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Whether it’s universities trying to hire more women and Black people or Kash Patel trying to hire more people who have engaged in bestiality, both sides have taken controversial approaches to increasing diversity.
September 15, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Whether it’s universities trying to hire more women and Black people or Kash Patel trying to hire more people who have engaged in bestiality, both sides have taken controversial approaches to increasing diversity.
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A North Carolina professor in the 2026 @aaup.org Faculty in the South Survey: "I have had a non-student with a gun enter my classroom to intimidate me. I have received an email death threat from a student.” Here are more voices from the region: 1/x lailluminator.com/2026/09/10/u...
University faculty in the South report culture of fear, doxxing and threats • Louisiana Illuminator
A survey of higher education faculty in the South found professors are concerned about the political environment around higher education
lailluminator.com
September 14, 2026 at 4:30 PM
A North Carolina professor in the 2026 @aaup.org Faculty in the South Survey: "I have had a non-student with a gun enter my classroom to intimidate me. I have received an email death threat from a student.” Here are more voices from the region: 1/x lailluminator.com/2026/09/10/u...
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Judge Declares West Point Faculty Gag Order Unconstitutional https://bit.ly/4A4fxnN
September 10, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Judge Declares West Point Faculty Gag Order Unconstitutional https://bit.ly/4A4fxnN
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This video on the rise of Trump's "shadow president" is based on scores of interviews, thousands of pages of emails and dozens of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Russ Vought, most of which had not been previously reported:
Russell Vought: The Shadow President
YouTube video by ProPublica
www.youtube.com
September 8, 2026 at 2:39 AM
This video on the rise of Trump's "shadow president" is based on scores of interviews, thousands of pages of emails and dozens of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Russ Vought, most of which had not been previously reported:
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The NIH Director confirms they are giving away biomedical research money used to develop treatments and cures for infectious diseases such as influenza, malaria, tuberculosis, HIV, Ebola, and other dangerous pathogens, to the Department of Defense. Outrageous.
September 4, 2026 at 4:31 PM
The NIH Director confirms they are giving away biomedical research money used to develop treatments and cures for infectious diseases such as influenza, malaria, tuberculosis, HIV, Ebola, and other dangerous pathogens, to the Department of Defense. Outrageous.
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An agreement paves the way for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of projects to be transferred from the NIH’s institute for infectious diseases to the Department of Defense.
go.nature.com/4ycEbk8
go.nature.com/4ycEbk8
Revealed: inside the US military's plan to tap huge sums from the NIH
An agreement paves the way for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of projects to be transferred from the NIH’s institute for infectious diseases to the Department of Defence.
go.nature.com
September 4, 2026 at 8:15 PM
An agreement paves the way for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of projects to be transferred from the NIH’s institute for infectious diseases to the Department of Defense.
go.nature.com/4ycEbk8
go.nature.com/4ycEbk8
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Join @aaup.org - @aft.org next Thursday @ 7 PM EST as we resist Compact 2.0, the Trump administration's latest attempt at partisan control of higher education
rutgersaaup.org/compact2
rutgersaaup.org/compact2
September 3, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Join @aaup.org - @aft.org next Thursday @ 7 PM EST as we resist Compact 2.0, the Trump administration's latest attempt at partisan control of higher education
rutgersaaup.org/compact2
rutgersaaup.org/compact2
Everything the gov’t puts out—ends up in a law suit…
“Coercion is coercion, even if it’s not explicit.”
In a new @nytimes.com guest essay, Serena Mayeri and Amanda Shanor warn that Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s latest letter to colleges is a trap—one that could further threaten academic freedom and university autonomy.
bit.ly/NYT_McMahonTrap
In a new @nytimes.com guest essay, Serena Mayeri and Amanda Shanor warn that Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s latest letter to colleges is a trap—one that could further threaten academic freedom and university autonomy.
bit.ly/NYT_McMahonTrap
Opinion | Linda McMahon’s Letter to Colleges Is a Trap (Gift Article)
University presidents, don’t be fooled.
bit.ly
September 4, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Everything the gov’t puts out—ends up in a law suit…
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Congress already appropriated funds to the NIH for specific projects. The defense department cannot divert these funds from the NIH. As taxpayers, we should know what interagency agreements have been made. thehill.com/homenews/hou...
Pentagon sought to divert NIH funds for defense use, top House Appropriations Democrat says
The Pentagon is attempting to divert billions of dollars from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to bolster the agency’s budget, according to the top Democrat on the House Appropria…
thehill.com
September 4, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Congress already appropriated funds to the NIH for specific projects. The defense department cannot divert these funds from the NIH. As taxpayers, we should know what interagency agreements have been made. thehill.com/homenews/hou...
