It's good that universities are making six-figure payouts to people who got fired for their comments about Charlie Kirk, but now the universities need to do some new firing, of administrators who carried out those illegal actions.
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Eli Friedman
Cornell Graduate Banned After President Hit Him With Car https://bit.ly/4viG6Cj
Surprise, surprise! The Vanderbilt report decrying the state of scholarship in the humanities is itself a terrible work of “scholarship“:
New on Academe Blog from @hellobrittparis.bsky.social of @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social:
Jacob T. Levy
ICYMI: John Oliver’s hilarious & thorough takedown of the dysfunctional “complete shit show” hostile takeover of New College of Florida that led to the most corrupt, financially inefficient public university in the state. 👀
➡️ @newcollegeoffl.bsky.social
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Please consider signing this letter opposing layoffs at the New School docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Inside Higher Ed
BY BRITT PARIS As AI companies are flailing, financial forecasters warn of an AI bubble. There is an extensive list of harms AI poses to workers, students, communities, the environment, and the soc…
This form is for individuals who wish to add their names to the Open Letter Concerning Academic Freedom, Tenure, and the Future of the New School, occasioned by the firing of Sanjay Reddy amongst othe...
"I no longer have confidence in the Special Committee’s members, which means I no longer have confidence in the Chair and the three Vice-Chairs of Cornell’s Board of Trustees. They took on a discrete task of great importance to the university, but they utterly failed to understand the assignment."
This new @yaleaaup.bsky.social report on academic freedom at Yale is horrifying if not surprising. One number that jumped out: "21.5% reported that they had been asked by a “department chair, Deans, or others in university leadership” to make changes to their courses, research or website".
AAUP
“you know how sophisticated sports analysts love to say, “The commissioner doesn’t work for the fans, he works for the owners”? Well, college presidents, deans, and administrators don’t work for students, parents, or faculty members. They work for the trustees.”
