Robert Wolff

IU Bloomington Asked Faculty Taking Buyouts to Sign NDAs The agreements, which have raised academic freedom advocates’ eyebrows, said that those wanting a voluntary retirement payout can’t criticize the university or any of its employees.

IU Bloomington to faculty: You can take the buy out but first you have to promise to never say anything bad about us.

The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines.

This week, as the number of confirmed measles cases rose to 483, the CDC buried a report that would’ve stressed the importance of getting vaccinated.

The move was “not normal at all,” one agency staff member said.

By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social

The attempt to destroy Columbia (opinion) The Trump administration has the symbolic fight it wants, Brian Rosenberg writes.

". . . it is not, in any real sense, about Columbia. Neither is it about antisemitism or free speech. It is not even at its root about education." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

Trump’s tariffs face long odds in bid to bring factories home Trump’s tariff-first strategy could end a long stagnation in U.S. manufacturing. But Trump is battling powerful long-term forces.

President Donald Trump says there is an easy way for manufacturers to avoid his blizzard of tariffs: Move back to the United States.

But in trying to repatriate manufacturing, Trump is battling powerful long-term forces.

Since the president has signed an EO making English the official language of the United States, here is the first non-English copy of the Declaration of Independence, printed in German just days after July 4, 1776. We have always been multilingual.
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So much for longitudinal data.

AHA–OAH Statement on Executive Order “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooling” The American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians have released a joint statement on the presidential executive order “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooling.”

So glad to see the American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians repudiate the Executive Order on history education in K-12 schooling. Worth a read!

This is what revisionist history looks like, in real time. And this also is why it might appear that archaeologists and historians have to dig deep to discover the existence of powerful women and marginalized groups -- because their legacies are so often erased.

Forty years ago, the U of M fought mandatory draft registration in federal court, arguing that it should not be a prerequisite for receiving financial aid. That level of courage seems conspicuously absent now. They are going to be hearing from another alum.

I can work with it though. 😆

Audit: Why did CSCU head get $21k to move to CT, but lives in NY? Terrence Cheng, chancellor of Connecticut’s largest public college system, spent a year evaluating a move but still lives in New York, auditors say.

Auditors question why CSCU head received $21k to move to CT, but still lives in NY

www.ctinsider.com/news/article...

Trump orders USDA to take down websites referencing climate crisis Websites offer only error messages on Thursday after president demands agriculture department shutter sites On Thursday, the Trump administration ordered the US agriculture department to remove its websites documenting or referencing the climate crisis.…

Trump orders USDA to take down websites referencing climate crisis

I am nonbinary. The gender that no longer officially exists in the United States. I was offered the chance to change my gender designation to "X" on my passport and driver's license in 2023. I decided not to and here's why.