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The official account of the President of the SUNY University Faculty Senate, SUNY Fredonia Associate Professor of English Bruce Simon, 7/1/2025-6/30/2027. Fund, price, staff, and govern higher ed like the public good it is. #PublicGoodU #MADC
With the semiquincentennial behind us, launching the next 250 with my 251st #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! ποΈ
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.@mypbsnc.bsky.social Host Kenia Thompson sits down with Dr. Mark Anthony Neal, Duke University Professor in the Department of African and African American Studies, to explore the beauty, complexity and cultural power of Black language.
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Harvard AAUP fights to extend free speech protections to international students & faculty!
βWe look forward to seeing the remedy Judge Young will put in place to protect our community β and campuses across the country β from the governmentβs unconstitutional conduct.β
- Kirsten Weld, AAUP Harvard
truly orwellian .. presidents now can determine whether hundreds of courses are 'legitimate' ... censorship of the worst kindββhow knowledge is constructed, validated, accessed
Faculty, advocates react to Texas A&M University's new race and gender approval system
www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...
"Smaller discretionary grants, awarded without scholarly review, have so far gone to scholars with ties to conservative or religious institutions... including $30,000 for a project called 'Meritocracy vs. Equity: The Declaration of Independence in Tension With Critical Race Theory and D.E.I.'"
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Today @peninternational.bsky.social and PEN centers worldwide launch the #DayoftheImprisonedWriter campaignβa global call to release writers behind bars for their words.
Join us & take action for #RoryBranker #YalqunRozi #MohamedTadjadit & #MziaAmaglobeli: www.pen-international.org/our-campaign...
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UVA president Jim Ryan resigned after sleazy, opaque machinations from only three right-wing board members. There was no board meeting or conversation about DoJ threats or Jim resigning. The whole saga is outlined in a memo Jim just released.
drive.google.com/file/d/1rgFz...
Penn's Title VI office failed to discuss allegations of violating academic freedom!
βThe administration does not answer in any meaningful way to faculty...to staff or students, but instead has shown repeatedly that it answers to donors, lobbying organizations, & politicians."
- AAUP - Penn
"Defendants are ENJOINED and/or STAYED from conditioning the grant or continuance of federal funding on the UCβs agreement to any measures that would violate the rights of Plaintiffsβ members under the First Amendment."
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For your reference: Timeline of UC faculty legal efforts to defend against Trumpβs attacks
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Steven and Alice smiling and holding each otherβs books
Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated
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ββThe notion that politicians or high-level administrators can dictate what can be taught, researched, discussed or debated in a college classroom is fundamentally at odds with what higher education is about."
- Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
@aft.org
WE WON!!!
The US District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a preliminary injunction in AAUP et al v. Trump et al (the wall to wall union lawsuit challenging the administrationβs unlawful use of Title VI to reshape the University of California system.
Read the order here:
BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administrationβs unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA adminβtheyβre still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appeaseβbut FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
15.11.2025 00:01 β π 3966 π 1102 π¬ 22 π 23Made sure to reference this in my segment of a fantastic academic freedom panel organized by the National Council of Faculty Senates featuring @standhighered.bsky.social Jennifer Lundquist @penamerica.bsky.social Amy Reid and moderated by Katherine Ott Walter #MADC
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Oneonnnnnttttta! (rocks)
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Today @sunychancellor.bsky.social John B. King Jr. announced the launch of the SUNY Military Tuition Rate Program to ensure SUNYβs academic excellence is fully affordable for active-duty service members, members of the National Guard, and members of the Reserves.
www.suny.edu/suny-news/pr...
With the new military tuition rate, SUNY is removing barriers and making sure cost is never what stands between servicemembers and their education. On Veterans Day, and every day, SUNY is proud to support our veterans, active duty servicemembers, and military-connected students.
11.11.2025 14:35 β π 4 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0UFS stands with Alex and Yan. Thank you for leading the charge, @uupinfo.bsky.social , CSEA, and the Greater Syracuse Labor Council.
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Through the ESSC, more than 500 SUNY students from 45 campuses are stepping up to serve their communities and make a difference for New Yorkers in need.
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Taking action against hunger, together. πͺ
@governor.ny.gov has called on SUNYβs Empire State Service Corps students to dedicate a Day of Hunger Action to support food pantries and food banks across New York State. (1/2)
As part of @governor.ny.gov's Day of Hunger Action, State University of New York at @stonybrooku.bsky.social is operating their food pantry full-time with support from student employees and volunteers. (1/2)
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Our students are stepping up. Today, Empire State Service Corps volunteers at State University of New York at @albany.edu supported a food drive for The Purple Pantry as part of @governor.ny.gov's Day of Hunger Action.
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As part of @governor.ny.gov's Day of Hunger Action, @sunybrockport.bsky.social students, including an ESSC member, are hosting an event called First Generation Students today to raise awareness of their on-campus food pantry.
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ESSC students from Buffalo State University are working at Milligan's Food Pantry, assisting students in filling out paperwork for SNAP, developing meal plans for students, and physically packaging food bags as part of @governor.ny.gov's Day of Hunger Action
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As part of @governor.ny.govβs Day of Hunger Action, Farmingdale State College hosted an Action Food Drive to benefit the FSC food pantry. Students donated non-perishable items and helped their community.
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At State University of New York at @binghamtonu.bsky.social, ESSC volunteers and other students prepared more than 500 meal kits to be donated to CHOW as part of @governor.ny.gov's Day of Hunger Action.
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ESSC students from @sunyesf.bsky.social helped collect non-perishable food items to support those in need as part of @governor.ny.gov's Day of Hunger Action. Thanks for stepping up, ESF!
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