Unregulated extension and continuing education programs are ripe for abuse -- teacher exploitation, ripping off students, and corruption. Check the @ucirvine.bsky.social example to see why we need to regulate and in some cases abolish these programs. utotherescue.blogspot.com/2026/05/from...

CA Legislative Analyst's Office wants @uofcalifornia.bsky.social to teach more students with less govt $, advocates non-resident tuition increase premiums at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social , @ucla.edu and @ucsandiego.bsky.social. Sounds like slippery slope. abgt.assembly.ca.gov/system/files...

Support @ucmerced.bsky.social faculty, staff and students. Demand an equitable instructional budget and an end to unnecessary layoffs! h/t @ucaft.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/petitions/eq...

Tell @uofcalifornia.bsky.social: Don’t Let California Public Funds Bankroll Attacks on Higher Ed! Divest from Apollo Management Group! actionnetwork.org/letters/dont...

Have begun to write about @ucirvine.bsky.social finances to push back against unnecessary budget cuts & layoffs. First 2 pieces: 1) expose Division of Continuing Education mismanagement; and 2) document UCI skimming from tuition and state funding to pad reserves. Link here: campuslabor.substack.com

This is true of me. Anger isn't always good for organizing but it seems hard to really do it right without it. us.macmillan.com/books/978037...

I enjoy teaching this book. More studies of financiers, subsidy capture and predatory inclusion please! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

The corruption around AI companies buying off unions, non profits, schools, politicians etc is next level.

The New University on @ucirvine.bsky.social department of defense ties. newuniversity.org/2026/03/28/i...

Good job student journalists at @ucirvine.bsky.social New University. newuniversity.org/2026/04/02/s...

This Monday, April 7 at 12pm PT! @heavyredaction.bsky.social and Martha Kenney on "the implications of the uncritical adoption of generative AI in higher education." Link to register for zoom link here: sites.google.com/csusb.edu/cr...

Taught this piece on the first day of class. Similar to what the author predicted, the most engaged students were most excited to criticize their fellow students. Whereas I see the piece as being about a mismatch between students wanting a credential and teachers wanting to promote humanism.

A plurality of Americans loathe Donald Trump. With independents turning against him, a majority oppose his administration. You'd never know it from Twitter or most mainstream news. It's amazing how much the media landscape has been distorted by both siding Trumpism.

Governor Newsom @cagovernornewsom.bsky.social just appointed John “Rusty” Areias and reappointed Greg Sarris to serve 12 year terms to the @uofcalifornia.bsky.social Board of Regents. Areias is 76 years old. Sarris is 74. ISeems bad to expect people to serve well into 80s or to step down mid-term.

Twitter is mostly right wing influencers testing out messages for destroying support for social welfare or human rights. How to get more people who hate Elon's politics to leave that space and tank his business? I'd be here much more if more professional academics and left pundits were here.

Assembly budget subcommittee 3 meeting today at 9am Pacific on @uofcalifornia.bsky.social budget. Governor's generous budget proposal minimizes anxiety. But leg needs to prevent UC from using tuition increases to pad reserves. www.assembly.ca.gov/events/today

At this point it's hard to find separation between FIRE and @chronicle.com. Today Len Gutkin at the @chronicle.com reports that when he asked when cancel culture started that a FIRE staffer and a FIRE fellow both chimed in that it was BLM's fault.

I'm not opposed to great books at all. If every college major were required to study the seminal texts in their field I think it would be for the best. Too bad conservatives have hijacked this cause and tried to shoehorn humanistic disciplines into unthinking patriotism.

The @uofcalifornia.bsky.social is developing new ways to pit #highereducation workers against each other: 1) put faculty on management bargaining teams; 2) require teachers to pick up the work of striking TAs and graders; 3) make faculty collect TA/RA timesheets; and 4) offer $ for adjuncts to scab.

People say "historians will judge" their enemies poorly. But the history we're ushering into being is climate change, resource wars, terrifying epidemics, biodiversity collapse. What kind of history do you expect people living through that to produce?

The @uc-faculty.bsky.social chapter at @ucmerced.bsky.social is doing great work using budget analysis to push for greater spending on instruction in relation to administration. ucmfa.org/fund-learnin...