Whaaaaatttt? @jeremymberg.bsky.social
Defense Officials Attempt to Raid NIH Funds to Cover Department of Defense Activities
House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) has learned that officials at the Department of Defense (DoD) are working to divert billions of dollars from the National Institute...
democrats-appropriations.house.gov
September 4, 2026 at 12:22 AM
Whaaaaatttt? @jeremymberg.bsky.social
Another day, another Dan Ariely journal article retraction @chronicle.com #researchmisconduct
September 3, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Another day, another Dan Ariely journal article retraction @chronicle.com #researchmisconduct
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The college of engineering at GMU, where I work (in another unit), has seen a 90% drop in graduate enrollment, where previously 75% of students were international. This is going to do real long term harm to the local economy, not to mention the short term loss to the school.
August 31, 2026 at 12:26 AM
The college of engineering at GMU, where I work (in another unit), has seen a 90% drop in graduate enrollment, where previously 75% of students were international. This is going to do real long term harm to the local economy, not to mention the short term loss to the school.
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Marc Murphy, Louisville Courier Journal
August 25, 2026 at 10:45 PM
Marc Murphy, Louisville Courier Journal
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Scoop: For nearly a year, NSF has struggled to make new grants. Now we know that it will not catch up.
In fact, NSF will award just 6,100 new grants—a 30% y/o/y decline, itself down from a previous avg. of 11,000+. In fact, the last time NSF awarded so few grants was in the early '80s.
In fact, NSF will award just 6,100 new grants—a 30% y/o/y decline, itself down from a previous avg. of 11,000+. In fact, the last time NSF awarded so few grants was in the early '80s.
Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades
The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.
www.nature.com
August 20, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Scoop: For nearly a year, NSF has struggled to make new grants. Now we know that it will not catch up.
In fact, NSF will award just 6,100 new grants—a 30% y/o/y decline, itself down from a previous avg. of 11,000+. In fact, the last time NSF awarded so few grants was in the early '80s.
In fact, NSF will award just 6,100 new grants—a 30% y/o/y decline, itself down from a previous avg. of 11,000+. In fact, the last time NSF awarded so few grants was in the early '80s.
Feds are reviewing PI pubs and affiliations and Unis are buying similar tools to screen PIs: Dimensions, StriderIntel, ARGUS. Nondisclosures will be discovered. #researchsecurity
August 14, 2026 at 12:40 AM
Feds are reviewing PI pubs and affiliations and Unis are buying similar tools to screen PIs: Dimensions, StriderIntel, ARGUS. Nondisclosures will be discovered. #researchsecurity
Can you terminate my grant after it’s awarded bc of a change in agency priorities? No bc violates spending clause says J. Talwani in Mass DC case www.courtlistener.com/docket/70622...
State of New Jersey v. U.S. Office of Management and Budget, 1:25-cv-11816 - CourtListener.com
Docket for State of New Jersey v. U.S. Office of Management and Budget, 1:25-cv-11816 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information.
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August 3, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Can you terminate my grant after it’s awarded bc of a change in agency priorities? No bc violates spending clause says J. Talwani in Mass DC case www.courtlistener.com/docket/70622...
#Harvard lay offs con't #RAdminSky
Dozens of College Staff Laid Off as FAS Restructuring Continues | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences directly laid off roughly 13 percent of College staff covered by last week’s restructuring in its largest wave of job changes yet, according to a document obtain...
www.thecrimson.com
July 30, 2026 at 9:39 AM
#Harvard lay offs con't #RAdminSky
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Note: “Letters of collaboration should be limited to stating the intent to collaborate or provide material support as described in the application and should not contain endorsements or additional information about or evaluations of the proposed project. “
Oh, and Forms J are coming... grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-26-094: NIH Is Replacing Letters of Support with Letters of Collaboration to Reduce Administrative Burden
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: NIH Is Replacing Letters of Support with Letters of Collaboration to Reduce Administrative Burden NOT-OD-26-094. NIH
grants.nih.gov
July 27, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Note: “Letters of collaboration should be limited to stating the intent to collaborate or provide material support as described in the application and should not contain endorsements or additional information about or evaluations of the proposed project. “
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OUT TODAY, the AAUP just released the first comprehensive account of how the Trump administration has taken the same playbook it's used on law firms & foreign governments & turned it on American universities.
