Reposted by @vanderbiltaaup.bsky.socialDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 11hThings I think about some days: Who funded the Vanderbilt and WashU reports? What pot of money did this come from if it was the institutions themselves? How much funding was it? 23810
Reposted by @vanderbiltaaup.bsky.socialDr. Leonard Bright @drleonardbright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Texas legislators and universities can’t claim to support viewpoint diversity while endorsing viewpoint discrimination. Genuine intellectual diversity requires allowing competing perspectives—even unpopular ones—to be expressed, examined, and debated. 0234
Reposted by @vanderbiltaaup.bsky.socialDr. Leonard Bright @drleonardbright.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I find it striking that some of the loudest opponents of DEI and race-conscious affirmative action in higher education now demand what amounts to affirmative action for conservative and far-right political viewpoints—often under the banner of “intellectual diversity.” 0297
Reposted by @vanderbiltaaup.bsky.socialAAUP @aaup.org · 02/10/2026Let's get this party started. #DefendHigherEd Starter Pack: 02217
Reposted by @vanderbiltaaup.bsky.socialDave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Caught the #FirstTheyCameForMyCollege here in Houston at the MFAH. Every @aaup.org chapter in the country should be airing this, to explain to students, faculty, and parents how destructive the right wing takeover has been for the education & careers of students www.firsttheycameformycollege.comfirsttheycameformycollege.comFirst They Came For My CollegeWhen Florida Governor Ron DeSantis stages a coup at New College, the state’s beloved public honors college, students and professors confront a new reality: their campus is ground zero in an unpreceden... 175
Reposted by @vanderbiltaaup.bsky.socialPatrick De Oliveira @plso.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Academic freedom in the U.S. has arguably reached a new nadir—maybe worse than the 50s. This is not only due to the scale and range of the assault on higher ed, which is targeting everything (individuals' views on Gaza, DEI initiatives, the curriculum, collaborative research with other countries)... 46441
Reposted by @vanderbiltaaup.bsky.socialAAUP @aaup.org · 06/10/2026BOOM! 💥💥💥 The U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals granted Penn-AAUP’s motion to vacate the bad district court opinion on Trump’s absurd demands. Trump tried to get a list of Jews from Penn & failed, & now, thanks to @aaup-penn.bsky.social, the admin leaves with nothing that it can use elsewhere. 010033
Reposted by @vanderbiltaaup.bsky.socialAAUP @aaup.org · 06/10/2026The AAUP is fighting for our principles in court. Here’s the latest:aaup.orgNew Lawsuit Challenges Trump-Vance Administration Policies Threatening Green Card Applicants with Family SeparationThe AAUP and a coalition of allies filed a lawsuit today challenging two Trump–Vance administration policies that make it significantly harder or impossible for eligible immigrants already living in t... 02114
Reposted by @vanderbiltaaup.bsky.socialAAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 06/10/2026www.aaup.org/about/progra... Your AAUP dues at work!aaup.orgAAUP Litigation 084
Reposted by @vanderbiltaaup.bsky.socialAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 07/10/2026“Information literacy” feels like a tech-backed walled garden, where the tech industry controls the content generation and gets to delineate the correct hermeneutics for making sense of the content. Let’s subsidize real print books for students instead. 1175
Reposted by @vanderbiltaaup.bsky.socialAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 07/10/2026“We can learn how to spot and confront these agents of influence by using the tools and techniques of the intelligence officer.” We could also teach people how to read. Real books. On paper. We reach for the most unnecessary analogies and solutions when the answer is simply, fund the humanities. 15114
Reposted by @vanderbiltaaup.bsky.socialAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 30/09/2026South Florida is becoming what the Middle East and East Asia used to be for the neoliberal American university. The place to open a satellite campus, in this case to spread the "brand" to tech capital. Meanwhile, what of public higher ed in the state? www.vanderbilt.edu/chancellor/i...vanderbilt.eduVanderbilt in West Palm BeachExpanding Our Presence Vanderbilt University is proceeding with a planned graduate campus in West Palm Beach and has launched a new $250 million phase of the fundraising campaign for the project. With... 174
