The Campus Protests: A View from the Ground

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"The basic premise of the event is that hunters hunt rattlesnakes from the surrounding environment all across West Texas, and bring them into the roundup for the weekend. And during the roundup, these snakes are kept in a pit and then, one by one, beheaded and skinned in front of in front of audiences." - Elizabeth MeLampy Elizabeth MeLampy is a lawyer dedicated to animal rights and protection, and her passion for this work shines through in her latest book, Forget the Camel, the Madcap World of Animal Festivals and What They Say About Being Human . To research the book, Elizabeth traveled across the country, immersing herself in a wide range of animal festivals — from the Iditarod dog sled race to the rattlesnake roundup in Sweetwater, Texas. Elizabeth examines these festivals as revealing microcosms of our broader relationship with animals. Whether it's rattlesnake hunts, frog-jumping contests, ostrich races, or groundhog celebrations, these events reflect the ways humans use animals to express cultural identity, community pride, and historical traditions. Yet beneath the pageantry and excitement lies a deeper question: Is our fascination with these spectacles worth the toll it takes on the animals involved? With compassion and insight, Elizabeth invites readers to consider whether there’s a more ethical and empathetic way to honor our stories — one that respects both animals and the traditions they inspire. Please listen, share and read, Forget the Camel. It will be released on April 8th, 2025. https://apollopublishers.com/index.php/forget-the-camel/…

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On Institutional Neutrality 39:26

5 weeks ago39:26

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In this episode we discuss the AAUP's new statement On Institutional Neutrality . As college and university communities begin to suffer the consequences of unchecked power, the statement reaffirms that institutional neutrality is neither a necessary condition for academic freedom nor categorically incompatible with it—and that respect for faculty voices and shared governance procedures is essential to sound decision-making and the protection of those who dissent. Our guests are the report's coauthors, Joan Wallach Scott and Brian Soucek. Scott is a historian and an emerita professor at the Institute for Advanced Study and a member of AAUP’s Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure. Soucek is professor of law and chancellor’s fellow at the University of California, Davis, School of Law. He is also a member of AAUP’s Committee A. The episode is hosted by Anita Levy, a senior program officer in the Department of Academic Freedom, Tenure, and Governance. Links: The statement, On Institutional Neutrality FAQs on Institutional Neutrality…

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The Nonpartisan College Voter Registration and Education Project: What Faculty Can Do 18:39

24 weeks ago18:39

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In this episode we discuss the Nonpartisan College Voter Registration and Education Project, a student voter registration project that aims to increase student voter registration and turnout by asking faculty to devote five minutes of class time to voter education and on-the-spot voter registration. The guests are Sam Novey , Chief Strategist at the University of Maryland Center for Democracy and Civic Engagement, and Michael Rosenblum , professor of biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University and affiliate of the Johns Hopkins SNF Agora Institute for strengthening global democracy. He is an AAUP member in the Johns Hopkins chapter of the AAUP. Episode links: Nonpartisan College Voter Registration and Education Project registration form…

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New AAUP Statement on Academic Boycotts: What It Really Means 34:29

25 weeks ago34:29

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In this episode we discuss academic boycotts and the AAUP's revised policy on boycotts, released this August. We’ll hear more about the statement, how it came about, and where it fits in the current debates about academic freedom in higher education. The guests are Rana Jaleel, an associate professor at the University of California at Davis and chair of the AAUP's Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, and Risa L. Lieberwitz, a professor at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations and the general counsel of the AAUP. She is also a member of Committee A. Episode links: 2024 Statement on Academic Boycotts “The AAUP Has Always Defended Academic Freedom. We Still Do,” Rana Jaleel and Todd Wolfson, The Chronicle of HIgher Education , August 21, 2024 “The AAUP Is Right, Supporting Boycotts is Academic Freedom.” Joan Wallach Scott, The Chronicle of Higher Education , August 20, 2024 “Changing My Mind About Boycotts, Joan W. Scott,” Journal of Academic Freedom , Volume 4, 2013 2006 Statement on Academic Boycotts…

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The AAUP and the Black Freedom Struggle, 1955–1965 35:36

35 weeks ago35:36

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In this episode, I discuss the AAUP’s involvement in the Black Freedom Struggle in the 1950s and 1960s as it related to higher ed with Joy Ann Williamson-Lott, dean of the graduate school and professor of social and cultural foundations in the College of Education at the University of Washington. Drawing on her recently published article of the same name in AAUP's Academe , we discuss how Black private institutions, Black public institutions, and white public institutions in the period approached the civil rights movement as it related to academic freedom on campus; Williamson-Lott gives us examples and perspective on how these different types of institutions “understood their self-interest differently.” Links: "The AAUP and the Black Freedom Struggle, 1955–1965," Joy Ann Williamson-Lott, Academe , Spring 2024…

