Student mobilization around Gaza was countered by (a) large donor mobilization against the students and (b) targeted congressional hearings. The modern American university system, after decades of defunding higher ed, is MUCH more attuned to the will of Bill Ackman et al than of the student body.
So the Southeastern Medieval Association just canceled its 2024 conference due to the ongoing impacts of Hurricane Helene. The theme was… climate #medievalsky
A while back I was working on the history of book-burning and the most disturbing things I learned had to with the role of nazi student organizations in the early 30s
There's an entire well-funded, in-broad-daylight industry devoted to harassing and stalking and ruining the careers of college professors and most of our media just look and go "no there's not"
“I wasn’t fired for anything I said in the classroom. I was fired because of a charge brought by a student I had never met, let alone taught, who had been surveying my social media account for months.”
Pennsylvania’s Muhlenberg College may have become the first institution since Oct. 7 to oust a tenured faculty member for such statements, though the professor is appealing the decision and still rece...
This is a great essay and I admire Dan’s courage to be so blunt and clear. Much as this pains me as a UMBC grad, I must say: go Terps
Update: I have received a subjectless email from millionaire UMD donor, and owner of the Atlanta Hawks, Bruce Levenson, who objects to my description of him as a cranky Facebook uncle just bc he writes angry letters to faculty, with their bosses CC'ed, and then forwards them news clips for months.
I'm in the Baltimore Sun today writing for UMD's students and teachers and against the culture of fear administrators have imposed not just on protestors, but on everyone.
Our schools should run on facts, not fear.
As @considerthefish.bsky.social wrote in an X thread, it's evident from the Atlantic piece on Israel sabotaging the hostage release, that Americans in general and US Jews particularly refuse to come to terms with the depravity of the Kahanist regime, and how entrenched it is. It doesn't sink in.