“Any university leader who signs on to this compact would betray everything good and solid about the university and would do deep and permanent harm to the United States and the world.”https://newrepublic.com/article/201376/trump-compact-academic-excellence-university-virginia via @newrepublic.com

The ~500 faculty on this call were very clear: Reject the Trump compact, or destroy the University. Simple as.

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this is a bit of a side point but i am really interested in how many of these AI University endeavours double as branding campaigns, in attaching institutional emblems to new shiny surfaces (see, from umich, Maizey, UM-GPT...)

As Higher Education editor at @publicbooks.bsky.social, I asked experts—thinkers, scholars, teachers, organizers—for short essays outlining one positive change we can work towards in higher ed, no matter who occupies the White House. Our roundtable series begins publishing today. My intro here:

My author copies have not arrived but folks are sending me pictures of my book arriving in their homes. I am so grateful for these readers!

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Oh, Marc Rowan?

“Mr. Rowan, who is chief executive of Apollo Global Management, and Stephen A. Schwarzman, the chief executive of Blackstone — are helping shape seismic discussions related to the Trump administration’s campaign to upend American campuses.”

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“There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart…you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels…you’ve got to make it stop.”
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It’s a 1️⃣-2️⃣punch: The State of Texas, the Regents, & the President dissolve the Faculty Council. Then Trump offers a compact that will affect academic freedom, curriculum, student recruitment, research priorities, the future of academic programs. Once faculty had a voice in such decisions. No longer.

USC bought $300,000 worth of dead bodies to train IDF medical staff for a "combat trauma surgery skills" course.

Considering the number of people the IDF has war crimed to death and all the hospitals and universities they have vaporized, I have some questions.

(The program began before 2023.)

The Trump admin’s offer to give preferential treatment to institutions that toe the party line reeks of bribery in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological agenda.

This is corruption.

Adherence to ‘loyalty oaths’ would usher in a new era of thought policing in American higher education.

I don't know how university leaders expect to sustain their institutions *even as class-reproduction machines* if they sell out to a dictator and crush their own core workers. Like, you have to put oil in the engine. You have to put gasoline in the car.

Trump Universities:
White House Asks Colleges to Sign Sweeping Agreement to Get Funding Advantage
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An expansive 10-point memo, the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education, a wide-ranging set of terms the administration says are intended to elevate university standards & performance. Universities that sign on will get “multiple positive benefits.”

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The @aaup.org beat Marco Rubio in court, with a Reagan-appointed judge ruling that ideological deportations obviously violate the first amendment.

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Thea Riofrancos on lithium mining and the contradictions of “green capitalism”

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I’m often saying we need to keep our eyes on Vanderbilt.

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