Outstanding piece by Michael S Roth, who chose not to shut down the encampment at Wesleyan. "College students have long played an important, even heroic role in American politics. ... The last thing any university president should want is an apolitical campus." nytimes.com/2024/09/02/opi…

The Board of Trustees chair at the University of Louisville offers a significant defense of UL's work on behalf of "the full spectrum of diversity" and "a more diverse workforce," after UK and UNK shuttered their DEI offices. courier-journal.com/story/opinion/…

🧵We are proud to stand with RSF Front Line Defenders and Narges Mohammadi | نرگس محمدی for the launch of the #FreeNarges Coalition at the Nobel Peace Conference in Oslo. Over 25 groups have joined to demand freedom for Narges Mohammadi. “We are all stronger working together,” says Karin D Karlekar, PhD.

I worked hard with colleagues to put together a special issue for @JournalGAPE on Anthony Comstock and his legacy. If you don't know much about him, well, you are in for a ride. Here's part 1: blog.shgape.org/anthony-comsto…

Last week the 2024 American Association of University Professors Faculty in the South Survey revealed for the second year a rapidly declining reputation for higher education in 12 states from Virginia to Texas. Today lsiten to the voices of the professors in their own words. 1/x academeblog.org/2024/09/05/res…

Yet another example of administrators’ over-interpretation of anti-DEI SB 17. Faculty senate committees and employee resource groups do not provide DEI training.

Anti-DEI Bills Failed in Kentucky. Universities Are Restricting It Anyway. Some of the state’s biggest public institutions have voluntarily dissolved their DEI offices. But will that be enough to forestall legislation that guts them even more? bit.ly/4dWoGTH

A professor from North Carolina in our 2024 @aaup Faculty in the South survey: "It's a combination of a state legislature impacting the university with the fact that people in leadership positions seem to refuse to fight back." #ncpol

Great new white paper by my PEN America colleague James Tager on threats to free expression in #Project2025, including a terrifying attempt to weaponize accreditation as a mechanism for political control of universities. pen.org/report/project…

BREAKING: We just filed suit against a new Indiana law undermining professors' free speech rights and academic freedom. Under threat of termination or denial of tenure, the law's vague and sweeping mandates make it impossible for professors to discern what they can teach.

The opacity of academic prose arises from the epistemological imperative to operationalize disciplinary jargon, facilitating intra-specialized discourse while obfuscating heterogenous interpretive accessibility and perpetuating a recursive dialectic of erudition and exclusion.

Hi Adam. This you? Care to expand?

Jeremy C. Young Ryan Quinn check out this great piece by Don Moynihan also taking down the AEI plan to punish academic association that make public statements. @aaup donmoynihan.substack.com/p/silencing-di…

⭐️⭐️This time around, the DEI discussion will also include so-called discriminatory academic programs. Speak up and defend the freedom to teach and to learn! 🗣️🗣️🗣️

Amazing study by American Historical Association, thoroughly debunking hysterical claims of indoctrination in high school history classrooms by provocateurs like Chris Rufo. They're just teaching regular old history.