Modeling budget democracy for higher education: @cnewf.bsky.social critiques @ucirvine.bsky.social for cutting funds for instruction while accumulating hundreds of millions in reserves. Cosponsored by @ucaft.bsky.social and @uc-faculty.bsky.social . youtu.be/T-8MA3VnWQA?...

Far-right regimes can govern without broad popular support. Controlling media, rewriting rules, and weakening institutions lets authoritarian capitalism run smoothly from the top. Resistance requires fracturing capital. www.tni.org/en/article/f...

Great new report on rising fascism and authoritarianism, from international perspective that pays proper attention to race, gender, and imperialism (in a way that some other accounts do not when they merely focus on "populism"). Check it out.

The US is the greatest threat to economic and political stability in the world right now.

Today @ucla.edu Chancellor Julio Frenk announced that UCLA CFO Stephen Agostini "will no longer serve in his role, effective immediately." Hard not to believe that the trigger was Agostini telling the @dailybruinan.bsky.social that UCLA had been financially mismanaged: dailybruin.com/2026/02/13/f...

Assembly hearing on California public higher education budget for 2026-27 starts in 5 minutes. @uofcalifornia.bsky.social @calstate.bsky.social @calcommcolleges.bsky.social @ucaft.bsky.social Background: abgt.assembly.ca.gov/system/files... Video: www.assembly.ca.gov/events/media...

Don't care who the source is, I agree with the sentiment.

This is always where Trumpism was going.

This is why @microsoft.com gives money to @aft.org : to try to recruit teachers to promote and ultimately adopt its products that it hopes to charge school districts for in the name of protecting student and teacher privacy.

From the right-wing Manhattan Institute's focus group of Gen Z conservatives -- just jaw-dropping stuff. We have a very sick society. www.city-journal.org/article/manh...

Painful to watch someone witness the human consequences of their voting for mass deportations, refuse to accept responsibility, refuse to acknowledge that there are alternatives, and double down in support of the policy while asking for a personal exception. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Every labor union in the US should be preparing its members for the possibility that we may need to engage in political strikes to defend democracy. znetwork.org/znetarticle/...

TODAY! 4PM! CUT THE CUTS Rally at The New School! • SUSPEND “realignment” measures • RESCIND all “voluntary separation package agreements” • CAP on salaries over $200,000 • CALL on the Board of Trustees to hold a public meeting with the entire university community Livestream link below.

Organized UC faculty sent similar messages in August and September but unfortunately the campaign is still relevant.

The @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social suspended a unit 18 lecturer for making a critical statement about Israel at the end of one of his classes last year, after it was over, and for mentioning his hunger strike this year. We need a new free speech movement. www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...

Another day, another article from Len Gutkin and the @chronicle.com criticizing DEI. This time he blames it for giving traction to the right's century-long project to squash academic freedom on college campuses. You'd never know that DEI is an attempt to comply with anti discrimination law.

Community college enrollment has been declining since 2009/10. The optimal policy response to this depends on the root of this decline. I'm thrilled @nber.org today released my working paper with Harvard PhD Joe Winkelmann titled: "Labor Market Strength and Declining Community College Enrollment"

Fair critique from @cnewf.bsky.social : utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/11/line...

WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)

For all those @aft.org members who disagree with your national union's decision to accept tens of millions of dollars from @microsoft.com, OpenAI, and @anthropic.com, you're not alone. @cftunion.bsky.social opposes these partnerships and your union can join us. www.cft.org/resolution/e...

It's helpful to have Twitter so you can watch fascists cry over the fact that they are a political minority.

"with plans to eventually offer microcredentials and a minicertification in AI in the future"!!

Republicans: “Stop calling us Nazis just because you disagree with us.” *Elon Musk Nazi salutes* Young Republican group: “I love Hitler.” This Congressman’s office:

Worth reading. www.techspot.com/news/109626-...

How Nazis talked: "I ask you, men and women, how can the Social Democratic Party find the gall to accuse us of intolerance, when that is exactly how they have behaved ..." Goebbels, The Coming Storm, 1932. research.calvin.edu/german-propa...

Liberals trying to ban hate speech caused fascism is a bullshit argument.

At a moment when @ucirvine.bsky.social is cutting dozens of faculty positions in the Humanities, it is investing $1m in providing a "personalized learning ecosystem" with generative AI chatbots to students in large lecture courses. dtei.uci.edu/opportunitie...