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
ghouls for commensality 馃Э
boosted
Faculty show support for USC to reject the federal government鈥檚 "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
ghouls for commensality 馃Э
boosted
"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鈥檚 "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
Update. "#NIH Ends Future Funding to Study the #Health Effects of #Climate Change"
https://www.propublica.org/article/nih-funding-climate-change-public-health
"The National Institutes of Health will no longer be funding work on the health effects of climate change, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica鈥hile it鈥檚 unclear whether the climate guidance will impact active grants and lead to funding terminations, the directive appears to halt opportunities for future funding of studies or academic programs focused on the health effects of climate change."
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Medicine #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
Update. Here are some press releases and news stories on the lawsuit against the #Trump admin by American Association of University Professors (#AAUP) and the American Federation of Teachers (#AFT).
* From the AAUP
https://www.aaup.org/news/aaup-allies-sue-over-trump-policy-arresting-and-threatening-deport-students-and-faculty-lawful
* From the AFT
https://www.aft.org/press-release/faculty-unions-sue-trump-admin-no-halting-science-research-suppress-speech
* From The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/25/pro-palestine-student-deportation-lawsuit?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
* From the NYTimes
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/nyregion/professors-sue-trump.html
#Academia #Censorship #DefendResearch #MahmoudKhalil #Protests #Travel #Universities #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics
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