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We advocate for academic freedom, free speech, shared governance, due process in higher ed. @utaustin chapter of @AAUP , member @texasAAUP , @TexasAFT local 8041A
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🔔🔔We agree with CCAFR, an important faculty committee. UT Austin violated its own institutional rules in responding to student protests and should dismiss disciplinary charges against students. Thanks to
@KUT
for this important story. ⬇️⬇️
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After the police left, the students reclaimed their campus and gathered together for the planned peaceful teach-in. The massive police presence and arrest of dozens of students was so unnecessary.
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Harvard is withholding the diploma of a Rhodes Scholar, and the diplomas of 10 other seniors, for engaging in a protest. How is this at all defensible?
Took graduation photos a year in advance. (As of last evening, Harvard is withholding mine and
@shraddha_joshi1
's degrees until May of 2025, alongside 10 other graduating seniors.
Look up "Palestine exception to free speech" for more info.)
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539 UT Austin faculty, representing all ranks and 15 of the University’s colleges and schools, signed an open letter expressing a lack of confidence in President
@JCHartzell
. The letter has also been sent to the leaders of the
@Faculty_UT
Council.
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✴️Responding to overwhelming concern among UT faculty about increasingly untenable teaching and learning conditions, UT Austin AAUP has begun circulating an open letter intended to gauge support for a vote of no confidence in UT President Jay Hartzell. 1/x
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This is so unfortunate. We hate to see Texas lose good students and faculty. We are fighting for diversity, equity, and inclusion for all.
#txlege
University of Texas called us, trying to woo our straight-A student into attending their institution. I told the guy my daughter is trans, and if she went to Texas, I'd fear for her life.
Guy just said, "Understood." Then hung up.
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@UTAustin
’s iconic Tower blocked today to protect administrators from…students holding a teach-in on the lawn?
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What’s happening? 1500 assistant professors at UT Austin and Texas A&M plus more at other public colleges and universities are dusting off their resumes. This includes a significant number of faculty of color. Not a good week for
#HigherEducation
#academicfreedom
#DEI
#txlege
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“The effective firing of Erik Wallenberg, after his job was threatened publicly by a trustee he had criticized, appears to be an appalling act of political retaliation and an affront to the principle of academic freedom.”
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“What’s most insidious about these measures…is that they’re not designed to address real-world issues in anything resembling a constructive way. Instead, the goal is intimidation. Most of these laws are written so vaguely that college professors don’t know where the lines are.”
Opinion:
By slashing budgets, dictating what can be taught and gutting tenure protections, lawmakers are putting their states' public universities on a glide path to uselessness.
by Michael Hiltzik
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🔔🔔🔔
@UTAustin
people: Please call/text/email the offices of Jay Hartzell and Amanda Cochran to demand that the police be called off and the students be treated humanely.
THIS is how our state and higher education leaders treat students they disagree with. Unforgivable
@JCHartzell
@GregAbbott_TX
.
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657 teaching faculty sign an open letter expressing lack of confidence in UT Austin President Jay Hartzell’s leadership due to his DEI-related layoffs and militarized response to two pro-Palestine protests.
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✴️Arresting students and faculty for “trespassing” on their own campus is spreading across the country. In our case, the campus is public property, making it all the more egregious. Herding students off-campus with mounted state troopers: this is
#NotOurTexas
NYU-AAUP president Karl said faculty members are shocked “at how our president betrayed us, the faculty, and our students.” Faculty were arrested for trespassing on their own campus while forming a cordon around peacefully protesting students.
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‘When asked to define “woke,” DeSantis’s lawyers called it the belief that there are “systemic injustices in American society and there is a need to address them.” Another word for believing in systemic inequality is “reality.”’
Re-upping this piece I wrote for
@thenation
in January in light of DeSantis banning the teaching of basic facts about America’s history of racism yesterday.
Florida Man Calls the Thought Police
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If such a vote were to take place, it would be an unprecedented rebuke of university leadership, arriving on the heels of the administration’s overzealous compliance with Senate Bill 17 and violent response to a peaceful student protest. 2/x
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A thoughtful response to the Supreme Court ruling. But keep in mind that in several states, like Texas, diversity statements are either against the law (SB 17) or under attack. And we can expect this attack to intensify.
