SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon

Michael Steiper, Ph.D.

Purchase College's storied history starts a new chapter today! The SUNY Board of Trustees announced that Michael Steiper, Ph.D., has been named as the institution's 7th president.

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Good guess but too soon for that!

This is very bad. Although entirely predictable. Once more the humanities are being cut back to prop up STEM and, increasingly, AI investment (including at the expense of bench science). In the past, cuts to humanities were promoted on two separate logic streams that do not hold true: /1

Hamburg to Clinton to Cooperstown to New York City to Schenectady to Hamburg from tomorrow night to Monday night! Can you guess the reasons from just this sketch of an itinerary?

Check out my newest at the @higheredlabor.bsky.social blog! More #MADC actions....

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No time like the present for trying to assemble a team to actually develop the Public Good Higher Education Index. If you’re the kind of person who checks their email on a Friday night and you didn’t hear from me, let me know and I’ll share the invitation! #PublicGoodU #MADC

The die is cast on the first stage of strategizing that builds on the July 4 declaration. Assembling a team and finding out who's in with @csvacin.bsky.social and me! Wish us luck!

Just submitted the sequel to my first @higheredlabor.bsky.social x #MADC blog post and committed to writing another one in August. This may become a monthly engagement!

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I've been really impressed with how the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges has been meeting this moment. 2026 marks the 60th anniversary of the joint Statement on Government of Colleges and Universities. Time for a @aaup.org @aceducation.bsky.social AGB re-up?

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Check out this op-ed by @rachelfishman.bsky.social -- it's in strong alignment with the July 4 declaration of 10 current and former SUNY and CUNY governance leaders. If you like it, read ours, and join the hundreds of signatories. We're just getting started!

www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

Here's how to join the hundreds of signatories! Let's build strength in numbers.

docs.google.com/forms/d/1CQX...

“An effective response will require building a big tent across American universities, colleges, and other democracy actors to safeguard academic freedom and the broad contributions of higher education to society.“ ⬇️⬇️

Here's a corrected version of the July 4th declaration by 10 current and former SUNY and CUNY governance leaders. Note the URL includes "declaration" rather than "statement." The link to join the signatories is unchanged. Help us pass 300 this weekend!

www.sunyufs.us/uploads/1/1/...

Anyone who is curious about how relationships between a campus governance body and a board at a public university are maintained and transformed during a crisis should read this thread.

Won't be my last name tag with the new titles, but no other will be the first. Here it is in its natural habitat!

Trial Over Free Speech on Campus, and Trump’s Student Crackdown, Begins

“The court heard testimony from 2 professors, both legal permanent residents, who each spoke to the ways they curtailed their scholarship, stopped participating in political organizing or engaged in self-censorship after witnessing the arrests of Mr. Khalil & others.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u...

Very close to 200 signatories rn! It's going to be a long hot #MADC summer. And a cool fall. And an ice cold winter (cooler than cool).

Sign onto our declaration today! Don't delay!

(We're keeping it open for the rest of 2025, so spread the word summer, fall, and winter!)

docs.google.com/forms/d/1CQX...

Corrected version now up as downloadable permalink--here are the screenshots! We have over 100 signatures already and the July 4 weekend isn't over.

Independence Day 2025 Declaration (7/4/2025) The State of Shared Governance: Independence Day 2025 July 4, 2025 Support our declaration; add your John Hancock here Preamble We hold these truths to be self-evident, that the cause of higher educ...

We want you to join the fight for Public Good U. Join us to ensure that higher education of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the United States of America.

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Thank you, Anna! We put Jefferson, Paine, Franklin, and Lincoln alongside #PublicGoodU #MADC analysis informed by @wearehighered.bsky.social @daniellaurison.bsky.social @standhighered.bsky.social @higheredlabor.bsky.social @actioninhighered.bsky.social @aaup.org @debtcollective.bsky.social

Please sign #MADC #CUNY

Together We Defend the Public Good-Independence Day-July 4, 2025 Anyone with a stake in US Higher Education is welcomed to sign this petition to endorse our Independence Day 2025 statement. In these trying times, we need you to be more than sunshine patriots. We w...

We'd especially love for SUNY/CUNY faculty, staff, and students to sign, but it's open to everyone!

docs.google.com/forms/d/1CQX...

Please read the July 4 Declaration from the leaders of SUNY University Faculty Senate, Faculty Council of Community Colleges, Student Association, and the CUNY University Faculty Senate, and become a signatory. Petition link in comments.

www.sunyufs.us/uploads/1/1/...

We have not yet begun to fight for Public Good U. Independence Day 2025 statement coming soon!

www.sunyufs.us/uploads/1/1/...

And just like that my official bio is on the SUNY BoT website

www.suny.edu/about/leader...

Recommended reading for everyone in higher ed--and who cares about its future.

I've got a short #MADC x @higheredlabor.bsky.social explainer up on the HELU blog! Check it out!

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As 7/1 approaches, my @sunyufspresident.bsky.social profile gets more and more official!

The Republican Plot to Un-Educate America Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is an extinction-level event for higher education that would annihilate the country’s intellectual potential.

Must-read of the Day II

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