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Academe is the magazine of the @AAUP, and our blog keeps the conversation going online. Opinions are not necessarily those of the AAUP or the magazine.
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ICYMI: the AAUP's @AcademeBlog has a new series organized by @AnneliseOrleck1 focused on the recent repression we are witnessing against protests at US college & university campuses against the war in Gaza. Check out the first three installments in this🧵
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I tried to name the disquiet that came from Saturday’s assassination attempt for the @AcademeBlog (the @aaup faculty blog): The Sad Student with a Gun on a Rooftop https://t.co/z2No4r9yht
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BY MATTHEW BOEDY “When you read about this kid–he was 20, no longer a child, but far from a mature adult too–it all seems very confused. He’s a sad kid, of a kind I’ve seen dozens of times in my cl…
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Michael Schwalbe on the implications of violently removing protesters at campuses like @UNC using "outside agitators" as a pretext. Yet before "students were told they had to accept neo-Confederates rallying on campus in defense of" the #SilentSam statue.
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BY MICHAEL SCHWALBE We are now seeing how holocausts happen. We are seeing how people who dare to speak out against massive state violence—in this case, college students protesting Israel’s brutal …
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Mark S. James writes about the relief, and reality, of being "post-debt" after #PublicServiceLoanForgiveness: "Even though my student loans have been forgiven, they will continue to affect me and my family the rest of our lives."
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BY MARK S. JAMES This week, President Biden announced his most ambitious plan to forgive student loan debt since the US Supreme Court ruled his last sweeping effort unconstitutional last year. I…
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Grad student Audrey Berlowitz links the academic portfolio review process at @UNCG to austerity speedups that eclipse possibilities for reimagining #highered and calls for faculty, students, and staff to "to reclaim a place to dream the university."
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BY AUDREY BERLOWITZ I am a PhD candidate studying undergraduate teaching and learning at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, which serves a predominantly multiracial, multiethnic first-ge…
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A new blog post by @aaup_utAustin centers on a canceled lecture amid the passing of "the anti-DEI bill" SB 17, and chapter leaders worry about the "dangerous precedent" being set by administrators and university leaders.
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BY LAUREN GUTTERMAN AND LISA L. MOORE On February 22nd, 2024, Dr. Paige Schilt, a social worker, author, and former lecturer and staff member at the University of Texas at Austin, was scheduled to …
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Mark S. James writes about faculty opposition to an effort by Molloy College's DEI office to repackage a failed civility policy as a new antibullying policy.
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BY MARK S. JAMES Last August, my colleague wrote about how our university’s leadership has embraced a top-down corporate model as the way of running the university, and he proceeded to describe var…
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Following a series of "political appointees" to the @GeorgeMasonU Board of Visitors and backlash against general education requirements, @AAUPMason calls for a renewed fight for #academicfreedom: "We simply cannot let the university die on our watch."
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BY THE GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY AAUP CHAPTER From donor influence scandals to Supreme Court boondoggles, there’s never a dull moment at George Mason University (GMU). Now, once again, Mason students…
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As the @AAUP prepares a new "Redbook," Jonathan Rees covers overdue revisions to one statement: "People who want to know what the AAUP thinks of online education are going to want to know what we think about academic freedom and shared governance online.
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BY JONATHAN REES I read the AAUP’s Redbook from back to front. What I mean by that is that when a problem comes up, I ask myself, “I wonder what the AAUP has to say about this?” t…
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"The increasing number of egregious administrative attacks on academic freedom and speech rights . . . provides us a crucial window of opportunity to dispatch many sitting presidents," writes @DanSegal14
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BY DANIEL A. SEGAL The presidents of the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, and MIT did a famously terrible job responding to Representative Elise Stefanik’s questions at the congressional hearin…
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Dr. Karma Chavez @queermigrations on the power of faculty/student coalitions in support of academic freedom and due process.
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BY KARMA R. CHÁVEZ Recently, I’ve had the opportunity to get to know Callie Kennedy and Parham Daghighi, former teaching assistants (TAs) in the Steve Hicks School of Social Work at the University …
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#HigherEdFaculty, are you ready for a new round of grading? Your #LMS may not be. A devotee of #ungrading, Jonathan Rees writes that online gradebooks offer "a false sense of precision"--and some student "heartburn."
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BY JONATHAN REES I am old enough to have used a physical gradebook when I started teaching. It looked like it was filled with graph paper, but there was definitely an extra-large space on the left …
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"No one is coming to save us. We all have to be all in for all of us." In December, I asked faculty to put democracy on the syllabus. Today I ask all of us to put democracy in the community. Read more in link @AcademeBlog @AAUP
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By MATTHEW BOEDY Last month I encouraged faculty to put democracy on the syllabus. In that post, I wrote: “No one is coming to save us. We all have to do this together.” To further that call, I ur…
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Jonathan Rees points out the anti-faculty undertones of Trump's proposed education policies, warning of the dangers of a potential "Trump University, Part II."
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BY JONATHAN REES Did you know that Donald Trump has promised to create a free national online university if he gets to become president again? You can read the basics of his proposal in Politico: D…
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Denouncing the right-wing trend toward "demonizing dissent," Kevin Howley praises the rise of pro-Palestinian activism expressed by student bodies across the country.
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BY KEVIN HOWLEY In recent weeks, college students across the country have raised their voices in support of the Palestinian people, whose collective punishment at the hands of the Israeli governmen…
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Cory James Young praises the @AHAhistorians' "Freedom to Learn" initiative in his impassioned plea to historians and faculty to speak out against "divisive concept" laws and legislation aimed at curtailing free speech and #academicfreedom.
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BY CORY JAMES YOUNG I was having a conversation with a graduate student in my department about a possible collaboration when we noticed the television. One of our colleagues was on the Iowa City ne…
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Addressing #highered faculty in a direct, heartfelt call to action, @MatthewBoedy outlines the tangible actions faculty can take to counteract "culture war attacks" and how to advocate for much-needed resources and institutional autonomy.
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BY MATTHEW BOEDY I was asked by our state’s largest newspaper here in Georgia to write a column offering some priorities for higher education as lawmakers return in January for our annual legislati…
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Rubén Martinez explores the "worldly character" of academic freedom and the influence of social structures on academia in a follow-up post to his recent #Academe article.
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BY RUBÉN MARTINEZ Crises in intellectual and religious thought have been opportunities for the reformulation of the basic principles and ideas of existing bodies of knowledge for decades. In the 19…
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Drawing comparisons between the "right-wing culture wars" and the Israel-Hamas crisis, @ellen_schrecker highlights the dangers of using an "Orwellian representation of free speech" to stifle the kinds of criticism necessary for academic freedom.
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BY ELLEN SCHRECKER As the tragic conflict unfolds in Israel and Gaza, the AAUP may now face attempts to fire pro-Palestinian professors that could make earlier academic purges look like a tea party…
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Assessing the political climate of the Hamas-Israel war, Jonathan Graubart writes, "This unhinged mood has grave implications for free speech and academic freedom at US universities and colleges, which I have experienced firsthand."
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BY JONATHAN GRAUBART The horrifying violence in the Hamas-Israel war has aroused great passions across the United States. Both Hamas and Israel have plenty of blood on their hands. What concerns me…
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