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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

But perhaps someone at @insidehighered.com would be interested in asking it again.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Whenever I see a current or former university president in the news for sexual misconduct, I think of this chart from 2015. (ABC seems to have pulled down the original Five Thirty Eight article, but here’s a Feministing blog about it.)

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Chart of the Day: College presidents think rape is only a problem at other schools

According to Inside Higher Ed’s annual survey, US college and university presidents demonstrate some very wishful thinking when it comes to sexual assault. While about a third believe that it is preva...

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 04/10/2026

I find this claim, which is now common in right-wing ed discourse, really astonishing. It rests at the core of the post-truth vision of "viewpoint diversity": we should not teach the conclusions that research shows to be correct; rather, we should validate empirically discredited ideas just because.

Fostering this civic orientation does not mean teaching students the “right” way to think or act
according to a preferred political or moral perspective. A transformative education is premised
on developing sound judgment, not on delivering correct conclusions.

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Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I have now had a few conversations with fellow Cornell alumni about whether writing a letter to the administration is worth it or will make a difference. Working at a similar university, I believe strongly that the answer is yes and that letters should be directed to…/1

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Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Zero tolerance rules that all but require ‘ideal victims’ to be put into practice are, in fact, practicing rape culture by another name by denying real victims justice while tutting about how party culture creates gray areas that make punishment for rape impossible. /6

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Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Listened to Pres. Kotlikoff’s message. I’m glad he included reexamining Greek life -that’s no small thing for a place like Cornell to say to alumni. Im glad to hear him acknowledge that Jane Doe is not unique but that many had similar experiences b/f. Alumni have been sharing their stories. /1

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Megan Goodwin @mpgphd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

there's a whole bar for this in Durham! almost entirely humanities stuff

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The point is that as a society, somewhat intentionally because the people who built the post-World War II public university system created this infrastructure on purpose, we house countless vital functions in our modern public universities.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Cutting this much from the university budget will mean that some of the core functions of the university will be lost. It’s not possible to just do more with less — to work smarter, to trim around the edges. We’re going to have to do less with less.” Gift link: www.startribune.com/umn-cuts-sta...

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Perry: What we lose if the U cuts $225 million

"Austerity doesn’t work. Instead, it creates a death spiral, where reduction in services leads to reductions in revenue, which lead to reductions in services, which leads to reduction in revenue, whic...

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Hard2BGreene @hard2bgreene.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I remember reading an article once looking at the age coding language around SA reporting and women in general (mostly in local papers). They found that men, 18 and up, were pretty consistently referred to as men...unless they were accused of SA and they it was "boy," "young man," or "teen."

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

While digging around their website, I found their ethics policy—including a section on AI-generated content. I suspect that’s a part of what happened here. And I’m upset about that too! I did NOT speak to a journalist with the assumption that my interview would be funneled into producing AI slop.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My PhD advisor, Peggy Sanday, published Fraternity Gang Rape (1990). She found gang rape functions as male bonding through domination: men use women to prove masculinity, gain status, & demonstrate loyalty. Group norms normalize coercion, erase consent, & institutional privilege shields perpetrators

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

excited to see every catholic university in the US triple down on arts.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 30/09/2026

Democrats have for decades accepted the idea that public funding for research and education should include very high levels of appropriations for STEM but very low levels of appropriations for the humanities.

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Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“There was no sugarcoating in that article. Most details were included even if they were graphic or uncomfortable. I think it made a really big statement. To read the details of this alleged sexual assault was jarring for a lot of people and made a really big impact on them.”

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Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Over the past few years student journalists have been the forefront of calling the academy out for the way it protects abusers. Princeton journalists broke the Katz story too. And he was detenured in the avalanche that followed. Bravo to student journalists.

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Chelsea Phillips (she/her) @chelseaphillips.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Villanova Theatre is hiring! We’ve just opened our search for a TT Assistant Professor of Playwriting position. Details below, and very happy to answer questions. jobs.villanova.edu/postings/36362

jobs.villanova.edu

Tenure track Assistant Professor of Playwriting

Why work at Villanova?Join a mission-driven organization. Since Villanova University’s founding in 1842, we have been inspired by the values of truth, unity, and love, and are a community dedicated to...

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In real terms, public undergraduate tuition today is less than half of what it was twenty years ago – and this is without taking rising family income into account www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/09/the-...

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The surprising facts about college tuition - Lawyers, Guns & Money

The statistics in the article below come primarily from the Digest of Education Statistics, published annually by the National Center for Education Statistics, and CollegeBoard’s annual Trends in Coll...

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Friendly reminder that real tuition (at publics in particular), as Judy is quoted saying in the piece and I'm sure the rest of us also mentioned, has been steady or falling for a bit bsky.app/profile/bake...

