Julie Cruse sharing her eye-opening experiences and insights into academic abuse. #academicabuse

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– 3 #SexualAssaults.
– 3 #Professors.
– Countless Threats.
– 0 Anonymous Reporting Options Under #TitleIX.

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#SexualMisconduct (using grades, funding, or degrees to obtain sex) = #Trafficking (using force, fraud, or coercion to obtain sex).

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The Burn List: A Memoir of Abuse from Home to Higher Education A professor's hand around her throat, and his words, "one way or another, I'll find you," kept her silent. Shackled with student debt and fleeing her abusive family, Julie Cruse had no defense against a hunter. So she fled ... her degree first, then her career, then the long, airless years after. Decades later, tired of running, Cruse has one option left; to put her records in public view: The Burn List: A Memoir of Abuse from Home to Higher Education. --- The Burn List follows Julie Cruse from an abusive childhood into two decades of escalating academic exploitation, where her vulnerability made her a target. Across seven universities, male faculty groomed, harassed, and ultimately retaliated against her, beginning in undergrad and ending with her forced exit from a PhD program-and her career. Based on documented communications, The Burn List reveals how unchecked power in academia can enable abuse and create conditions that resemble human trafficking. The Burn List is not just one story. It's a lightning rod, and it arrives at a pivotal cultural moment, as Title VII and Title IX failures dominate headlines. In a time when survivors demand accountability, The Burn List sets fire to silence-and hands readers the match. Visit AcademicAbuse.com, where Cruse extends this survivor-led movement and tracks misconduct in higher education.

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THE BURN LIST: THE CONSEQUENCES OF PRIORITIZING POWER OVER PEOPLE and THE MIDWEST INNOCENCE PROJECT (MIP) IS MARKING A SIGNIFICANT MILESTONE Host Terri Wilke will speak with Julie Cruse, a writer, advocate, and former academic working to expose and dismantle abuse in higher education. Cruse has become a leading voice for survivors navigating academic systems that too often protect institutions over people. She is the founder of AcademicAbuse.com, a survivor-led platform that documents abuse of power in universities and provides resources for both faculty and students navigating trauma and seeking justice. Cruse’s advocacy is grounded in the belief that academic abuse is a systemic problem tied to unchecked authority and weak enforcement of Title VII and Title IX protections. Through her work, she connects individual stories to broader labor and social justice issues, showing how abuse is allowed to persist inside institutions tasked with advancing the public good and teaching the next generation. Her book, The Burn List, A Memoir of Abuse from Home to Higher Education is based on the testimonies of survivors. It traces how academic exploitation unfolds over time and why existing reporting mechanisms so often fail.

Thanks KKFI 90.1 FM for the interview! We talked about #AcademicAbuse and my debut book, The Burn List: A Memoir of Abuse from Home to Higher Education.

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We're going to change that. If it's the last thing I do.

Just wait till you finish reading my book! Holy hell... coercive control in higher ed is REAL.

I have this exact same problem!

So glad to see others speaking up! Louder!

A German professor can't be sacked. No matter what he does. Courts always take his side.

Diverse Set of Higher-Ed Workers Across the Sector Unites to Fight for Better Contracts Despite the range in roles and institutions, the group pledges to pursue the same goals

Chronicle exclusive: labor unions representing faculty and staff at 125 campuses across the Northeast are pledging to work toward shared bargaining goals. Here’s what you need to know. www.chronicle.com/article/dive... #highered #academicsky

Sign the Petition Require Anonymous Title IX Complaint Procedures at Every Federally Funded College

#TitleIX doesn't allow #anonymousreporting. You have to name yourself to the institution that controls your degree, your funding, and your career.

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Faculty strike at University of Illinois Springfield continues into second week - Capitol City Now Administration, union remain divided over salary increases.

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#BlueCollarScholar: navigating an institution built for generational wealth and inherited networks. Your labor to be there is invisible. Your lack of structural support makes you easier to exploit.

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Five individuals are walking towards the edge of a cliff, guided by large pointing hands. The hands suggest external influence or pressure on the individuals.

Women faculty feel ‘pushed’ from academia by poor workplace climate

"Within the first 20 years of a faculty member’s career post-Ph.D., attrition rates range from approximately 2% to 5%—and at all stages that number is higher for women." #WomenInSTEM https://bit.ly/4c0N3Bi

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My experience with the Title IX office - The Quinnipiac Chronicle The QU Title IX office did not help me, and the professor I reported still teaches. Hearing the administration be so apathetic is frustrating.

"Come to find out, these professors personally knew the multiple other students who reported the same professor I had. Nothing had ever been done." #QuinnipiacUniversity #Connecticut

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This campaign needs you now Require Anonymous Title IX Complaint Procedures at Every Federally Funded College

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Y'all, what a day!! ☘️📣 Even just walking around the Quarter on St. Paddy's Day, survivors found me. We're everywhere... we just don't know it yet. 💞

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@nonlinearbotanist.bsky.social I need your help! I'm doing two live news broadcast interviews soon, and am striving to get 20 Amazon reviews for #TheBurnList by then. Would you and your wife be willing to share your honest thoughts on Amazon? Thanks so much!!

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Surviving The Burn List-ish w/ Julie Cruse Podcast Episode · Surviving-ISH Podcast · April 2 · 1h 14m

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My latest interview out now! Hostile #HigherEd workplaces, #AcademicAbuse, #TitleIX, #DEI, #SexualAssault, #Trauma, #Bystander abandonment, a call for double-blind #complaint processes. #TheBurnList

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CSU pays former provost $325,000 to not work Colorado State University is paying a former provost $325,000 to not work for 12 months amid budget cuts.

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I am reading this now myself! Halfway through and am so glad to be joined by others who are now speaking out. I've published my own story as well recently. Hope you check it out!

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For all the college graduations I never attended, and for every victim of #SexualMisconduct and #SexualHarassment in #HigherEd that derailed degree or career progress.

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Grateful for each and every person who stopped to share their experiences of #SexualMisconduct in #HigherEd during my public demonstration against #TitleIX limitations yesterday.

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#SexualMisconduct in university settings is rampant. I know from experience and literature review.

Here are my top 5 books on #GenderBasedViolence in #HigherEd.

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Amazon A professor’s violent threats, coercive control, and criminal admissions. His hand around her throat, and his words, “one way or another, I’ll find you,” kept her silent. When faculty abusers control a student’s future, and Title IX prohibits anonymous reporting, the complaint process becomes a direct line to retaliation. But for Cruse, retaliation meant being hunted.

The Burn List is the story of someone who couldn't fight head-on for a long time. Then she built a platform that could.

A whistleblower memoir + a global accountability dashboard.

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