🧡🧡🧡Thanks to Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. for her leadership & this shout out to UT Austin AAUP & Texas Conference of the AAUP. The UT Austin chapter, led by Pauline Strong Pauline Strong, and the Texas AAUP Conference, led by Brian Evans, fight for academic freedom, shared governance, due process. Join us, follow us!

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Absolute brilliance. The new "I'm Just a Bill" from Schoolhouse Rock

Colleges and universities would be in a much better space if protests and encampments were viewed as co-curricular learning spaces for students.

Levitsky, a Government professor, described the chalking ban — and the threat of punishment — as “completely antithetical to the kind of democratic society that I want to live in.” thecrimson.com/article/2024/9…

Faculty working conditions are student learning conditions. Solidarity to OUAAUP on holding strong in support of better economic packages for all faculty. Classes will proceed as scheduled at Oakland University today while the agreement heads to a ratification vote. ✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿✊🏻

I’m begging people to take ONE ethnic studies class! Just one!

Ethnic studies at its inception was about the destruction of the white supremacist university as we know it and opposed imperialism and the war machine. Students literally shut down universities for weeks and months at a time at universities all across the country.

I can’t stand people’s WILLFULL ignorance that what we are seeing has no antecedents in previous leftist, anti-imperialist, and anti-racist student moments.

I stand with CSULB faculty against tyrannical CSU admin. #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter CSULB administrator tries to bully and intimidate activist scholars of color. And yes the administrator is also color. Brown faces in high places means nothing. All skin folk aren’t

New: In a survey of 950 Texas faculty 61% said they would not recommend accepting a position in the state, according to a press release from Texas Conference of the AAUP. "Among faculty seeking to leave Texas, their greatest concern was the state’s political climate," it said. Salary was second.

⚡️BREAKING: The International Court declares Israels Occupation Illegal

the possibility has to be considered that she was marked for death by a surveillance operation, something like Canary Mission, that tracked her from UWash Seattle to the West Bank

Tracking ID swipes. Reviewing CCTV footage. Hiring private investigators. These are some of the ways Columbia and Barnard have employed surveillance to identify and discipline student protesters, according to interviews and documents. l8r.it/7Iyi

Inaugural issue of Pasados, a new open-source journal on early Latinx literature is now published: jstor.org/journal/pasados

The University of Toronto Muslim Students' Association held a significant press conference today. I’ve edited the videos to add context to their key points. These claims are likely to put the administration in an even tougher spot.

Shame on Columbia. These policies are antithetical to the very mission of higher ed and these institutions. The suppression of faculty and student expression is an affront to the purpose of the university as a site of learning and debate and a microcosm of democratic practice.

CAIR Designates University of Texas – Austin as 'Institution of Particular Concern' Due to Mistreatment of Anti-Genocide Voices - cair.com/press_releases…