THREAD. Admissions officer here 🙋🏾♀️ IMO Harvard/UNC opinion is much narrower than I expected it to be and impact will be much less than I see a lot of people suggesting -- and possibly give institutions MORE ability to curate classes based on diversity interests 1/
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We are heartened by the Travis County Attorney’s respect for First Amendment rights and disappointed by our administration’s response.
#NEW
: In a statement, the University of Texas at Austin says it’s “deeply disappointed” by the 79 cases being rejected by the County Attorney.
“Free speech is welcome on our campus. Violating laws or rules is not.”
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"It's been extremely disheartening to witness my dream school deteriorate right in front of my eyes.”
Austin City Council members, NAACP condemn UT Austin layoffs of former-DEI staff members
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UPDATE:
#SB16
, which severely limits academic freedom in teaching, research & expression on issues related to race, ethnicity & gender as well as political, social & religious beliefs, will NOT be moving out of the House Higher Ed Committee. 🧵
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✴️We repeat: Protestors arrested by
@UTAustin
did not meet the *lowest standard* to be charged. That’s a rebuke to
@JCHartzell
and
@UTAustinPolice
for arresting peaceful protestors for “criminal trespassing” on their own campus.
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Over 5️⃣0️⃣0️⃣
@UTAustin
faculty have signed a letter expressing a lack of confidence in President
@JCHartzell
’s leadership. The letter will be sent to the President and
@Faculty_UT
Council on Monday morning. It is still open for signatures. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
✴️Responding to overwhelming concern among UT faculty about increasingly untenable teaching and learning conditions, UT Austin AAUP has begun circulating an open letter intended to gauge support for a vote of no confidence in UT President Jay Hartzell. 1/x
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We beg to disagree. Faculty seek to educate students in evidence-based critical thinking—the opposite of indoctrination. We will continue to stand up for academic freedom, diversity, equity, and inclusion—the only path to maintaining excellence in
#HigherEd
.
#txlege
In a new statement, Lt. Gov.
@DanPatrick
celebrates the Texas Senate passing bills to push back against "woke policies" in Texas higher education.
"For far too long, academia has been poisoned by woke policies and faculty seeking to indoctrinate our students," he said.
#txlege
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Another example of the chilling effect of attacks on DEI. The page removed was a dictionary of terms related to diversity.
Within a few hours of
@realchrisrufo
tweeting this,
@UTAustin
's Financial and Administrative Services has removed the page below from its website.
The old link () now redirects to the FAS Diversity Commitment.
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Texas faculty and DEI staff have been called “woke” (among other things) by politicians. We certainly have lots of company.
Fox News loves to call things 'woke' but never seems to define it. So we tried to figure it out.
Over the last three months, we've conducted our own Wokestigation and it's far more ridiculous than you already thought:
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The count is now more than 3️⃣0️⃣0️⃣. Stay tune on Monday for the release of the letter.
More than 200 faculty say they’ve lost confidence in UT Austin President Jay Hartzell.
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@TexasTech
suspended a professor for protected First Amendment speech and has not established harassment or discrimination in his teaching. Like all faculty, he deserves due process.
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Facts are important. 1) Disruption was largely caused by the police. 2) The teach-ins and protests have been largely organized by students. 3)The demonstrations have not silenced Jewish students. Jewish students are participating in both demonstrations and counter-demonstrations.
👀 Some very influential Texans and high-power alumni have taken out this full page ad in
@statesman
and
@dallasnews
in support of UT President Hartzell’s response to protests.
Signatories include former university presidents, US cabinet secretaries, and megadonors
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It’s not surprising that
@UTAustin
justified its police action against student protestors and faculty allies by invoking “outside agitators.”
"Outside agitator" is a trope used throughout history in response to slave resistance, Reconstruction, labor movement, CRM, & more to dismiss & repress legitimate agency, intellect, & concerns of local people.
#McCarthyism
Read
@PenielJoseph
on topic⬇️
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In our experience, protests are peaceful until the riot police arrive.
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Whether or not they are alumni,
@UTAustin
is a public university and free speech and assembly are allowed on campus for all, students and non-students alike. And of 79 people arrested, 34 were students = 43%, a significant amount. No evidence of “orchestration” has been provided.
It occurs to me that some percentage of these could be former UT students. I asked the spokesperson how many were, and he replied that answering would violate FERPA...
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The court had declined ALL 46 cases for lack of probable cause. We are happy for the protestors, but what an embarrassment for
@utaustin
leadership!
