Here's a path that we advise institutions to *not* consider: Increasing enrollment while firing adjunct faculty and requiring remaining faculty to teach more students for the same compensation.

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Shout-out to the thousands of public school teachers and supporters who will march in Raleigh, NC tomorrow (May 1) for better conditions for themselves and their students. kidsovercorporations.org/index.html (1/4)

“Let us be clear, we will not allow Father Shanley, Provost Simon Mølller, and an out-of-touch Board of Trustees to act like kings above the law and simply sweep away our decades-old faculty union. A union, we must remember, that was born from a faculty strike at St. John’s University in 1966-67.”

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

ASU Atomic, a new tool in beta at Arizona State University, takes faculty lectures and chops them into extremely short clips, that AI then attempts to turn into learning materials.

Important read, via @dukechronicle.bsky.social Solidarity with these powerful students for using their voices. These kinds of "quiet" changes happening on our campus need to be questioned and challenged. ✊

Texas Tech just instituted “one of the most extreme anti-speech policies ever imposed at a public university.” The policy bans professors from discussing LGBTQ+ topics in core & lower-level courses and eliminates entire fields of study across the five-university system. #AcademicSky

ICYMI: @dukechronicle.bsky.social published a well-reported story about Duke increasing class sizes for certain courses. #AcademicSky

Incredible a school charging more than $80k in tuition thinks it can continuously jack class sizes of its once-esteemed writing program to save pennies and no one will care. It’s probably because they got away with increasing classes by 25% during the “financial crisis” of a 50% endowment INCREASE.

The Weekly Read is “What Universities Can Be: Strategizing amid the Crisis in Higher Education,” a conversation published in @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social issue 23:1. Read it for free: buff.ly/y2paoSr

Hi! We're the Duke Faculty Union, a group of nearly 200 unionized faculty (SEIU Southern Region Local 26) at Duke University in Durham, NC. (1/4)