Big win at the AAUP v. Rubio case

This is beyond outrageous. In their eagerness to appease, our universities have completely lost sight of their mission.

NYC folks, see you Thursday!

What does this even mean

BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨 US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms Civicus, an international non-profit, puts country alongside Democratic Republic of Congo, Italy, Pakistan and Serbia www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

DOJ’s antisemitism task force led by ex-Fox News Leo Terrell begins its witch-hunt against pro-Palestine student activists with a tour of 10 campuses. “We are going to put these people in jail—not for 24 hours, but for years,” Terrell has said in a recent interview. www.justice.gov/opa/pr/feder...

Out of the 12,000 civil rights complaints the Education Department has put on hold since Trump took office: • 6,000 relate to mistreatment of disabled students • 1,000 are specific to sexual harassment/violence • 3,200 pertain to racial discrimination

Elon Musk's DOGE team of misfits have fired everybody at the Federal Aviation Administration ✈️ who is a probationary employee Thinking they have got rid of all the new hires It turns out many of these were experienced technicians, recently promoted and were on probation for their new senior role

soon enough, the mere presence of black and latino students on campus will be illegal racial discrimination against white students www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...

The only hope for higher ed is the academic labor movement. Join this @higheredlabor.bsky.social call next week to plan our fight us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

This is the group that posted 100s of hateful messages under a book award I got, not bc they knew my politics, but bc of my Arab face. The reporter who wrote about it then told a good-people-on-both-sides story. Glad they’re exposed for the hate group that they are theintercept.com/2025/01/31/n...

AAUP-NYU has issued a report about the egregious correspondence between NYU President Linda Mills and Elizabeth Rand (founder of the anti-Palestinian group MACA), which threatens academic freedom and reflects gross corruption of NYU procedures

Did someone say ‘outside agitators’? theintercept.com/2025/01/31/n...

NYU’s ‘campus without walls’ yet many fences; lest its faculty and students dare to congregate.

It is utterly shocking how a scholar of her standing and reputation was silenced and hounded out by her home institution for the temerity to speak out about the genocide in Gaza. Academic freedom in the US is in severe crisis. Join your local AAUP and any other unions you can.

Columbia and NYU continue to outbid each other in their race to the bottom...

NYU suspends students for an entire year for “significant and coordinated disruption” in the library, which refers to some students in keffiyehs studying quietly in the lobby, others sitting on the admin. floor asking for a meeting, a few holding banners, and some flyers dropped from an upper level…

The bar for hospitals to lose protected status under international law is set very high. Those conditions were not met for any of the 36 hospitals in Gaza that Israel destroyed. mondoweiss.net/2024/05/how-...

Because killing educators and blowing up universities is bad?

“NYU’s expansion of what constitutes discrimination is too broad and will inevitably infringe on lawful, important academic discussions and debates on campus about Palestine and Israel — it’s dangerous and puts academic freedom principles at risk.” www.nyclu.org/press-releas...

When one student’s Sunday night anxiety over an incomplete grade inadvertently shatters the university’s unshaken record of keeping its entire faculty from talking to each other, and an infinite loop of ‘remove me from this thread’ with an occasional ‘free Palestine’ and ‘let’s unionize’ ensues…

Over 1500 scholars, artists, writers, scientists, students sign open letter to NYU admin condemning the arrest of faculty members and the declaration of faculty and students as Personae Non Gratae (PNG) for participation in nonviolent protests. facultyforpalestine.education/2024/12/23/d...

“Organizing for labor protections and academic freedom is crucial to combat higher education’s creeping authoritarianism.” Indeed.

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See you there!

Here’s the AAUP statement on the insane full metal jacket crackdown on peaceful protestors asking for investment transparency and divestment from genocide in Gaza yesterday. I am one of the faculty members who was labeled persona non grata (PNG), banned from university buildings.

I’m so thankful for the solidarity, courage, insight and momentum of NYU Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine. This org and AAUP have given us the structure to support our community including but not limited to students staff and faculty. Please follow our work here. @nyufsjp.bsky.social

“By almost every metric, the harm to civilians from the first month of the Israeli campaign in Gaza is incomparable with any 21st century air campaign. It is by far the most intense, destructive, and fatal conflict for civilians that Airwars has ever documented.“

BREAKING: The AAUP condemns today’s faculty arrests at NYU. “This crackdown on NYU faculty is part of a distressing pattern of repression of pro-Palestinian speech on college campuses nationwide.” — AAUP President Todd Wolfson. ⬇️ www.aaup.org/news/aaup-co...

All 6 of Edward W. Said's recorded Reith lectures on Representations of the Intellectual can be heard here: 1) Representations of the Intellectual 2) Holding Nations And Traditions At Bay 3) Intellectual Exiles 4) Professionals and Amateurs 5) Speaking Truth To Power 6) Gods That Always Fail

BREAKING: Autonomous anti-genocide activists bring the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade to a grinding halt after blockading the McDonald’s float for a second year in a row. “Those grinches who thinks they can disrupt the parade: it’s not going to happen,” Mayor Eric Adams said yesterday.