Several responses to the Department of Education’s admissions information request.
Colleges Push Back Against Trump’s Effort to Collect More Admissions Data
Institutions and advocates took issue with the proposal’s vague language and lack of privacy safeguards as well as the vast time and effort needed to collect the required data. https://bit.ly/495B1p2
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Results of our recent faculty poll regarding our ongoing bargain negotiations with Berklee management.
Faculty Voices BERKLEE FACULTY IN THEIR OWN WORDS. Ruthie Ristich, Ear Training & Voice 12 years at Berklee ONE WORD TO DESCRIBE MY STUDENTS: Sponges BEST PART ABOUT TEACHING AT BERKLEE: The eagerness of the students. GIVING STUDENTS OUR BEST REQUIRES … having the support of the administration through fair pay and benefits. FAIR PAY • SECURE JOBS • AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE • QUALITY EDUCATION www.berkleefacultyunion.org/bargain
Ruthie Ristich, Ear Training & Voice
12 years at Berklee
ONE WORD TO DESCRIBE MY STUDENTS:
Sponges
BEST PART ABOUT TEACHING AT BERKLEE:
The eagerness of the students.
GIVING STUDENTS OUR BEST REQUIRES …
having the support of the administration through fair pay and benefits.
Faculty Voices BERKLEE FACULTY IN THEIR OWN WORDS. Apostolos Paraskevas, Composition 24 years at Berklee ONE WORD TO DESCRIBE MY STUDENTS: Brave. BEST PART ABOUT TEACHING AT BERKLEE: Other faculty. RESPECT FOR FACULTY MEANS … that art matters. FAIR PAY • SECURE JOBS • AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE • QUALITY EDUCATION www.berkleefacultyunion.org/bargain
Faculty Voices - Apostolos Paraskevas, Composition
Faculty Voices BERKLEE FACULTY IN THEIR OWN WORDS. Rick McLaughlin, Harmony and Jazz Composition 15 years at Berklee ONE WORD TO DESCRIBE MY STUDENTS: Dedicated. BEST PART ABOUT TEACHING AT BERKLEE: Community. GIVING STUDENTS OUR BEST REQUIRES … being genuine and selfless while seeing each student as an individual. Berklee Faculty Union FAIR PAY • SECURE JOBS • AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE • QUALITY EDUCATION www.berkleefacultyunion.org/bargain
Faculty Voices
BERKLEE FACULTY IN THEIR OWN WORDS.
Rick McLaughlin @rickmclaughlin.com, Harmony and Jazz Composition
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We are in week 4 of the Berklee Aspire summer music performance program. Seeing the joy on a young person’s face when they get up on stage to perform reminds me why I do what I do!
“When you peel back all the connections, it’s hard to imagine this is not orchestrated. How can faculty feel safe, not just to exercise their academic freedom, but safe in their personhood, when you have extremist board members siccing their orgs on us.”
— Bethany Letiecq, @aaupmason.bsky.social
CEOs of major corporations are apparently now bragging to investors about firing workers.
In some cases, fired staff are being replaced with AI.
The goal is surely to boost stock prices and CEO pay — even at the expense of workers.
Textbook corporate greed.
Donald Trump is attacking our colleges and universities to score political points.
Understand this: It’s hurting our economy—and threatening our global leadership.
🎥: Kent Wong of the @cftunion.bsky.social delivers a powerful message on how educators are resisting ICE raids, protecting immigrant families and mobilizing against fear and injustice. #TEACH25
🚨Conservative Group Requests Materials for Over 70 UNC Courses🚨
“It’s a violation of academic freedom…of individual free speech rights &… teaching…in the name of…a right-wing agenda.”
—Joan Scott, AAUP Committee on Academic Freedom
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Faculty in the Arts are being hit especially hard now. Jobs in the arts are evaporating daily thanks to factors like AI and apps like Spotify. If you get laid off from your teaching job, there are fewer gigs out there and you’re competing with your former students.
Building Campus Solidarity Across Job Categories: Lessons from Recent Strikes & Adjunct Struggles Speakers include: Todd Wolfson, President, American Association of University Professors Diana Vallera, President, Columbia College Faculty Union Bryan Sacks, Immediate Past President, Rutgers Adjunct Union Sydney Brahmavar, Secretary, Clark College Association of Higher Educators
Wednesday, July 30: Join us for a strategy discussion about how we can build solidarity across job categories on campus. 6pm ET/5pm CT/4pm MT/3pm PT on Zoom: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
From the @higheredlabor.bsky.social newsletter: fighting instructor layoffs at the University of Arizona
#contingent #adjunct #HigherEd
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Without humanities studies, I would not have been a very good scientist. My humanities classes were a master class in creativity, envisioning new futures and how to think. The skills we learned in our humanities classes brought creativity to all our endeavors.
www.deseret.com/opinion/2025...
Most of our faculty also work in the music industry in some capacity. It is a selling point for the school, but the truth is most of us need the extra income from our “side hustles” just to make ends meet!
94% of teachers have had to dip into their own pockets to buy school supplies. An estimated 1 in 6 have second jobs during the school year to make ends meet.
The average Wall Street employee got a record $244,700 bonus last year.
Something has gone terribly wrong.
We are in our 6th week of bargaining a new contract with the Berklee administration. We appreciate your support!
Hello Bluesky. We are the Berklee Faculty Union, representing the amazing faculty of Berklee College of Music and Boston Conservatory in Boston, MA.