vanderbiltaaup.bsky.social @vanderbiltaaup.bsky.social · 29/09/2026the tip of the iceberg of a scholarly critique: the document makes sweeping statements condemning the state of a massive field based on extremely limited, cherry-picked evidence. ultimately, the author is resistant to the very idea that fields evolve, which--sorry, friend--they inevitably do. 000
vanderbiltaaup.bsky.social @vanderbiltaaup.bsky.social · 29/09/2026oh god, they released another lit studies appendix, and it's ... somehow even worse than the first one????vanderbilt.eduAdvocacy in Literary StudiesProblems. Scholarly disciplines exist to provide new insights and accurate information for others to use. Policymakers rely on the results of research. If the research is conducted with a fixed pre-or... 111
vanderbiltaaup.bsky.social @vanderbiltaaup.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“The strategy should be familiar to us by now: it is homologous with the right-wing project in the US political field by which the right attacks science as politically-motivated to undercut it” 000
vanderbiltaaup.bsky.social @vanderbiltaaup.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“The report [tries] to delegitimate postcolonial/decolonial sociology…. to undercut projects to diversify the sociological canon; it strives to silence critiques of class reductionism, skepticism of structural functionalism, and critics of social evolution theory by labeling [them]… “politicized.” 000
vanderbiltaaup.bsky.social @vanderbiltaaup.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“Appointing Rubin to research whether sociology is politicized was like appointing a vocal flat earther to study whether the earth is flat.” 000
vanderbiltaaup.bsky.social @vanderbiltaaup.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“Rubin already held the view that sociology was politically compromised before her “research” for the VWUR. And she had already publicized these views….This should make any reasonable person wonder: why was she appointed to do the report in the first place?”scatter.wordpress.comguest post: scholarly malpractice and the vanderbilt-washington university report on sociologyThe following is a guest post by Julian Go. By now readers of scatterplot will be aware of the Sociology portion of the Vanderbilt-Washington University Report (VWUR) by Ashley Rubin. Part of the “… 300
Reposted by @vanderbiltaaup.bsky.socialJules Boykoff @julesboykoff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"Institutions that recruit international athletes & benefit from their athletic labor must build systems capable of supporting them when their immigration status places them at risk," write @nkalamb.bsky.social Simran Kaur Sethi, & @derekcrim.bsky.social in a powerful & important essay 34926
Reposted by @vanderbiltaaup.bsky.socialNathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026ICE has abducted Senegalese WBB player Aminata Seck and won't release her. DHS 'policy' is to provide medical care to prisoners at intake, yet they admit to denying her care for an ACL injury for 1.5 months. The NCAA is letting it happen, despite its predatory recruitment of ICAs. We explain.theguardian.comICE has abducted a college athlete. What are the NCAA and universities going to do about it?Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious. 10889513
vanderbiltaaup.bsky.social @vanderbiltaaup.bsky.social · 26/09/2026www.harvardmagazine.com/commentary/h...harvardmagazine.comI Used to Think AI Could Make Me a Better Writer | Harvard MagazineA former Harvard College writing tutor changes her mind on LLMs. 010
vanderbiltaaup.bsky.social @vanderbiltaaup.bsky.social · 26/09/2026“Faculty collective action is a critical counterforce to corporate capture.” 020
vanderbiltaaup.bsky.social @vanderbiltaaup.bsky.social · 26/09/2026www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comHow decades of corporate capture enabled today's assault on universities in the United StatesUniversities in the US have never been free of corporate, military, or political influence. But over the past fifty years, corporate libertarian donor… 110
Reposted by @vanderbiltaaup.bsky.socialLuke BOO 👻 ber @coolhand.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Oh shit. THAT is worse than I realized 28870294
Reposted by @vanderbiltaaup.bsky.socialGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets. 204190525440
vanderbiltaaup.bsky.social @vanderbiltaaup.bsky.social · 22/09/2026rofltennessean.comVanderbilt University, MTSU lead the nation in free speech on campusVanderbilt and MTSU are in the top 20 for free speech scores, according to a new survey, while Memphis and UTK fall. 000
