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Academe @academemagazine.bsky.social · 21h

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What to Do When Your Professional Association Breaks Your Heart

BY AMY HAGOPIAN Public health professionals are charged with responding to humanitarian crises. When hospitals are bombed, when children are deliberately starved, when doctors are assassinated, we’…

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Academe @academemagazine.bsky.social · 22h

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Series Mapping Anti-Palestinian Discrimination, Harassment, and Misinformation in US Higher Education

The Coalition for Action in Higher Education and AAUP Local 6741 are delighted to announce their Fall 2025 series, “Mapping Anti-Palestinian Discrimination, Harassment, and Misinformation in U.S. H…

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Academe @academemagazine.bsky.social · 22h

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Donald the Terrible and His Oprichniki

BY HANK REICHMAN The image above is from an AI video that the GREAT (and demented) LEADER himself posted to social media. It reminded me of an historical analogy I’ve been mulling over since…

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AAUP @aaup.org · 23h

NO LOYALTY OATHS IN HIGHER ED!

Trump's attacks on our universities are an attempt to consolidate power. This loyalty oath directly undermines our right to academic freedom & goes against every democratic principle our country should uphold.

Please click below, sign, & share.

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University Administrations: Reject Trump's "Loyalty Oath" Compacts

The Trump administration is trying to blackmail schools to let him and his unqualified bureaucrats run our schools. They want to dictate what schools teach, who they admit and hire, what researchers s...

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Academe @academemagazine.bsky.social · 5d

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On Higher Ed “Boards of Trustees,” a Preliminary Statement from the JVP Academic Council

BY LAURA GOLDBLATT AND DAN SEGAL With scant exceptions, US colleges and universities have a board of trustees that is the institution’s highest decision-making or governance body. In response to t…

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AAUP @aaup.org · 5d

In a landmark ruling in our case against the Trump admin on the deportation of international students for protected speech, Judge William Young rejected the government’s justification for the wearing of masks by ICE agents as
“disingenuous, squalid & dishonorable.”

#AAUPvRubio
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Academe @academemagazine.bsky.social · 6d

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A New Project Exploring Attacks on Academic Freedom

BY JOHN WARNER AND ANNA FEDER The following is a repost of a piece that originally appeared on “Academic Freedom on the Line,” a Substack run by Center for the Defense of Academic Freed…

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Academe @academemagazine.bsky.social · 7d

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Professing—A Manifesto for Academic Authority in Crisis

BY WILLIAM MATTHEW MCCARTER For more than fifty years, I’ve been learning. For more than twenty years, I’ve been teaching. If at this stage I can’t profess something worth hearing, then I ought to …

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AAUP @aaup.org · 8d

Academic freedom will not survive by encouraging professors to censor themselves more.

“Too much of the response to the Trump admin’s repression has been driven by fear & cowardice. We need to fiercely support #academicfreedom as a fundamental right for all.”

— @johnkwilson.bsky.social

Discretion Is Not the Better Part of Academic Freedom

In a free society, we strive to eliminate the punishments that make discretion a rational choice—and not glorify discretion as a virtue when it is actually a vice.

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Academe @academemagazine.bsky.social · 8d

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Training Students for the Brutal Realities of the Workforce

BY IAN FINSETH The following is an imaginary communiqué from a fictitious administrator of an invented university to its faculty. It is satire (one hopes). Dear colleagues: Here at the University o…

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Academe @academemagazine.bsky.social · 12d

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A Modest Defense of Viewpoint Diversity

BY DALE E. MILLER In “Seven Theses Against Viewpoint Diversity,” Professor Lisa Siraganian throws down a gauntlet. After offering “seven theses against viewpoint diversity in any of its guises,” sh…

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AAUP @aaup.org · 15d

"Look, we are a labor union. We’re going to fight & respond to this moment...We're standing for what we always stood for...a powerful higher-education sector that leads to innovation & social mobility & is a bedrock of our democracy."

—Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

#DefendHigherEd
#AcademicSky

Is the AAUP Too Partisan? Its President Doesn’t Think So.

Todd Wolfson has taken heat for some of the organization’s political stances during his tenure. Here’s what he makes of the criticism.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 16d

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NEW AAUP Report Analyzes Trump Admin Weaponization of Title VI
to Undermine Civil Rights Protections.

