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📣 PLEASE ACT NOW 🔄 ✅
Write and call Texas State President Kelly Damphousse's office and tell him not to fire Professor Tom Alter, to protect Alter's free speech, and to save Texas State's reputation (what happened in next post)
president@txstate.edu, 512-245-2121
(please cc bill.mullen2@gmail.com, organizer of this campaign)
📣 PLEASE ACT NOW 🔄 ✅
Write and call Texas State President Kelly Damphousse's office and tell him not to fire Professor Tom Alter, to protect Alter's free speech, and to save Texas State's reputation (what happened in next post)
president@txstate.edu, 512-245-2121
(please cc bill.mullen2@gmail.com, organizer of this campaign)
This is a pretty good summary of US higher ed for the past ~year and a half. It may thrill and embolden the current federal administration, but they can't take credit for it--their predecessors and university leaderships beat them to it
(via a colleague across town, Miriam Posner, on bsky)
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
"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
"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
Chilling and important read. "American universities are rapidly becoming test beds for the kind of repressive technology we associate with authoritarian states abroad"
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