the University of Michigan is using private, undercover investigators to surveil pro-Palestinian campus groups, including trailing them on and off campus, furtively recording them and eavesdropping on their conversations
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/06/michigan-university-gaza-surveillance
so apparently conservative #UofT faculty are concerned about being "cancelled" for their right-wing views 🙄 and fervently believe that "viewpoint diversity" is a thing 🙄 [source: https://www.provost.utoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/WGCD_Broad-Themes-and-Preliminary-Recommendations_April-2025.pdf]
it has obviously never occurred to them that the simplest way of avoiding bad reactions to their brand of politics is to grow some better politics 🤭
student journalists in the U.S. are having to self-censor to keep themselves and their families safe from the Trump2 administration. and they're currently more scared of speaking up on Palestine than anything else.
amid a statewide crackdown on undocumented migrants, at least ten public universities in Florida are giving campus police immigration enforcement powers. and more are considering doing so. 🤢
#UniversityNonsense #FascistNonsense #USpol #AbolishThePolice
a bunch of conservative UBC professors is taking the university to court claiming that it is violating academic freedom by referring to [stolen] Indigenous lands as "unceded" and promoting equity diversity and inclusivity, plus other right-wing talking points: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/ubc-professor-university-court-1.7504889
Letters and Petitions — We Are (U.S.) Higher Ed
"Many of us in higher ed—-admins, faculty, staff, students, allies—are not giving up without a fight. We are combining our efforts, through letters, teach-ins, walk-outs, protests, to let anyone who’s listening know that we are out here fighting for academic freedom. Fighting for human dignity. Fighting for equity, Fighting for all of our students and their right to learn. Fighting for scientific inquiry, critical thinking, artistic expression and the general pursuit of knowledge. Fighting for the foundations of democracy."
Academic Freedom, Democracy, and the Role of Faculty Unions | Academe magazine, Spring 2025 issue
https://www.aaup.org/article/academic-freedom-democracy-and-role-faculty-unions
as a Harvard alum, i am extra appalled at this example of institutional violence
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/3/29/harvard-cmes-director-departure/
Columbia Expelled Me for My Palestine Activism, but I Won’t Be Silenced
— Grant Miner
https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/grant-miner-columbia-expelled-palestine/
"Columbia's complete and utter capitulation, really giving up to an autocratic regime, showed me that the universities are not going to stand together," Stanley said.
Stanley, whose books include How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, said he was considering joining U of T's Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy for over a year. But he decided to move after Columbia University made sweeping changes to its policies last week under pressure from the U.S. government.
Columbia crackdown exposes universities as tools of imperial power | Middle East Eye
Censor, purge, defund: how Trump is following the authoritarian playbook on science and universities
https://christinapagel.substack.com/p/censor-purge-defund-how-trump-following
these university administrators are fascist collaborators
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/columbia-university-protest-punishments-1.7483504
