If you are in Oklahoma, join us as we fight for the future of tenure in the state!!! @aaup.org

I can’t wait for this. I have, based on reading a draft chapter and having a few conversations, already discussed it in class and recommended it as a book to look out for.

The world is largely terrible, but I got to watch my alma mater's women's basketball team win a conference tournament in person this afternoon. It was a nice few hours to not think about everything else, and the joy of tournament winners (whomever they are) is good to see.

Next week!

Financial Aid is being positioned as a weapon to assert ideological control over higher education. The process is wonky and most of us don't pay attention to it. This year, we must. Consider attending. You will learn what is happening & what you can do. us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

I'm rooting for Denver, but Jokic just getting an off-setting technical is ridiculous star protecting.

The public syllabi mandate can make instructors vulnerable to doxxing. “This institution doesn’t mind if you are picked off one by one. You’re not important to us in ways that make us do the hard work of getting good plans in to place.” —Abigail Hatcher, Interim VP of @unc-ch-aaup.bsky.social

I'm hoping that I can attend this. My copy of the book arrived on Saturday and I read most of it this weekend. A thoughtful, inspiring, and at times difficult collection of essays (new and previously published). And, the panelists are great.

This is an excerpt of "Mounting Your Defense," an installment part of the "Faculty on the Front Lines" initiative in the AAUP's Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom. This installment features a conversation among Dr. Sang Hea Kil, Dr. Rupa Marya, and Dr. Henry Reichman. Full episode here👇

Join us Tuesday, Feb. 17! The @alliancehighered.bsky.social will focus on the DOE’s decision to stop defending its 2025 Dear Colleague Letter, why it matters & how to move forward and rebuild. Tuesday, February 17. 12-1pm ET Register for the Zoom webinar here: bit.ly/4cldGRS

Very proud to have authored this brief with @dvegas24.bsky.social and the Bluesky-less Alyssa Stefanese Yates on the experiences of student-mothers of color drawing on data from two national studies of nearly 150 student-mothers

"But if the member presidents choose the guise of institutional neutrality as a way to gain political cover, they may now be leading higher ed toward greater authoritarianism." Well the AAU is gonna love this (miniest of threads) www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

I talked about G. Harris Daggett today. You might not know him. He was central to the case that led to the Supreme Court's 1957 Sweezy v. New Hampshire decision--in which Warren wrote that without academic freedom "civilization will stagnate and die." First time the Court endorsed academic freedom.

Thanks to @isaackamola.bsky.social for this generous endorsement of In the Spirit of H. Chandler Davis. Released today! Available everywhere. To order > disobediencepress.com

“We will not be intimidated into silence.” —Dr. Leonard Bright, AAUP Texas A&M This fight is bigger than Texas A&M—it is about whether public universities will serve democracy or fear it. @tamu-aaup.bsky.social @texasaft.org @texasaaup.bsky.social @movetexas.bsky.social

How did I get to the place that I am watching a Cal v. SMU football game because it affects Duke's place in the ACC Championship game? A lot of bad decisions were made, only some of them by me.

Ben Parsons's Bad Grammar: Teachers, Crime, and the Law in Late Medieval and Early Modern England

People who care about higher education and institutional autonomy need to pay attention to CPHE and the undercutting of the regulatory triad. Professor Harrison is doing important work on CPHE and I encourage people to listen to her discuss the politicization of accreditation.

Grammar is difficult. I used to think of primary as an adjective or a noun. I haven't checked CMOS on this, but I now think that primary is a verb.

Just to be clear, I am not that Tim Kaine.

#HES2025 may be ending, but our virtual exhibit is still open! Browse our virtual exhibit and get 30% off & free domestic shipping using code EX58172: bit.ly/UCPEXHEdS

Shock doctrine tactics supported by schlock data make a mockery of shared governance. UNL AAUP are fighting hard. Time for faculty at every university going through "program review" to stand with their colleagues and students being targeted. @aaup #highered www.chronicle.com/article/a-un...

