Reposted by Lisa SiraganianTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026some descriptive statistics here on the civility industrial complex on college campuses that I haven’t seen analyzed before www.uncivilcollective.org/resources 7794286
Reposted by Lisa SiraganianAdam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Wrote it with Rob Smigel. And yes, it was pulled from reruns. 412509829
Reposted by Lisa SiraganianKarl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 04/09/2026"Each capitulation—first Columbia, then Brown, then several others including Penn, Cornell, and Northwestern—allowed the [Trump] administration to portray the remaining opposition as marginal and weak rather than united by principle." www.nybooks.com/articles/202...nybooks.comThe Dartmouth Exception | Jacob WeisbergAmong its peers in the Ivy League, Dartmouth was perfectly positioned to resist Trump’s attack on higher education. It chose not to. 0710
Reposted by Lisa SiraganianLauren Lassabe Shepherd @llassabe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026THREE CHEERS www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...chronicle.comLetter | When Presidents Bypass Shared GovernanceMembers of the Johns Hopkins University AAUP respond to an interview with Ronald Daniels. 0139
Reposted by Lisa SiraganianMary Anne Franks @maryannefranks.bsky.social · 04/09/2026A very good letter in the @chronicle.com by @lsiraganian.bsky.social & other JHU AAAUP members debunking the fake crisis of declining public trust in higher education and highlighting a real one: university administrators willing to collaborate with authoritarians. www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter... 08739
Lisa Siraganian @lsiraganian.bsky.social · 04/09/2026www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter... Hopkins AAUP responds! Please share!chronicle.comLetter | When Presidents Bypass Shared GovernanceMembers of the Johns Hopkins University AAUP respond to an interview with Ronald Daniels. 052
Lisa Siraganian @lsiraganian.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Boosting this article because it needs a reread now! 031
Reposted by Lisa SiraganianKarl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 22/08/2026No to DEI, yes to AEI! 0103
Reposted by Lisa SiraganianBradford Vivian @bradvivian.bsky.social · 22/08/2026My impression is that Johns Hopkins has offset a loss of federal grants by effectively treating the American Enterprise Institute as a primary donor. They’re free to do so, and then others are free to ask if portions of JHU are becoming extensions of AEI instead of independent scholarly programs. 0247
Reposted by Lisa SiraganianHigher Education Labor United (HELU) @higheredlabor.bsky.social · 21/08/2026When students lose financial aid, it changes the financial landscape for our colleges and universities. Workers bear the impact. Jobs get cut and programs closed. Join us Tues 9/1 at 7pm ET for a virtual Town Hall on the fight to protect and expand Pell Grants. Register: tinyurl.com/PellTownHall 0119
Reposted by Lisa SiraganianRichard Moran @ramoran.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Well this didn't take long. The chancellors who commissioned the Boghossian report (Martin and Diermeier, along with others) are publicly teaming up with the Trump administration to violate academic freedom and faculty autonomy, prominently citing the report in support of their campaign.leiterreports.comThe Trump collaborators: Michael Crow (Arizona State), Ron Daniels (Johns Hopkins), Douglas Girod (Kansas), Andrew Martin (Wash U/St. Louis)These four university President have participated in drafting a new “call to action” from Linda McMahon, the former wrestling executive turned Secretary of Education, to the nation̵… 011
Reposted by Lisa SiraganianMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Again, <no one> knows the "right" amount of viewpoint diversity, & it is impossible to have full-political spectrum viewpoint diversity & remain serious academic institutions, in a world where one of our two party has totally collapsed into far right authoritarianism: bsky.app/profile/mcop... 104415
Reposted by Lisa SiraganianBrian Leiter @brianleiter.bsky.social · 25/08/2026leiterreports.com/2026/08/25/j...leiterreports.comJohns Hopkins President Ron Daniels’ continuing war on academic freedomFirst he was involved in the Trump Administration’s document calling for a massive violation of academic freedom, and now he intends to take the war on academic freedom to every department at… 054
Reposted by Lisa SiraganianBradford Vivian @bradvivian.bsky.social · 25/08/2026That IS the prevailing orthodoxy. There’s nothing “heterodox” about it. 0161
Reposted by Lisa SiraganianBradford Vivian @bradvivian.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I argue that we should evaluate scholarly merit w/out considering personal poltical views. But if that’s the question, then the dominant trend in the past decade has been a massive effort to promote conservative scholars in academia over any other group. We should insist on that clear fact. 2192