NEW: Travis County Attorney Delia Garza says as of now, her office has been presented with 46 criminal trespass arrests stemming from the protests at UT yesterday.
The court has declined all of those cases for lack of probable cause and released the individuals from jail.
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✴️✴️New documents: At UT Austin, 71% of the 50 faculty and staff terminated were women and 73% were non-white, according to the documents. The state’s flagship university had the largest number of
#DEI
employees prior to the ban and faced the largest cuts.
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✴️ INBOX: Thank you for your work. I'm a 10+ year staff member at UT. I know a lot of staff who are furious and frightened by the decision to send armed law enforcement onto campus but are too worried about the ramifications of speaking out. 1/2
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Riot police do not create a safe and conducive learning environment. Riot police do not protect free speech. Riot police intimidate, attack, injure, and brutalize. Riot police should be absolutely the last resort, not the first choice.
.
@UTAustin
is a community, and our foremost responsibility has always been to keep that community safe. Read more about how we protect free speech and maintain a safe and conductive learning environment:
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@UTAustin
is a public university. Campus is a public space. Are they just making up the “Institutional Rules” as they go?
NEW: UT Austin released "protest rules" that say "individuals may not come to campus without authorization," which is in direct contradiction to a video they published 6 months ago that says members of the public can "come to campus at any time and engage in demonstrations."
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✴️We call on
@UTAustin
to allow the peaceful student demonstration to continue.Students are exercising their right to freedom of speech & freedom of assembly.We are appalled at administrators’ decision to escalate the situation through police action.
@JCHartzell
@UTAustinPolice
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We are seeing questions about how tenure promotes academic freedom. This is how it works. After 5 years of probation and a rigorous evaluation process, tenured professors have earned a position that allows for research on difficult, often controversial topics. There is also an 🧵
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✴️The trespassing charges were dropped by the court.But
@JCHartzell
is still banning
@UTAustin
students from their own campus.And he still wants us to believe that he supports free speech.
This was done already to the TAs. Repression keeps getting worse. Solidarity! ✊🏽✊🏾✊
New protest rules form today:
@UTAustin
says those who have previously been arrested for trespassing aren’t allowed on campus. I asked if it matters if charges were dropped, a UT spokesperson said it doesn’t.
@statesman
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Why would professors stay in a state where it is politically fashionable to attack faculty expertise, autonomy, and governance?
Why would students invest their time, money and futures in a higher education system where the freedom to think, question and
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Ashley Farmer: go into YOUR Capitol and make your voices known! Prepare for May 8. We are at crunch time!
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“What students can expect to encounter when they return to campus this fall: further restrictions on speech, a greater police presence on campus and the use of harsh, often-opaque disciplinary measures to silence or intimidate student activists.”
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Oped from
@statesman
:
“UT, rich with specialists in history, communications, and conflict resolution, should have consulted its own experts for a strategy to head off this crisis.”
We agree. It’s not too late.
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“My ancestors include Talmudic scholars, Holocaust survivors, shtetl peasants, and working-class Brooklynites…I reject any implication that I pose a threat to fellow Jewish students or colleagues as itself an antisemitic negation of my Jewishness.”
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✊🏽✊🏾✊ In solidarity with dozens of
@UTAustin
staff who were fired in a purge of employees who had formerly worked in
#DEI
positions, we wrote today to
@JCHartzell
to demand that they be reinstated and that
@UT_DCCE
be restored.
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“A shockingly disproportionate punishment.” Withholding of an earned master’s degree on top of a three year suspension.
Keely Gliwa had already completed her degree from the University of Florida when she was suspended for three years after being arrested during a pro-Palestinian protest.
Her crime? Failing to disperse quickly enough— even though she only stayed behind to help another student
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Those arrested at UT Dallas included 3 UTD professors, 9 confirmed students, one UTD alum and 8 community members. Families supported detainees at the jail. Concerned UTD Faculty and Student Government leaders signed letters of concern. True community.
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A few clarifications:We ARE circulating a letter expressing a lack of confidence in
@JCHartzell
.We did NOT call for classes to be cancelled—that was an independent group of concerned faculty.We DO our jobs, we ❤️ our students, we ❤️ UT, we speak up
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We have to move fast!
