The title for this piece should read something more like, “Texas A&M Smothers Students’ Freedom to Learn and Professors’ Freedom to Teach.” Texas A&M clearly is no longer in the business of encouraging open learning and has instead embraced censoring speech. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Have folks been paying attention to what’s going on at Auburn University? Faculty are being asked to sign neo loyalty oaths — this will have a chilling effect on faculty’s freedom to teach and students’ freedom to learn. This is not what college education should be. www.al.com/news/2025/11...

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Listen in to the Student Affairs Now Campus Context Podcast. I joined alongside @heather-shea.bsky.social & @cantb.bsky.social deciphering between noise and real policy signals in higher ed. I also discussed the proposed elimination of our EDAD Department at UNL studentaffairsnow.com/current-camp...

When educators say that educational leadership preparation within a university is expendable, we are in a scary place. This is about my department, my university and is cause for alarm for educators everywhere. If they cut the only ed leadership PhD program in our state, whose will be next? (1/2)

I can live without Disney. I can live without CBS. I can live without NBC. America cannot live without the Freedom Of Speech

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

Every time I feel like I know a lot about the rise of fascism in Germany, I learn something new.

📢 Our latest issue of the Journal of Sorority and Fraternity Life Research and Practice (JSFLRP) is now available! You can read the full issue here: journal.libraries.wm.edu/jsflrp

Higher Ed colleagues, join us today for a session on Higher Ed Advocacy in This Moment! August 26, 1pm-2pm EST We will discuss current advocacy needs and resources available. Registering with a non-university affiliated email address is recommended us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Getting our @unlincoln.bsky.social EDAD study abroad in Seoul, South Korea started with a culture/language lesson! 💖 #GoBigRed

Hi, yeah, who’s going to tell Trump that’s not how universities work? It really shows how little he understands higher ed. His ignorance will continue to hurt students & colleges/universities as a whole—let’s see how long it takes to figure out how important they are to our state/national economies.

Omaha just elected Democrat John Ewing to replace 3 term Republican mayor Jean Stothert—seems like more of these reps need to be listening to their constituents or they may just lose their seat 💅👀

Pushing back on the attacks on education? You’re not alone, even if it feels that way. There are many folks within our University system (and beyond) pushing back—we have to keep it up www.dailynebraskan.com/news/afire-f...

Last day of class for my Nebraska EDAD history of higher education course! A fantastic group of college educators finishing up the last semester of their master’s program! 🎉 🎉🎉

I can unequivocally say that MANY of the rural, poor and working-class students in my research credit TRIO to their success and continued enrollment in college. These cuts would be devastating to communities like where I come from. Write your congresspeople. www.insidehighered.com/news/student...

Republicans voted to allow ICE to cancel student visas with no due process. This would have an incredibly chilling effect (compounding on previous actions) on future international students pursuing education in the U.S. Our institutions DEPEND on those students’ tuition & fees dollars.

Drs. @oiyanpoon.bsky.social & @crystalegarcia.bsky.social join @heather-shea.bsky.social to unpack the reshaping of HE—from executive orders & agency overhauls to attacks on DEI, student protections, and institutional autonomy. studentaffairsnow.com/currentconte...

Ummm have y’all seen the antics Trump has been up to on social media since yesterday? Apparently conjured up an AI image of himself as the Pope, posted on his truth social account, and also now on the official White House social media (see Instagram landing page below). This is our president? 🥴

The Trump budget cuts from education & research is devastating to humanity. TRIO, Work Study, FIPSE, NEH, NEA, AmeriCorps, IML, NSF Broadening Participation, & more gone. Nearly all NSF general research & ed funding eliminated. NIH would be a shell of itself. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

Feds claim they can suspend due process for international students. “not subject to court challenges.”

they are literal segregationists apnews.com/article/scho...

Trump on Day One: Your costs will be lower immediately. Trump on Day 100: Your kids will now have fewer toys and also you're going to pay higher prices.

Most often when we refer to “diversity, equity, and inclusion” what we are really talking about is civil rights efforts. Folks should really start using this language instead —it’s not about cutting “DEI” this is about cutting civil rights progress and protections.