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The Campus Protests: A View from the Ground 51:06

44 weeks ago51:06

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As campus protests in support of Palestine are met with often violent and repressive crackdowns, we talk to three faculty members, all AAUP members, who report on what's happening at their respective campuses. We speak to Annelise Orleck at Dartmouth College, whose arrest at a May 1 protest at Dartmouth garnered significant press coverage, Todd Wolfson at Rutgers University, where faculty supported students as they came to a negotiated solution to end their encampment, and Nivedita Majumdar at John Jay College in the City University of New York system, where 173 people were arrested during protest at the the end of April. AAUP president Irene Mulvey also weighs in on the ongoing crackdown and threats to higher ed. The episode is hosted by Mariah Quinn, AAUP's digital organizer. Links: In Defense of the Right to Free Speech and Peaceful Protest on University Campuses, AAUP statement and sign-on, April 29, 2024 "Police Treatment of a Dartmouth Professor Stirs Anger and Debate," The New York Times "Rutgers students — reluctantly — end Gaza solidarity encampment," New Jersey Monitor "CUNY and Columbia organizers hold press conference and rally after Tuesday police sweeps," The Colombia Spectator…

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EdTech: The Perils of Bad Data in Higher Ed 43:27

45 weeks ago43:27

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In this episode we dive into how data, educational technologies (or “EdTech”), and other technological forces are shaping and sometimes harming higher education. The guests are Martha Fay Burtis, an associate director of the Open Learning and Teaching Collaborative at Plymouth State University, and Jesse Stommel, a faculty member in the writing program at the University of Denver and cofounder of Hybrid Pedagogy: The Journal of Critical Digital Pedagogy. In a recent article for the AAUP's Academe magazine, Burtis and Stommel explain how “increasingly, technology companies are treating educational institutions as conglomerations of data, reducing the human teachers, staff, and students to bits and binary. Too many of these companies are more interested in selling solutions to problems of data than they are in genuinely supporting the people represented by those data.” Listen for more. Links: "Bad Data Are Not Better Than No Data, Academe "Counter-friction to Stop the Machine: The Endgame for Instructional Design", Hybrid Pedagogy "Undoing the Grade: Why We Grade and How to Stop,'" Hybrid Pedagogy Design Forward faculty development program…

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Political Interference in Higher Ed: Escalations, Attacks, and the Billionaires Behind It 52:45

45 weeks ago52:45

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As violent, militarized responses to protests on campuses across the country continue, in this episode we look at how political interference in higher education has expanded in dangerous ways. We discuss how the right (and increasingly the center) have demonized higher education as a public good, and examine the historical origins of the current onslaught of political interference in higher ed. Isaac Kamola, an associate professor of political science at Trinity College in Connecticut guests. He is the director of the AAUP’s newly established Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom, which will examine and confront the recent surge of political and ideological attacks on American higher education. It was established by the AAUP with funding from the Mellon Foundation. Jennifer Ruth, a professor and associate dean at Portland State University also guests. She is the coauthor, with Michael Bérubé, of It’s Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom and coeditor, with Valerie C. Johnson and Ellen Schrecker, of the forthcoming The Right to Learn: Resisting the Right-Wing Attack on Academic Freedom . Links: "Subnational Authoritarianism and the Campaign to Control Higher Education," Jennifer Ruth, Academe Will Academic Freedom and Campus Free Speech Survive? Inside Higher Ed In Defense of the Right to Free Speech and Peaceful Protest on University Campuses, AAUP statement…

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A National Day of Action For Higher Education 50:15

49 weeks ago50:15

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Faculty and student groups at more than 50 U.S. college and university campuses will hold a National Day of Action for Higher Education on Wednesday, April 17 in a coordinated nationwide counterprotest against the sustained right-wing assault on American higher education as a public good. Organizers say the Day of Action for Higher Education will demonstrate how cross-rank organizing, robust faculty governance, labor solidarity, and protection of the freedom to teach and learn are crucial to the survival of higher education and to its vital social purpose in a democracy. In this episode host Mariah Quinn, the AAUP's digital organizer, talks to two of the organizers of the April 17 movement about how it came about and the path forward. Our guests are Rebecca Karl, a professor of history at New York University and president of NYU-AAUP, and Amy Offner, an associate professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania and president of AAUP-Penn. Links: Day of Action for Higher Education website…

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Fighting Political Interference in Higher Ed: Lessons Learned in Ohio and Texas 35:41

