It’s catching. 😢

In a resolution introduced by my AAUP chapter, the usually cautious IUSB faculty senate voted overwhelmingly to condemn the arrest & suspension of students & faculty at IU during recent encampments & to call for the termination of Pres Whitten. Faculty are tired, real tired

A judge has ruled against Brown University's aims to charge 41 of its own students with trespassing for holding a December sit-in protest calling for divestment.
“I think this is a reflection of what nonviolent and peaceful resistance, frankly, is supposed to look like,” he said.

Brian Rosenberg ' 'The 'naked threats to the mission of higher education' in Florida and Ohio, Indiana and Texas, come not from a few dozen angry students...but from state houses and from university presidents who fail to defend academic freedom.' insidehighered.com/opinion/views/…

#NEW : The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is suing Greg Abbott, and the UT and UH Board of Regents for Gov. Abbott’s March executive order, which orders universities to evaluate free speech policies, specially naming groups like PSC as potential targets.

148 people testified at the Texas Senate hearing yesterday.

Many came with concerns about SB 17 and free speech protections for pro-Palestinian students. Some
Jewish students spoke against the perception that the protests were antisemitic. Read below:

statesman.com/story/news/edu…

“Many of them were alumni who graduated in recent years. Others included local residents who are activists, photographers, performing artists and nonprofit workers...
Many of those university officials identified as unaffiliated were alumni…”

Testimonies and Excerpts of DEI March and Press Conference from yesterday, May 14, 2024, at the Texas State Capitol in Austin Texas texasedequity.blogspot.com/2024/05/excerp… #GenZ Texas NAACP LULAC @MALC #txed #txlege Texas Black Caucus

About 150 people testify at Texas Senate hearing on SB 17, college free speech. Here's why statesman.com/story/news/edu… via Austin Statesman

Books on student activism from both the left and the right.

This is an amazing student performance. Watch and be inspired! Bravo, Joshua! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Friends, yesterday's testimony @ the Texas State Capitol was phenomenal and overwhelmingly, if not exclusively, opposed to #SB17 alongside vehement opposition to recent shameful violations of free speech on college campuses. #Txlege #txed #DEI #SB17
tlcsenate.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.ph…

A new article by Emily Houh for #Academe revisits the 1971 AAUP investigation at UCLA involving Angela Davis and explores “how #academicfreedom plays a role in political struggles, in both liberatory and oppressive ways.” aaup.org/article/aaup-a…

✴️Please listen to both segments of this troubling story. The History chairperson has received no complaints of an antisemitic remark made by a professor to a Jewish student. That would be the first step a student would take to complain about antisemitism on the part of a

'Students are not rising up because anybody else told them to do it. Students are sick and tired of their universities funding genocide' —Jo dallasnews.com/news/education…

“It’s time our government responded to popular social movements with an ear, instead of a boot.”

Read my op-ed in Teen Vogue on police and government repression of social movements⬇️

teenvogue.com/story/cori-bus…

What happened at Spartanburg Community College as documented by an American Association of University Professors investigation - where admin killed a senate - is not an anomaly.

ICYMI: My interveiw in The Chronicle of Higher Education

Opinion | 'If You're Suppressing Speech in the Name of Safety, You're Doing the Wrong Thing' chronicle.com/article/if-you…

Great investigative reporting by Marcela Rodrigues of Dallas Morning News!

NEW: Many lawmakers said 'outside agitators' were the driving force behind campus protests. We Dallas Morning News reviewed hundreds of pages of documents and interviewed dozens of people to find out if that was the case in Texas.

Here's what we found 🧵
dallasnews.com/news/education…