✴️Education is not only about acquiring job skills—which often became outmoded over the course of a life. It is about learning to think, analyze, communicate, understand, live a meaningful life, and contribute to a democratic society. True everywhere the liberal arts are under

Yesterday, one of our union leaders, Jonathan A. Caravello, Ph.D., was arrested during an ICE raid in Camarillo, CA, while he was lawfully observing immigration enforcement activities. We are calling for the immediate release of Dr. Caravello from federal custody with no charges.

inbox: union for California State University faculty says a lecturer was arrested in ICE farmworker raids in Southern California the lecturer, Dr. Jonathan Caravello, is a citizen union says ICE fired tear gas at a wheelchair user, & the lecturer was taken when he tried to help

⚠️ MISSING PERSON ⚠️ Jonathan Anthony Caravello DOB: 02/16/1988 Professor at CSU Channel Islands Kidnapped by unidentified ICE agents at 2:33pm, Thursday July 10th at Las Posas Rd/Laguna Rd community ICE defense protest.

Historian Ellen Schrecker: “It may take years to create enough pressure to end the war on higher education, but it can be done...Only a united effort for a common cause will make it possible to save a free, just, + inclusive system of higher education.”👇 vqronline.org/spring-2025/po…

The front pages of the Houston Chronicle, San Antonio Express-News + @Statesman are all dedicated to the same story today: Remembering the lives lost to the catastrophic Kerr County floods.

According to the Supreme Court, the President can cancel the Department of Education but can't cancel the student debt that the Department of Education holds? Do we have that right?

Congratulations to this year's American Society for Radiation Oncology fellows! Four MD Anderson physicians were selected for their contributions to cancer research, education, patient care and the specialty of radiation oncology. Learn more about them: spr.ly/601744MjW

Leaders of the PSC, AFT, American Association of University Professors and NYC elected officials spoke out yesterday to defend free expression & academic freedom on college campuses and oppose the MAGA Republican assault on American Universities. (1/3)

Read 🗞️ of the Day In response to the recent layoffs/buyouts at Duke, AAUP President Todd Wolfson: Faculty members should have a voice in how colleges are run because colleges are not just businesses... loom.ly/mY8I6kc

"The real purpose of these show trials is to undermine university autonomy so the federal government can control what faculty research, write, & teach and what students learn and say..." -- American Association of University Professors President Todd Wolfson #HandsOffHigherEd AFT NYSUT CUNY Rising Alliance University Council - AFT

Capping student loan amounts for graduate and professional students will only create a shortage of doctors, teachers, and more. With the existing primary care provider shortage, it is already difficult to secure a doctor's appointment. Things will only get worse.

🚨The Manhattan Institute called on Trump to “draft a new contract” that universities must follow or face “revocation of all public benefit.” Institutions would have to end “direct participation in social + political activism,” abolish DEI, etc. insidehighered.com/news/quick-tak…

A letter obtained by KVUE that was sent out to impacted students on July 11 states that the students have a July 24 deadline to submit documents that show their "lawful status." kvue.com/article/news/e…

UT System policy states a presidential search advisory committee should interview & recommend candidates to board, but it allows for an "alternative process" where regents can advance a candidate first. Hartzell was appointed under this process too. More: statesman.com/story/news/edu…

“The cancellation of an entire issue of an academic journal, which has not been previously reported, is a remarkable new development in a mounting list of examples of censorship of pro-Palestinian speech.” 👇 theguardian.com/education/2025…

Update on the Harvard University/Harvard AAUP case.

together with other AAUP branches, MESA, and the Knight Institute, NYU-AAUP has been suing the federal government for trying to deport and otherwise chill the speech of foreign academics protesting genocide. here's an account of the trial that just ended: newyorker.com/news/the-lede/…

📢 📢Cameron Samuels of Students Engaged in Advancing Texas…said politicians are taking control of universities to dictate what is acceptable. “When someone controls the dissemination of ideas, that is a really dangerous sign for the future of democracy.” apnews.com/article/harvar…

We know. Texas Lege is a lot. So here’s a guide to Texas’ special legislative session. texastribune.org/2025/07/18/tex… via Texas Tribune