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Speaking on background to The Times on Monday, three senior UC leaders echoed a similar message: UCLA will likely enter into negotiations, but it is too early to determine the terms. The officials were not authorized to speak publicly about internal deliberations. Negotiations would also not preclude a potential lawsuit, they said. “Every single public institution in the nation is watching us very carefully,” UCLA vice chancellor for research Roger Wakimoto said during Monday’s town hall. He later added: “We’re out of the gate setting the pace.”

the headline is more definitive than the story, but the point is: if you are associated with UCLA, now is the time to make your voice heard: litigate or capitulate? www.latimes.com/california/s...

What the Columbia Settlement Really Means

The Columbia settlement is an “astonishing transfer of autonomy and authority to . . . an administration whose disdain for the values of the academy is demonstrated anew every day.” New @knightcolumbia.org analysis of the Columbia settlement, just published. knightcolumbia.org/blog/what-th...

Cornell Close to White House Settlement of Up to $100 Million The White House is eyeing a settlement of as much as $100 million in negotiations with Cornell University about an agreement that would reinstate hundreds of millions of dollars in frozen federal rese...

First they came for Columbia. The dominos of extortion continue to line up… #HigherEd

Probably explains why I have never read Richard Wright since we had to read (“read”) Native Son in 11th grade.

I too have started and never finished The Sea, The Sea. One day …

I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi The university’s draconian policies and new definition of antisemitism make much teaching impossible

“Columbia's capitulation has turned a university that was once a site of free inquiry+learning into a shadow of its former self AN ANTI UNIVERSITY a place of fear+loathing, where faculty+students are told from on high what they can say+teach, under severe penalty”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We have a building named Campus Instructional Facility just waiting for a benefactor. On the Columbia front, did the Northwest Corner Building ever get a new name?

Note that UCLA is a Big 10 school. Academic Senates or Faculty Councils are 14 of the 18 Big 10 schools have endorsed the creation of a mutual academic defense compact (MADC), which, if enacted, would certainly be a great way to fight this sort of this together. ✊✏️✊

Hivemind: I’m sharing an inquiry from a colleague.

Can you suggest readings about the attack on Middle East and South Asian Studies programs, post 9/11 and now? Or other readings related to the challenges confronting area studies programs and centers?

Thanks, in advance, for your suggestions!

One week left to apply for this tenured #envhist job!

Bluesky hive mind: what are the best books/articles on the history of academic freedom? Thanks in advance for your help!

Interior of a vaulted space with banquet tables and people in the distance.

Is it a sign that I have properly become untethered from my phone or was having too good of a time that the only photo I took at the nuptials of @asheeshksi.bsky.social was this dimly lit one at the end of the reception?

Only five weeks of summer reading left and this year’s bingo card is still far from full!!!!!

Skyline of downtown Omaha

First time back in Omaha since my family moved here for six months when we first immigrated to the US.

It is as if no university president or member of boards ever learned any history. Never learned about fascism. Never learned anything about authoritarians. Maybe they should take some history courses before they start negotiating with authoritarians. Cowards. #skystorians #academicsky @aaup.org

Six banana peppers and one tomato on a wooden table.

What to do with a bumper crop of banana peppers?

I said what I said.

Columbia punishes students involved in pro-Palestinian protest It comes as Columbia seeks a deal with the Trump administration to reinstate millions in federal funding.

Columbia just expelled or suspended 80 students for protesting in favor of Palestinian rights. Suspended students can only be readmitted if they "apologize"--otherwise the suspension converts to an expulsion.

www.axios.com/2025/07/22/c...

UChicago Arts & Humanities Division to Restructure Amid “Historic Funding Pressures” “The status quo is not an option,” Deborah Nelson, dean of the Division of the Arts & Humanities, wrote to division faculty on June 18.

so glad the secretaries in the U Chicago German department are going to get fired to pay for the trustees' decision to take out $5.8 billion in debt (U Chicago's debt is 68% of the university's total assets). Great job, Pritzkers and Valerie Jarrett!

chicagomaroon.com/48215/news/u...

Dahlia with pink and red pedals.

Breeding and genetic expression doing its thing with dahlias.

Part of a short series of “roofs that are absolute units.”

Can’t forget St Jude on the Hill, the church on the other side of the green also by Lutyens.

We call upon our institutional leaders to meet the moment (T)he leaders of our universities must defend our institutions from baseless attacks and affirm principles of academic freedom and free speech. They must oppose the weaponization of antisemitism throu...

"university leaders must defend our institutions from baseless attacks+affirm free speech. they must oppose silencing those who speak up for end to genocide. leaders of publics must stand by the mandate of fostering accessible inclusive+equitable educational spaces."
www.dailycal.org/opinion/op-e...

An early 20th century church with large sloping roof on a village green

Taking a page from @aluckmann.bsky.social a church, specifically Edwin Lutyens’ Free Church in Hampstead Garden Suburb from 1911.

Departmental Lecturer in 20th Century United States History at University of Oxford Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Departmental Lecturer in 20th Century United States History on jobs.ac.uk!

Come work with me for a year at St Anne's!

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNW732/d...

hello fellow millennials. how are our Careers That Provide Us With Meaning and Worth going. how's that one playing out, broadly

Drawing the Disordered River in Late-Renaissance Tuscany

How did Renaissance states track and record floods? At what point did these disasters go from being thought of as one-offs to signs of a more systemic crisis? I enjoyed thinking through these and similar questions in my work on Florentine water maps, out now with Grey Room!
doi.org/10.1162/grey...

Diane Kochilas' Pasta with Yogurt and Caramelized Onions All our favorite ingredients -- yes , all 6 of them -- on one plate.

I make this with regular Greek yogurt, but it would be great with goat milk yogurt. food52.com/blog/8897-di...

In addition to the ethnic cleansing and racial terror that are central to its mission, it's pretty clear also that ICE is a becoming a huge menace and public safety threat to citizens.