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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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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. wp.me/p8xr4h-cFc
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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." academeblog.org/2024/04/05/a…
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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. wp.me/p8xr4h-cB1
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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. wp.me/p8xr4h-cA6
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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 academeblog.org/2024/01/18/p…
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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. academeblog.org/2023/11/15/d…
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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. academeblog.org/2023/11/01/t…
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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." wp.me/p8xr4h-clw
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