Our University leadership is letting us down. The College of Arts & Sciences at UW is trying to lay off over 200 people - our departmental staff in an ill-planned (barely planned) attempt to cut costs by centralizing staff (they have not talked to... anyone about this) www.defendcasstaff.com

My latest. It’s feelings-forward and was hard to write. “It’s an isolating experience when your industry, the source of your livelihood, is being uniquely targeted by your own government, and many Americans are either completely unaware or cheering on its demise.” www.chronicle.com/article/high...

Remember that time in the WH press conference when someone said “I can attest to the deportations in Florida. My Uber drivers finally speak English again so thank you.” The blatant racism and classism is beyond appalling. Such a disgrace.

Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women Unreal www.science.org/content/arti...

My statement to the University of Nebraska Board of Regents against complying with anti-diversity, equity, and inclusion guidance. Now is the time to be brave and to keep fighting for the future of education.

Speaking now from El Salvador, Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) says he was denied access to Kilmar Abrego Garcia by El Salvador leaders. And was denied a phone call to him Van Hollen: "The Trump Administration is lying about Abrego Garcia"

Princeton University Will Not Change Polices in Response to Trump Administration Pulling Federal Funding, Says School President www.townandcountrymag.com/society/mone...

Yesterday we came together to speak out against compliance with Trump’s anti-civil rights guidance within our university system. We have to hold firm and push back for what is right before it’s too late. www.dailynebraskan.com/news/unl-edu...

This is well worth a listen - starts with the perspective of the teachers affected www.npr.org/2025/04/10/n...

This is the world Trump and other Republicans are creating. Republicans have become so obsessed with controlling trans people they are losing sight of reality. We already struggle to keep teachers, what do you think will happen as they are continuously surveilled, censored, and threatened?

Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after US aid cuts forced local health services to close, the UK-based charity Save the Children said reut.rs/3E9kB27

Over 280 alumni of University of Michigan Law School (with signatories still incoming), in class years ranging from the 1970s to the 2020s, from all over the US and all corners of the legal profession, stand up for the values and legacy of diversity, equity, and inclusion at Michigan. Our letter:

the @chronicle.com has launched what is going to be a tremendously useful tool: a tracker of the Trump administration's activities affecting higher ed, particularly in the areas of civil rights, research, policy, and immigration. check it out: www.chronicle.com/article/trac...

Many of us have been saying this for months now —compliance will not save these universities. The only way forward is for every single educational leader and institution to come together, refuse, and fight back as a collective. States like mine cannot survive without higher ed.

This is the literal destruction of knowledge. Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases. mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...

Florida Atlantic University's police department wants a 287(g) agreement that would allow campus officers to question and detain students they suspect are in the country without authorization. FAU would be the first university with this enforcement power. www.wusf.org/politics-iss...

So many student visas have been revoked that Inside Higher Ed started mapping them

for no particular reason, fyi - any US citizen can request a passport card, which serves as proof of US citizenship and is small enough to carry in a wallet or tuck away in your bag travel.state.gov/content/trav...

Leavitt confirmed that the WH is working on deporting US citizens to El Salvador

Trump admin admits it should not have deported Abrego Garcia to El Salvador, but tells SCOTUS no court can require his return because it would intrude on Article II powers to conduct foreign negotiations. If this stands, why can't Trump deport anyone "in error" and not have to undo?

NEW: By a 5–4 vote, the Supreme Court HALTS a district court order requiring the Education Department to pay out more than 100 grants to public schools and universities that the Trump administration canceled. Roberts and the three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

Extremely dangerous —risking a student’s life by denying her access to her inhaler is horrifying. What other terrors will this administration incite on people?? Does this administration have a moral compass?

The National Humanities Alliance is preparing a lawsuit. Please report your grant details here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

In this conversation recorded and released last night, @crystalegarcia.bsky.social & @feleciaelana.bsky.social examine the growing threats to international students, faculty fears around academic freedom, and the power of labor unions for collective action. studentaffairsnow.com/current-camp...

The Office for Civil Rights has requested the names & nat'lities of students & faculty..involved in alleged Title VI violations. Today, the AAUP wrote to college & universities to clarify that they are under NO LEGAL COMPULSION to comply. Doing so enables deportations. www.aaup.org/news/institu...