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Bernard (!) joins AAUP AFT organizing call; log in!

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UNC-Chapel Hill faculty say civics school is eroding trust, formalize concerns about its leadership The School of Civic Life and Leadership has been controversial since its inception and increasingly so in recent times.

UNC faculty are sounding the alarm: the unilateral creation of a School of Civic Life and Leadership violates established shared governance, erodes institutional trust, and threatens academic freedom by ignoring the vital role of faculty in curricular decisions.

@ncaaup.bsky.social

The Ideology Fixation in Higher Education Commentary Invented Pretexts for Censorship of Academic Research Are Becoming More Elaborate. Tyler Austin Harper's Recent Polemic About Humanities Funding Shows How.

My latest: on the state of misinformation about humanities funding and growing rationales for censorship.

bradfordvivian.substack.com/p/the-ideolo...

Sun and clouds above the Miller Campus Center on the SUNY Canton campus, the host of the 7th and final Realizing the Promise of Public Good U barnstorming tour stop, organized by the SUNY University Faculty Senate and Faculty Council of Community Colleges, for this academic year.

The last Realizing the Promise of Public Good U barnstorming tour stop of the academic year—here @sunycanton.bsky.social—is in the books! Wonderful conversations on shared governance, academic momentum, seamless transfer. It’s more important than ever that we meet across roles, campuses, & sectors!

This isn't just about Texas; it's about the future of higher ed everywhere. @aaup.org @texasaft.org

The Faculty Are the Problem, Apparently | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson Those who want to diminish the faculty’s decision-making authority, or who think universities should be run more like companies, should be careful what they wish for.

Pls read this editorial by @kirstenweld.bsky.social
about how our Provost's plan for "viewpoint diversity" hires further erodes faculty governance at my university. (And never mind "veritas"!)
8 hires--but humanities hiring generally has been frozen since 3/25.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

I'm excited to share that we've made a collection of historic Supreme Court Records and Briefs available via
@archive.org

I've written a blog post where I go into detail about the importance of this collection.

blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u...

How Professional Wrestling Prepared Linda McMahon for Trump’s Cabinet The Education Secretary ran the W.W.E. for years with her husband, Vince, an unstable man who, like her new boss, has a genius for inflaming the crowd.

In his second term, Donald Trump has assembled a Cabinet that is more openly obsequious and destructive. Linda McMahon, his Secretary of Education, “has played the role of a friendly grandmother wielding a hatchet,” Zach Helfand writes. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/DGtGsI

“We call on Emory to make substantive commitments to limit cooperation w/ federal immigration agents to the minimum required by law. We urge Emory to inform the community precisely where ICE may or may not enter without a warrant…”

— Emory AAUP

We'd be seeing way more of this if blue states had functional higher education policies

What is academic labor? Who performs the type of knowledge work we call academic labor, of what does it consist & what might its aims be?

Join us on Tuesday, April 28 at 3 pm ET for conversations about the theme of the winter issue of #Academe.

Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

We filed suit against the Trump administration (again) today to block the implementation of an unlawful executive order that seeks to undermine inclusion & equal opportunity, threatens government contractors w/ criminal prosecution, & chills protected speech.

These are not normal times.

State of the Unions conference 23-25 April University of Florida

this is the week to become FLORIDA WOMAN

Make college affordable. Fund research. Protect faculty's right to teach and students' right to learn. Expand workers' rights.

These are core pillars of AAUP and AFT's national policy platform, the Blueprint for Strengthening and Transforming Higher Education.

@aft.org
@afthighered.bsky.social

More to read!

www.americanprogress.org/article/stab...

Why Yale’s term paper on what’s wrong with college gets a ‘D-’ | Will Bunch An Ivy League university's report on the loss of faith in higher ed ignores what really killed the American Dream of college.

That Yale report on what's wrong with U.S. college saw some trees (high cost, unfair admission, etc.) but missed the forest: the 60-year right-wing crusade to undermine higher ed, from slashing budgets to stifling speech

How to really fix college. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/yale...

Maybe Harvard needs to be abolished. I like the sound of U Mass-Harvard.

Read on to learn just a bit about what making #PublicGoodU real means and the hard work it takes!

The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

Nobel Prize in Literature 1993 The Nobel Prize in Literature 1993 was awarded to Toni Morrison "who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality"

www.nobelprize.org/prizes/liter...

Fund Education Not War and Deportation MAY DAY

you know you gotta get in formation/

Corruption Toppled Viktor Orbán. Could Donald Trump Be Next? “Corruption is the Achilles’ heel of autocrats. It’s not a bug in the system. It’s the model,” the New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer says.

“Corruption is the Achilles’ heel of autocrats. It’s not a bug in the system. It’s the model,” the New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer says. www.newyorker.com/podcast/poli...

Just keeps getting better!

"The University of California system, the California State system, the City University of New York — these are the institutions actually educating America’s workforce, actually moving first-generation students into the middle class, actually delivering on higher education’s democratic promise."

The College Affordability Crisis is Real, but the Media is Looking at the Wrong Schools Sturges Hall (Photo by Keith Walters ’11) Opinion By Costas Solomou, Vice President, Enrollment Management Published by the Office of Enrollment Management When Yale University released its Committee ...

"the colleges that dominate the headlines are not the colleges that most Americans attend

their core mission: to serve students from all backgrounds, at a price families can actually afford, prepare graduates for real careers and meaningful lives."

www.geneseo.edu/enrollment-m...

DOJ demanded voter files from all 50 states.

DOJ sued 31 states for refusing their demand.

My law firm intervened to protect voters in those cases.

DOJ is now 0-5.

My firm is 5-0.

Lesson: When we fight we win.

Stanford: Protect student privacy — reject DOJ demands for admissions data The Trump Administration is attempting to coerce Stanford Medical School into releasing sensitive admissions data that could compromise student privacy. While Stanford is not yet under a court order t...

Urge Stanford to reject the DOJ's demands for sensitive personal information about Stanford Medical School students:

Please sign & share the petition:
alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org/petitions/ca...

A Better Future for All

Every media outlet covering the Yale report should pair it with this @aft.org @aaup.org initiative!

(All credit to my colleague Surya Parekh who suggested adding the word “indispensable” to the mantra I’ve been using for years. Now it’s going national! #PublicGoodU)

www.aft.org/ae/spring202...

A Better Future for All

In American Educator, @rweingarten.bsky.social and @proftwolf.bsky.social explain why we must defend higher ed institutions and the economic benefits they have for graduates and the greater society—spurring local business development, providing jobs, & generating tax revenue⤵️
aft.org/ae/spring202...

I’m under no illusion that our reports will get more views or reads or headlines than Yale’s. But we really need to rethink what are “leading” universities in the United States. (Of course I’m proud of Stony Brook’s former president. SBU’s new one is a gem!)

president.yale.edu/sites/defaul...