As early as May 1, the House Higher Education Committee will begin hearing SB 18 to eliminate
#tenure
, SB 17 to ban
#DEI
programs, and SB 16 to limit
#academicfreedom
, now that the Senate has passed them. Legislative session ends May 29. 🧵
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Now more than 4️⃣5️⃣0️⃣! Are you a faculty member who has lost confidence in President Hartzell? Do you oppose mass firings of staff and support peaceful resolution of conflict? Please sign today‼️
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“These are our students,” a video shows one professor saying. His hands are out before him with his palms flat, motioning for the officers to stay calm. “Why are you pointing weapons at our students?”
He was arrested seconds later.
This is a must read - a complete dissection of UVA’s leaders narrative around what happened on May 4. Every part of their story has major holes or in some cases complete fabrications. Incredible journalism and I’m very grateful to everyone who spoke up.
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Dear assistant professors aspiring to advance to tenure:
@aaup_utAustin
@TexasAaup
@TexasAFT
have your back! We will continue to work against the 3 Senate bills that threaten
#tenure
#academicfreedom
#DEI
. The fight is moving to the House. Follow us for updates & action steps.✊
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This is in addition to the 300+ faculty who signed a letter of no confidence due to the militarization of campus and the firing of staff who formerly worked in DEI.
BREAKING: 165 UT Faculty wrote a letter to President Jay Hartzell condemning his use of "heavy police intervention" during Wednesday's pro-Palestine protest.
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✴️Pro tip,
@UTAustin
: Next time run policy changes thru the process of shared governance. Faculty will save you from embarrassing yourselves by announcing 3 different, poorly conceived policies in one day. And students will be spared panic attacks during the last week of classes.
This new
@UTAustin
policy seems preposterously (if not unconstitutionally) overbroad. Anyone who is *arrested* for trespassing, but never charged (let alone convicted), is permanently barred from campus? What if the arrest was bogus? What if the arrestee is a student or employee?
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Students getting disciplinary notices are having a hard time communicating w/the Dean of Students office.They are not getting the normal informational meeting stipulated in UT policies.This is appalling & violates standards of due process. Faculty are here to help. Just DM us! 🧡
.
@UTAustin
says it has sent a 2nd round of disciplinary notices to students arrested during pro-Palestinian protests. The university won't say how many. I have confirmed at least two.
UT began notifying students of potential discipline a week ago:
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Why diversity in higher education is worth fighting for | By former UT Austin President Greg Fenves
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”It is unfortunate & ironic when individuals who have benefited greatly from a college education & continue to reap those benefits are the most vocal critics of higher ed,” said McCarron, chief exec of the Assoc of Independent Colleges & Universities in MA
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More than 200 faculty say they’ve lost confidence in UT Austin President Jay Hartzell
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Over 4️⃣0️⃣0️⃣
@UTAustin
faculty have signed a letter expressing a lack of confidence in President
@JCHartzell
. There’s still time to add your name. Strength in numbers! ⬇️
✴️Responding to overwhelming concern among UT faculty about increasingly untenable teaching and learning conditions, UT Austin AAUP has begun circulating an open letter intended to gauge support for a vote of no confidence in UT President Jay Hartzell. 1/x
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We called the news “excellent” because a flawed tenure system is better than no tenure system at all, and this came about through the hard work of a statewide coalition of faculty, students, professional organizations, and legislators.
We still have concerns about vague and
The Texas Senate abandoned a push to ban tenure in the state, instead approving legislation from the House that would enshrine tenure in state law.
The bill will now be sent to Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk.
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🧮 While the
@UTAustin
administration has been stonewalling, we’ve been counting. Most of the 6️⃣3️⃣ laid-off staff are women & people of color. The 1️⃣4️⃣ demoted administrators are all from underrepresented backgrounds. 11 are people of color, 6 are women. 7️⃣7️⃣ giant steps 🔙ward.
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Sign Defend Tenure, DEI & Academic Freedom campaign to email arguments against SB17 & SB18 to the House & Senate members who represent you. You can edit a draft letter before emailing. We’ve updated the arguments based on the latest bill versions.
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⏰⏰⏰
Time to defend tenure and DEI! The Texas House Higher Ed Committee will hear SB 17 to ban DEI programs and SB 18 to eliminate tenure on Monday, May 8th at 8am. 🧵
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“Do not comply in advance.”
What faculty in TX need to hear. Do not go beyond what SB 17 &SB 18 require. Pressure your institution to involve faculty in formulating &administering campus policies, in accordance w/principles of shared governance, due process, academic freedom.