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I try to help people understand this so we don't just automatically suggest lowering tuition as a silver bullet college affordability remedy when lots of public institutions already have low tuition

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Goals and ambitions may become impossible to achieve. Timelines and hopes for the future may be derailed. At scale, college sexual abuse is a systemic force to prevent women and marginalized victims from having the same opportunities, health, and happiness as predominantly male perpetrators.

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Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As I write this biography on Octavia, wife of Nero, I’ve gone back & forth about how viscerally detailed to be when discussing my subject’s experience of IPV (especially frequent strangulation)…/1

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s earlier than I expected to announce this, but we’re in the process of founding an organization to build cross-generational solidarity on campus sexual violence. It’s called the Survivor Alumni Network. And if you want updates from us when we are ready to go public, you can stay in touch here:

survivoralumninetwork.org

Survivor Alumni Network

Join a national survivor network. Access free Title IX resources, peer mentorship, and Campus Response Teams dedicated to campus safety reform.

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Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Heck I had a male friend take a drink away from me that one of his frat brothers had given me. No words exchanged. He just told me not to drink it. I didn’t. We never spoke about it.

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Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This should say ‘about their reputation once’. My kingdom for an edit button.

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Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I mean sure but sometimes they just get to steal your books and articles. You didn’t give them anything. But those embracing AI thought this was fine because … of reasons?

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Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Maybe now that the intellectual theft is happening to STEM people we might start to care?

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Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m begging parents of sons: ask them what they would do if they saw a text chain appear on their phone like the one at Cornell. What actions would they take? How would they help? Would they know what to do? Please. Talk to them.

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We know that the best way to draw someone into a history major is in a class of 12. That's why you don't get classes of 12 as a service dept. You get 180 students, in two-hour chunks, with no breakout sessions or teaching assistants. You are set up to fail, at least in terms of attracting majors

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Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We said goodbye to my gramma this week. She was a force of nature. She was witty, & smart, & kind. She loved the color aqua. She was always & will be my compass in so much of life. She lived to be 101. She died in her home of many decades with us next to her. She went gently. Here’s a photo I love.

A woman in a green shirt and orange pants holds a toddler in a navy dress on her lap to read her a book. Behind them is a full bar cart.

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James L. Sutter @jameslsutter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Making an author read their book after they're no longer able to revise it should be banned by the Geneva Conventions.

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Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Today I drew on the blackboard of my classroom how a mongoose attacks a snake. Because of a simile in Lucan. I cannot draw. One student asked me if it was an illustration of all the horses dying. You’re welcome.

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Magistra Cohen (she/her) @magistracohen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Like @wmarybeard.bsky.social says, no one asks virologists whether they really like viruses.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My whole career the Humanities seem to have been curled up in a defensive crouch trying to justify our meaning/existence. At times it has even seemed a productive thought exercise, but I think generally whatever body has demanded the justification is not really open to being persuaded of anything.

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Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Dear world, why have I had a low grade headache all day? **checks weather app** Ah. Ragweed. My annual enemy.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

For anyone interested in the history of how the financial rug was pulled out from under great public universities sinc 1970s-'80s, this is an excellent history, principally focusing on California and NY. No surprise who the baddies are: Reagan and Rockefeller! Link: www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

Book cover:

AUSTERITY
BLUES
Fighting for tbe Soul
of Public Higher Education

MICHAEL FABRICANT & STEPHEN BRIER

November 1, 2016
Hardcover E-book
$32.00 $32.00

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Teaching is the very thing that’s been degraded and underfunded and is the very thing that we know across k-16 is the most important aspect of student learning and outcomes – well beyond the classroom. Yes, this is now my checklist for any essay/ pod abt "higher ed." 10/

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I have listened to and read lots and lots of What AI will Mean for College and the one big thing that gets skips all the time is TEACHING. Information provided is not teaching. 8/

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

What’s missing: 1/ Any framing about what higher is or has been that misses the big public investment post-WW2 and then massive disinvestment starting in the 1980s which spirals into rising costs and student debt is disingenuous at best. 5/

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

2. Any discussion about higher ed that misses that women and people of color were largely excluded until the *1970s* misses the fulcrum of these debates. 6/

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Kathleen Fitzpatrick @kfitz.info · 14/09/2026

What an *amazing coincidence* that the moves to undermine public higher education by shifting its costs from the government to students and families begins in earnest in the 1970s.

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

“Forgetting this in the world of AI may turn the tool against the primary goal. Indeed, the mass production at faster and faster pace of “true/false” statements could destroy fertile ground instead of breathing life into new ideas.”

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Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Not to brag, but today I managed not to dunk my laptop in water or swear in class.

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Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Well, today I dropped a full water bottle on an open laptop in the middle of class. In other news, my students have now heard me say ‘FUCKITY FUCK!’ So we’re clearly bonded now.

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