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DoomsdaysCW

Looks like the American Association of University Professors agrees with me!

#AAUP, Allies Sue over #Trump Policy of Arresting and Threatening to Deport #Students and #Faculty for #LawfulSpeech

"The national AAUP; chapters at #Harvard, #Rutgers, and #NYU; and the #MiddleEastStudies Association today filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests, detentions, and deportations of noncitizen students and faculty members who participate in #ProPalestinian #protests and other protected #FirstAmendment activities.

"We believe that the administration’s ideological-deportation policy violates the First Amendment by targeting constitutionally protected speech that Americans have a right to hear and engage with. The policy has created a climate of fear and repression on campuses around the country. We are represented in the case by the #KnightFirstAmendmentInstitute at #ColumbiaUniversity, #AhilanArulanantham, and Zimmer, Citron & Clarke LLP.

"Following executive orders issued by President Trump in January, the federal agencies that enforce immigration laws have arrested and detained several people associated with U.S. colleges and universities, including a legal permanent resident, on the basis of constitutionally protected speech and association.

"Today’s filing argues that the ideological-deportation policy has created a climate of #repression and intense fear on university #campuses, 'terrorizing students and faculty for their exercise of First Amendment rights in the past, intimidating them from exercising those rights now, and silencing political viewpoints that the government disfavors.'

"'The Trump administration is going after international #scholars and students who speak their minds about #Palestine, but make no mistake: they won't stop there. They'll come next for those who teach the history of #slavery or who provide #GenderAffirming health care or who research #ClimateChange or who counsel students about their reproductive choices. We all have to draw a line together—as the old labor movement slogan says: an injury to one is an injury to all,' says AAUP President Todd Wolfson.

"'The First Amendment means the government can’t arrest, detain, or deport people for lawful political expression—it’s as simple as that. This practice is one we’d ordinarily associate with the most repressive political regimes, and it should have no place in our democracy,' says #JameelJaffer, executive director at the Knight First Amendment Institute."

Source:
aaup.org/news/aaup-allies-sue-
#RightToProtest #SilencingDissent #USPol #CharacteristicsOfFascism #law
#immigration #FreeSpeech #MarcoRubio #Trump #FreedomOfAssembly #Authoritarianism #Palestine #CriminalizingDissent #HigherEducation

AAUP · AAUP, Allies Sue over Trump Policy of Arresting and Threatening to Deport Students and Faculty for Lawful SpeechThe national AAUP; chapters at Harvard, Rutgers, and NYU; and the Middle East Studies Association today filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests, detentions, and deportations of noncitizen students and faculty members who participate in pro-Palestinian protests and other protected First Amendment activities.
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Still Mad About CD Prices

IDK if this helps a lot, but when the news says "X University" did something, it usually means the president did. Almost all US #universities are #authoritarian hierarchies where exactly one person has ultimate power* over hiring/firing budgets, salaries, and policy, and that person was appointed by bodies higher up the hierarchy, not elected or meaningfully chosen by faculty, staff, or students. The president often delegates things to the provost(s), deans, directors, or VPs, but still ultimately has all responsibility for, and power over, their decisions.

The faculty tend to be a diverse bunch, but many are much more committed to basic values than the president. We just don't have any power, and we all too frequently fail to use our voice.

danieldrezner.substack.com/p/g

  • There are some exceptions/nuances to this, like #faculty usually go through a long and complicated hiring process, though the president must approve their choices; and #tenure provides some job protection at some universities, though a determined president can usually find ways to get around this.
Drezner’s World · GUEST POST: We Are Professors at Columbia. Here is How We Would Respond.By Daniel W. Drezner
#highered#uspol#columbiauniversity
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DoomsdaysCW

#ColumbiaUniversity Bent Over Backward to Appease #RightWing, #ProIsrael Attacks — And #Trump Still Cut #FederalFunding

Instead of #outrage, the school’s interim president responded to the cuts by vowing to continue its misguided crackdown.

by Natasha Lennard, March 8 2025

"Columbia University could hardly have been more draconian in the last year and a half since students began speaking out against Israel’s assault on #Gaza.
In early November 2023, four months before the Columbia #GazaSolidarity encampment even began, the university banned its chapters of #StudentsForJusticeInPalestine and #JewishVoiceForPeace. A few hundred students from the groups had had the audacity to walk out from classes and hold a “die-in” protest on campus — some of the most widely celebrated nonviolent protest tactics available.

"The crackdown was just getting started.

Since then, the university has ordered police raids on campus three times, leading to the arrests of over 100 students. Last week, the school expelled four students, three from #BarnardCollege one from Columbia. Many dozens of students have faced discipline and suspensions for participating in pro-Palestine protests and speech.

"Professors have been slandered before Congress, censured, removed from positions, and reportedly pushed into retirement over their support for Palestine and criticism of Israel. The campus has been essentially locked down for almost a year.

"Again and again, Columbia has shown a willingness to throw #students, #faculty, #FreeSpeech, and academic freedom under the bus in acquiescence to a #RightWing, #ProIsrael narrative that treats support for Palestinians as an affront to Jewish safety.

