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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...

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Even if our institutions aren’t reading this analysis it feels valuable for us to do so. Thx to @raceip.bsky.social for sharing with me:

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Stripping federal funds from any institution that has “race-conscious” activities or programming is dystopian. It’s hard to overstate what it feels like to be in higher ed right now.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

If you've ever used the Polity data, read this from Monty Marshall. tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.

submitted 14 days ago • 55 comments

is it woke to want to end cancer?

submitted 18 days ago • 791 comments

No more HHMI grants for inclusive excellence in STEM, and in-progress work has been terminated. Another capitulation to the segregationists.

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Fuck every single person who whined about 'fairness' in sport and thus paved the way for the fundamental unfairness of denying people the right to exist in the spaces that align with who they are. www.espn.com/college-spor...

submitted 21 days ago • 7 comments

in less than eight years the NCAA went from banning North Carolina from hosting championships due to its bathroom bill to... this.

submitted 20 days ago • 71 comments

My friend @lizzyshack.bsky.social is spot-on here: time for members of Congress to start acting like they actually meant all that campaign rhetoric about looming authoritarianism, or their ability to check Trump's power may be permanently lost.

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Hard to imagine that NSF won’t be far behind.

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Just in time for the AI policies to go into my syllabi - I've cleared my brain of all of its frustrations regarding generative AI. I think it's important to resist the stuff. For all of us. And for no greater reason than preserving our humanity. I think the stakes are that high.

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I’ll admit I don’t totally get the joke of releasing a special 20th anniversary edition of an album that only came out a few years ago, but Good News For People Who Love Bad News never lets me down.

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I have colleagues who are optimistic - or at least curious (positive) - about AI in higher ed, but this is my reaction to all of it. When I say this is the endpoint we’re headed to, they make me feel like a Luddite. But also, read some labor history: the Luddites were right.

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Oh good, MAGA leaders will go after “woke” universities & cut their funds! Dr Bhattacharya “weighs withholding massive research grants from universities that are too ‘woke’” Gotta end that woke research on LGBTQ health, structural racism, & climate science! www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

submitted 81 days ago • 25 comments

I need every ally to really sit on this for a minute Here we have a law professor in the US claiming that one of the largest anti-trans crusaders is "a leading voice for trans rights" People like this are in every news outlet/university lying to you abt trans people, spreading "polite" hatred

submitted 80 days ago • 96 comments

US higher education is a crown jewel, a pillar of American power. As @dandrezner.bsky.social explains, the incoming Trump admin aims to ruin it because of an insane theory—by which I mean crazy, nuts, largely in their own heads—of societal dominance by radical leftists, weakening the US with it.

submitted 91 days ago • 14 comments

Very much this, from Dan Drezner. He focuses a lot on universities, but rightly so. U.S. educational, scientific and technological preeminence are closely linked — and all have a lot to do with the past openness of our society 1/ open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...

submitted 91 days ago • 66 comments

I can’t believe I took time away from brainwashing students to read this drivel.

submitted 92 days ago • 1 comment

Why does the American public think higher ed is only elite institutions, he said, reading yet another national media organization's litany-of-woe from people who've spent their lives at elite institutions.

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“Ultimately, Rufo would like to see the number of Americans who enroll in four-year colleges slashed by more than half.” www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

submitted 93 days ago • 8 comments

This seems, sadly, wise. MIT & Boston U are sending similar messages, I see.

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

Everything is about creating fear, sowing chaos, and ratcheting up the cruelty. And just to be clear, these students are US citizens (undocumented students aren’t eligible for federal loans)

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Most of the folks interviewed are in my department. But what the piece doesn’t reveal is that this reactionary regime of censorship is working hand-in-hand with an assault on shared governance, fully enabled by each respective campus administration. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/u...

submitted 96 days ago • 8 comments

Anyone who thinks this attack on higher ed is going to stop with the humanities or courses on race and gender has another thing coming - Florida is already targeting classes on “Labor and Globalization” and “Introduction to East Asia” for removal from the curriculum

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This op-ed is filled the wildest assumptions and Things That Never Happened that I can't believe the Chronicle published it. www.chronicle.com/article/we-a...

submitted 96 days ago • 2 comments

Dems happy to jump on the anti higher ed bus too, while signaling that they also want to throw marginalized & vulnerable folks under it.

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

One of my colleagues was essentially blacklisted from NSF grants during Trump I because of her work on climate change. I can't imagine the ideological war on climate research will be toned down in Trump II.

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Including someone from the Manhattan Institute in this forum ("Just follow the law! Continue to eliminate DEI!") is akin to asking an arsonist to contribute to a forum on fire prevention. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

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Vance says universities are the enemy and they need to be attacked. This is what that'll look like, from funding to accreditation to targeting endowments (and this piece doesn't even get into visas or Title IX requirements for handling sexual harassment/gender discrimination cases) (Gift link)

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