Liliana M. Garces

A Call to Build Coalitions to Disrupt a Climate of Suppression Published in Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning (Vol. 57, No. 2, 2025)

This new publication draws attention to the coalition building and active engagement needed to effectively disrupt efforts to suppress the educational mission of higher education. @garceslm.bsky.social

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What do education leaders need to know about the Department of Education's new guidance on race and civil rights? On February 28, join Brookings for a webinar with education and legal scholars to discuss the legality of the February 14 guidance letter

Please join us for this important informational session about the Feb 14 Dear Colleague Letter www.brookings.edu/events/what-...

Trump Fires Joint Chiefs Chairman Amid Flurry of Dismissals at Pentagon The decision to fire Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., a four-star fighter pilot, upends a tradition in which the Joint Chiefs chairman traditionally remains in place as administrations change.

Trump’s Pentagon purge has included the top military lawyers. Nobody should be surprised. Dictators politicize the military. Trump wants those with the biggest guns loyal to him, not the Constitution He says he’s demilitarizing it. I call BS. Orwellian to the core.
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Hitting Pause on the ‘Dear Colleague’ Letter The Department of Education is overstepping its bounds and infringing on constitutional rights.

Here, I explain how the February 14 "Dear Colleague" letter is a widely expansive distortion of the court’s ruling in SFFA. Institutional responses should remain focused on areas that the Supreme Court addressed and not expand to those clearly outside its purview.

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In this latest publication with lead author @jackiepedota.bsky.social, we illustrate the importance of messages from higher education leaders and partnerships with external organizations in protecting institutional autonomy and academic freedom lnkd.in/dHMCSDDQ

Would you please consider reposting this? The Department of Education needs to hear from as many people as possible that it is not acceptable in the year of our Lord 2025 to offer only two gender options. Thank you.
Love, Julie/Mommy of a non-binary college student

How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.

Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”

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📣We are initiating this project to assist #HigherEducation leaders in fulfilling their institutions' missions. A collaboration between @dmorganphd.bsky.social and Dr. Raquel Rall, CSIG is focused on advancing mission-centric university leadership.

A Reagan Appointee Just Showed How All Judges Should Respond to Trump’s Lawless Rampage "In this courtroom, and under my watch, the rule of law is a bright beacon which I intend to follow," the judge declared.

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As a former clerk for US District Court Judge John C. Coughenour, I couldn’t be more proud. I hope leaders in higher education show the same courage and principles in responding to the need to defend academic freedom and institutional autonomy.

Toward a democratic academic freedom (opinion) Understanding academic freedom as a collective faculty responsibility provides a basis for protecting academic rights, Will Clark writes.

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In the face of repression, it is critical that we view academic freedom as a shared obligation sustained through collective action

Delayed, but excited to have my first post celebrate the amazing @jackiepedota.bsky.social and all that she will do for our field of higher education. Felicidades on your ASHE dissertation of the year award.