“The desire to be ranked and perceived within the top tier dramatically impacts nearly all the activities of the modern university.” proteanmag.com/2024/04/29/dis…

"'Some complaints are just rants with almost no evidence or detail,' noted Darryl Li, a professor at the U of Chicago and co-author of the report. 'Government civil rights enforcement is now being driven by the equivalent of a YouTube comment section.'" theguardian.com/us-news/2025/n…

Decent start, but ongoing popular mobilization will be the more important variable for protecting IDS

no thanks to the UC administration!

Great press statement

People have such interesting memories of what happened in 2020. I remember a national street uprising against the police led by Black people and Democrats racing to channel it into questions of symbolic representation.

"Instead of establishing control over an area and dictating what its inhabitants are allowed to do, defense hubs support what popular resistance already exists, moving forward from what people targeted and harassed by the police and feds want." lakeeffect.noblogs.org/files/2025/10/…

"The proposed changes to faculty discipline…offer a normalization of the increasingly extreme policing of thought and expression that we have witnessed at UC over the past few years." utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/11/uc-man…

In a Nov. 5 press release, the AAUP chapter said the compact demands “institutional neutrality” and calls “for full adherence to its own ideology and threatening to punish those who disagree” by restricting federal funding. idsnews.com/article/2025/1…

Usually means they have longer term American workers making far more in the same role and use these jobs to depress wages.

UCLA student org coalition files amicus brief supporting lawsuit against the Trump administration: "these malign actions have cast a pall of censorship over UCLA" dailybruin.com/2025/11/04/stu…

FIRE anti-IU billboard sprung up at the western entrance to Bloomington WFIU/WTIU News

College campuses have rapidly become the places with some of the least free speech in this country.

Lots that is useful and true about university politics today from the elder Mamdani:

This is an extraordinary look at how the University of Michigan has taken a wrecking ball to due process in its drastic restructuring of student disciplinary procedures. From the Daily: The University's values on trial specials.michigandaily.com/2025/opinion-e…

A professor who showed a graphic labeling the “Make America Great Again” slogan as covert white supremacy has been removed from teaching a class under a new Indiana law meant to foster “intellectual diversity.” nytimes.com/2025/11/13/us/…

You're watching Italian students storming the station at Turin as 1000's hit the streets in anti-govt protests today. Against Meloni's genocide. Against her destruction of public education. This is how we do it comrades. The resistance Continues.

BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!! We were granted our preliminary injunction!

"The Pennsylvania Labor Relations Coalition counted the 2,080 graduate student votes Thursday in Harrisburg, and 1,882 of them — or about 90% — voted 'yes'"

"A large public university [Montair State University] is wiping out all of its humanities departments" and replacing them with "no fewer than four new Schools and three new Institutes, to be run by a new pantheon of senior administrators" academeblog.org/2025/11/13/the…