14.) Institutional "transformation" is not one-way. And top-down solutions aren't durable since the professors are the ones who have to carry them out. DO NOT COMPLY IN ADVANCE.
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✴️We will be there today. The assault on
#DEI
and the assault on student protestors are both destructive, harmful actions that must be opposed. Join us!
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This is a chilling statement. 🥶🥶🥶
An attorney representing Florida education officials: “In the classroom, the professor’s speech is the government’s speech, and the government can restrict professors on a content-wide basis and restrict them from offering viewpoints that are contrary."
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An R1 without due process for pre-tenure faculty members? 😠
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✴️The Texas AAUP-AFT is appalled that State Troopers were called onto a Texas university campus & arrested students who were peaceably assembled. Campuses should be places for our students to learn without fear of arrest by state troopers in riot gear.
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This is a time for
@UTAustin
to re-establish its reputation as an institution that respects free speech, academic freedom, shared governance, due process & its own students and faculty. Demands include dropping criminal charges & disciplinary action against student protestors.
657 teaching faculty sign an open letter expressing lack of confidence in UT Austin President Jay Hartzell’s leadership due to his DEI-related layoffs and militarized response to two pro-Palestine protests.
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Thank you to Representatives González, Cole, Bucy, Howard, and Lalani for voting “no” on SN17 and SB18. We appreciate your support of robust DEI programs and tenure policies in Texas.
#HighEd
@RepMaryGonzalez
@SherylCole1
@BucyForTexas
@DonnaHowardTX
@SulemanLalani
#txlege
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Heartbreaking article from one of 3 professors arrested at UT Dallas for supporting protesting students. This is no way to treat faculty exercising their rights to free expression. ⬇️⬇️
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“It’s a very scary feeling,” Segal said, “that the leadership of universities in the academic world, with very, very, very, very, very few exceptions, are legitimizing this brutal assault on academic freedom, on free speech.”
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“It cannot be overstated how inappropriate and frightening it is to make adjunct or visiting professors’ job security contingent upon their political speech or their fealty to individual trustees. This authoritarian decision marks New College as a hostile environment for academic
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We are a new professional association of
@UTAustin
faculty advocating for
#academicfreedom
#tenure
#DEI
& a strong faculty role in university governance. Affiliated w/ the American Association of University Professors. Follow us for timely information & DM us to get involved.
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Op-ed by
@utaustin
prof K.Chavez concludes w/ King’s words: “Never again can we afford to live w/ the narrow, provincial ‘outside agitator’ idea. Anyone who lives in the US can never be considered an outsider anywhere in this country.” Never again is now.
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An important statement from the Chair of the Board of Regents, claiming responsibility for decisions made to deploy force
@UTAustin
& other
@utsystem
institutions of higher education, & doubling down on this approach to student protests. We respectfully disagree, as is our right.
#NEW
: From today's
@utsystem
Board of Regents meeting, Chair Kevin Eltife says, "This board has been proud of how this has been handled on all our campuses."
Also says "Divestment is not an option," and criticizes calls for no confidence in leaders, including
@JCHartzell
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As we predicted, DEI staff cuts
@UTAustin
—including cuts not necessary for compliance with SB 17–had a disparate impact on women and people of color. Also, most of
@utsystem
cuts were on the flagship campus. Good article by
@dallasnews
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☹️We are surprised & disturbed by this news.
@JCHartzell
gave no details on how many staff & offices are affected.He offered no reasons for dismantling
@UT_DCCE
, the host of many community programs.And why fire valued colleagues already reassigned to non-DEI work? Heartbreaking.💔
Breaking: The University of Texas at Austin has laid off an undetermined number of employees who used to work in diversity, equity and inclusion programs, according to a Tuesday email from President Jay Hartzell.
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Texas Students for DEI and SDS are holding a sit-in this Thursday at the UT Regents meeting downtown.
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Not all UT students were checked out.
@TexasforDEI
fought against SB 17 from its inception.But many students (&faculty) were lulled by the admin’s assurances that the effect of the DEI ban would be minimized & that no staff would lose their jobs.This turned out to be gaslighting.
UT (despite the bluster from Patrick & Abbott) is a relatively progressive campus, so for UT students to be caught off guard by the DEI situation is a REAL window into how checked out young people are from local politics.
I fear them checking out of UT might be next.