The ad paid for by Ontario during the ALCS is well done. The audio is a 1987 anti-tariff talk by Reagan (about how they hurt people and tank the economy) set to modern video.

USC rejects Trump’s Loyalty OATH. Four down, five to go! www.latimes.com/california/s...

Mary Anne Franks explains what Fearless Speech is, and why we need to practice it more than ever. @maryannefranks.bsky.social

#BREAKING: The Department of Education has delayed the semiannual convening of its accreditation advisory committee, NACIQI, for the second time this year, according to an email obtained by @insidehighered.com.

The officiating in the UGA/Auburn game is a cluster

I’m sitting outside in DuPont Circle, drinking a beer, listening to the Cubs, and working on a field guide to help protect academic freedom (being put together by the AAUP’s Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom). It is a pretty great way to spend a Wednesday night.

Join us! Monday at 7. www.aaup.org/event/politi...

“Trump’s restrictions on H-1B visa applications will lead to less lifesaving research, reduced innovation, & diminished competitiveness. This short-sighted policy will hurt every American by slowing research breakthroughs, weakening our economy & putting our global leadership at risk.” —Todd Wolfson

It's publication day for UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS. Across 27 sharp essays, the book offers a critical account of the political economy of US higher education, how it came to be structured this way, and how together we might build a better university together.

This is Monday. I'll be there. The other panelist will be a lot better.

🚨🚨🚨 TONIGHT @7PM ET: AAUP PresidentTodd Wolfson will be live discussing yesterday’s proposal by the Trump admin to give preferential treatment to colleges & universities that pledge allegiance to their ideological agenda. Tune in on the AAUP’s YouTube & Instagram channels!

Some schools will be starved of resources. Other schools will be offered bribes. The end goal is the same. To make the universities an extension of the Trump administration. Shame on any of these institutions willing to take the bribes.

Introducing “Faculty on the Frontlines,” a new series from the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom that documents the stories of AAUP members! Over the next 2 weeks, we will spotlight the stories of 10 AAUP members fighting to defend academic freedom. Check out our teaser 🔥

Your AAUP-SC is proud to be participating in this Oct 6 event on Zoom. Register here: www.aaup.org/event/politi...

I wish people knew the actual work that a lot of faculty members do. It is advising, teaching, reading, serving, researching, and sometimes writing. I have four students trying to defend in the next five weeks, so tonight I am reading and commenting.

📢 Our open letter reminds public higher ed leaders + administrators that their actions must follow the law, not political rhetoric. The First Amendment protects the teaching of controversial topics. Executive orders and legislation to the contrary cannot override this constitutional protection.

Read this in the archives today. It is from the resignation letter of a dean in the early 60s after the governor ordered a faculty member fired for political reasons and the board agreed. The president fought back but the professor was still formally reprimanded and denied a raise. Seems relevant.

One thing that seems increasingly clear is that the shooter was mostly disconnected from politics, acted alone, and even his roommate did not know what was going on. There are no groups involved in the Kirk shooting according to the evidence, but it is still "round up the usual suspects"

As a reminder, until this year, the largest settlement of this type was a $14 million fine for Liberty University after a 2-year investigation involving repeated violations of the Clery Act with Title IX implications.

Kevin Bazner and I contributed a piece to the latest issue of the American Historical Review on using digital archives to study the histories of HSIs. At a time when MSIs are losing hundreds of millions of $ in federal funds, looking to the past reminds me that history is never a straight line.

This is going to be an amazing conversation. Come join. @aaup.org @sfndhe.bsky.social

PEN America: “We are witnessing the death of academic freedom in Texas." https://pen.org/press-release/swift-removal-of-academic-leaders-at-texas-am-signals-the-death-of-academic-freedom-in-the-state-warns-pen-america/

Looking forward to this conversation with @hebagowayed.bsky.social, Zoé Samudzi, and Vineeta Singh, hosted by @journalspectre.bsky.social @haymarketbooks.org Come join us!!

It is amazing to me, with all that is happening, that we still have a holiday celebrating pregnant people. Happy Labor Day to those who celebrate. (Also, power to unions.)