Timothy R Cain

SB 37 took a hatchet to faculty rights in Texas, despite a hard fight from @texasaaup.bsky.social

This is just the beginning

AAUP, AFT Leaders Respond to Trump’s Higher Education Admissions Directive WASHINGTON—American Association of University Professors President Todd Wolfson, AFT President Randi Weingarten, and AFT Secretary-Treasurer Fedrick Ingram and issued the following statements in respo...

“This and other executive orders eliminating federal funding and forcing faculty to end legally permissible work will deprive students of opportunities for educational advancement and economic flourishing.”

—Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

Read full press release and response to Trump’s directive👇

Thanks to Cassie & @mhs1791.bsky.social for asking about the children that created America's public schools.

If you'd like to take 25% off your copy of the book version, use code HSUM25:

Are you sure it was cash? It might have just been the receipt.

Trump fires labor statistics boss hours after the release of weak jobs report Without evidence, Trump called the data "rigged" and implied that BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer manipulated the numbers "for political purposes."

This is like firing the rooster because it’s morning. www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

Appeals Court Allows Trump Order That Ends Union Protections for Federal Workers

9th Cir. stays injunction against Trump's order excluding federal workers at ~40 agencies/departments from collective bargaining. Reasoning is that the EO said the magic words: "national security." (Panel was 2 Trump appointees & 1 Obama appointee) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/u...

The truth is what *he* says it is

Not what data say

Sowing mistrust of the numbers is a feature, not a flaw, of the authoritarian strategy

The triad is fast becoming a dyad

This is deeply disturbing.

The “deal” that Brown made with the Trump admin is much more extreme than is being reported. It includes government oversight of course evaluations and no barrier to government interference in faculty hiring.

Read it for yourself here:

www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

This administration’s attacks on science will cause generations of harm. The UN just last week said countries are legally obligated to curb emissions, yet this is what we’re doing here in the US.

Bove's position should have been filled last year by an eminently qualified normal candidate, who happened to be Muslim. The gap between Mangi and Bove is the gap between what American thinks it is and what it actually does.
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Faculty Support of George Mason’s President Draws Federal Investigation

Faculty who wrote to defend their president and object to a DOJ investigation of their university...are now being investigated by the DOJ.
The most banal defense of free speech and academic freedom will trigger the full wrath of the US government now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...

Don't do it, Duke.

As a Duke grad who studies higher education (including academic freedom), I could not agree more.

From Robert Reich.
Are you hearing that, Columbia University? Cornell University? University of Virginia? University of Michigan? CBS?

Yeah, we still use the term McCarthyism even though the scale and nature of his impact is a shadow of what is happening right now. It shows just how the US struggles to find appropriate reference points for what is happening now.

That applies to more than baseball

Confession: I don't wear Chucks, but I usually wear Stan Smiths or PF Flyers to work.

Honored to be asked by @aaup.org to chat with @mkfeeney.bsky.social about the legal issues with NSF and NIH terminations.

Check it out - there’s some useful guidance about how to respond! And thanks to @davidimiller.bsky.social for being a great sounding board on these issues.

Wave of New State Bills in 2025 Cast a Web of Control over Higher Education Lawmakers have passed a stunning wave of educational gag orders that directly censor higher ed teaching, as well as laws that target tenure and traditional faculty governance, intervene in how academi...

2025 is already a record-breaking year for higher education censorship, with more than 70 bills and policies introduced in 26 states, casting a web of state control over higher education, write PEN America's Laura Benitez, Amy Reid, and @jonfreadom.bsky.social
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Columbia Agrees to $200 Million Fine to Settle Fight With Trump

You can never bend the knee enough to appease an authoritarian bully.

This is a devastating blow to academic freedom & freedom of speech at Columbia.

Never in the history of this nation has there been an administration so intent on the utter destruction of higher education as we know it.

Columbia's failure empowers the trustees at other universities who'd like to cave to Trump.

Columbia functionally returning to its original name King’s College

Did it involve gears and wheels? Maybe a well-meaning liberal?

I am guessing it is not how he gestures with his hands, except maybe one gesture.

In June there was an uptick in sole finalists not getting the job.

I hope at some point he said "gimme danger"

Also, get off my yard

The MLB all-star game is so stupid. When I was young, my parents let me stay up way past my bed time to watch because it was so important to me. It was bigger than the Super Bowl, etc. I loved it as a 7 year old. I quit watching with inter-league play, because that was the draw. Now, a swing-off?