A great time to remember SDS’ “Who Rules Columbia” pamphlet, an amazing power research project initiated during the 1968 Columbia occupation/uprising. More here: littlesis.org/news/who-rules…

Lots of people on Twitter right now outing themselves as folks who would never, ever have taken an unpopular, politically courageous, risk-taking stand when they were in college, but who would’ve been standing next to the tut-tutting professor denouncing campus radicals.

So how many people’s daughters are surreptitiously planning to stay up past midnight to stream the new Taylor Swift album?

Tim Watson, English prof at U. of Miami, compiled a spreadsheet of Acad Year 2023-24 closures and program reductions. 87 items and growing.
American Association of University Professors Higher Education Labor United (HELU)
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

This is the definition of manufactured austerity. Rutgers University is laying off dozens of adjunct faculty and cutting the writing program classes in half for a saving of less than $1m or 5% of the annual athletics program deficit. Julie Wade & Mike Gower: What are your priorities?

“readings will include Hammer and Hoe by Robin G. Kelly, the Austrian Marxists, Gramsci and the euro communist debates of the 1970s, and LorenzLuthi on the Sino Soviet split.”

One Year into War, Sudan Wracked by World’s Largest Displacement and Hunger Crises democracynow.org/2024/4/17/suda…

Denouncing Governor Ned Lamont's #AusterityBudget UConn AAUP member Brad Simpson (bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social) warns trustees inaction 'will dramatically worsen entire generation of CT residents & students' ed prospects, harm economic future.' #FundOurFutureCT @AFTUnion AFT Higher Ed AFT Public Employees American Association of University Professors SEBAC - State Employee Bargaining Agent Coalition

Thirty one years ago as a college senior, I wrote an analysis of New York Times coverage of Jewish Israeli and Palestinian deaths in the campus newspaper. Absolutely zero has changed since then. This is a permanent feature of NYT’s irredeemably racist coverage of Palestinians.

America's largest Muslim, Arab, and Palestinian groups have released a joint statement that condemns the ADL and its increasingly unhinged director Jonathan Greenblatt for spewing anti-Palestinian hate and endangering Americans who support Palestinian human rights.

Greenblatt's

This is incredibly interesting and important for Latin America and US foreign relations scholars. SHAFR Historians

Join us on April 15 at 4 PM ET for a Washington History Seminar on “Catastrophic Diplomacy: US Foreign Disaster Assistance in the American Century” with author Julia Irwin and commentators Sarah Snyder and Megan Black. #AHAOnline us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Shit. One of the most important theorists and organizers in the labor movement. Fighting until the end.

If the governor, the statelegislature, and the university leadership commit to fully funding our university on the permanent basis, sure!

This should be a major scandal in American higher education. The largest country in the world and its second largest economy.

UConn folks! Can you come out &keep the pressure on to #stopthecuts ?? Even if we get the $96M we need this session we’re facing another shortfall in FY26. UConn can’t solve its budget problems by cutting academics & increasing tuition RSVP! docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

Someone really needs to write a program called Trump GPT that just scours the voluminous record of his speeches and writing and spits stuff like this out in response to any prompt. “Trump GPT, tell me about the battle of Gettysburg..”

Wishing we all had the humility to write books titled “ this not really hidden/untold/invisible story that didn’t really transform/reshape America/the world, but I like it and find it interesting, so there”

“On May 1, 1974, the nations of the Third World passed two landmark documents—the Declaration & the Programme of Action on the Establishment of a New International Economic Order—through the UN… Understanding it is key to making sense of our world today.” foreignpolicy.com/2024/04/14/glo…

The Israeli annihilation of Gaza has already exceeded the Bosnian genocide in both scope and scale, in a much smaller geographic area, and with a level of destruction that would have made Milosevic blush.