important discussion - one of largest, most public humanities associations, the AHA and democracy www.historiansforpeace.org/wp-content/u... @rooseveltinstitute.org @higheredlabor.bsky.social @scholarsforsj.bsky.social @womenknowhistory.bsky.social @democracynow.org @demwomencaucus.bsky.social

"Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels." arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

Proud to be part of @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social @rutgersupress.bsky.social

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Academic Senate resoundingly approved (141 to 4, with 10 abstentions) its version of a Big 10 Mutual Academic Defense Compact (MADC), originally proposed by Rutgers a month ago! ✊ www.senate.illinois.edu/2024-2025/20...

BREAKING: In a sudden about-face, a DOJ attorney saiys ICE will be RESTORING the status of thousands of foreign students whose SEVIS records were terminated w/o notice earlier this month. The move comes amid mounting losses in courts around the country. www.wusa9.com/article/news...

BREAKING: 1,600 post docs at Johns Hopkins University are unionizing with @UAW.

Photographers! Join me and the stellar Elinor Carucci on May 17+18 for our photobook workshop via @photophlo.bsky.social. If you're developing a project that you think is ready for a book, we will guide you through the ins and outs of the publishing process. #photography #photobooks

Small colleges have taken the lead -- but they are now joined by 6 of 8 Ivies: Cornell, Penn, Princeton, Yale, Brown, and -- yes -- Harvard. And, finally, by a handful of big publics: U. of Washington, Wisconsin, Rutgers, SUNY Buffalo and Stony Brook, UC Riverside, UVa, UMD.

I knew the U.S. higher education system was a massive draw for foreigners, but I did not know the U.S. sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it did natural gas and coal combined. Great piece by @crampell.bsky.social

Harvard, which has long been criticized for its questionable endowment investments and lack of diversity, is refusing to crumble—hopefully a catalyst for other universities to grow a spine and do the same.

I found out about this website update via The Crimson, Harvard’s student newspaper. Read the original story here, it’s good: www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

The Chronicle covers the growing MADC* movement! Faculty senates at Indiana, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Nebraska state flagships have ALL passed resolutions for Mutual Academic Defense Compacts!! Will your institution be next? Make it so! *because we're mad, see? <groan lol>

"If universities are not willing to stand up for the free speech and academic freedom of their students and faculty, then what, if any, values do they stand for?"

THURS! national day of action for higher ed! U.S. universities serve 20 million students, largest employers in dozens of regions, provide essential healthcare in rural areas, drive economic growth + wellbeing! find or host an action, in person and virtual! www.dayofactionforhighered.org/agenda

Rutgers Senate Proposes Big Ten 'Mutual Defense Compact' to Block Trump's Campus Attacks www.commondreams.org/news/rutgers...

BREAKING: Harvard AAUP & the nat'l AAUP have jointly filed a lawsuit & TRO to block the Trump admin from demanding that Harvard restrict speech & undermine academic freedom or else lose $8.7 billion in federal funds. This action challenges the Trump admin's misuse of funds for coercion. Stay tuned.

RIGHT NOW: Researchers, healthcare, and education workers at the University of Washington are staging a die-in to get the point across: Slashing NIH funding puts critical research & healthcare at risk. To put it simply: Trump’s Cuts Kill. #KilltheCuts

AAUP has just published a memo laying out the many legal reasons why universities should not hand over the names & nationalities of their students or faculty, as the Trump admin has asked. Please share freely with your friendly university admin! @aaup.bsky.social www.aaup.org/news/institu...

Princeton has announced that it is considering selling approximately $320 million of taxable bonds. The bonds are a way for the University to raise short-term funds. The major credit-rating agencies rate University bonds AAA, the highest level of creditworthiness.

Important article on trustees who run unis but aren’t academics and have no experience teaching or doing research. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Happening today! @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social @higheredlabor.bsky.social

I ❤️ Rutgers Faculty Senate.

Solidarity against tyranny is a wonderful thing. Go, Rutgers!

Rutgers University Senate proposal for a mutual defense pact of Big Ten schools. Rutgers faculty, show them the way!

This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.