1 year ago35:41

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From Florida to Texas to Ohio to Indiana politicians in some states are trying to substitute their own ideological beliefs for educational freedom by passing legislation that interferes with how colleges and universities operate. They’re introducing bills that mandate or prohibit content in the classroom, empower partisan political appointees to determine campus policy, limit the freedom to learn, teach, and conduct research. In this episode we look at member-led efforts to fight legislative interference in Texas and Ohio, specifically pushing back against bills targeting diversity equity and inclusion programs, tenure, and collective bargaining. We talk about each campaigns successes, failures, and the lessons learned. The guests are Karma R. Chávez, the Bobby and Sherri Patton Professor and Chair in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, where she also serves on the executive committee of the AAUP chapter, and Sara Kilpatrick, the AAUP Ohio Conference Executive Director. She previously worked as the political director for the Ohio Senate Democratic Caucus. The episode is hosted by Mariah Quinn, AAUP's digital organizer. Links: Lessons from AAUP Advocacy in Texas, Karma Chávez, Academe , Fall 2023 A Provisional Victory in Ohio, Sara Kilpatrick, Academe , Fall 2023 Ohio Conference website with information about SB 83 AAUP UT Austin chapter website page tracking Texas higher ed bills AAUP resources on political interference…

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Political Interference and Academic Freedom in Florida’s Public Higher Education System. 1:01:56

1 year ago1:01:56

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In this podcast we discuss the AAUP's special report Political Interference and Academic Freedom in Florida’s Public Higher Education System . The report offers an in-depth review of a pattern of politically, racially, and ideologically motivated attacks on public higher education in Florida, which have largely occurred during the term of Governor Ron DeSantis. The guests are Afshan Jafar, a professor of Sociology at Connecticut College and a co-chair of the special committee, Henry Reichman, professor of history California State University, East Bay, also a co-chair of the committee, and Liz Leininger, a neuroscience professor who was previously affiliated with New College. The program is hosted by Anita Levy, senior program officer in the Department of Academic Freedom, Tenure and Governance. Show notes: Political Interference and Academic Freedom in Florida’s Public Higher Education System AAUP's Statement on Government of Colleges and Universities Resources from the AAUP on political interference in higher ed The Administrative Overhaul of New College of Florida, Inside Higher Ed , September 2023…

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Equity In Higher Ed after the Affirmative Action Decision 29:44

1 year ago29:44

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In this episode, Michaele Turnage Young, a senior counsel at the Legal Defense Fund, discusses this summer’s Supreme Court affirmative action decision and talks about how creating equity in higher ed requires reimagining and reexamining what the education system can do to expand access to higher education. The episode is hosted by Mariah Quinn, AAUP's digital organizer. Show Notes: AAUP resources on diversity in higher education The Legal Defense Fund website…

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The Rutgers Strike and the Wall-to-Wall Model 29:43

1 year ago29:43

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In this episode, we discuss the unprecedented strike earlier this year at Rutgers University with Todd Wolfson, the president of Rutgers AAUP-AFT. Of the strike and their common good model of organizing, he had this to say: “For 50 years, I’d say public universities have been on the defensive.” Now, he said, “I think we turned the tables and we moved the ball perceptively in the other direction.” The episode is hosted by Mariah Quinn, AAUP's digital organizer. Episode links: Rutgers AAUP-AFT website "Reclaiming Paul Robeson in the Time of COVID-19," Todd Wolfson and Donna Murch, Academe magazine…

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Academia, Women of Color, and Motherhood: A Conversation with Atia Sattar 34:04

1 year ago34:04

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In this episode we talk to Atia Sattar, an associate professor (teaching) in the Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Southern California, about the article she wrote for AAUP’s Academe magazine entitled “Academic Motherhood and the Unrecognized Labors of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Women of Color.” In it, she wrote, “while women in higher education often face a career penalty for their struggles with infertility and motherhood, women of color do so within an institutional context that also frequently undervalues them and is dismissive of their abilities.” Listen to episode for more. The episode is hosted by Mariah Quinn, AAUP's digital organizer. Links: "Academic Motherhood and the Unrecognized Labors of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Women of Color," Academe , Spring 2022 Ten simple rules for a mom-friendly Academia…

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Higher Ed After the Affirmative Action Decision 44:56

2 years ago44:56

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In this episode we examine the changing higher ed landscape after the Supreme Court decision in the case Students for Fair Admissions, INC, v. President and Fellows of Harvard College which effectively ended effectively end race-conscious admissions. The guests are Charles Toombs and Risa Lieberwitz. Charles Toombs, a Professor of Africana Studies at San Diego State University and president of the California Faculty Association. He is the immediate past chair of AAUP's Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure. Risa L. Lieberwitz, a professor of labor and employment law in the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She also serves as the General Counsel of the AAUP and is a member of AAUP Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure. The episode is hosted by Mariah Quinn, AAUP's digital organizer. Links: Link to the Supreme Court decision AAUP resources on diversity in higher education Webinar by the AAUP “After Affirmative Action” (member login required) San Diego State University diversity policies…

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The Racial Equity Initiative at the AAUP 33:10

2 years ago33:10