#Exodus
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Governor, UT Austin staff worked hard before the pandemic, during the pandemic, and after the pandemic. Whether our staff work at home, on campus, or in the community, they support teaching & research that benefit all Texans. They deserve our heartfelt appreciation. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽❤️❤️❤️
This is the way.
University of Texas to end remote work for almost all staff in August.
It’s past time to get back to work.
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You have to pity the poor reporters trying to keep up with
@UTAustin
’s abrupt policy changes and inept messaging. What is happening in the Tower?
Like
@AKMcGlinchy
, I have deleted a tweet that said UT students arrested during pro-Palestinian protests this week would be banned from campus.
The university told
@kut
that was the case. Now, they say students won't be banned from class or dorms. More here:
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🧮 Our estimates of the 63 staff fired from their
@utaustin
positions are that they are 8% Asian, 32% Black, 21% Hispanic, and 30% White. 63% are women, 24% are men, and 13% are trans/non-binary. Clearly this purge had a *disparate impact* with respect to both gender and
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Or are public universities,
@utaustin
in the lead, doing too much to comply with a vague, poorly written bill and intense political pressure, eliminating staff and programs already in compliance with SB 17, and grievously harming many students?
Are public universities doing enough to comply with Texas’ DEI ban? Lawmakers will decide.
Story by
@beckyfogel
:
#txlege
#txed
#SB17
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“This pardon not only undermines the justice system but also sends a chilling message that politically motivated violence is acceptable. This decision is a slap in the face to the Foster family, the Black Lives Matter movement, and to all who believe in justice and equality,”
Breaking: Gov. Greg Abbott pardons Daniel Perry, officer who killed police brutality protester in 2020
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Research powerhouses like MIT, Penn State, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Texas, Austin ($1.1 billion contract with the DoD) or Georgia Tech lean heavily on federally funded war research to balance their books.
The brutal crackdown on the student divestment movement was a mask off moment for the modern university. It underscored a stark truth: these schools cannot function without the support of the military-industrial complex.
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True. But police deployment definitely interferes with the normal operations of a university. Yesterday, the Tower was a deployment area and temporary holding pen for arrested protestors. Police blocked passageways the protestors had kept open. Police used amplified sound.
You can tell the people who are either lying or nowhere near a college campus by their insistence that pro-Palestinian encampments prevent non-protesters from going about their days as normal. It’s simply a false claim!
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💔 SB 17 does not apply to research or teaching. The other terminations & demotions are senseless because employees had already pivoted away from DEI work. Your job loss is not even overcompliance with SB 17, it is contrary to the bill altogether. Solidarity.✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
Let’s be clear… I have never worked as a DEI professional in any official capacity for the university. My research & teaching agenda has always been SEPARATE from that. I was hired specifically as a PROFESSOR for those types of courses. Why I was let go, is still unclear to me.
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#Tenure
for college & university professors is a system of MERIT earned through excellent research & teaching.Tenure gives profs the stability & academic freedom to do pathbreaking research & teach controversial topics. Democracy needs education,
#HigherEd
needs tenure. 🛑
#SB18
Texas Association of College Teachers and Texas Conference of American University Professors Statement Against SB 18 (House version). To the Texas House Higher Education Committee. May 10, 2023.
@repjohnkuempel
@TexasAaup
#txlege
#SB18
#tenure
@AAUP
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Thank you,
@PenielJoseph
, for this clear-eyed & heartfelt piece, which connects the mistreatment of DEI staff, the brutal attack on pro-Palestinian protestors, and the siege on multiracial democracy, while still offering the hope we need to carry on.⬇️
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An important reminder: The terminated employees *previously*worked in DEI roles. They had *already* assumed new non-DEI responsibilities. Which makes the story all the more infuriating. 😱
The Speaker of the Texas House’s response to
@UTAustin
laying off dozens of employees who worked in DEI roles:
“I applaud today’s action by UT. It is a victory for common sense and proof that the Legislature’s actions are working.”
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✴️We are concerned about the circumstances of Dr. Heyman’s arrest & await more information about the non-renewal of his teaching contract for next year. AAUP stands for due process and transparency for all faculty facing disciplinary action or termination.
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“The sniper rifles, tear gas cannons, and armored vehicles that appeared at UT Dallas have no place on college campuses. But questions do. Even hard, unsettling questions.” By a UT Dallas history professor
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