"what could explain the University’s eagerness to embrace one, and only one, special form of diversity? Fundamentally, this hiring push is part of a broader effort to diminish the authority and autonomy of the faculty."
My union @uam-umd.bsky.social did such a good job beating our bosses in the statehouse this year that we figured we'd go ahead and beat the White House too.
With allies from across higher ed and the good people at @democracyforward.org we're suing to stop the latest illegal anti-DEI order.
"University codes of conduct... should be maximally protective of speech. They should treat universities and colleges not as tightly regulated spaces, where any unprescribed activity is a disruption to be repressed, but as vibrant microcosms of a free and open society."
2022-2024: the revenge of the tradwives
2025: #republicanmakeup
2025-2026: a pullup bar in every airport. Shirtless photos of RFK Jr, Hegsbeth, & Kid Rock🤢
2026: mogging and looksmaxxing
Never been happier to lecture on gender performativity. Or to be at a uni where it isn't prohibited. (Yet.)
Check out the mitochondria union logo!
"Now, more than ever, we need a university that can serve as a beacon for democratic society, by deepening our commitments to academic freedom, shared governance and the public mission of higher education."
— Cornell AAUP
@cornellaaup.bsky.social
"Now, more than ever, we need a university that can serve as a beacon for democratic society, by deepening our commitments to academic freedom, shared governance and the public mission of higher education." www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
"University leaders may have believed they were creating a buffer against further retaliation. Instead, the lesson appears to be that there is no payment high enough to sate the president’s protection racket. There never was." - @rweingarten.bsky.social (an @cornellilr.bsky.social alum!)
In response to the targeting of Iranian universities by the U.S. and Israel, Iran is now threatening to hit U.S.-linked universities in several Gulf countries, including satellites of:
-CMU
-VCU
-Cornell
-Northwestern
-Georgetown
-Texas A&M
-NYU
-American U
-U of New Haven
Very scary
When some of the news came out, he stonewalled. Finally released the flimsiest of statements. No recognition of the bad optics. No apology. No attempt to express concern. Many questions left unanswered.
We too have experienced his misleading info/disregard towards alumni concerns.
/3
& He was supposed to notify employees if this were to happen. He DIDN'T (now claims some bogus loophole applies)
He (mis-)represented last yr that the "deal" closed all pending investigations vs Cornell. But evidently he knew this wasn't so. That's called intentionally misleading people.
AND
/2
ICYMI. From @cornellaaup.bsky.social
Cornell Prez. Kotlikoff sold out his current *& former* employees by forking over their personal data to the Trump admin!! (there are >10K current employees).
He concealed this act from them for months, and WORSE.../1
www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
A line graph showing awards over time at NSF's SBE. The line for this year, 2026, is extremely FLAT compared to prior years. By this time in 2025, 179 grants had been awarded. In 2021, it was 243. This year... 16.
NSF's Social, Behavioral and Economic Directorate has awarded only 16 grants since October.
No big budget cuts went through. No freeze. The courts have acted to keep funds flowing at every turn. The money just isn't going out.
Why...?
1/x
source: grant-witness.us/funding_curv...
🟦🧠 #academicsky
ChatGPT Edu is now available to eligible CU Boulder faculty and staff. This optional, higher‑education–focused generative AI platform is designed to protect academic freedom and privacy, provide equitable access, and offer a more secure alternative to publicly available AI tools. Student access has been delayed until August 14, following input from faculty governance, as announced in a message from the university president and campus chancellors. A platform designed for higher education ChatGPT Edu is provided through a University of Colorado systemwide agreement with OpenAI, ensuring access to a FERPA‑compliant, privacy‑aware environment designed specifically for higher education. Information entered into CU Boulder’s ChatGPT Edu environment is not used to train AI models, helping reduce data security risks associated with consumer tools and better protect student, faculty, staff and university data. Already using ChatGPT? Make the switch Generative AI tools are already widely used across campus. Before the OpenAI agreement was signed, more than 28,000 students, faculty and staff created ChatGPT accounts using CU Boulder email addresses, with many more likely using personal accounts. ChatGPT Edu offers a safer, institutionally supported alternative than the publicly available version, providing stronger privacy protections while still delivering the capabilities users expect. CU Boulder encourages faculty and staff currently using the public version of ChatGPT to consider switching to ChatGPT Edu to benefit from its more data‑secure environment.
