Julia Shatz

Matt Walsh's imaginary professor: "good morning student-comrades. today we learn how to bayonet a white Christian capitalist while taking trans hormones"

actual average professor: "folks, I am begging you, please do the reading for tomorrow this time. it is five pages"

16.07.2025 13:30 — 👍 3858    🔁 644    💬 66    📌 58

Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.

13.07.2025 10:19 — 👍 4060    🔁 1124    💬 214    📌 286

Ms. Rachel is braver than the troops.

22.05.2025 13:33 — 👍 2589    🔁 723    💬 33    📌 80

So well deserved!

15.05.2025 22:44 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks for absolutely nothing, Columbia and Harvard. Two of the wealthiest universities with the most cultural clout in the world, but rather than fighting, they laid down like doormats and let the government walk over them to destroy the rest of the sector.

29.03.2025 16:17 — 👍 153    🔁 62    💬 3    📌 0

The Trump administration is using claims of antisemitism to cripple universities--along w/ independent media--because they are centers of resistance to authoritarian rule. And the ADL is applauding this assault on liberal democracy. What a shameful moment in American Jewish history.

09.03.2025 22:56 — 👍 141    🔁 50    💬 6    📌 4

ICE Arrests Pro-Palestinian Activist at Columbia Mahmoud Khalil, who recently completed a graduate program at Columbia, has legal permanent residency, his lawyer said.

The United States government just disappeared a lawful US resident because it didn't like his speech. You should care about this because it shouldn't happen to anyone, but you should also care because it could happen to you. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/n...

09.03.2025 23:09 — 👍 4405    🔁 2139    💬 40    📌 80

The Educational Bookshop in Jerusalem has been raided by Israeli security forces. Mahmoud and Ahmad Mina have been taken to custody. Anyone who’s visited Palestine knows how serious this is for freedom of speech and cultural organising in Palestine and Israel.

09.02.2025 21:34 — 👍 25    🔁 19    💬 2    📌 2

Cal State unveils artificial intelligence tools for students The dawn of AI has brought visions of higher education innovation – and worries that the technology could create new problems for students and faculty.

During the takeover of the federal government by an unelected billionaire, the impending elimination of the DOEd, and a devastating 8% budget cut to the country’s largest public university system, the CSU is paying $17million to OpenAI to give all my students ChatGPT.

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05.02.2025 20:49 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

80 Years After Auschwitz, Musk Keeps the Fascist Salute Alive | Opinion Musk aggressively thumped his open palm onto his upper chest and—to the shock of millions of viewers around the Western world—delivered a Roman, or fascist, salute.

I wrote an OpEd on Elon Musk’s unmistakable, and reprehensible, fascist salute at Trump’s post-inauguration rally in Washington DC. Please share widely.

27.01.2025 16:19 — 👍 11    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

Come see my colleague’s amazing and amazingly relevant work!

23.01.2025 22:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The University has had a budget deficit for several years. It is attributable to a variety of factors – cost of personnel, price increases for supplies and utilities, inflation – but the main reason is declining enrollment. Student tuition and fees, combined with enrollment-based funding from The California State University, are the major sources of revenue in the university budget. Sonoma State’s enrollment has dropped 38% since its peak in 2015. Remember that to close budget gaps, over the past two years the university has employed a variety of methods – including voluntary employee separations, strategic personnel reductions, academic and operational streamlining, shared services, hiring freezes, and prudent use of reserves. Unfortunately, the actions taken so far, difficult though they have been, are not enough. Further steps must be taken to

fully close the budget gap and ensure Sonoma State’s financial capacity to best serve its current and future students and adapt to a changing higher education landscape. The financial options have now narrowed to a small set of actions – elimination of programs and departments, non-renewal of faculty contracts (both tenured and adjunct), and more layoffs of staff and administration. Consequently, today, approximately 46 university faculty – both tenured and adjunct – will receive notice that their contracts will not be renewed for 2025-26. Additional lecturers will receive notice that no work will be available in fall 2025. Four management positions and 12 staff positions also will be eliminated. Additionally, several academic departments and programs will be combined, downsized, and/or eliminated as follows:

