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Ohio Budget Bill Could Enact Even More Higher Ed Changes The latest version of an Ohio state budget bill includes numerous provisions that could impact public colleges and universities—including a line saying that, in curricular decisions, all feedback by a...

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Learn more in the article "After Senate Bill 1, Ohio lawmakers want to give 'unilateral and ultimate' power to trustees"

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5 Ohio State University international students have visas revoked by Trump administration Ohio State University is the latest college to report having international students whose visas were revoked by the Trump administration.

We must stand up for all of our students. The federal government's targeting and treatment of international students is completely unacceptable.

After Senate Bill 1, Ohio lawmakers want to give 'unilateral and ultimate' power to trustees The ink has barely dried on the higher education overhaul Senate Bill 1, but Ohio lawmakers have more changes in mind for the state's universities and colleges.

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"This administration has created nothing but a climate of fear of on campus...we have to protect our students, faculties, and communities in this moment. We must fight back."

– Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

if you’re a student at Ohio State who received this email and you want to talk, even anonymously, you can reach me on here or at andy (at) matternews (dot) org

Footnotes to Footnotes on Radio William Faulkner once allowed himself to be interviewed on the radio during a University of Virginia football game, and was introduced as a winner of the Mobil Prize. – David Markson, Vanishi…

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March 29, 2025

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This is not over!

Statement: SB1 Passes, But the Voice of the People is Unstoppable Ohio Senate Bill 1, the Destruction of Higher Education Act, was signed into law on March 28, 2025 by Governor Mike DeWine. Below are the…

I put my statement to @aaup.bsky.social members and public statement together in this blog post.

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What is an education that is founded on ignorance? We need to be thorns in the side of injustice

Listen to students & stop SB1

Call & email Gov. DeWine to veto

Link in bio to the @osuaaup.bsky.social Stop SB1 Syllabus

And, while we are at it, free Mahmoud Khalil

Columbia AAUP chapter on the administration's unprecedented assault on Columbia U and higher ed generally: "At this fraught moment we must all stand together against the external assault on our institution."
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Join us tomorrow to protest the impending destruction of higher education in Ohio

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Rising to the Occasion: Important Statements and Open Letters BY JENNIFER RUTH AAUP and other campus unions are mobilizing to defend their institutions against the Trump administration’s outright assault on higher education and insist that their univers…

A few of the statements & letters to university administrations from our colleagues during this historical moment of assault on higher ed.

Solidarity to all those working hard to defend our institutions.

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Las universidades son el enemigo Los ataques de Trump al sistema educativo superan las cazas de brujas anticomunistas. Pero hoy la gran mayoría de líderes de la comunidad universitaria prefiere no mojarse

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