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With Ohio State’s Walter “Ted” Carter resigning as university president this week, the university will not have had a president exit Ohio State into retirement since 1981. https://nbc4i.co/3OZQ1gj?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_ 

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Walter "Ted" Carter's abrupt departure from his role as Ohio State president has been linked to an "inappropriate relationship" with a Columbus podcaster. https://nbc4i.co/40Tghvp?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_ 

Ohio State University president Ted Carter resigns over 'inappropriate relationship' • Ohio Capital Journal Ohio State president Ted Carter resigned on Saturday because of an “inappropriate relationship with someone seeking public resources to support her personal business,” according to the university.

Ohio State president Ted Carter resigned on Saturday because of an “inappropriate relationship with someone seeking public resources to support her personal business,” according to the university. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/03/09/o...

We historians definitely need to see the primary sources and as educators we will use them to teach about historical erasure (past and present). Creating a lesson plan out of these documents as we speak...
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a little boy is sitting on the ground with chalk drawings ALT: a little boy is sitting on the ground with chalk drawings

Oh amen

OSU students: chalk your goodbyes all over campus!

Seems pretty clear historically that if as a leader or just politician in office you have to repeatedly answer questions and make claims about why the present is not "a time to panic," then you are NOT doing well. 🗃️

I'd just like some qualified candidates and only qualified candidates for ...
everything ...
please.

Can never forget, and never will.

Good reminder there. His tragic legacy is one of quashing free speech in virtually every form--banning chalking, banning non-OSU brand dorm room decor, changing rules for public speech, sending the police in to beat student protesters, offensively "sunsetting" diversity programs + centers.

No Ohio State president has exited as planned since 1981
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We live in a world with so many self-proclaimed "leaders" and yet so few actual leaders.

Good reminder there. His tragic legacy is one of quashing free speech in virtually every form--banning chalking, banning non-OSU brand dorm room decor, changing rules for public speech, sending the police in to beat student protesters, offensively "sunsetting" diversity programs + centers.

Ohio State University’s right-wing authoritarian president, Ted Carter, posted photos from Trump’s State of the Union of himself posing with Republicans but will not let OSU students chalk about their political views on their own campus.

This sign critiquing Admiral Ted Carter for his many compromises that harmed OSU students, faculty, staff, alumni - on SB1, closing diversity centers & programs long in advance of legislative mandates, banning chalking, sending police to crackdown student protests, lasted longer than he did at OSU.

This is exactly right. OSU faculty, staff, and especially students need and demand better. Real leadership means courage, deep principles, and it means modeling best behavior and core values in all aspects of the job and life.

Sometimes history rings the bell ... sometimes the bell just rings the history ... 🗃️

The Long-Feared Persian Gulf Oil Squeeze Is Upon Us Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has ground to a virtual halt, unleashing the most severe energy crisis since the 1970s.

Friends, is this winning?

"One week into President Trump’s war on Iran, the most severe shock to energy markets since the 1970s is cascading through the world economy"

“We are looking at what is by far the biggest disruption in world history in terms of daily oil production."

Curious to learn more if you do!

This is a fantastic project on the history of Boston’s women voters post-1920! I’m delighted they have a website (just in time for women’s history month) but you should also follow them for the many wonderful stories they’ve uncovered

Oklahoma legislature advances bill that would remove tenure at OU, public universities The Oklahoma legislature advanced a bill Tuesday that would remove the possibility of tenure for OU faculty, limit contract agreements to five years and require each state institute for higher

“Abolishing tenure cripples scientific & creative research...

This sends a strong message that top-tier academics seeking employment at Oklahoma universities should look elsewhere immediately. Why pursue a job here under such a repressive climate?”

— Michael Givel, OU AAUP President

A major victory! ✊

"This is a member-driven landmark achievement that will have an enormous impact in Kansas. This would not be possible without the courage of our members, who dug in and fought so hard because they knew that a fair contract was possible.”

—Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

New CPHE Accrediting Body Is Illegitimate Rather than protecting educational quality, the CPHE appears designed to give partisan political actors a powerful new tool to pressure universities to conform to a narrow ideological agenda—backed by...

The far right's new politicized higher ed accreditor is illegitimate.

"Rather than protecting educational quality, the CPHE appears designed to give partisan political actors a powerful new tool to pressure universities to conform to a narrow ideological agenda"

— Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

Politicians say left-wing professors push their views. New poll shows students don’t see it that way - The Hechinger Report The poll, which included responses from nearly 4,000 college students, found that about two-thirds of all students said that their professors encouraged students to share their views “even if it makes...

Recent polling confirms that the vast majority of college students including self-defined republicans & conservatives do not feel censored, punished, or indoctrinated by faculty, further undermining the case for all these taxpayer funded right-wing civics centers hechingerreport.org/politicians-...

Exactly right 👇🏻

Operational Excellence, Strategic Incompetence The president and his advisers are in the grip of “victory disease.”

Props to @radiofreetom.bsky.social for telling the plain truth here:

"When you bomb a nation, kill its leaders, and call for its people to rise up, you’re engaged in war, and if you call for “unconditional surrender,” you are definitely at war."

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Worth a read 👇🏻

Assistant Teaching Professor of History Position Title: Assistant Teaching Professor of History Appointment Type: Faculty Job Description: The Department of History in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University invite...

Friday evening news drop: Iowa State department of history is hiring an Assistant Teaching Professor in Modern European History. 3/3 load, 3-year contract, possibility of renewal. Come be my colleague! 🗃️ isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/IowaStateJob...

Exactly this 👇🏻

Trump gets mad when asked Russia and Iran working together to kill US troops because he wants to talk about college sports instead