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Jameel Jaffer · Thought Control Ideological exclusion at the border seems anachronistic now, when all human knowledge is accessible online, video-...

I wrote about Trump’s ideological deportation policies and their implications for free speech, including on university campuses. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

If you want to explore whether a company you buy from works with DHS/ICE, there is a real simple website to do that! www.usaspending.gov/search

Alumni: Tell University Presidents to Reject ICE Agreements As Americans reel from the shocking news out of Minneapolis, college and university presidents are deciding whether and how their institutions will collaborate with ICE. For alumni, it is a stark remi...

alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org/petitions/re...

SECOND CLASS ANGEL there’s a part of heaven reserved for my kind. the sun don’t grow there. the money don’t shine it’s not about wings altho chicken today feathers tomorrow might be called a way of being periodically there’s a breakthru: one of us gets over polishing halos evidentially status has endless ramifications like an infinite pecking order which suggests the light one moves toward ascending in death is merely the non-reflective neon of God’s corporate boardroom

the money don’t shine

Wanda Coleman

Nasra Ahmed, a 23-year-old US citizen, was arrested and detained by ICE. She was held for TWO DAYS.

ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion.

This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave.

"We are not, and we must not become, a nation that imprisons and deports people because we are afraid of what they have to tell us."

— Judge William Young

#AAUPvRubio

@mesa1966.bsky.social

Judge Proposes Restricting Deportation of Scores of Noncitizen Academics

"Talking straight here, the big problem in this case is that the cabinet secretaries and, ostensibly, the president of the United States are not honoring the First Amendment,” Judge William G. Young said.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...

Rumeya Ozturk has resumed her studies and Betar, the witch hunt org who pursued Palestinian protesters, has dissolved. As @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social says, I regret to inform you that we are going to win.

There is a substantial connection between the affective + social infrastructure you build in a good classroom and the counter-hegemonic sociality of academic union organizing, and someday I'd like to write about that. Venmo in bio

Rick's Christmas episode is truly a joy

Memos of Blood and Fire | Peter Coviello So if you ask me about the signature strength of the department where I work, I will tell you. It is world-caliber field-defining research, wedded to a fantastically dynamic practice of instruction, a...

www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

The Rise and Fall of Barboncino Workers United | Long-Haul Mag FALL 2025 ISSUE 04

Good blog: longhaulmag.com/barboncino-w...

Excited to be included in this superb volume, edited by Lizzy Lerud and @carolinegelmi.bsky.social !

Holy cow! This is a legal smack down of the Trump regime's attack on UC system!

Higher ed workers say: Condemn the Compact!

Here is CSU-AAUP, AFT Local 6745 member A. Fiona Pearson, professor of sociology at Central Connecticut State University, calling for us to unite in the face of these attacks on higher ed!

@aftct.bsky.social

STUDENTS RISE UP: NOVEMBER 7TH DAY OF ACTION Students and education workers across the US are organizing our schools towards mass non-cooperation on November 7th! Find an action on your campus!

This Friday, student leaders are walking out across the country...Find an action near you, find your friends, and go to it!
actionnetwork.org/event_campai...

(extremely in my 40s voice) Some nice estate sales today!

Happening now: @uconnaaup.bsky.social members & fellow colleagues in #UConnLabor stand together to shift the balance of power in current #union contract negotiations. #TheCTDifference @aft.org @aftacademics.bsky.social‬ @afthighered.bsky.social @aaup.org @higheredlabor.bsky.social‬

Lander, Davis MA’97 PhD’11: Our community deserves financial transparency Serving the Brown University community since 1891

Brown said no to the Compact! But they should not impose finance management-driven austerity at the same time. Brown AAUP with an excellent analysis here: www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...

Poetry in General | Columbia University Press In the second half of the twentieth century, poetry leapt out of books and became an interdisciplinary public form. Poetry entered bureaucratic systems of or... | CUP

My book Poetry in General: How a Literary Form Became Public is available for pre-order! I am excited to share it with the world. Find it on the Columbia UP site with endorsements from Anthony Reed, Leigh Claire La Berge, Sarah Dowling and Craig Dworkin cup.columbia.edu/book/poetry-...

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in return for commitments to specific policy changes like DEI bans, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact that would grant preferential federal funding in return for commitments to specific policy changes like DEI bans, according to a source

Over 100 Brown U students & 20 faculty members gathered outside
the campus today to demand that the university reject Trump’s loyalty oath compact. Professors & students taped their mouths shut to symbolize the compact’s threat to free speech, #academicfreedom & diversity of thought.
#DefendHigherEd

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Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.

University Administrations: Reject Trump's "Loyalty Oath" Compacts The Trump administration is trying to blackmail schools to let him and his unqualified bureaucrats run our schools. They want to dictate what schools teach, who they admit and hire, what researchers s...

Sign-on letter to oppose Trump's (extortion) "compact" for higher ed institutions. actionnetwork.org/petitions/un...

Mahmoud Khalil Hails Ruling Against Trump Deportation Effort Targeting Pro-Palestinian Students A Reagan-appointed judge has issued a scathing ruling rebuking the Trump administration’s targeting of pro-Palestine students. Judge William G. Young called the case AAUP v. Rubio “perhaps the most im...

www.democracynow.org/2025/10/1/aa...

Ahead of the case caption, a handwritten note: "Trump has pardons and tanks . . . . what do you have?" Judge Young's reply: "Dear Mr. or Ms. Anonymous, Alone, I have nothing but my sense of duty. Together, We the People of the United States –- you and me -- have our magnificent Constitution. Here’s how that works out in a specific case –- "

AAUP v. Rubio is out, and look at how it starts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This book...

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a free illegal stream decree

Tenured folks, you may not know how to catch up on preparing, so some starting points from someone who was once faculty & is now a higher ed labor organizer:

-Join your campus AAUP chapter.
-If you don't have one, start one—talk to another AAUP chapter in your city/state to make connections. /cont

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Table of contents for University Keywords University: An Introduction, Andy Hines Academic Freedom, Jennifer Ruth and Ellen Schrecker Adjunct, Heather Steffen Admissions, Scott Gelber Alternative Institutions, Andy Hines and Eli Meyerhoff Athletics, Wayne L. Black Board of Trustees, Asheesh Siddique Kapur Budget, Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra Campus, Davarian Baldwin Classroom, Richard Simpson Critical University Studies, Rana M. Jaleel, Isaac Kamola, and Heather Steffen Debt, Eleni Schirmer and Jason Wozniak Degree, Christopher Newfield Discipline, Vineeta Singh Diversity, p.s. kehal EdTech, Annie McClanahan and Louise McCune Endowment, Dennis M. Hogan Entrepreneurship, Jesse Goldstein

Table of contents for university keywords Fiction, Jeffrey J. Williams Legislation, Elizabeth Tandy Shermer Noncitizen Student, Abigail Boggs Police, Yalile Suriel and Grace Watkins Ranking, Jelena Brankovic and Stefan Wilbers Revenue, Dan Nemser and Brian Whitener Risk Management, Mattie Armstrong-Price Sustainability, Kai Bosworth, Jesse Goldstein, Andy Hines, and Eli Meyerhoff Title IX, Rana M. Jaleel Union, Zach Schwartz-Weinstein Appendix: Questions to Consider for Composing a Keywords Entry Contributor Bios Acknowledgments Index

It's publication day for UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS. Across 27 sharp essays, the book offers a critical account of the political economy of US higher education, how it came to be structured this way, and how together we might build a better university together.