Reposted by Lisa SiraganianDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Johns Hopkins has been asking potential candidates (or having search firms ask potential candidates) whether they can be "objective" and whether they will meet with Republicans or not. It's not quite political litmus test for hiring, but it sure is something several of us have noted. 45017
Reposted by Lisa SiraganianAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 25/08/2026Viewpoint diversity is the opposite of peer review. You should not be leading a university if you don’t believe in peer review asheeshksi.substack.com/p/producing-... 1023435
Reposted by Lisa SiraganianBradford Vivian @bradvivian.bsky.social · 25/08/2026The Conservative Scholar Paradox: they’re rare…except for the many self-described conservative faculty with distinguished credentials, institutional prominence, and professional success from myriad institutions that the Chronicle and numerous other pubs feature almost daily. 47017
Reposted by Lisa SiraganianJohn Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Legendary public health and medical program vows that more vaccine skeptics are needed 1629860
Reposted by Lisa SiraganianBradford Vivian @bradvivian.bsky.social · 24/08/2026@laraschwartz.bsky.social and I on the "loss of public trust" narrative in higher education (thanks you @insidehighered.com). Invoking "trust" to censor/punish/control universities is the opposite of a real commitment to trust. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...insidehighered.comEnough With the Performative Apologia (opinion)Let’s have an honest conversation about civic trust and higher education. 14319
Reposted by Lisa SiraganianNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I don’t think a good definition of “viewpoint diversity” is “you must lower your standards specifically for anti-science, anti-truth, bigots, and fascists — a healthy intellectual community needs those voices and they can’t clear the bar otherwise.” 16773142
Reposted by Lisa SiraganianMargaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/08/2026400 library workers begin their strike Monday after endless months of trying to negotiate with management. Already the anti-union propaganda machine is calling the library workers entitled. The LIBRARY workers. You don't staff the desk at the free stuff store because you're greedy. 81733603
Reposted by Lisa SiraganianLeonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026In case you are an academic who is currently being gaslit into believing that you're a caveman who wants their students to be jobless if you resist allowing AI in your classrooms... I present to you Berkeley Law's response, which can be summarized as "Fuck off directly into the sun."law.berkeley.eduArtificial Intelligence PolicyEffective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […] 231900796
Reposted by Lisa SiraganianTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I regret to inform you that these traditional college courses in AI are indistinguishable from the classrooms I sat in at for-profit colleges 15 years ago. Centralized curriculum & branding, technological control, “virtual” libraries, & bureaucratic alienation of labor. 31060198
Reposted by Lisa SiraganianTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026there is no rhyme or reason to an entire “AI” department, much less an AI school. There is no curriculum, as such, because AI is not a school of thought. It has no theory, no method. It’s just a tool. Two or three courses, max, if someone is obsessed with it should suffice. 211777278
Reposted by Lisa SiraganianJonathan Feingold @jpygold.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Albert Einstein argued that intellectual workers must organize “both to protect their own economic status and also … to secure their influence in the political field,” bc doing so was essential to defending academic freedom and, ultimately, democracy itself. @aaup.orginsidehighered.comWho Really Politicized Higher Education? (opinion)It wasn’t the AAUP. 12911
Reposted by Lisa SiraganianKim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Zero new NSF grants in sociology, anthropology, political science and economics. The agenda of this US govt is to stop documenting the society in which we live while they are destroying it. We will find other ways to track and explain our times and fight to restore our research funding. 15893454
Reposted by Lisa SiraganianProfessa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 19/08/2026What did I say? You say no. What the Trump Administration will ask you to do is likely unlawful, poorly researched and argued, and anti-constitutional. If universities were corporations, the Boards of Trustees that authorized these settlements would be held to violate the duty of care and loyalty. 39626
Lisa Siraganian @lsiraganian.bsky.social · 17/08/2026@insidehighered.com bsky.app/profile/insi... @uncivilcollective.bsky.social is leading the way forward! 010
