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Texas Governor Signs Law Giving Presidents Control of Faculty Senates

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Academic Freedom Was Already Limited at U.S. Service Academies. Then Came Trump.

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Mahmoud Khalil Returns to New York After Months in Detention www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/n...

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KY's Republican attorney general says his office intends to support the Trump admin's lawsuit against KY policy: “Our Office will support the Trump Administration’s efforts to uphold federal law in Kentucky.” From @saraweissman.insidehighered.com: www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

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Judge Orders Release of Mahmoud Khalil

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Israeli Strikes Kill Civilians Across Iran www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/w...

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"Rachel Cauley, a spokesperson for the White House’s OMB, told NBC News the proposed budget wouldn’t 'grant taxpayer money to a chat service where children are encouraged to embrace radical gender ideology by ‘counselors’ without consent or knowledge of their parents” www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...

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NEW: A far-right ‘Appeal to Heaven’ flag was flown above the Small Business Administration's headquarters in DC. The flag, a popular symbol for Christian nationalists, was waved by January 6 rioters and spotted at Justice Samuel Alito's vacation home. from me and @telliotter.bsky.social:

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This headline continues to confuse me... Columbia hasn't gotten its funding back and this month the Education Department threatened its accreditation. How is it off the hot seat? Negotiation or Capitulation? How Columbia Got Off Trump’s Hot Seat.

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AAUP Report: Faculty Salaries Rise Again, Though Not to Pre-Pandemic High

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Trump Officials Continue to Detain Mahmoud Khalil

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Joe Russo's Almost Dead played Pigs and Fortunate Son last night, I'm sure appropo of nothing

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Festival merch has evolved

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Citing Ohio’s Sweeping Higher Ed Law, College Refuses to Sign Union Contract

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U of Utah Partnership With Institution in Occupied West Bank Draws Opposition

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Well, there goes the Fuck ICE and ACAB… squints …Cybertruck? www.tiktok.com/@lukecchueh/...

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Hillel International, the pro-Israel Jewish campus organization, is hiring for a new position that it says will combat faculty antisemitism.

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“Only the governing board of an institution of higher education may establish a faculty council or senate.” www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... by @ryanequinn.bsky.social

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Texas presidents could end up appointing half of a faculty senate's members under SB 37 “Shared governance structures may not be used to obstruct, delay, or undermine necessary institutional reforms or serve as a mechanism for advancing ideological or political agendas,” it says

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A bill awaiting Texas Gov. Abbott’s signature would require college administrators to set procedures for faculty governing bodies and appoint their leaders, part of an effort to address “liberal faculty control over universities.”

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After months of inexplicable delay, the UNC Chapel Hill board of trustees finally voted—by email—on tenure for 33 faculty members. What took so long? @ryanequinn.bsky.social got a hold of the emails that reveal the board's tortured deliberations. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

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@ryanequinn.bsky.social got ahold of the emails where UNC Chapel Hill board members discussed the delayed tenure awards for dozens of humanities faculty. The conversation evolved into one where a couple trustees questioned the very idea of tenure www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

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“It is not good governance to give your child a cookie every time they lay on the floor and scream that they want one,” a trustee wrote. “... The reversal of course appears responsive to public groaning and gnashing of teeth—bad behavior by a few members of the faculty.”

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One trustee: “It is not good governance to give your child a cookie every time they lay on the floor and scream that they want one. The optics on this are terrible and make the administration look weak and irresolute.”

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Check out the trustees' emails in this one...

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After Delays and Public Blowback, Chapel Hill Board Votes Outside Meeting to Award Tenure

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Indiana U: Most Complaints Under New Law Were ‘Form of Protest’

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From #ewa25 Biden Civil Rights Chief: Trump’s Anti-DEI Orders Aren’t Law www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...

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🎉 IHE has reached 15K followers on Bluesky! Thank you for your continued support of Inside Higher Ed. We’re grateful to have you with us on this journey as we continue to explore, inform and navigate the evolving landscape of higher education. #HigherEd #InsideHigherEd #BlueSkyMilestone #ThankYou

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Utah Lawmakers Flex Their Power Over Public Universities

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Utah public universities are beginning to release their quickly assembled plans for program cuts that give them a chance of avoiding a ten percent cut in state funding. It's a twist on performance funding that is light on carrots and heavy on sticks.

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Higher Ed Unions Call for Free College in Federal Policy Agenda

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Supreme Court: Oklahoma Supreme Court decision invalidating a religious charter school affirmed 4-4. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

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At Senate Hearing, College Presidents Warn Against Pell Cuts

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2 Israeli Embassy Aides Are Fatally Shot Outside Event in Washington

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Senate HELP Committee hearing on the State of Higher Education starts at 10 am, tune in here: www.help.senate.gov/hearings/the...

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The National Science Foundation won’t award grants to universities that promote “diversity, equity and inclusion … in violation of Federal anti-discrimination laws”—or that academically boycott Israel or boycott companies doing business with Israel.

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U of Minnesota Antiracism Center to Close After Founder Steps Down Rachel Hardeman, who faces plagiarism allegations, left the university under a resignation agreement. The next day, the institution announced her center would shutter. bit.ly/44FsUNW

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Rachel Hardeman, who faces plagiarism allegations, left the University of Minnesota under a resignation agreement. The next day, the institution announced her Center for Antiracism Research for Health Equity would shutter.

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The dream

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At a brewery and a bird just decided I was its perch

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Waivers Let Some North Carolina Majors Keep ‘DEI’ Requirements

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Harvard Medical Researcher Detained by ICE Faces Charge

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Harvard Medical Researcher Detained by ICE Faces Charge

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*projectile vomits blood

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Oh nooo, a mention of Concord University being in "Western Virginia" rather than "West Virginia" during a UNC board committee meeting congratulation of an official leaving to lead Concord