Today, Cognitive Resonance is releasing a new guide titled Education Hazards of Generative AI. This free resource clarifies common misconceptions about how AI works and warns against misuses of this technology in education. Please share this widely. cognitiveresonance.net/resources.html

Yesterday, 150 UC-AFT supporters showed up to Zoom bargaining, showing the UC that we’re watching and serious about our demands for our new contract. Read the bargaining update here uclibrarians.com/2024/08/12/bar…

The American Association of University Professors calls on President Drake and the University of California to swiftly negotiate a fair contract with the UC-Librarians, who are the backbone of the university system. University Council - AFT Higher Education Labor United (HELU) aaup.org/news/letter-ca…

Ahead of the fall semester, the AAUP condemns the wave of administrative policies intended to crack down on peaceful campus protests. 🧵 aaup.org/news/aaup-cond…

NEW: AB 2586, the bill to allow undocumented students to work at UC, CSU and CCC just cleared the suspense file in the Senate, meaning it moves one step closer to passing the Legislature. Bill background: calmatters.org/education/high…

Too bad that after this year's 5% general fund increase, the CA legislature plans 2 years of cuts to the University of California budget. If Senate faculty were more activist, it might be easier to convince CA politicians that class size is a huge problem in UCs, along with affordability.

🧵Over 1,000 UAW members go on strike at Cornell University. After months of negotiations, over 1,000 UAW members have walked out on strike at Cornell University. The university has failed to present a fair package and has not bargained in good faith, stalling and retaliating

An incredible, chilling interview about the wrecking of a public liberal arts college that would have read like science fiction before 2015. From the Stop Woke Act to the public registry of syllabi to the mass baptisms on campus. Read the whole thing.

The legislature has told University of California to use student codes to clamp down on protest, and UC is complying. It's the "Irvine model": arrest people for tabling, distributing food, amplifying sound, or protesting in the wrong place w/out a permit, then suspend those arrested.

This is not a personal attack. This is an evisceration of the disinformation landscape we inhabit in US higher ed today: the bad faith accusations of antisemitism, and hypocritical invocations of universal liberal principles, used to defend illegal and immoral occupation and war.

The Creative Writing firings come exactly a year after we’d asked for raises from Stanford University. At the time, many lectures only made $52,000 in the Bay Area.

CA Unions are fighting for ALL workers & calling on #CALeg to #PassSB399. No one should be fired for not attending a captive meeting about their employers' views on politics/religion. This is a national AFL-CIO ✊ model bill that 10 states have passed already, CA needs to be next!

Incredible to consider what a dangerous source of misinformation AI could become if people outsource their research and thinking to it.

Please send a letter in support of #AB2277 raising the cap on part-time California Community Colleges faculty instruction. Capping PT teaching at 60% doesn't increase tenure density. It just forces PT faculty to teach at 2 or more schools to earn a living. CFT actionnetwork.org/letters/yesona…