Reposted by Lisa SiraganianRachel Levinson-Waldman @rlevinsonwaldman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Yesterday, @brennancenter.org filed an amicus brief in the First Circuit in support of a case that @aaup.org & @mesa1966.bsky.social filed last year challenging the administration's "ideological deportation policy" targeting noncitizen students & scholars based on their viewpoints & associations.brennancenter.orgHistorians’ Amicus Brief in American Association of University Professors v. RubioHistorians filed a brief supporting a challenge to the federal government’s policy of arresting, detaining, and deporting noncitizen students and faculty on the basis of their speech and associations. 27732
Reposted by Lisa SiraganianJ.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 11/08/2026"You used us as decoys" "I wouldn't say that" "What would you say?" "That we have no regard for your lives and would greet your deaths with a modicum of satisfaction before seizing upon the occasion to commit unspeakable war crimes. Off the record." "Sure. Off the record." 083
Lisa Siraganian @lsiraganian.bsky.social · 10/08/2026@insidehighered.com bsky.app/profile/insi... “Pretty nice university you have there. Shame if anything were to happen to it.” 020
Lisa Siraganian @lsiraganian.bsky.social · 09/08/2026American academics need to be more like Canadians! bsky.app/profile/char... 020
Reposted by Lisa SiraganianNick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 03/08/2026You can't be a partner. This administration doesn't take partners, only subjects. That's the whole point 07420
Reposted by Lisa SiraganianAnna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 09/08/2026If you have so much work to do that you feel you need AI in order to get it all done: you don't. You need a union. 212552806
Reposted by Lisa SiraganianLeah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026A Senate candidate talking about the Powell memo???? Pinch me, am I dreaming???? 13068161938
Lisa Siraganian @lsiraganian.bsky.social · 09/08/2026This is good stuff! bsky.app/profile/greg... 0257
Reposted by Lisa SiraganianGregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 07/08/2026@blumenthal.senate.gov and @delauro.house.gov have sent a joint letter to the President of Yale, Maurie McInnis. It asks for information on "the University’s interactions with the Administration since January 20, 2025, regarding Title VI compliance and any recent or ongoing negotiations." 1/ 17224
Reposted by Lisa SiraganianBaltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 06/08/2026Johns Hopkins president helped craft Trump’s new higher education framework buff.ly/FxtQrb1buff.lyJohns Hopkins president helped craft Trump’s new higher education frameworkRon Daniels, the longtime leader of Johns Hopkins University, helped the Trump administration craft its new higher education call to action 2712
Reposted by Lisa SiraganianVital Signs Podcast @vitalsignspodcast.bsky.social · 05/08/2026"You don't have moral responsibility to do that." - @lsiraganian.bsky.social on philosopher Judith Thomson's violinist thought experiment. Tune into this fascinating conversation on personhood now. Links in bio. #VitalSignsPodcast #RoevWade 023
Reposted by Lisa SiraganianVital Signs Podcast @vitalsignspodcast.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Critiquing "My Body, My Choice" framing on abortion rights, @lsiraganian.bsky.social cites Ruth Bader Ginsberg on a better pro-choice argument. Tune into this fascinating conversation on personhood now. Links in bio. #VitalSignsPodcast #RoevWade 001
Reposted by Lisa SiraganianSUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 04/08/2026bsky.app/profile/aaup... 141
Reposted by Lisa Siraganiancoopmike48 @coopmike48.bsky.social · 04/08/2026AFT, AAUP Respond to Trump Compact 2.0 | American Federation of Teachers www.aft.org/press-releas... 022
Reposted by Lisa SiraganianRoopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Fascists and authoritarian regimes try to control universities and turn them into purveyors of state propaganda through extortion…... www.politico.com/news/2026/08...politico.comTrump administration asks colleges to commit to education overhaulEducation Secretary Linda McMahon’s letter contains some similarities to a compact offered to and rejected by a small group of schools last year. 415383
Reposted by Lisa SiraganianSUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 03/08/2026A few hot takes on the letter, which I will refer to as Compact 2.0: 0) I appreciate the shift from outright extortion to (theoretically) open-ended questions. 1) Nevertheless, both the framing of the questions and wording of several rest on a thin evidence base and unexamined assumptions. 33921
Reposted by Lisa SiraganianSUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 03/08/20263) This opportunity should not be wasted, but it should not be presidents and boards alone who develop the institutional response to Compact 2.0. bsky.app/profile/suny... 1186