"Weaponized allegations of antisemitism driven by pro-Israel groups have been central to attacks on #campusSpeech—including the Trump administration’s brazen war on #higherEducation—over the past two years, according to a new report jointly published today by the American Association of University Professors and the Middle East Studies Association."

https://mesana.org/advocacy/task-force-on-civil-and-human-rights/2025/11/05/discriminating-against-dissent-the-weaponization-of-civil-rights-law-to-repress-campus-speech-on-palestine
#USpol #UShigherEd #civilRights #civilLiberties #studentProtests #activism #Palestine #Gaza #PalestineSolidarity

#LettersAndPolitics welcomes Craig Aaron of Free Press Action and #Berkeley Prof Hatem Baziam to discuss the Trump 2.0 #FCC overreach against broadcasters and #UCBerkeley's collusion with the govt against the #PalestineSolidarity movement

https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-september-18-2025/
#BrendanCarr #cronyism #JimmyKimmel #USpol #USmedia #censorship #stateRepression #civilLiberties #FreedomOfSpeech #academicFreedom #UShigherEd #Project2025

"In the 1950s, the targets were individual teachers—communists, progressives, liberals—and their left-wing unions. Now the target is the system itself [...] its commitments to principles of equality and justice—to say nothing of truthful accounts of history—are being trashed."

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-general-air-of-anxiety/
#USpol #USpolitics #UShistory #stateRepression #AcademicFreedom #education #AmericanSchools #UShigherEd #Trumpism #civilLiberties #SecondRedScare #McCarthyism

#AmericanPrestige pod welcomes back historian #RashidKhalidi to talk about #ColumbiaUniversity's entente with the #Trump Administration, #Columbia's measures to bring in "outside monitors," and how powerful donors and neoliberal management models are affecting humanities departments and #MiddleEastStudies.

https://americanprestige.supportingcast.fm/listen/american-prestige-1/e223-columbia-trump-and-the-palestine-exception-w-rashid-khalidi

#studentProtests #ColumbiaU #academicFreedom #campusActivism #stateRepression #GazaSolidarity #PalestineSolidarity #USpolitics #UShigherEd @palestine @israel

"At a moment when protest leader Mahmoud Khalil has been returned from the Trump administration’s brutal and unwarranted effort to deport him—and announced his own lawsuit stemming from his detention and rendition—Shipman’s ritual banishment of other anti-war activists signaled to the White House that #Columbia will be an eager partner in the many moral panics it will continue throwing together on the fly."

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/columbia-trump-settlement/

#ColumbiaU #USpol #UShigherEd #PalestineSolidarity @palestine

"#MauraFinkelstein is one of many scholars discovering that the traditional protections of #academicFreedom are no longer holding."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/magazine/academic-freedom-politics.html?unlocked_article_code=1.M08.N4MZ.GnbctFJl9QLD&smid=url-share

#USpol #GazaSolidarity #PalestineSolidarity #civilLiberties #FreeSpeech #activism #FreeSpeechOnCampus #UShigherEd @palestine

'Terms like “quislings,” “Thermidor,” “Vichy,” and “submission” have circulated widely in articles denouncing #Columbia’s surrender, zeroing in on betrayal as the proper note to strike. But it is not really betrayal when those committing the action have no investment in the principles betrayed.'

Said's Specter

https://www.chronicle.com/article/saids-specter
https://archive.ph/CaEix

#EdwardSaid #ColumbiaUniversity #USpol #academicFreedom #studentProtests #stateRepression #PalestineSolidarity #UShigherEd @palestine

The program for grad students at Virginia Tech to help them become future faculty members with a broad perspective of higher education in the US and in Europe (#GlobalPerspectivesProgram) has been canceled. They were scheduled to visit Switzerland, France, and Italy mid May. As GPP2013 alumna I would’ve welcomed them at #ZHAW. Bummer 🫤

#AcademicChatter #GPP #USHigherEd

#Marquette University's administration is falsely blaming budget cuts on unavoidable headwinds (inflation; enrollment cliffs), when instead the money has been irresponsibly spent on underfunded initiatives, buildings and more buildings, and just plain mismanagement, above all a focus on shiny things rather than the core university mission.

Boards of Trustees have been fundamentally failing in their oversight responsibilities.

https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/timeline3/latest/embed/index.html?source=1ihBCFHizxyRa36CkcGgM0FYfXu1zFcBpUAy3JvcEiX8&font=Default&lang=en&initial_zoom=2&height=650

@academicchatter #HigherEd #USHigherEd

*Please #Boost/ #Donate*
Some time ago I embarked upon a journey to become an #EnglishTeacher. I fell ill, got behind. I failed my classes. The #college GCU is holding my #transcripts hostage until I can pay them about $1,900. I know this isn't a great time, but I've made a #GoFundMe if you could contribute/Boost it I would really appreciate it 💯😁💖
#HigherEd #tuition #USCollege #forProfitCollege #studentdebt #studentloan #mutualAid #debt #debtRelief #USHigherEd​

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