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Trumpism and the Corporate University, a Call for Chapter Proposals

BY REBECCA DOLHINOW AND DAVID SCHULTZ Rebecca Dolhinow of California State University, Fullerton, and David Schultz of Hamline University seek chapter proposals for an edited book anthology tentatively entitled Trumpism and the Corporate University. Trumpism and the Corporate University will be an edited volume that examines the rise of the corporate university over the last…

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Saving Through Solidarity

BY AUDREY BERLOWITZ The inexplicable budget cuts my financially-solvent university enacted through its 2023–24 APR process both portended and was practice for our current moment. The “headwinds,” justifications for why the university had to cut twenty programs before new system-wide performance-based metrics formally went into effect, have unsurprisingly arrived. If anyone working inside the university…

A Statement from Constitutional Law Scholars on Columbia

POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN The following extraordinary statement was published today in the New York Review of Books and is reposted here with their permission.  The statement’s signatories include virtually every leading First Amendment scholar in the country, conservative and liberal.  Among the signatories are Eugene Volokh and Michael McConnell, arguably the two most prominent…

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Georgia Calls Us All to Act

BY MATTHEW BOEDY Here in Georgia in the last few days:  Lawmakers failed to pass a bill to end DEI in student activities and programs in our public university system. The bill would have codified into law policy moves already done to erase DEI in the last year by our system administration.  One of our…

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From Burnout to Belonging: Redefining Contingent Faculty in the Pursuit of Academic Prestige

BY KATHLEEN M. ROMERO There is an undeniable level of prestige associated with achieving a Carnegie Classified level one research (R1) label for institutions of higher education. This status opens new doors to funding, innovation, and research opportunities, and elevates universities to an elite level. Achieving R1 status rebrands universities, offering the perception of a…