came to be structured this way, and how together we might build a better university together.

green and yellow cover of University Keywords, ed by Andy Hines

Table of contents for University Keywords

University: An Introduction, Andy Hines

Academic Freedom, Jennifer Ruth and Ellen Schrecker
Adjunct, Heather Steffen
Admissions, Scott Gelber
Alternative Institutions, Andy Hines and Eli Meyerhoff
Athletics, Wayne L. Black
Board of Trustees, Asheesh Siddique Kapur
Budget, Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra
Campus, Davarian Baldwin
Classroom, Richard Simpson
Critical University Studies, Rana M. Jaleel, Isaac Kamola, and Heather Steffen
Debt, Eleni Schirmer and Jason Wozniak
Degree, Christopher Newfield
Discipline, Vineeta Singh
Diversity, p.s. kehal
EdTech, Annie McClanahan and Louise McCune
Endowment, Dennis M. Hogan
Entrepreneurship, Jesse Goldstein

Table of contents for university keywords

Fiction, Jeffrey J. Williams
Legislation, Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
Noncitizen Student, Abigail Boggs
Police, Yalile Suriel and Grace Watkins
Ranking, Jelena Brankovic and Stefan Wilbers
Revenue, Dan Nemser and Brian Whitener
Risk Management, Mattie Armstrong-Price
Sustainability, Kai Bosworth, Jesse Goldstein, Andy Hines, and Eli Meyerhoff
Title IX, Rana M. Jaleel
Union, Zach Schwartz-Weinstein

Appendix: Questions to Consider for Composing a Keywords Entry

Contributor Bios
Acknowledgments
Index

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Timothy R Cain @timcain.bsky.social · 7d

This is Monday. I'll be there. The other panelist will be a lot better.

AAUP @aaup.org · 13d

WEBINAR ALERT!💻

The AAUP is hosting a webinar exploring the importance of independent accreditation systems for maintaining professional standards & examining threats a politicized accreditation system poses to academic freedom.
▶️October 6, 7PM

Politicizing Accreditation in the South and Beyond

This webinar will explore the historic importance of independent accreditation systems for maintaining professional norms and standards for public higher education and examine the threats a politicize...

www.aaup.org

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Campbell F. Scribner @scribnerumcp.bsky.social · 7d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion

www.nytimes.com

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AAUP @aaup.org · 7d

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TONIGHT @7PM ET:

AAUP PresidentTodd Wolfson will be live discussing yesterday’s proposal by the Trump admin to give preferential treatment to colleges & universities that pledge allegiance to their ideological agenda.

Tune in on the AAUP’s YouTube & Instagram channels!

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Timothy R Cain @timcain.bsky.social · 8d

Organize

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8d

Some schools will be starved of resources. Other schools will be offered bribes. The end goal is the same. To make the universities an extension of the Trump administration. Shame on any of these institutions willing to take the bribes.

Letters on Wednesday were going out to solicit agreement and feedback from Vanderbilt University, Dartmouth College, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Southern California, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Texas, the University of Arizona, Brown University and the University of Virginia, according to an administration official.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 8d

Introducing “Faculty on the Frontlines,” a new series from the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom that documents the stories of AAUP members!

Over the next 2 weeks, we will spotlight the stories of 10 AAUP members fighting to defend academic freedom.

Check out our teaser 🔥

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 8d

👋 On November 5th @msu-chae.bsky.social is hosting a virtual webinar on financing the multiple missions at public research universities. We have a great line-up featuring @robertkelchen.com, an @chronicle.com reporter, and finance leaders from MSU and Rutgers. Registration is free! Check it out.

Flyer with QR code. You can find the link below on the next post.

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Timothy R Cain @timcain.bsky.social · 8d

She talks about the inspiration for the both the men's and women's campuses--UVA was the model for the women's (East), because it was thought to be simpler and more fitting for women. Gothic broadly (including Princeton) was seen as inspiring and complicated and more appropriate for men (West).

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Timothy R Cain @timcain.bsky.social · 8d

It is cool. I also recommend Annabelle Wharton's “Gender, Architecture, and Institutional Self–Presentation: The Case of Duke University.” South Atlantic Quarterly 90, no. 1 (1991): 175–217.

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AAUP-South Carolina @aaup-sc.org · 13d

Your AAUP-SC is proud to be participating in this Oct 6 event on Zoom. Register here: www.aaup.org/event/politi...

Text: "Politicizing Accreditation in the South and Beyond: The Commission for Public Higher Education. RSVP to the webinar on October 6 @ 7 p.m. ET, AAUP." Image is of a map of the southeastern U.S., but each state is its own jigsaw puzzle piece -- the pieces aren't all fitting in the puzzle. This is a metaphor.

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Timothy R Cain @timcain.bsky.social · 16d

I wish people knew the actual work that a lot of faculty members do. It is advising, teaching, reading, serving, researching, and sometimes writing. I have four students trying to defend in the next five weeks, so tonight I am reading and commenting.

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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 17d

📢 Our open letter reminds public higher ed leaders + administrators that their actions must follow the law, not political rhetoric. The First Amendment protects the teaching of controversial topics. Executive orders and legislation to the contrary cannot override this constitutional protection.

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Timothy R Cain @timcain.bsky.social · 17d

My understanding is that it was part of a strategy to attract wealthy students from the Dallas area and to increase housing capacity at the same time.

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Timothy R Cain @timcain.bsky.social · 17d

This is disgusting

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Timothy R Cain @timcain.bsky.social · 21d

Except that all evidence is that only a handful of presidents would fight back today.

Timothy R Cain @timcain.bsky.social · 21d

Read this in the archives today. It is from the resignation letter of a dean in the early 60s after the governor ordered a faculty member fired for political reasons and the board agreed. The president fought back but the professor was still formally reprimanded and denied a raise. Seems relevant.

Students and faculty alike must be given definite assurance that the University will regain its traditional position of independence. No faculty member can teach or engage in scholarly endeavor, no student can learn, and no administrator can serve education if he lives within an environment in which an atmosphere of political intervention is all-pervasive. If the College has not been fully effective as a place of learning and scholarship this year, it is, in large part, because adverse influence – some real, some imagined -have been ever present.

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Timothy R Cain @timcain.bsky.social · 21d

I guess if this guy did not fit the bill in TX, Santa wasn’t close in FL(as bad as he was)

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23d

One thing that seems increasingly clear is that the shooter was mostly disconnected from politics, acted alone, and even his roommate did not know what was going on. There are no groups involved in the Kirk shooting according to the evidence, but it is still "round up the usual suspects"

Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 23d

Russia designated the 'LGBT Movement' as a terrorist organisation. They know there is no such group; that's the point. It means they can choose to arrest ANYONE with any association with LGBT issues and treat them as a terrorist.

The fact that 'antifa' is not a group should not be a comfort here.

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Timothy R Cain @timcain.bsky.social · 23d

Part of her point is that, while McCarthyism was broadly anti-institutional (Hutcheson is good on this), it focused on specific individuals on communism+ issues. More than 100 faculty lost their jobs, but the HEd survived. This is of a different scale affecting both individuals and the industry.

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Timothy R Cain @timcain.bsky.social · 23d

As a reminder, until this year, the largest settlement of this type was a $14 million fine for Liberty University after a 2-year investigation involving repeated violations of the Clery Act with Title IX implications.

Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 23d

Trump Proposes $1.2B Settlement Fee to UCLA https://bit.ly/4n6eo8d