My marvelous colleague Prof Christopher Brown (CU History Department) brought the 🔥 at today's Columbia faculty action opposing the arrests of students, suppression of free speech and the congressional threat to independence in higher education. Here's the whole thing.
#NoCopsOnCampus

Seconded. Per this piece I wrote in Washington Monthly a few yrs back: *It’s not that America’s racist past is being ignored in the classroom. It’s that we’re not teaching history well enough for many students to remember it.*

washingtonmonthly.com/2021/12/10/why…

This piece about threats to student activism on campus by Will Bunch is well worth reading. Includes commentary from Amna Khalid & yrs truly--

inquirer.com/opinion/colleg…

'Israel champions itself as...a bastion of press freedom...Its actions tell a very different story' -- 'the high rate of journalists’ deaths and arrests,' laws allowing it 'to shut down foreign news outlets,' & the barring of foreign journalists from Gaza. nytimes.com/2024/04/17/opi…

Time to kick ass for the teaching class American Association of University Professors

National Day of Action April 17.
Get involved! Get your campus, colleagues & students involved. Higher ed is under unprecedented attack and it's up to the workers to save higher ed and democracy. #wecandoit @aaup
More info here: aaup.org/event/national…
diverseeducation.com/faculty-staff/…

On April 17, National Day of Action for Higher Ed, Jeffrey Aaron Snyder & I are giving a talk Carleton College. What's your campus doing?
#HigherEdFightBack #EduForDemocracy

Next Wednesday, April 17 join hundreds of faculty & students nationwide for the launch of a counter-offensive against the sustained right-wing assault on American higher education as a public good.

A National Day of Action for Higher Education: dayofactionforhighered.org

'The American public has become convinced that the only justifiable purpose for higher education is to get people jobs and that one can’t get a good-paying job with a degree in philosophy/art history/ French/sculpture/dance' shorturl.at/qsN58

Read David C.K. Curry in The Chronicle of Higher Education on the gutting of the liberal arts: chronicle.com/article/the-gu…

This is very interesting and a level of analysis of how people exercise free speech on campus that is really refreshing

ICYMI: My latest with Jeffrey Aaron Snyder on the importance of protecting student protest to fulfill the mission of higher ed.

chronicle.com/article/studen…

Student Activism Is Integral to the Mission of Academe
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education | Higher Ed News, Opinion, & Advice
chronicle.com/article/studen…

#Highered –
student #activism
—Amna Khalid & Jeffrey Aaron Snyder
in The Chronicle of Higher Education Opinion
chronicle.com/article/studen…

#highereducation #criticalthinking #democracy #civiceducation #civicseducation #citizenship #activists

Read Amna Khalid & Jeffrey Aaron Snyder “How will students learn to navigate the sometimes rough-and-tumble world of life in a pluralistic, multicultural democracy?” The Chronicle of Higher Education chronicle.com/article/studen…

Great piece by Randall Kennedy in The Harvard Crimson on the fatal flaws with diversity statements.

thecrimson.com/column/council…

Honored to be a small part of this evening event Mitchell Hamline School of Law on 4/16. I lead a Q&A with the great Nadine Strossen on academic freedom & diversity. Other speakers include Amna Khalid Jeffrey Aaron Snyder Stacy Hawkins & Mark Berkson. Register today!

mitchellhamline.edu/academics/a-co…

Prof Randall Kennedy on mandatory diversiy statements:
'Such pressure constitutes an encroachment upon the intellectual freedom that ought to be part of the enjoyment of academic life.

Mandatory DEI statements are ideological pledges of allegiance. Time to abandon them. Harvard Law School Prof Randy Kennedy makes the case in The Harvard Crimson series with Council on Academic Freedom at Harvard thecrimson.com/column/council…