WOOHOO USC "respectfully declines" the higher ed compact as well. Students, faculty, staff, & community members including alumni & parents did this!! Faculty & students have been clamoring, petitioning, planning a rally & teach-in ✊🎓

Los Angeles Times

USC rejects Trump education compact aimed at shifting the university to the right

USC interim President Beong-Soo Kim said in a statement that he had sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Education turning down the Trump offer.

https://archive.ph/e9vrC #HigherEd #USC #academia #uspol

We don't talk about this enough but it is another factor affecting instructors' workloads, student learning in higher ed. If it feels like things never went "back to normal" it's cos they didn't

The Sick Times - Chronicling the Long Covid crisis

Universities get an F on Long COVID. Here’s how they can support their students and reduce COVID-19 cases. - The Sick Times

My infection months before came and went mildly, but it soon became obvious that my sluggishness and pain were not caused by caffeine, thesis stres...

#LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #academia #HigherEd

I didn't realize I had particularly strong feelings about Pepe--well, I don't--but it is making me really quite happy to see the lil frog cartoon reclaim frogs from the fascists

This is a pretty good summary of US higher ed for the past ~year and a half. It may thrill and embolden the current federal administration, but they can't take credit for it--their predecessors and university leaderships beat them to it (via a colleague across town, Miriam Posner, on bsky) #uspol #HigherEd #UCLA #academia #PolicingTheCampus

MIT rejects the mafia's offer!! This is good news as it gives other universities who were afraid more permission to assert themselves--and makes them look like worse collaborators if they don't. This is the argument we are already making at home

Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs

MIT Rejects Proposed Federal Compact

MIT is the first institution to reject a proposal by the Trump administration that would trade preferential treatment on federal funding for far-re...

#MIT #HigherEd #academia #uspol

Comrade Chicken!

Willamette Week

An Interview With the Portland Chicken

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

#uspol #Portland #chicken #DanceParty

Hey some nerd (me) is quoted here in this Columbia Journalism Review story about how low-power FM radio stations weathered federal funding cuts by being too small to be eligible for federal funding... in contrast to NPR. The invulnerability of the truly grassroots? 📻💚

Columbia Journalism Review

Against the precipitous backdrop of funding cuts to public media, low-power radio emerges as a lesser-known source of inspiration.

Against the precipitous backdrop of funding cuts to public media, low-power radio emerges as a lesser-known source of inspiration.

#LPFM #media #radio #PublicMedia

They separated residents by race

South Side Weekly

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for t...

#ICE #Chicago #uspol

Faculty show support for USC to reject the federal government’s "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education"

Annenberg Media

‘Reject the Compact’ petition urges USC not to sign Trump’s contract

Faculty show support for USC to reject the federal government’s Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.

#PolicingTheCampus #HigherEd #Academia #uspol #1A #AAUP #USC

Anyone got a favorite independent bookstore in St. Louis? (Want to get someone moving there a gift certificate) #STL #StLouis