Reposted by @vanderbiltaaup.bsky.socialPhillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 22/09/2026WashU and Vanderbilt went halfsies on a "Report on the State of the Humanities and Social Sciences." The day it was published is the first day any of us here had heard of it. This outstanding panel is our faculty's first public response to its existence. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmQJ...youtube.comAdvocacy, Objectivity and Method - WashU Center for the Humanities ForumYouTube video by WashU Center for the Humanities 22411
Reposted by @vanderbiltaaup.bsky.socialPhillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 22/09/2026And now, today, our student newspaper has run this excellent — and to my eye, pretty accurate at a granular level — recap of the event. Which is, to me, pretty impressive given that, even as they were pitched to the public, this was a series of scholarly talks. www.studlife.com/news/2026/09...studlife.comProfessors push back on humanities report at widely attended forum - Student LifeSix WashU faculty members critiqued a report commissioned by WashU and Vanderbilt on the politicization of the humanities in front of approximately 200 in-person students, faculty, and WashU community... 021
Reposted by @vanderbiltaaup.bsky.socialThe EDU Ledger @theeduledger.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Views | Dr. Lynne Berry’s resignation from Vanderbilt University Medical Center raises questions about institutional accountability, faculty rights, and whether stated principles still carry weight.theeduledger.comAt Vanderbilt, a Scholar’s Ouster Raises Questions About Due Process and Institutional NerveDr. Lynne Berry’s resignation from Vanderbilt University Medical Center raises questions about institutional accountability, faculty rights, and whether stated principles still carry weight. 034
vanderbiltaaup.bsky.social @vanderbiltaaup.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Vanderbilt University faculty (including grad students, research staff, postdocs…) come on out tonight to talk academic freedom and shared governance : ) 000
Reposted by @vanderbiltaaup.bsky.socialThomas M. Keck @tmksyracuse.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I’ve been suspicious of Vanderbilt admin from jump, but this is even worse than I expected 4318
Reposted by @vanderbiltaaup.bsky.socialBenjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Preparing to speak on a panel about the recent "Vanderbilt Report" on universities -- which was picked up by Linda McMahon as a way to attack those universities -- I've been going down rabbit holes about the history of its claims. This 2010 Martin Jay essay is great: web.archive.org/web/20111124...web.archive.orgA story from Skidmore College 2194
vanderbiltaaup.bsky.social @vanderbiltaaup.bsky.social · 04/09/2026“Vanderbilt Chancellor Daniel Diermeier provided, as an example of the leftward political drift of American universities, the argument that ‘mass incarceration after the war on drugs basically was intended and had the consequence of suppressing African-American communities.’tennessean.comVandy chancellor says colleges suffer from 'political drift' | OpinionVanderbilt Chancellor Daniel Diermeier faces criticism for questioning the reality of racial bias in policing. 000
vanderbiltaaup.bsky.social @vanderbiltaaup.bsky.social · 04/09/2026www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithint...nashvillescene.comVanderbilt Employee Sues After Being Denied Gender-Affirming Care CoverageA Vanderbilt University employee is suing the school for alleged discrimination after the university denied insurance coverage for gender-affirming procedures. 000
Reposted by @vanderbiltaaup.bsky.socialChris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I was induced to critique that Vanderbilt slam of humanities scholarship, and had a strangely good time doing it. I explain why Appiah should like and help, not trash The Activist Humanist. Collaboration can cure ALL real epistemic ills in the humanities: do this! criticalnoise.org/the-struggle...criticalnoise.orgThe Struggle to Face Forward – History of the Present 1227
Reposted by @vanderbiltaaup.bsky.socialMark Fraley @fralaw.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Vanderbilt began acquiring land on the North side of Natchez Trace back in the 1960’s in collaboration with the city. They invented the pretext that this area was a blighted area. Campus expansion seemed to be the motive 011