#Academicfreedom
#AcademicSky
#DefendHigherEd

On Title VI, Discrimination, and Academic Freedom

This report considers how Title VI has been used to create an enforcement apparatus that sidesteps long-established AAUP-recommended procedures of shared governance and offers recommendations for facu...

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Academe @academemagazine.bsky.social · 16d

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Shared Governance, Academic Freedom, and the University Bookstore

BY JONATHAN REES In the last week of classes of the spring 2025 semester, our administration announced a deal that would allow Barnes & Noble to take over our university bookstore. It included …

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Academe @academemagazine.bsky.social · 18d

Andrew Ryder’s The Challenge to Academic Freedom in Hungary “illustrates how reactionary campaigns against higher education are not only a response to the rise of academic capitalism but also in some ways a fulfillment of that program,” writes @hankreichman.bsky.social in a review for #Academe.

Between Scylla and Charybdis

Henry Reichman reviews The Challenge to Academic Freedom in Hungary by Andrew Ryder.

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Academe @academemagazine.bsky.social · 19d

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Thoughts on Charlie Kirk, Professor Watchlist, and the New York Times

BY HANK REICHMAN Charlie Kirk did not deserve to die. As so many have pointed out, political violence—whatever the source—must be condemned for both its immorality and its destruc…

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AAUP @aaup.org · 19d

“We will not allow authoritarians to dismantle higher education. We will not allow billionaires to profit while communities suffer. And we will not allow fear to silence students and workers who speak out.”

— Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

#DefendHigherEd
#HigherEdBenefitsEveryone
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Academe @academemagazine.bsky.social · 19d

Committee A member Joan W. Scott praises Jane S. Smith’s A Blacklist Education as “a carefully wrought analysis of power and of different kinds of resistance to it.” Read the full review in #Academe:

Legacies of Teacher Persecution and Resistance

Joan W. Scott reviews A Blacklist Education by Jane S. Smith.

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Academe @academemagazine.bsky.social · 19d

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A Few Thoughts on the Last Week

BY MATTHEW BOEDY The last week I have been around the world on Zoom interviews. From Australia news to Europe to the United States in every time zone. I had to turn down Chinese state TV. And I als…

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Academe @academemagazine.bsky.social · 20d

"Step by step, by recognizing in word and deed the important contributions of contingent faculty . . . we can pave a path toward the ‘one faculty’ we need at this critical time.” Eva Swidler writes in #Academe about everyday actions to build faculty solidarity.

Building One Faculty from Below

Everyday actions by department chairs and other tenured and tenure-track faculty can build solidarity and faculty power.

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Academe @academemagazine.bsky.social · 21d

“The atmosphere of scarcity reduces our field of vision, decimates departments, and leaves researchers scrambling.” Leslie Bary writes in #Academe about the implications of shrinking departmental budgets and the proliferation of “minigrants” in #highered.

@lesliebary.bsky.social

On Internal Funding, Shared Governance, and Program Reduction

The rise of minigrants is a symptom of larger problems.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 23d

The AAUP notes with great alarm the rash of recent administrative actions to discipline faculty, staff, & student speech in the aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk.

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Academe @academemagazine.bsky.social · 22d

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Building the Protest-Free University

BY MICHAEL SCHWALBE Most Americans are accustomed to authoritarianism by virtue of their daily experiences in the workplace. Managers make, interpret, and enforce the rules by which private compani…

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Academe @academemagazine.bsky.social · 22d

Drawing inspiration from the movement to establish mutual academic defense compacts, Shawn Gilmore highlights how #highered faculty can “act together, building new coalitions and alternative power structures that are necessary for our moment.”
@gipperfish.bsky.social

Mutual Defense Across Higher Education in the Second Trump Era

Can a new model for collective support gain traction among beleaguered higher education institutions?

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Coalition for Action in Higher Ed @actioninhighered.bsky.social · 25d

CAHE on the (ab)use of antisemitism by the House Education and Workforce Committee to attack organized labor. Who will speak out? Please read and share! academeblog.org/2025/09/12/t...

The New McCarthyism Reaches Organized Labor: Who Will Speak Out?

By The Coalition for Action in Higher Education On Tuesday this week, a subcommittee of the House Education and Workforce Committee held a hearing titled “Unmasking Union Antisemitism.” Subco…

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