Most white colleges wouldn’t accept Black students, and Black colleges didn’t have the capacity to handle the post-war demand—by 1947, as many as 50,000 qualified Black veterans had been turned away.

Public librarians, what is one thing you wish you had learned getting your MLIS? #publibs

Made sure to reference this in my segment of a fantastic academic freedom panel organized by the National Council of Faculty Senates featuring @standhighered.bsky.social Jennifer Lundquist @penamerica.bsky.social Amy Reid and moderated by Katherine Ott Walter #MADC

The room is almost all elephant. Almost none of it isn’t. Pretty much solid elephant. So there’s no room to talk about it. -Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room” #everynightapoem

"What unites our perspectives is a conviction that the system’s problems are structural, not technical. The technologies to share, preserve, and connect knowledge already exist. What’s missing is the will... to use them differently." scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/11/12/t...

Were you a Berenstain Bears reader? At the Brian Sutton-Smith Library and Archives of Play at the Strong National Museum of Play, you can find original sketches from their creators—and much more! Read more in our Bookend department. https://bit.ly/47FviUF

We lose public education, we lose the long game, the short game, the whole goddamn game, people.

Too many treat loss of public education as unfortunate collateral damage. But there is no greater democratic institution than the one responsible for renewing faith in and principles of democracy for each generation.

And now for something completely different: Gorgeous and Tasty (Noms)...

This is next week. SC colleagues...

JJ Pionke interviews Dr. Mimi Khúc about her books dear elia and Open in Emergency, how she incorporated care into her teaching during the chaotic early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the process and purpose of creating a tarot deck rooted in Asian American culture.

Time to complete that transition to ProtonMail....

"Bethany Letiecq, a professor at George Mason University...said she expected Ms. Spanberger, a former member of Congress, to defend the state’s university system against the White House [and] to rescind initiatives imposed in recent years by appointees of Glenn Youngkin [the outgoing governor]."

“The importance...is to demand that we not only protect higher education from the kinds of threats posed by the Trump administration, but also to insist that higher education is accessible financially, culturally and in every way to all members of society.” - Mary Van Buren, CSU AAUP President

“reject the Trump administration's so-called compact, which asks colleges to make sweeping changes to policies and practices to align them with the president's agenda.” #TheCTDifference @csuaaup.bsky.social

"Faculty, students & staff will show up in ever larger numbers to defend the free pursuit of knowledge & higher-ed as a public good...administrators need to decide whether they are committed to such a vision or are collaborators in the destruction of the institutions.” - David Markus, AAUP NYU

Indiana University removed a Lecturer from her "Diversity, Human Rights, and Social Justice" course after a student filed a complaint about a graphic the instructor showed in class, which included "Make America Great Again" as an example of "Covert White Supremacy." www.wfyi.org/news/article...

Legendary musician & activist Peter Gabriel celebrates the Internet Archive hitting 1 trillion pages & reflects on its role in preserving humanity’s memory. More ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2025/11/10/v... #Wayback1T @itspetergabriel.bsky.social

Give em a follow!

You know you're a recovering Germanist when... Your colleagues are suggesting you correct your constant capitalization of nouns not considered proper nouns in a shared document.

'As pressure mounts globally on the humanities, Africa’s leading writers and scholars used this week’s Nobel Symposium in Literature, held in South Africa, to argue that the arts are still vital to the world’s intellectual and moral life.'

NY Times Report: "Federal Cuts, Immigration Raids and a Slowing Economy Hit Rural #Libraries" www.infodocket.com/2025/11/10/n...

📉 Niche fields, early-career scholars, and emerging topics risk being sidelined — not for lack of merit, but for lack of reviewers. 🔧 Solution? Expand reviewer pools, give credit to reviewers, increase transparency — science must be evaluated on quality, not logistics.

🚨 Peer review crisis alert! When journals reject good science simply because they can’t find enough reviewers, the whole integrity of research is on the line. www.the-scientist.com/when-reviewe... #AcademicPublishing #PeerReview #ResearchIntegrity #SciencePolicy

I would totally adopt this policy if I had an office... #AcademicHumor

Going to ruin the workforce. See you when we get home, dear!

APALA member Joshlyn Thomas sat down with author Bianca Maboute-Louie over Zoom this summer for an interview about her recent book, libraries, experiences around the Asian diaspora, and a shared love of zines. Catch the full interview on the APALA website at: www.apalaweb.org/apa-author-i...

Recently, our members submitted pictures of themselves in costume for a Very APALAween retrospective... (1/2)

The Very APALAween retrospective continues, featuring our immediate Past President, one of our At-Large Executive Board Members and one of our social media mavens... (2/2)

"We know that fear of retribution and the potential collateral damage to other campus constituencies informs decision-making. Many institutional leaders with whom I speak are seeking to do what is strategically effective and are weighing multiple priorities..." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

Not consulting faculty experts...? (S) Where have I heard this before? (/S)

Do not sleep on our students. Period.

Having been bullied in my formative years, I can attest that they only stop when you push/fight back.

#HigherEd Thread: On the Cornell Agreement 👇🏼🧵

... And making things more complicated for peers in Higher Ed who are subject to the same shakedown attempt (this includes where I'm affiliated, BTW)!

Stanford Teach-In: A thread... 👇🏼🧵 #DefendHigherEd

I am on a prof org board now. Planning future sites means weighing “will foreign scholars come if it’s in the US?” vs “will US-based foreign scholars feel safe leaving the country if it’s not in the US?” No easy solution.

I would totally adopt this policy if I had an office... #AcademicHumor

They shouldn’t have to clean up the mess adults are making, but these teens who overturned book bans at their statewide reading bowl are worth celebrating. Get to know them (& what they’re excited to read!).

Going to ruin the workforce. See you when we get home, dear!

Our November 7 day of action to defend higher education has taken the country by storm! ✊ “There is only one way forward in saving higher education and democracy writ large and that is students, faculty, staff united...We have to become a new political force.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

"We are calling on our institutional leadership, our governor and our state officials to stand up, speak up, and have the courage to protect academic freedom and reject the federal administration so called compact for higher education" --Neena Qasba, vice president of UCHC-AAUP

We are honored and thrilled to welcome Dr. Vinson to the Center this year.

Not consulting faculty experts...? (S) Where have I heard this before? (/S)

“If you’re willing to say it privately, say it publicly" Daniel HoSang, President of Yale AAUP @yaleaaup.bsky.social, urging the University to take a stronger public stance in defense of higher education

Do not sleep on our students. Period.