US higher ed has, in effect, become a target of a massive extortion racket.
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US higher ed has, in effect, become a target of a massive extortion racket.
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New Report on Extorted Compliance Charges “Massive Extortion Racket” Against Higher Ed
A new AAUP report, "Extorted Compliance: A Threat to Institutional Autonomy, Academic Freedom, and Shared Governance," exposes how the Trump administration has extended its pay-to-play approach to gov...
www.aaup.org
July 22, 2026 at 5:40 PM
OUT TODAY, the AAUP just released the first comprehensive account of how the Trump administration has taken the same playbook it's used on law firms & foreign governments & turned it on American universities.
US higher ed has, in effect, become a target of a massive extortion racket.
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US higher ed has, in effect, become a target of a massive extortion racket.
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NSF grantmaking update
Three weeks ago (6/28)
New grants: 1835/5202 — 35.3% of avg.
Obligations: 1.9/3.08 billion — 61.6% of avg.
Now (7/20)
New grants: 2850/6,397 — 44.6% of avg.
Obligations: 3/4.04 billion — 74.3% of avg.
Data from grant-witness.us/funding_curv...
Three weeks ago (6/28)
New grants: 1835/5202 — 35.3% of avg.
Obligations: 1.9/3.08 billion — 61.6% of avg.
Now (7/20)
New grants: 2850/6,397 — 44.6% of avg.
Obligations: 3/4.04 billion — 74.3% of avg.
Data from grant-witness.us/funding_curv...
July 20, 2026 at 10:22 PM
NSF grantmaking update
Three weeks ago (6/28)
New grants: 1835/5202 — 35.3% of avg.
Obligations: 1.9/3.08 billion — 61.6% of avg.
Now (7/20)
New grants: 2850/6,397 — 44.6% of avg.
Obligations: 3/4.04 billion — 74.3% of avg.
Data from grant-witness.us/funding_curv...
Three weeks ago (6/28)
New grants: 1835/5202 — 35.3% of avg.
Obligations: 1.9/3.08 billion — 61.6% of avg.
Now (7/20)
New grants: 2850/6,397 — 44.6% of avg.
Obligations: 3/4.04 billion — 74.3% of avg.
Data from grant-witness.us/funding_curv...
Does anyone really care about Florida or Texas IHEs at this point other than their employees and students? If state govt wants to trash institutes and force mass exodus of human capital- I say go ahead and self-destruct. The rest of the country is happy to take their best.
From the Archives: New College resembles neither the conservative dream nor the liberal nightmare. Part everyday small college and part proxy battle in the culture war, it is plagued by ordinary questions over how to boost enrollment amid extraordinary outside scrutiny. https://chroni.cl/3T6mQuc
The College That Conservatives Took Over
The overhaul of New College of Florida stoked fear on the left and excitement on the right. Two years in, what’s really changed?
chroni.cl
July 20, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Does anyone really care about Florida or Texas IHEs at this point other than their employees and students? If state govt wants to trash institutes and force mass exodus of human capital- I say go ahead and self-destruct. The rest of the country is happy to take their best.
Justice Thomas, no one wants to read 91 pages of dissent (Trump v. Barbara). Thank you, America
July 20, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Justice Thomas, no one wants to read 91 pages of dissent (Trump v. Barbara). Thank you, America
Great webinar! TU
Federal accreditation policies are being re-written and some professional program accreditors have removed reqs that encourage teaching about structural inequities in their fields.
Join us and a panel of experts to discuss these changes and their consequences.
📅 7/13/26, 4 PM ET
🔗 bit.ly/43KAAwD
Join us and a panel of experts to discuss these changes and their consequences.
📅 7/13/26, 4 PM ET
🔗 bit.ly/43KAAwD
July 13, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Great webinar! TU
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I wrote about Florida Governor DeSantis' getting rebuked by the 11th Circuit for his tyrannical (and unconstitutional) "Stop WOKE Act." Hopefully, this will serve as a warning to other GOP states (but I doubt it). www.ms.now/opinion/flor...
Florida's so-called Stop WOKE Act gets the legal rebuke it deserves
Victor Ray: Ron DeSantis' loss in court is a win for education
www.ms.now
July 10, 2026 at 12:58 PM
I wrote about Florida Governor DeSantis' getting rebuked by the 11th Circuit for his tyrannical (and unconstitutional) "Stop WOKE Act." Hopefully, this will serve as a warning to other GOP states (but I doubt it). www.ms.now/opinion/flor...