"For all Columbia’s #appeasement, President Donald Trump’s Federal Task Force to Combat Antisemitism announced last week that it would cancel $400 million in #FederalGrants and contracts to the university.

"'Columbia has worked overtime to appease,' wrote Layla, a student at Columbia’s School of Social Work, who asked to withhold her last name having faced doxxing attacks and harassment from Zionist groups. 'Students are miserable. Campus is a #panopticon. And their funding was still cut.'

"The Trump administration can be expected to use its perverted conception of antisemitism to further its explicit plans to decimate, #corporatize, and #ReWhiten #HigherEducation. The shame here lies with university leaderships — at Columbia and schools nationwide — that have failed to stand up for their purported missions of #CriticalThinking and #AcademicFreedom. Instead, they have put some of their most vulnerable community members, particularly international students and students of color, at risk.

"There is no appeasing a political force like the #TrumpianRight, intent on a program of destruction. And there is no appeasing a nationalist #Zionist worldview that, defying reason, sees #antisemitism in every call for #Palestinian freedom. Columbia is proof of the failure of caving in; the administration has offered up a platter of repression for more than a year and is still slated to lose $400 million."

Read more:
theintercept.com/2025/03/08/co

Archived version:
archive.ph/jrNva
#Fascism #Appeasement #FreePalestine #Gaza #RightToProtest #Censorship #Fascism #ICE #ACAB #Authoritarianism #USPol #FreeSpeech

The Intercept · Columbia Bent Over Backward to Appease Right-Wing, Pro-Israel Attacks — And Trump Still Cut Federal FundingBy Natasha Lennard
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‘Buckeyes don’t stand for foolishness’: Roughly 900 students, faculty and staff gather to protest SB 1, criticize university President Ted Carter Jr. and state legislature - Laurence Myers-Bailey
The Lantern · ‘Buckeyes don’t stand for foolishness’: Roughly 900 students, faculty and staff gather to protest SB 1, criticize university President Ted Carter Jr. and state legislatureAround 900 students, faculty and staff gathered in the Oval from 1-4:30 p.m. Tuesday to protest Ohio Senate Bill 1 and Ohio State’s diversity, equity and inclusion rollbacks.  From Ohio State community members to administrators, religious leaders and politicians, the crowd grew from a mere few dozen people just before 1 p.m. to approximately 900 […]
#campus#instagrampage#national
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Still Mad About CD Prices

I'm not shocked, just disappointed. When I asked my local #faculty union president how the #union would respond if I was fired etc. for speaking up about the Palestinian #genocide, I got a response significantly different from the Union's "we protect academic freedom" line.

I think I'm being told I'm on my own if I say anything publicly about #Gaza.

Edit: Asked if this was different from if I were targeted for protesting on behalf of nonwhite, LGBTQ, etc. students. The president said, "No, each case is unique and depends on the circumstances."

I got back with the third image. I'll post some response when the president responds. I'm cautiously hopeful, but only a little. This union has never missed a chance to say "That's not in line with our current objectives" or similar.

Final edit: Fourth image. I suppose this is better news, though I still don't know what the union would actually do. I will try to talk to the president soon and get stories about what the union did in similar situations. Commitment to specifics would be really nice, but I guess this is something.

Hi, [redacted], What will [redacted]'s action be if faculty are targeted by administration or law enforcement for using their free speech to support Palestine or criticize the actions of Netanyahu and the IDF? Will [redacted] defend faculty who are threatened with job or legal action if their only "offense" is saying politically unpopular things about Palestine, Israel, and/or the US funding (and potentially now military involvement) in the ongoing actions against Palestinians?
Hi [redacted] This is a complicated issue and each case would be unique so | can't provide a standard response. We would represent our members at the university, but the specifics would have to be looked at. We would have no ability or authority to defend in any criminal matter or investigation. Thanks,
OK, thanks for clarification. I'm reading that faculty cannot count on [redacted] to defend them from administrative actions resulting from expression of free speech; any faculty member saying something that the administration might find upsetting will just have to wait to find out whether [redacted] will do anything in support (unless "representing faculty" implies defending their free speech rights). Is this accurate?
No, that is not accurate. Faculty can count on [union] to support their academic freedom. However, since each case is unique | cannot give a blanket statement as to what the actions taken will be. Thanks, [president]
#ethniccleansing#palestine#professor
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Julie Faure-Lacroix

Okay, I'm going to pin this one because it's probably the most important aspect of what I work for.

🚨 If you're a #graduate student in #Canada 🚨

You have access to all of the academic supercomputers and cloud computing facilities that are part of the Digital Research Alliance of Canada FOR FREE

Not sure how to use a supercomputer? We also do a lot of training!

There's no catch! I promise, there's no catch. Think of it like you think of your local library. You don't wonder why they let you in and read whatever you want for free, right?

➡️ Students need to make sure that their PI has created an account first, because they'll have to be approved as a member of a lab.

🐎 Run, don't walk to ccdb.alliancecan.ca/security/l and get started!

