40 percent of The Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning - ACSP conference attendees request vegetarian or vegan meals. #acsp2025

The Journal of the American Planning Association is 100 years young. #JAPAplanning #acsp2025

I shared my admiration for The Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning - ACSP 's Global Planning Educators Interest Group this morning for the work they do advancing international planning teaching and scholarship. #gpeig

On Friday's UN Day, Secretary-General António Guterres urged people to unite and fulfil the extraordinary promise of the United Nations. “Now, more than ever, the world must recommit to solving problems no nation can solve alone.”

Everyone from across the political spectrum must unite against Trump’s loyalty oaths! The community power we build on & across our campuses is key to protecting our freedoms. Listen to AAUP General Counsel Veena Dubal from our recent AAUP TV update👇 @veenadubal.bsky.social #DefendHigherEd

"UT has an obligation to its students and faculty to reject this offer, which undermines academic freedom and politicizes higher education." thedailytexan.com/2025/10/16/a...

From the Daily Texan, the UT student newspaper: Academic freedom should not be for sale. thedailytexan.com/2025/10/16/a...

With the ongoing government shutdown threatening millions of Georgia Tech’s federal dollars, the Midtown Atlanta school is bracing for financial impact epaper.ajc.com/popovers/dyn...

Proposed cuts would erase about $1.9 billion of the state’s gross domestic product. The state would lose about 12,300 jobs.... Tax revenue would drop by almost $81 million. www.atlantamagazine.com/news-culture...

And now there are SEVEN. UofA president Suresh Garimella announced today that the school will reject Trump’s loyalty compact. “Principles like academic freedom, merit-based research funding & institutional independence…must be preserved." Vanderbilt, TX: all eyes on you. 👀 #DefendHigherEd

Trump let George Santos out of jail just to make it clear that if you're loyal to him, you can get away with anything. This isn't a democracy if one man decides what's a crime and what isn't. Time for everyone to wake up. This moment is more serious than many want to believe.

Mapping climate vulnerabilities is a first step to preparing for Climate changes. Jairo H. Garcia Georgia Tech Georgia Tech School of City and Regional Planning #GTatGeorgiaResiliemcy2025 Jekyl Island

We add 35 Gigatons of CO2 to the atmosphere each year...It is logical to pursue any reasonable effort to help communities adapt to this reality." -- Wayne Clough, #GeorgiaResilienceConference, Jekyl Island. #GTatGeorgiaResiliency2025

The Trump regime tried to paint No Kings Day as a “hate America” protest, but what we saw on display was the best of what this country is meant to be. #NoKings

"Seven-in-ten Americans now say the higher education system in the United States is generally going in the wrong direction – up from 56% who said this in 2020, according to a new Pew Research Center survey." www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

New, by me, on why the City of Atlanta should not extend its TAD (TIF) districts and how it will hurt, not help, low-income Atlantans. (Bracing for a new round of ad hominem attacks from Mayor Dickens or his staff/lobbyists, but I am traveling so may not see it.) 🧵1/N

"[W]hile the event was massive, the vibe was closer to that of a lively farmer’s market on a nice Sunday morning than it was to whatever the right was trying so desperately to convince people it would be." newrepublic.com/article/2019...

Federal regulators have rescinded a requirement that the nation’s largest financial institutions factor climate risks into their long-term planning, a policy dating from the Biden administration. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/c...

Keys to success in a planning career? "Spend time making your teammates better." --Mitchell Silver, FAICP, during American Planning Association - North Carolina South Carolina joint conference, Charlotte, Closing Plenary: Leadership Classic v. Leadership Contemporary.

"When residents saw the data, their #NIMBY views moderated. " Misun Hur with Caramia Landis, East Carolina University. Combating NIMBYISM for Workforce Housing. APA: South Carolina Chapter American Planning Association - North Carolina Chapter joint conference Charlotte.

"“USC respectfully declines to participate in the proposed compact,” USC “would be eager to contribute its insights and expertise” to a conversation about some of the problems in higher ed that the government identified." www.chronicle.com/blogs/the-tr...

“We must be steadfast in opposition to extortion under the guise of dealmaking, and we must create alliances rooted in a common devotion to freedom of inquiry…We have rejected tyranny before, and we can do it again.” — Wesleyan University President @msroth.bsky.social in @thebulwark.com #HigherEd

2 Nobel Prize–Winning Economists Leave U.S. for Zurich https://bit.ly/47dUD81

"It's important to be sure legislators understand the on the ground impacts of laws." Jason Jordan, Planners Legislative Advocacy, APA: South Carolina Chapter American Planning Association - North Carolina Chapter joint conference, Charlotte.

