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Wrote a little about the work the U.S. put into helping academics escape fascism during WWII and why we can't rely on that for our future
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The realization can either break you or liberate you.
“What happens in Texas does not stay in Texas. The policies being implemented there are increasingly being proposed and replicated elsewhere.”
— Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
Prof. Lina-Maria Murillo: “In August, the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality at the University of Texas at Austin will close. I’ve been a member of this department since last year…I’m just one faculty member among hundreds across the country who are facing elimination of their programs.” 😡
🚨On the recent Vanderbilt report on the humanities: “the committee takes a…disturbing direction toward endorsing academic authoritarianism—the use of administrative power to seize control of academic departments + impose ideological standards on them in order to purge leftist scholars.”
🔔”The issues in Texas have been piling up over the last number of years, but they’ve accelerated in the last, I’d say, nine months,” AAUP national president Todd Wolfson said at a news conference Tuesday. He added that “because of that rapid acceleration…we felt like we had to act.” 👏👏
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Excellent study ⬇️
AFT is cohosting a webinar TONIGHT at 8pm EDT on how schools and communities can lift up immigrant cultures as a way to foster more welcoming communities. This #ImmigrantHeritageMonth, we're responding to fear with belonging. Join us here ⤵️
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In August, the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Texas at Austin will close. I joined the department last year after leaving the University of Iowa’s Gender, Wom...
I wrote something about the resurgence of Western civilization courses across the US and why it’s a very bad idea.
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An American Association of University Professors committee is investigating academic freedom and shared governance violations across Texas, where public university leaders have restricted what faculty...
An American Association of University Professors committee is investigating academic freedom and shared governance violations across Texas, where public university leaders have restricted what faculty...
Editor's note: UT Austin announced an appointed core curriculum review committee last fall in response to SB 37. A report on the committee's work was expected in May but has not been released.
