Starting a series of ambivalent posts designed to help me and other Humanities and related academic types develop a healthy working relationship with AI

I agree with Keith of course. But clearly they are NOT allowed to say them, judging from the rash of firings and suspensions without due process, including at public institutions where faculty free speech rights are protected from state impingement

The rampant violations of academic freedom and intrusions on extramural speech are escalating rapidly. Faculty members have the right to speak or write as citizens, free from institutional censorship or discipline. Expression of opinion as a citizen does not constitute grounds for dismissal.

Faculty and university senates are dying. At Campus Novel I try and make the case for why everyone—and not just faculty — should be freaking out

My grim latest

Time to recommit to academic freedom and the responsibilities and privileges that come with it. Which means it is time to remind ourselves what those are. Here is a contribution towards that shared endeavor.

When people wonder what is motivating the destruction of of liberal democracy and its core institutions, this is it. They have seen the data and they are planning for their ongoing power in the world to follow

Our students are being targeted without explanation, without any wrongdoing, without due process

Pro-Death Administration

The federal government is reviewing up to $9 billion in federal funding for Harvard and its affiliates, representing the third Ivy League institution to face this threat in the last few weeks (Columbia largely acceded, while Penn is TBA).

Why is Trump going after US science?
What's the endgame for these attacks?

Vance, Rufo, Trump and Republican elites are attacking NIH and manipulating its grants in order to attack American universities.

"It's bad, folks."
New contributed post at our blog.
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This week's war news dedicated to our kidnapped students

I am logging the weeks assaults on higher ed as best I can every Sunday. I can’t believe I posted this one only four days ago, given how much has happened since

We have hit a devastating new low here in legislation targeting public higher education. If this becomes a model for other red state legislatures we are facing the end of the arts and humanities

The University of Michigan, long a leader in campus diversity efforts, is closing its DEI offices, laying off staff, and jettisoning a sweeping strategic plan. The president says Trump’s funding threats have added urgency to changes regents were already considering. chroni.cl/424euUz

Today, your colleague is not your rival. Your chair, dean, provost, and president are not your enemy. The enemy is those trying to destroy all we do in higher education. We will disagree on how to meet this moment, but we are in it together or we are not here at all four years from now.

As a Jewish faculty member, one of the most chilling aspects of this moment is the blatantly dishonest "fight against antisemitism" by the same people who still talk openly about "globalists" controlling the markets & media... and seeing how many Jewish colleagues refuse to see it for what it is.

I'm sorry to have missed reporting earlier on this bill that flew through the Utah legislature in 10 days and is now already law.

It's a new "civics" center at Utah State with a huge twist: the center will control all general education courses

For nearly 160 years, the National Center for Education Statistics has collected and reported data about educational progress. The center was essentially decommissioned overnight when all but three of its staff members were fired. Here's a look inside the chaos. chroni.cl/4j3CoGG

Notes towards a history of academic freedom, part 1 . Maybe by part 12 I'll have it pinned down 😵‍💫