Programs identified for elimination: Administrative Services Credential in ELSE; Art History BA; Art Studio BFA; Dance BA; Earth and Environmental Sciences BA; Economics BA; Education Leadership MA; English MA; French BA; Geology BS; German Minor; Global Studies BA; History MA; Interdisciplinary Studies BA; Interdisciplinary Studies MA; Philosophy BA; Physical Science BA; Physics BA; Physics BS; Public Administration MPA; Spanish MA; Theatre Arts BA; Women and Gender Studies BA. ● Departments identified for closure: Art History; Economics; Geology; Philosophy; Theater/Dance; Women and Gender Studies. ● Program mergers: Ethnic Studies (current departments of American Multicultural Studies, Chicano and Latino Studies, and Native American Studies) will be

Sonoma State announced faculty layoffs and program closures today. Targeted programs are mostly humanities and social sciences

Like all CSU, SSU is an institution that serves first generation and minoritized students. California has chronically underfunded the CSU and has billions in reserve.

23.01.2025 01:10 — 👍 244    🔁 97    💬 14    📌 10

Cameron, Ariz. Living on one of the largest swaths of land in America without electrical power, Thomasina Nez's entire life is a scramble to complete basic tasks. To take a hot shower, she must wait for buckts of water to come to a boil on a small propane stove outside her wood framed roundhouse. To make meals, she relies mostly on canned goods because unfridgerated produce rots qucikly in the Arizona heat. Its a struggle to stay warm at night, because she refuses to use her coal-powered heate after its fumes killed her two dogs.

A fierce battle for electric power is being waged across the nation, and Nez is one of thousands of people who have wound up on the losing end. Amid a boom in data acenters, the energy intensive warehouses that run supercomputers for Big Tech companies, Arizona is racing to increase electricity production. In February, the state utility board approved an 8 percent rate hike to bolster power infrastructure throughout the state, where data centers are popping up faster than almost anywhere in the US But it rejected a plan to bring electricity to parts of the Navajo Nation land, concluding that electric consumers should not be asked to foot the nearly $4 million bill.

I know academics who use AI regularly, for work and play, and I'd really like them, and universities, to tell me how they contend with AI's bottomless appetites for power and water.

Is asking ChatGPT to interpret a Xmas song or making it write your syllabus worth this to you?

23.12.2024 14:45 — 👍 3216    🔁 1359    💬 87    📌 109

SHCY Seeks Nominations for the 2024 Grace Abbott Prize - Society for the History of Children and Youth

We're pleased to call for nominations for the Grace Abbott prize, honoring the best book in English on the history of children, childhood, or youth (broadly construed) published in 2024: www.shcy.org/news-announc...

30.12.2024 20:57 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

AAUP Condemns Faculty Arrests Amidst Protest Crackdown at NYU The AAUP condemns the reported arrests of two faculty members and three designations of faculty as "personae non grata" at New York University. As the AAUP has maintained since 1940, faculty should be...

BREAKING: The AAUP condemns today’s faculty arrests at NYU.

“This crackdown on NYU faculty is part of a distressing pattern of repression of pro-Palestinian speech on college campuses nationwide.” — AAUP President Todd Wolfson.

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12.12.2024 22:04 — 👍 340    🔁 182    💬 10    📌 19

Public universities, especially in non-"revenue producing" departments, are simultaneously being starved and worked to death. The UMass history department replaces maybe 1/2 the people who retire or leave, while the work load increases for those who remain.

02.12.2024 20:08 — 👍 36    🔁 4    💬 4    📌 1

I wrote a book on the execution of the Rosenbergs for Cold War spying – and a recently declassified document has convinced me that Ethel was innocent Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed in 1953 for conspiring with the Soviets. A newly declassified memo debunks the government’s case against Ethel, and her sons want their mother exonerated.

From my brilliant colleague, @loriclune.bsky.social

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26.11.2024 17:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Studying the Juvenile Justice System in Mandate Palestine - Digital Childhoods An interview with Dr. Julia Shatz about juvenile justice in Mandate Palestine

Grateful for the opportunity to have an in-depth conversation with Digital Childhoods about my research.

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02.08.2024 20:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Beautiful day for solidarity in Sacramento! CFA on strike!

07.12.2023 20:55 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0