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UofC Labor Council βπ½βπΏβπΎ Black Lives Matter retweeted
A software engineer was granted a religious exemption from using AI at work. Legal experts say others may follow now that the Pope has raised concerns about the tech's impact on humanity. bit.ly/4dZNXiF
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This year, UChicago launched a crackdown on teaching at a sub-unit where there is no faculty governance, the Lab School, asserting its prerogative to regulate expression of teachers, justified by the Kalven Report. At every step it has insisted this is only germane to Lab.
Jun 5
NEW: a report from Vanderbilt and WashU just dropped, taking on the "state of scholarship in the humanities and social sciences," a big topic among critics of higher ed.
Read along w/ me π§΅
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They expect us to see this kind of thing going on around the country and then nod when weβre told βoh no what weβre doing has nothing to do with thatβ?
Auburn Board Takes Full Curricular Control, Dissolves Faculty Senate
The Auburn University Board of Trustees on Friday gave itself complete control over course offerings, curriculum, degree requirements and academic credentials while eliminating shared... bit.ly/4fqcUEZ
ALT Photo of the Auburn University campus
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Please help my child ππ»π
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I know you see many pleas every day, but please don't overlook my daughter Lulu's.
One minute to share her story could be the reason she receives the help she needs for her surgery.ππ»π
Please share and help my family.
Donate if you can. Thank you.
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UofC Labor Council βπ½βπΏβπΎ Black Lives Matter retweeted
Nearly 90 faculty and staff laid off, as efforts to slash employees continue
newschoolfreepress.com/2026/β¦
βIn the last 48 hours, The New School has fired almost two dozen of our colleagues β full-time faculty and staff β in humanities and social sciences, many of them tenured faculty of color, and multiple staff members, including in social justice.β
x.com/uaw7902/status/2061421β¦
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Notice how universities are moving at break-neck speed to make sure their students have AI but have been resistant to paying graduate students, faculty and staff a living wage. It's not about the moneyβit's about what a neoliberal university system prioritizes.
UChicago announced today that it had partnered with AI company Anthropic to give students, faculty, and staff access to Claude Enterprise services on a rolling basis starting in July. All University community members will have access by fall quarter. Story to come.
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Several nurses at Saint Mary of Nazareth say conditions have deteriorated after Prime Healthcare acquired the hospital. The nurses voiced their concerns and considered unionizing, but were fired soon after. Prime denies retaliation. wbez.org/health-medicine/202β¦
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USC part-time, adjunct and full-time non-tenure-track faculty have vote to unionize -- forming one of the largest private campus faculty unions in the U.S.
But USC is challenging the result, asking the National Labor Relations Board to review the vote.
latimes.com/california/storyβ¦
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Just awful news as the New School is gutted. Because colleges are merging, admin is arguing that anyone is fair game.
Between the layoffs and buy-outs, "in total, the New School will employ 65 fewer full-time faculty members in the fall than it did last year."
Nineteen New School faculty members, 10 of them tenured, received layoff notices Monday. chroni.cl/4dVglkw
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No one is ready for the amount of fraud that is coming.
Anyways, if you're interested in learning about how to use Claude Code for academic writing and research, I'm going a webinar on 6 June.
I've designed it for non-technical folks.
Use "JUNE25" for a 25% discount.
Details in the linkπ
eventbrite.com/e/claude-codeβ¦
ALT A promotional graphic for a webinar on using Claude Code for academic writing, led by Mushtaq Bilal, scheduled for June 6, 2026.
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Ask not how much a university paid for AI, ask how much equity in AI its trustees, president, and administrators own.
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Hyde Park and neighbors!
Apparently CPD has set up a checkpoint at the tunnel to the Point and is doing illegal searches of peopleβs bags. This was reported to us on Monday night, 5/25.
We keep each other safe. Be careful out there & share any info you have on whatβs happening.
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Update: CPD has shut down the Point and 57th Street beach.
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May 19
Astonishingly, Cardiff University is adding insult to injury in its cuts by closing their Humanities library with a three-week notice. Do sign the petition against it: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitio⦠via @38degrees
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One of the rarely discussed contradictions of higher ed in the US with its high-paying student-consumer is that the majority of classes must be taught by NTT faculty while the illusion must be maintained that they are not as good as the TT faculty
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Rush University Medical Center nurses successfully unionized Monday. Registered nurses organizing with an affiliate of the National Nurses United secured 77% of votes in favor of collective bargaining, according to union leaders. chicago.suntimes.com/health/β¦
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UofC Labor Council βπ½βπΏβπΎ Black Lives Matter retweeted
May 17
If the working class spoke about redistributing the elite class' wealth the way the elites speak about the coming domination of AI - as something inevitable, as this unstoppable, unavoidable wave of progress - perhaps we can make them as anxious as they're trying to make us.
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UofC Labor Council βπ½βπΏβπΎ Black Lives Matter retweeted
May 18
AI is all about erasure and theft and so this is an inevitable outcome. Universities should be at the forefront of resisting this next stage of technofascist colonialism.
May 18
College graduates were pissed after their school used AI to announce graduatesβ names and missed hundreds of names
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stopped by Juniper Blessing's memorial today. there's a box of chalk for students to write a message. this section of red square is covered in words of grief, love, and care
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