It’s so maddening that there’s a class of deans, presidents, provosts—Gee, Diermeier, et al—who just get shuffled around from institution to institution, leaving trails of destruction which actually constitute their qualifications for the next position

In 1986 we occupied the Dean’s office & built a shantytown in Harvard University Yard to force the university to divest from companies profiting from apartheid S. Africa. They threatened us with expulsion. We said, “F*uck you, we won’t do what you tell us.” Students! Thanks for keeping…

Jerry Seinfeld shut the fuck up challenge.

BREAKING: Tulane University encampment going up in New Orleans.

using starvation as a tactic against people protesting a campaign of starvation (among other things) is beyond words

Columbia University Gives Students Option To Finish Classes From Prison

theonion.com/columbia-unive…

Freshman orientation, 2004: “Get to know your professors! They can set you up with interesting research!”

Freshman orientation, 2024: “Get to know your professors! It’s especially helpful to know which ones will actually have your back when admin puts snipers on the roof.”

Is it normal for a Dean of an American university to direct veterans of a foreign country to counter student protests

Celebrating the end of this miserable academic year by buying a ticket to see Del Water Gap in Des Moines in July.

Just my representative over here calling anti-war protestors terrorists while leaning into anti-Palestinian racism. This from a woman who has actively emboldened white supremacist movements over the years.

Friday May 1st! Pernille Røge will give her rescheduled IHR Low Countries Seminar talk ONLINE: “A Gateway to Empire: Dutch Merchant Bankers and the Danish West Indies, 1760s-1800s.” 5:30 pm UK time. For the Zoom link, please register here: history.ac.uk/events/a-gatew…

This thread reveals, among other things, that a Columbia Dean met with IDF veterans to get them to disrupt and counter pro-Palestine organizing on campus.

Bro you literally work for your dad.

Thomas Lecaque contributed the latest excellent essay for Age of Revolutions’ Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, 1750-1850 series, on the Seven Years’ War in New France:
ageofrevolutions.com/2024/04/22/pra…

Is Columbia safe for Jewish students? We talked to a billionaire alumnus who lives in Massachusetts and a 35 year-old antisemite who’s unaffiliated with the university.

So, it's official. In about two weeks, I won't be a professor anymore. It feels weird. Not bad. Just weird.

I'm a Tenured College Professor. I'm Quitting. Here's Why. okdoomer.io/im-a-professor…