This email from @colorado.edu about the OpenAI contract is insulting. There was no conversation! There was no shared governance process! Faculty "input" was vocal protest in reaction to a closed-door deal! We still don't have clear information about where the data is stored or who has access to it!
The Kentucky Senate passed a bill that would allow colleges to lay off tenured faculty with 30 days of notice if program enrollments are determined to be low, going well beyond the norm of discontinuing the program in order to do layoffs.
No Kings in Utqiaġvik (Barrow) Alaska!
AFT showing up everywhere today
As are millions
There are more No Kings Events than counties in America
#WeSayNoKings #NoKings
Come be a part of the parade for human rights! Join us Saturday, March 28 for the NO KINGS ITHACA grand parade starting on the Ithaca Commons at 1 pm sharp!
indivisibletompkins.org
#NoKings #NoKings3 #Ithaca #NewYork #IndivisibleTompkins #Indivisible #nokingsithacany
The Trump administration is asking for years of admissions records from our medical school (as well as Ohio State and UCSD). This is a continuation of their attacks on higher ed. If they have it their way, higher ed, as we know it, will cease to exist.
This is how disciplines die.
Now that Sociology courses don't count for GenEd credit, far fewer students will take them, let alone choose Sociology as a major. And so, Sociology department budgets will shrink, meaning fewer faculty and fewer courses offered.
www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
Silence is complicity.
That's why we’ve called on our 1.8 million members to avoid Target for their back to school shopping. We refuse to allow companies to continue their patterns of staying quiet on ICE’s abuses in our communities.
www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/03/...
“This federal administration has proven itself fundamentally hostile to higher education, and indifferent to and even supportive of antisemitism and racism. It should not be given the presumption of good faith”
www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
"The structural challenges facing public universities are real, and administrators will continue to turn to data and AI-enabled tools from firms like Gray DI to rationalize program reductions and eliminations. The question is not whether administrations will use consultant-built systems but whether the faculty will allow those systems to operate without clear standards, validation, or limits. We already devote considerable attention to articulating norms for generative AI in classrooms and research; the stakes are at least as high when AI-enabled analytics help decide which of our academic programs survive. Because this era of austerity is increasingly mediated through decision-intelligence platforms, faculty senates and unions must press for concrete safeguards: requirements that models be locally tested against institutional experience, that methods and data sources be open to scrutiny, and that governance bodies—not vendors—define how far algorithmic “advice” can reach into decisions about academic programming and curriculum."
"Because this era of austerity is increasingly mediated through decision-intelligence platforms, faculty senates and unions must press for concrete safeguards," PSU-AAUP VP for Collective Bargaining David Kinsella in Academe
www.aaup.org/color-coded-...
“[T]he suspension, termination of contract and the denial of appeal did not offer a substantive explanation for each decision and make no reference to specific rules, regulations or laws that may have been violated.”
NYT coverage of the CFU victory. Behind the scenes our bargaining committee had been trying to get the administration to stop dragging its feet for 15 months. Only the threat of a strike kick started serious negotiations www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/n...
🧵 Intensifying its ongoing attacks on higher education in general and Harvard in particular, last week DOJ sued Harvard for alleged Title VI violations, seeking cancellation of future grant payments and reimbursement for past ones. The lawsuit is highly problematic, as I explain on the blog. /1
1/ The federal government now has the largest political workforce in 40 years and the smallest career senior leadership in 25 years — simultaneously. In a new report I authored at @ourpublicservice.bsky.social: ourpublicservice.org/publications...
Last year's cuts to science funding weren't random, they hit the most marginalized folks.
How the 2025 NIH grant terminations varied by researchers’ demographic groups | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
Cornell law professor @dorfonlaw.bsky.social explains what's wrong with the Trump Administration's new lawsuit against Harvard. In short: "the government's latest lawsuit looks quite a bit like an effort to re-litigate issues that were already decided against it." www.dorfonlaw.org/2026/03/what...
