MIT rejects the mafia's offer!! This is good news as it gives other universities who were afraid more permission to assert themselves--and makes them look like worse collaborators if they don't. This is the argument we are already making at home
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/governance/executive-leadership/2025/10/10/mit-rejects-proposed-federal-compact
"The clear aim of the compact is to place universities under federal control... Our institutions might seem to benefit from making a “deal” in the short term, but everyone loses in a world where American universities sign away their independence."
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-compact-universities-colleges-free-speech-rcna236003

Estimated 10,000 or more university redundancies in the academic year 2024-25.
"the original sin was to sell higher education to policy makers as ‘skills training’ or ‘investment’ "
#HigherEd #teaching #research #edchat #students
https://politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/where-now-for-britains-universities/
Estimated 10,000 or more university redundancies in the academic year 2024-25.
"the original sin was to sell higher education to policy makers as ‘skills training’ or ‘investment’ "
#HigherEd #teaching #research #edchat #students
https://politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/where-now-for-britains-universities/
UNC professor reinstated to duties after administrators had removed him for... what you'd expect, tho it's also got a back story
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article312419982.html
UNC professor reinstated to duties after administrators had removed him for... what you'd expect, tho it's also got a back story
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article312419982.html

Faculty show support for USC to reject the federal government’s "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education"
https://www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/06/reject-the-compact-petition-urges-usc-not-to-sign-trumps-contract/
#PolicingTheCampus #HigherEd #Academia #uspol #1A #AAUP #USC

Pennsylvania state legislators move to introduce bill blocking Penn from signing White House funding higher ed compact
https://www.thedp.com/article/2025/10/penn-politicians-react-white-house-compact

"an under-appreciated aspect of AAUP v. Rubio, it is the first case of the Trump Era to explicitly identify and reject the primary and most pernicious form of speech suppression employed by this Administration: Chill"
https://balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/aaup-v-rubio-and-big-chill.html
Faculty show support for USC to reject the federal government’s "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education"
https://www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/06/reject-the-compact-petition-urges-usc-not-to-sign-trumps-contract/
#PolicingTheCampus #HigherEd #Academia #uspol #1A #AAUP #USC
Pennsylvania state legislators move to introduce bill blocking Penn from signing White House funding higher ed compact
https://www.thedp.com/article/2025/10/penn-politicians-react-white-house-compact
"an under-appreciated aspect of AAUP v. Rubio, it is the first case of the Trump Era to explicitly identify and reject the primary and most pernicious form of speech suppression employed by this Administration: Chill"
https://balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/aaup-v-rubio-and-big-chill.html

I thought I should do a bit of an intro. I'm fairly new to Mastodon but I'm not a Bsky refugee. I was never on it because it quickly seemed to generate the same annoying dynamics as Twitter, with people doing things for likes.
I'd been off social media for ages until a column by @pluralistic inspired me to check out the fediverse. I really like it so far - it seems pretty chill and doesn't hurt my brain. I'm not a techie but I'm very interested in the politics of tech so appreciate learning more about those issues here.
I haven't posted a lot myself because of having to resize images before uploading, which I can't seem to do easily! 😂 Advice would be helpful. I'm also figuring out the norms for posting.
I'm masquerading as a Common Loon for now while I figure out how I want to build a new relationship to social media.
Interested in talking about all things #Birds #Gardening and a bit of #Politics and #HigherEd here and there.
I thought I should do a bit of an intro. I'm fairly new to Mastodon but I'm not a Bsky refugee. I was never on it because it quickly seemed to generate the same annoying dynamics as Twitter, with people doing things for likes.
I'd been off social media for ages until a column by @pluralistic inspired me to check out the fediverse. I really like it so far - it seems pretty chill and doesn't hurt my brain. I'm not a techie but I'm very interested in the politics of tech so appreciate learning more about those issues here.
I haven't posted a lot myself because of having to resize images before uploading, which I can't seem to do easily! 😂 Advice would be helpful. I'm also figuring out the norms for posting.
I'm masquerading as a Common Loon for now while I figure out how I want to build a new relationship to social media.
Interested in talking about all things #Birds #Gardening and a bit of #Politics and #HigherEd here and there.
Big Tony is asking 9 pizzerias to commit to his priorities in exchange for favorable access to his fire brigade.

Well well well, Newsom has parried the T extortion "compact" & by saying that any universities who bend over backwards to the feds lose state funding
archive link:
https://archive.ph/fQjud
Cornell University, where Cory Doctorow @pluralistic spoke about the AI bubble (and where he serves as an AD White Professor-at-Large) has any number of bullshit AI initiatives under way, all aimed to appear cutting-edge while ramming the crap down the students' and faculty's throats.