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Jackie Pedota (she/her/ella) @jackiepedota.bsky.social · Apr 2

This new publication draws attention to the coalition building and active engagement needed to effectively disrupt efforts to suppress the educational mission of higher education. @garceslm.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A Call to Build Coalitions to Disrupt a Climate of Suppression

Published in Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning (Vol. 57, No. 2, 2025)

www.tandfonline.com

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Liliana M. Garces @garceslm.bsky.social · Feb 25

Please join us for this important informational session about the Feb 14 Dear Colleague Letter www.brookings.edu/events/what-...

What do education leaders need to know about the Department of Education's new guidance on race and civil rights?

On February 28, join Brookings for a webinar with education and legal scholars to discuss the legality of the February 14 guidance letter

www.brookings.edu

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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · Feb 22

Trump’s Pentagon purge has included the top military lawyers. Nobody should be surprised. Dictators politicize the military. Trump wants those with the biggest guns loyal to him, not the Constitution He says he’s demilitarizing it. I call BS. Orwellian to the core.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

Trump Fires Joint Chiefs Chairman Amid Flurry of Dismissals at Pentagon

The decision to fire Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., a four-star fighter pilot, upends a tradition in which the Joint Chiefs chairman traditionally remains in place as administrations change.

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Liliana M. Garces @garceslm.bsky.social · Feb 18

Here, I explain how the February 14 "Dear Colleague" letter is a widely expansive distortion of the court’s ruling in SFFA. Institutional responses should remain focused on areas that the Supreme Court addressed and not expand to those clearly outside its purview.

www.chronicle.com/article/hitt...

Hitting Pause on the ‘Dear Colleague’ Letter

The Department of Education is overstepping its bounds and infringing on constitutional rights.

www.chronicle.com

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Liliana M. Garces @garceslm.bsky.social · Feb 18

In this latest publication with lead author @jackiepedota.bsky.social, we illustrate the importance of messages from higher education leaders and partnerships with external organizations in protecting institutional autonomy and academic freedom lnkd.in/dHMCSDDQ

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Julie Posselt @julieposselt.bsky.social · Feb 16

Would you please consider reposting this? The Department of Education needs to hear from as many people as possible that it is not acceptable in the year of our Lord 2025 to offer only two gender options. Thank you.
Love, Julie/Mommy of a non-binary college student

Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · Feb 16

Department of Education FAFSA changes are open for public comment. The changes include requiring trans students to misgender themselves and removes the nonbinary option on forms. Note: comment period is 60 days, and comments are publicly visible.

Form here: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of Education published the information collection for the 2026-27 Free Application for Federal Student Aid ( FAFSA®) form in the Federal Register, the first public step in the FAFSA development process. The Department is on track to launch the 2026-27 FAFSA by Oct. 1, 2025 as mandated by the FAFSA Deadline Act.

The Department also announced that current and future FAFSA forms will rightfully reflect the biological reality that there are only two sexes: male and female. Department officials will remove “nonbinary” as a gender identification option from the current year’s FAFSA form.

“The Trump Administration will correct the failures of the last Administration and ensure students and families can easily access the FAFSA form in a timely manner,” said Acting Under Secretary James Bergeron. “Resolving ongoing problems with the 2024-25 form, reflecting biological reality by referencing sex identifiers, and beginning the process for the 2026-27 form on-time will allow the Department to earn back the trust of the American people. Families and students depend on the FAFSA form to plan their futures, and any release delays or unnecessary politicization of the form is wholly unacceptable.”

Screenshot showing open comment form on federal register site

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · Feb 9

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.

Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”

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How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca

In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.

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csig-for-highered.bsky.social @csig-for-highered.bsky.social · Feb 8

📣We are initiating this project to assist #HigherEducation leaders in fulfilling their institutions' missions. A collaboration between @dmorganphd.bsky.social and Dr. Raquel Rall, CSIG is focused on advancing mission-centric university leadership.

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Liliana M. Garces @garceslm.bsky.social · Feb 8

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As a former clerk for US District Court Judge John C. Coughenour, I couldn’t be more proud. I hope leaders in higher education show the same courage and principles in responding to the need to defend academic freedom and institutional autonomy.

A Reagan Appointee Just Showed How All Judges Should Respond to Trump’s Lawless Rampage

"In this courtroom, and under my watch, the rule of law is a bright beacon which I intend to follow," the judge declared.

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Liliana M. Garces @garceslm.bsky.social · Jan 22

www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

In the face of repression, it is critical that we view academic freedom as a shared obligation sustained through collective action

Toward a democratic academic freedom (opinion)

Understanding academic freedom as a collective faculty responsibility provides a basis for protecting academic rights, Will Clark writes.

www.insidehighered.com

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Liliana M. Garces @garceslm.bsky.social · Dec 19

Delayed, but excited to have my first post celebrate the amazing @jackiepedota.bsky.social and all that she will do for our field of higher education. Felicidades on your ASHE dissertation of the year award.

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