Reposted by @vanderbiltaaup.bsky.socialAmy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social · 03/09/2026What is the point of trying so hard to maintain your academic freedom if you’re going to abandon the entire educational enterprise, sacrifice the undergrads to the tech companies, and then light your reputation on fire?thecrimson.comHarvard Humanities Faculty Push Back on Deming’s Call for AI Use in Writing Courses | The Harvard CrimsonHarvard faculty in the humanities and social sciences expressed broad concern over an email Harvard College Dean David J. Deming sent students Wednesday suggesting that artificial intelligence be inte... 213146
Reposted by @vanderbiltaaup.bsky.socialDan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Next week! Hosting an @aaup.org webinar with Britt Paris on our new Toolkit for Activism in AI. 9/9 3 PM. Presentation portion recorded. More events and demos through the fall. What your dues fund! www.aaup.org/event/introd...aaup.orgIntroducing the New Toolkit for Activism on AIThe new toolkit for activism on AI shares best practices on technology procurement, auditing, bargaining, conducting information requests, and developing campaigns around technology demands for chapte... 02113
Reposted by @vanderbiltaaup.bsky.socialAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 03/09/2026You know what's not down? The library. 526566
Reposted by @vanderbiltaaup.bsky.socialTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I’m starting to confuse GLP and GPT 1121712
Reposted by @vanderbiltaaup.bsky.socialBrendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 04/09/2026we need to make sure that every college student takes at least one gender studies course 0141
Reposted by @vanderbiltaaup.bsky.socialLisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 04/09/2026"Today’s students are trying to work out what it means to be decent humans in a world growing more heated, hostile and, sometimes, heartless. We should cheer them on, for their sake and ours." I'm teaching a class full of 1st years this term and their enthusiasm and curiosity is sustaining my heart 0131
Reposted by @vanderbiltaaup.bsky.socialAAUP @aaup.org · 03/09/2026HAPPENING NOW: The Texas A&M Board of Regents is meeting to discuss a proposal to remove more than 200 classes on everything from LGBTQ literature to climate change to women writers to Latinx literature to intro to race & ethnicity from general education course lists.texastribune.orgAbout 200 courses may be cut from Texas A&M System’s core offeringsMore than 200 courses, including those on LGBTQ literature, cultural studies and climate change, could no longer count toward core degree requirements at 11 Texas A&M universities. 12422
Reposted by @vanderbiltaaup.bsky.socialAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 04/09/2026The moments the mask slips are always revealing 0102
vanderbiltaaup.bsky.social @vanderbiltaaup.bsky.social · 04/09/2026well heck, i guess it’s good to know what he costs 000
Reposted by @vanderbiltaaup.bsky.socialAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 03/09/2026This article succeeds where most on the same topic fail (most notably Heller's infamous New Yorker piece on the 'end of the English major') bc it shows the relationship between 'declining majors' and 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘤, 𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦 defunding and disinvestment in programs administrators want to diminish or end. 220984
Reposted by @vanderbiltaaup.bsky.socialAAUP @aaup.org · 03/09/2026“Weaponizing the IRS to attack colleges & universities that uphold & expand civil rights is outrageous. This is blatantly racist political coercion intended to deny minority students reparative opportunities to further their education.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP Presidentnytimes.comSchools Giving Aid to Minority Students Could Lose Tax Exemptions Under Trump’s New RulesThe Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools. 15428
Reposted by @vanderbiltaaup.bsky.socialChronicle of Higher Education @chronicle.com · 27/08/2026Opinion | There is a surprising amount of overlap between the visions of Linda McMahon and Vanderbilt University. chroni.cl/3UCFbzBchroni.clOpinion | Vanderbilt’s Convenient Political AwakeningThe university’s vision for higher ed just happens to align with the Trump administration’s. 033
Reposted by @vanderbiltaaup.bsky.socialAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 02/09/2026Not to be too conspiratorial, but is it too much of a stretch to think that tech companies underwrote the Vanderbilt Report to undermine, in the first instance, the discipline of anthropology precisely because they wanted to appropriate its methodological frameworks as marketing for AI? 2145
