Negotiations and regulations of accreditation handbook committee problematically suggest expertise in disciplines like sociology, English, gender & sexuality, race, & more with a point of view. It subsequently assumes that all viewpoints are correct and need no deep research about them to be valid
This fantastic panel features @bakerdphd.bsky.social, @kevincarey1.bsky.social, and Columbia University President Emeritus Lee Bollinger, moderated by @michaelhgavin.bsky.social.
We'll be in-person at New America's HQ in DC and livestreamed online!
This fantastic panel features @bakerdphd.bsky.social, @kevincarey1.bsky.social, and Columbia University President Emeritus Lee Bollinger, moderated by @michaelhgavin.bsky.social.
We'll be in-person at New America's HQ in DC and livestreamed online!
The 2026-2027 cohort features scholars from across the country whose expertise range from higher education finance, funding, and governance structures to student success, the impact of public regional colleges, access and equity, and public policy:
CEO @michaelhgavin.bsky.social: "Higher ed is the 5th pillar of democracy... These Fellows bring the scholarly insight necessary to create the knowledge, toolkits, and context to help protect our institutional infrastructure and ensure campuses remain sites of independent thought and open inquiry.”
"'The federal admin has made clear that it seeks to assert ideological control over higher education—attacking the creation and dissemination of knowledge, as well as who has access to it,' said @michaelhgavin.bsky.social, CEO of the Alliance for Higher Ed."
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Community colleges train teachers, firefighters, and Nobel laureates. They are powerful and accessible engines of opportunity and democracy.
"We are Statues of Liberty," @michaelhgavin.bsky.social told @aacu.org. "We welcome everybody in.”
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My reading of latest Executive Order and the continuing misuse of the words “merit,” “legal,” and “equity.”
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I'm joining an esteemed panel to discuss how what seem isolated controversies are increasingly operating as parts of a coordinated political strategy to reshape higher education. Thank you to Stand Together for Higher Ed, Amy Reid, Leonard Bright, Kumble R. Subbaswamy. Register
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Thanks to @insidehighered.com for covering this:
“Conditioning access to federal grants on broad certifications that reach into matters of curriculum, campus governance, student supports, speech, and protest activity will pressure institutions to align internal policies with ideology,” Gavin wrote.
Executive Orders need to be resisted--a case example of how focus on race allows excellence institutionally and helps saves lives...And how to read the newest EOs in context of previous ones from the current administration.
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Important for all of us to know what is happening in accreditation--it is a April 6 at 4:00pm ET: Accreditation at a Crossroads: Federal Action, Institutional Impact, and Equity Considerations.
Registration link: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
🚨Student success, whether called DEI, supporting first-generation students, veteran services, or something else, doesn't have a messaging problem, @michaelhgavin.bsky.social said at the @nadohe.bsky.social national conference, but an "authoritarianism problem."
Happy to be quoted on my plenary @nadohe.bsky.social: I’ve been in these meetings, you’ve been in these meetings, in the last five, six years where we start to say, ‘If we could just message it this way. No. We have to get out of that. It’s not a messaging problem. It’s an authoritarianism problem.”
2/ ED offiical, David Barker, came with a prepared statement, saying that the secretary had 'broad authority' to ensure the committee followed the dept priorities -
This is a level of partisan maneuvering I haven't ever seen on this committee
Accreditation is the next tool to place institutions, students and democracy in a hostage-like posture. The playbook has been on display at the federal and state levels with funding, board takeovers, the closure and consolidation of several depts. in TX & attempts to dismantle tenure in OK
Every sector of our democracy that is under assault continues to win in court. Leaders, hold your ground. In higher ed, @alliancehighered.bsky.social The Alliance for Higher Education is also here to serve in how to navigate these times.
My mark-up of the letter to Middle States from ED using flawed logic and application of law regarding DEI @alliancehighered.bsky.social
The continuation of accusing higher ed for violating Civil Rights but using segregationist values in doing so.
Censoring students and faculty and their ability to teach, learn, and research throttles new knowledge. In recent years, separation rates from Florida’s public universities increased by more than 20% from baseline.
@thehill.com, @alliancehighered.bsky.social
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“The current systems, organizations, and associations that comprise higher education and its relationship to democracy need a coalitional force. That force should anchor current responses to threats in an opportunity-focused model, to re-establish higher education as the fifth pillar of democracy.”
The courts are holding the Trump-Vance administration to account.
Our wins to protect higher education are proof.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
“The current systems, organizations, and associations that comprise higher education and its relationship to democracy need a coalitional force. That force should anchor current responses to threats in an opportunity-focused model, to re-establish higher education as the fifth pillar of democracy.”
TODAY: One of the most consequential attempts to assert ideological control over the nation will potentially be thrust upon colleges and universities: the weaponization of federal student financial aid. Participants will learn what's at stake & what they can do.
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Facing constitutional headwinds, the strategy pivoted. If they could not legislate the curriculum, they would capture the institutions...partisan loyalists to boards of trustees and threatened budget vetoes to infiltrate colleges and universities.
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This spring, one of the most consequential attempts to assert ideological control over the nation will potentially be thrust upon colleges and universities: the weaponization of federal student financial aid. Learn why you can do.
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Data continues to show the conditions seeking to locate power in a racialized and gendered hierarchy do as intended: threaten the democracy.
The drop in international students “could also reflect weakening global interest in studying in the United States.”
www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
This spring, one of the most consequential attempts to assert ideological control over the nation will potentially be thrust upon colleges and universities: the weaponization of federal student financial aid. Learn why you can do.
lnkd.in/gYBqmJwe
I feel like this would’ve been fine with just ice cubes in it