This should be national news: @sacstate’s president @DrLukeWood said, “As far as I'm concerned, the encampment can last as long as it continues to be what it is, which is a positive demonstration of free speech.”
BREAKING: @sacstate President @DrLukeWood extends approval for pro-Palestine encampment on campus.
“Our job is not to squash free speech," Wood said in an interview with The State Hornet. "Our job is to protect safety.”
Story to come.
Happy #MayDay! We stand with workers worldwide today (and every day). In the current climate in academia, it's always good to have some resources on political interference in #highered on hand. More here: aaup.org/issues/political-in…
Princeton has arrested and evicted one third of its graduating African American studies majors. It has also locked the doors of Toni Morrison Hall, where the department is housed and which is right next to the encampment. Super racist stuff guys!
The anger behind the right wing rhetoric against DEI, CRT, “woke,”etc is manifesting on college campuses right now in the form of physical violence against students & faculty.
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this moment is really putting into perspective what ‘the point’ of the university is. a space to learn, grow, and conceive of what’s good and right, not a space to simply train for a job or to exploit students for debt money.
WATCH: Among those arrested today were Noelle McAfee, Chair of the Philosophy Department at Emory University.
I’ve asked for a comment from Emory on this arrest, no word yet.
This video provided to us by an #Emory PHD student. You can hear him in this video. @ATLNewsFirst
"The AAUP condemns in the strongest possible terms the crackdown on peaceful dissent occurring this week at @Columbia, @nyuniversity, & other universities nationwide."
- statement from AAUP president Irene Mulvey
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Universities sell “global” experience but are in a shambles when students assert global solidarities or acknowledge the historical and ongoing global inequalities that are manifest in the establishment and maintenance of the university itself. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.…
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