After current sexuality and gender studies majors and graduate students complete their teach-outs, “no degree-culminating student research within the TTU System will be permitted to center on SOGI topics,” the memo states. “Graduate theses and dissertations may only center on SOGI topics as a strictly temporary teach-out exception, explicitly limited to currently enrolled students completing their degrees within formally identified teach-out programs.”

The Texas Tech board and administration established ideological a gag order on what graduate students can study but so many university leaders will still parrot claims about a censorious liberal culture.

India's pipeline to Silicon Valley with Dwaipayan Banerjee - American Campus Podcast It only flows one way.References and suggested readings:Dwaipayan Banerjee. 2026. Computing in the Age of Decolonization: India’s Lost Technological Revolution. Princeton University Press. Dwai…

Dwaipayan Banerjee talks about his new book Computing in the Age of Decolonization: India’s Lost Technological Revolution on the latest episode of the American Campus Podcast, hosted by @llassabe.bsky.social. Check it out here:

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This May Day, join higher ed workers across the nation and fight for an affordable and safe education that serves the common good. Learn more and register at www.labor4highered.org

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Yes! Doing excellent! Just out of town and realllly slacking on email 😆

Pidcast, we’ve changed the name

If you’ve sent me an email in the last week………. (ducking, covering face)

@mstambolis.bsky.social

First international recording of American Campus Pidcast in Toulouse! Extremely excited to share this one soon

Who Gets Guggenheims? - Public Books Unfortunately, 100 years of data show that those whom such fellowships might represent the greatest departure from their everyday experience—that is, those not at elite institutions—are least likely…

New at PB: Dominique J. Baker (@bakerdphd.bsky.social) & Christopher T. Bennett share their research into the question: Who gets prestigious fellowships?

Very strong piece today ⬇️

For more on the origins of today’s anti-highered tactics, which were honed in the late 60s, see @llassabe.bsky.social ‘s excellent new book, uncpress.org/978146967449.... Important to see the whole playbook.

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Liner Note 51. Academic Freedom of the Third Kind, in a Very Bad Time Stonehenge on December 21, 2025    In the end, the university’s main value is its intellectuality, the treatment of everything that is with ...

here's my post on why we should push the academic freedom to study what you want-- not go to college to study for a job. The evidence is that good wages don't come from specific majors or courses, so actually study what you really care about. utotherescue.blogspot.com/2026/04/line...

Guess who's coming to Toulouse on Monday? Lauren Lassabe Shepherd! @llassabe.bsky.social She'll be talking about right-wing attacks on US universities. Come join us!

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Made up college rankings with Jonathan Beecher Field - American Campus Podcast Create your own college ranking list! The parameters are totally up to you. Email Lauren at shephell@iu.edu. JBF will pick the winner of MANY FREE BOOKS!References and suggested readings:JonathanBeech...

I am on the American Campus Podcast, hosted by @llassabe.bsky.social, talking about college rankings.
tl;dr? The best college is equidistant between a Steve Madden shoe store and a Waffle House. There is also a contest!
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And you need to read Lauren's whole essay (link in quoteskeet), but here's a little context on Rize.

I do quant research and I still believe strongly in talking to people to make sure I'm thinking carefully about variable and model constructing

*Whew.* I can finally feel safe from those students chanting things and sleeping in tents on the quad. Thank you Trump administration!

Who Owns High School English? On communities of practice, corporate capture, and what happens when teachers are cut off from the disciplines they teach

New post: What happens when teachers are cut off from the discipline they teach? How is HS English becoming codified, commodified, & captured by corporate interests and administrative functionaries? Where do we go from here? #edusky #literacies #academicsky

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Archie Bunker for President Delving into the intersection of television entertainment and American politics during the 1970s, focusing on the sitcom All in the Family, this book explore...

Finally, now's a good time to order your own copy of my book Archie Bunker for President - about how we got to our current moment of politics as television entertainment and a television character in the White House.

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Resistance from the Right Pivoting from studies that emphasize the dominance of progressivism on American college campuses during the late sixties and early seventies, Lauren Lassabe ...

Even if I wasn't friends with @llassabe.bsky.social I would still be recommending Resistance from the Right. It such a smart and relevant history of conservative activists on campus.

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Newsweek December 24, 1990: Thought police there’s a politically correct way to talk about race, sex and ideas. Is this the new enlightenment or the new McCarthyism?

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Who else hides from their dogs so they can get work done

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Melania Trump: “Imagine a humanoid educator named Plato. Access to the classical studies…”

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Pioneer Fund, the dark money trust that won't let race science die with John P. Jackson Jr. - American Campus Podcast References and suggested readings:John P. Jackson, Jr. 2005. Science for Segregation: Race, Law, and the Case Against Brown V. Board of Education. New York University Press. John P. Jackson, Jr. ...

Anyone who wants to hear me talk about what I do everyday feel free to listen to the @llassabe.bsky.social and I did. And thanks to her for the opportunity! www.buzzsprout.com/2396665/epis...

I Need Your Support On the state of Democracy Americana after six months, the pitfalls of the newsletter economy – and what the future holds for this independent publication

Six months after launching into a new career as an independent writer, I take stock of where this experiment stands.

A reflection on the pitfalls of the newsletter economy – and what the future holds for Democracy Americana.

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