🚨 If you're a #faculty member in #Canada 🚨

Whatever the role, #lecturer, #researcher #researchAssociate it's the same thing for you! Just get your account before your students and staff. Same link.

🚨 If you're an academic research collaborator outside of #Canada 🚨

You can also use the resources for free if you get sponsored by a Canadian researcher that already has an account. Again, for free. As long as you use it for a project you both collaborate on, you're welcome!

Next week, we'll go through the yearly process of allocating resources to our power users. That process is basically like a grant application and that might also be interesting to some of you. I'll post about it when I'm in the thick of it, I guess!

ccdb.alliancecan.caPlease sign in | CCDB
#Supercomputing#HPC#AI
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Houston Public Media

University professors across the political spectrum in Texas are preemptively self-censoring themselves for fear of damaging their reputations or losing their jobs, according to a new survey from a First Amendment advocacy group.

houstonpublicmedia.org/article

Houston Public Media · Texas professors self-censor for fear of retaliation, survey findsBy Kate McGee
#Education#EducationNews#News
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Daniel M. Reck

@starlabssystems Thought you'd like to see how one of my #HigherEd #IT colleagues "fixed" the image.

Of course, user context does matter in #UX design. Unfortunately at our #college, we are certain #students and #faculty would generate at least one ticket a day somewhere on campus with this design choice.

OTOH, a non-trivial number of tech support people have now seen this and will be able to help those confused users. So... win?

Two laptops are stacked, with physical Wi-Fi toggle switches visible on the side. The switch position is closest to the Wi-Fi logo, but the switch indicates red in this position. A graphic above the photo used to be labeled "kill switch," but has been modified to say "ticket generator switch."
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guyjantic has moved!

Here is how I imagine LMS contracts might work if faculty made the decisions, not admins who haven't had to teach their own classes in 15 years:

Each campus would get licenses for 3 #LMS platforms. #Faculty would choose which they wanted to use. Each company would get paid based on how many faculty used their shit.

Companies would hate this and try to refuse. If they did that, the campus would say kthxbye and fill the spot with an LMS with less rigid ideas.

Fuck every LMS I've ever worked with, to varying extents (of fuckery). Software like this sold to schools seems to me to have often gone through extreme peak #enshittification

#highered#learningTech#eduCorporate
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gallaugher

#Students often ask me for #job / #internship advice. Here is some advice from a #Tech / Business professor that includes some tips you may not have seen. #faculty are welcome to modify/adapt this to their own circumstances. Students / job seekers / career counselors & other advisors - feel free to share if useful. open.substack.com/pub/profgall

Thoughts from Prof. G. · Advice for Student Job & Internship SearchersBy John Gallaugher
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Carlos Moffat

Attention, #Oceanography & #MarineScience #faculty

Graduate recruiting season is upon us again. If you're looking for a graduate student, submit your name & info here:

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI

If you're a prospective student interested in finding an advisor *who is actually looking for a student* to start next year (or earlier), see:

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d

Please boost!

Google DocsOceanography MS/PhD Positions for Fall 2025This is an effort to collect the **contact information of potential advisors** for MS/PhD students in Oceanography. Please note that if you answer **you are agreeing to have your contact information displayed in a publicly available spreadsheet**. As this is an effort to connect prospective students to **individual advisors**, answering the form with information about a whole graduate program is discouraged. Also, I ask you not to answer this for other people unless you have their explicit consent or the position has already been posted on a publicly-available website. Finally, note that the spreadsheet is not populated automatically, so it might take a bit of time for your name to show up. If you're a student looking for an advisor, you can find the spreadsheet with potential advisors here (the list is sorted by institution): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lNarus2zbsYkkQFCrWPS-U2L1Ey4hL2WuBnSp72L1P0/edit?usp=sharing Hope you find this helpful. If you have any questions, you can contact me at cmoffat at udel.edu P.S.: I thank Prof. Sarah Hörst at John Hopkins U. for coming up with the idea for this effort.
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PhoenixSerenity

If you are an #educator, you may have spent recent weeks grappling with your position with respect to #student #NonviolentResistance. You’re not alone, and in this moment, perhaps it is helpful to identify ways #teachers & staff at #schools, #colleges & #universities have supported students engaged in nonviolent #CivilResistance. Below, I will share a range of options, progressing from familiar #faculty roles to those with greater proximity to student #NonviolentAction.

wagingnonviolence.org/rs/2024/

Resistance Studies · For educators grappling with student protests, here's how to play a supporting roleFrom mentoring to monitoring to joining in, there is much faculty can do to foster constructive outcomes.
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PhoenixSerenity

Both #faculty and #encampment members took issue with how the president directed blame for those incidents, with the former saying it could hinder meaningful dialogue and the latter saying they’re being #scapegoated.

The faculty group on Friday said they’re around the encampment almost 24/7 and they’re concerned the information coming the #university “does not align with what most of us have seen first hand at the encampment.”

sookenewsmirror.com/local-news

Sooke News Mirror · UVic faculty and students refute university’s protest encampment accusationsBy Jake Romphf
#UVIC#YYJ#GazaSolidarity
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