"Our communities need us mire than ever....We are pillars of democracy." Sue Schwartz, American Planning Association president at American Planning Association - North Carolina Chapter APA: South Carolina Chapter joint conference, Charlotte.

“A lot of the feedback mechanisms for the public and government to learn what’s happening on the ground are being dismantled.” By: @kristoncapps.bsky.social via @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #housing+ #urbanism #urbanism+

This afternoon, I'll tell the story of how American Planning Association advocacy, together with the other members of the #GlobalPlannersNetwork, led to a #RevitalizedUrbanPlanning that drove UN-Habitat (United Nations Human Settlements Programme)'s #NewUrbanAgenda.

This afternoon, I'll tell the story of how American Planning Association advocacy, together with the other members of the #GlobalPlannersNetwork, led to a #RevitalizedUrbanPlanning that drove UN-Habitat (United Nations Human Settlements Programme)'s #NewUrbanAgenda.

The Trump admin reversed course on laying off 700 CDC employees, saying whoops, didn't mean to do that (600 others were still laid off) www.huffpost.com/entry/700-cd...

Another king tide in the southeast: Ft. Pulaski, Charleston, Norfolk, Carolina Beach.

Good climate news this week 1 Global: Renewables generation surpasses coal for 1st time 2 Global: Renewables have cut fossil-fuel imports for more than 100 countries 3 Global: Solar and wind generation grew in 1st half by more than overall demand increased in the same period 1/5

“If we aren't free to pursue research and teaching based on wherever the knowledge leads us, we are not truly working in the service of the public.” — Rana Jaleel, associate professor at UC Davis & Chair of the AAUP’s Committee A on Academic Freedom & Tenure

None of this is possible without the explicit consent of an administration whose antipathy to expertise runs deep. joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/with-malic...

American public universities are unmatched engines of personal success and national prosperity. At the same time, university leaders must acknowledge the concerns underlying these critiques and forge common ground to protect our nation’s investment in education. www.highereddive.com/news/dont-le...

Some areas of the Outer Banks shoreline have retreated more than 200 feet in the past two decades... The houses in Rodanthe and Buxton that have tumbled into the ocean recently were behind a dune line when they were built, some more than 50 years ago. www.newsobserver.com/news/state/n...

I am proud to say that MIT has rejected Trump's poison compact. MIT President Sally Kornbluth: "Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education." @aaup.org @aft.org @higheredlabor.bsky.social @uaw.org links.mit.edu/nl3/N5Jy2cKq...

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency @heatmap.news

excellent essay: The Origin of the Research University open.substack.com/pub/asterisk...

Nobel peace prize 2025 live: María Corina Machado wins for work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela

🔺BREAKING: Maria Corina Machado wins Nobel peace prize Donald Trump misses out as Venezuela’s main opposition leader is given the award

The number of international students arriving in the U.S. in August fell by 19% this year compared with last year — the largest decline on record outside of the pandemic. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A South Korean battery component maker has backed out of plans to build a $152.5 million electrolyte manufacturing facility that would have brought 190 jobs to Haywood County in West Tennessee. www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/oc...

MIT is a global community whose international engagement bestows benefits well beyond the Cambridge campus. news.mit.edu/2025/attract...

The number of international students arriving in the U.S. in August fell by 19% this year compared with last year — the largest decline on record outside of the pandemic. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Georgia Planning Association fall conference is beginning in Athens.

"Any university leader who signs on to this compact would betray everything good and solid about the university and would do deep and permanent harm to the United States and the world." newrepublic.com/article/2013...

The Journal of the American Planning Association is now included in American Planning Association membership. #japaplanning planning.org/japa/

AAUP President Todd Wolfson unpacks the dangerous consequences of the Trump administration’s compact, which aims to exert ideological control over universities and colleges. As Wolfson makes clear, this partisan incursion into higher education affects ALL sectors. @proftwolf.bsky.social

"[I]n the end, he wasn’t really about parking. Don was an economist, and his mission was to help people understand the underlying economics of public goods and services. Parking was simply the vehicle, one might say, that he chose to do so." open.substack.com/pub/futureof...