Simona Goldin

University of Michigan President, Santa Ono, Set to Lead University of Florida The University of Michigan’s president, Santa Ono, is set to leave for the University of Florida to become one of the highest-paid public university presidents ever.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/u...

‘The Interview’: Ocean Vuong was Ready to Kill. A Moment of Grace Changed His Life. The poet and novelist on the real reason he became a writer.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/m...

Breathtakingly beautiful

At last, college presidents are standing up to Trump A letter signed by more than 400 university heads offers a sharp rebuke to the bully-in-chief.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

OPINION: Policy changes sweeping the nation are harming our students. Educators must fight back - The Hechinger Report President Trump is aggressively stepping up efforts to deport undocumented immigrants. The new policies sweeping the nation deeply affect and harm our children. Educators should do whatever they can t...

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Debi Khasnabis and I write about the harm being done to the children in our classrooms, and what we, as educators, must do.

Recognizing and speaking back to injustice is precisely the sort of resistance and professionalism that binds our practice as educators.

COLUMN: Trump is bullying, blackmailing and threatening colleges, and they are just beginning to fight back - The Hechinger Report Patricia McGuire has always been an outspoken advocate for her students at Trinity Washington University, a small, Catholic institution that serves largely Black and Hispanic women, just a few miles f...

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CDC team that updated go-to physician reference on contraceptive science is fired Scientists combed the literature, synthesizing evidence of safety for busy providers

CDC team that updated go-to physician reference on contraceptive science is fired | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

what is there even to say. this is so evil

How the Trump Administration Might Target D.E.I. in Public Schools A letter from the administration promised to withdraw funding from schools that allow certain D.E.I. programs. But what counts as D.E.I. may prove murky.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/u...

we are Educators — we are

INVITATION: please join we are (working to extent anti-racist education) for their incredible Educator Summer Institute (ESI). I'm so excited to join them again as a co-facilitator. THIS is what we all need now. In person June 24-26 in Durham.

Registration here:
www.weare-nc.org/educators

Huh, weird. Probably just a coincidence

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

Terrifying

I wish daily newspapers would also print something related to geologic time every day. It gives you such a different perspective.

Trump's Education Department gave states/schools 10 days to certify they were banning DEI on Thursday or risk losing Title I funding. New York State (and Chicago) have said no.

Here's a script you can use to encourage your state/local education leaders/politicians to do the same.

Head Start is turning 60. Will the federal child care program make it to 61? Providers operating on ‘razor-thin margins’ worry about the possibility of deep cuts

“The program … is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year. It’s also never been so at risk: First a federal funding freeze hit providers, then a chunk of Head Start federal support staff were fired by the DOGE.” @anya1anya.bsky.social for @hechingerreport.org hechingerreport.org/head-start-i...

Mark my words and please understand: They erase your history so that they can erase your rights.

I just wanna do my fucking research Sign

New York Times headline reading "New York says it does not intend to comply with D.E.I. order on schools"

Elementary school principals going where university presidents fear to tread...

Not that we all feel great regardless, but just a reminder that it's normal to feel sad, agitated, off, etc on trauma anniversaries. This week marks a collective trauma anniversary of the onset of COVID in the US. Give yourself permission to slow down and feel. Take good care of one another.

All I keep thinking about is how Pete Hegseth raised questions of the competency of a Black four-star general and Air Force fighter pilot who was the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Hegseth asked did he get the job “because of his skin color? Or his skill? We’ll never know, but always doubt.”

I didn't realize we were literally one president saying "that's illegal and we'll take your funding over it away" from literally all of American academia collapsing into a snivelling, servile puddle

Image of Asian American and Pacific Islander soldiers in the US Army

Because of cuts to the National Park Service, the hours of the Manzanar prison camp have been reduced. The camp was where Japanese Americans were detained during World War II. At the same time, webpages that remember Japanese-American infantry units have been removed.

Tressie McMillan Cottom brilliant as ever.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/o...

“What is freedom in a racist society?”
Deborah Loewenberg Ball

governments should spend money, literally all their fucking money. on taking care of the people from whom they got the money. on building cool shit for the people from whom they got the money to use, like highways and public works. this is real easy

how can these people be so bad at this

Across Indian Country, mass firings at colleges open up age-old wounds The losses at two Native American schools were part of the Trump administration’s purge of federal workers. A partial reversal has done little to allay fears.

"Advocates called the terminations at the two federally supported schools the latest broken promise by the government to Native Americans. A sign at one of those student rallies reflected the anger: “You Stole Our Land, Now Our Teachers.”"

“No students are allowed to bring their own personal or public library copies of any of the state’s banned books onto school campuses. Student freedom to even carry these books to class for their own free reading is against the law.”