It would appear I am now a columnist at Inside Higher Ed. My first piece focuses on McCarthyism, censorship, and our current moment in higher education. This is an essay I started nearly 6 months ago so I'm glad to finally share it with y'all.
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Students at Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis are walking out to protest ICE days after a clash between U.S. Border Patrol agents and protesters at the school.
📸: Jerry Holt
From an email to one of our faculty members....
Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
What about “education polarization” though, often presented as the root cause of everything that is happening in U.S. politics – the closest thing we have to a widely accepted master narrative?
Its impact is dramatically overstated; its implications are generally misinterpreted.
Happy to see this amazing research out on housing and voting behavior from @joshgoddard98.bsky.social ! 🥳
Charlotte-Mecklebburg Schools, according to reports, saw 15% of its students absent today amid Border Patrol operations in Charlotte. If that percentage of 15% happens Tuesday in Wake County due to the Border Patrol coming to Raleigh, 24.000 students could be absent from school. #nced #ncpol #wcpss
A dangerous new policy requires a campus President's approval for profs to teach race & gender topics in Texas.
"It strikes at the heart of what education means...which is circulate the exchange of knowledge without fear of retaliation.”
— Rana Jaleel, AAUP Chair of Committee on Academic Freedom
The Education Department has hired at least 9 people from the America First Policy Institute, co-founded by Secretary Linda McMahon.
The think tank’s listed goals include ending the separation of church and state and “plant[ing] Jesus in every space.”
the minute universities start using class preferences, reactionaries will sue them because the actual goal is to make elite institutions inaccessible to everyone other than rich white kids
You’re a star 🌟
NEW: A nearly 90% funding cut proposed by the Trump administration would likely shut down and devastate the 37 tribal colleges and universities created to serve the students disadvantaged by the nation’s historic mistreatment of Indigenous communities.
By @mattkrupnick.bsky.social
Yay Josh!!
Off The Press @OffThePress1 🔥WATCH: @SecRubio tells @MikeBenzCyber how the State Department is working to restore free speech. "Our number one priority is Americans. We don't want to see an American who happens to be living in London or happens to be living in Europe post something online about American politics, or any politics, and all of a sudden, they're facing ramifications over there."
Marco Rubio says that Americans living in Europe shouldn't ever have to face any ramifications for their political speech online.
The chutzpah is jaw-dropping, as he is PERSONALLY trying to deport legal immigrants for their political speech in the United States.
We’re witnessing innovation and an expansion of state violence in response to student protests but it’d be a mistake to believe this is a knee jerk reaction to protest rather than a long standing goal.
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Infographic titled ‘Student-Led Pro-Democracy Protests and Their Impact Worldwide (1955–2025).’ A vertical timeline from 1955 to 2025 lists major student-led protests (e.g., Hungary 1956, Prague Spring 1968, Tiananmen Square 1989, Arab Spring 2010s). Each protest is color-coded by outcome: Successful Transition, Partial Gains, or No Immediate Gains. The visual underscores how student activism has shaped political and social landscapes over seven decades.
DHS just detained a Columbia student who helped lead campus protests—a direct attack on campus activism. This timeline shows why authoritarians fear student protests: they're often the first and most effective catalysts for pro-democracy movements.
This new Trump Dept of Ed letter is so vaguely and tendentiously written that it can be plausibly interpreted as banning Black Student Unions.
And colleges are supposed to comply with it within fourteen days. Of yesterday.
list of banned keywords
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
BREAKING: Trump signs an executive order that attempts to restrict all schools that receive federal funds from protecting trans and nonbinary students or supporting diversity measures, while at the same time purporting to advance "patriotic education." www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
Interesting time for universities like mine to proudly declare their political neutrality.
As the saying goes, you can pretend not to care about politics, but politics certainly cares about you.
Now more than ever, universities need backbone—and leaders willing to stand up for them.
WIC. They are pausing WIC.
That's the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children. Last time I checked (a while ago), every dollar spent on WIC produced over a dollar in savings *in the same fiscal year.* For most people, though, feeding infants and mothers is enough.
Yep. This is one of the most radicalizing pieces I ever wrote, about my own high school.
Silver-bullet, top-down Bold New Ideas are never going to work. Effective approaches are slow, make significant investments and ask teachers what they need.
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Amazing, Marco!! Congratulations 🥳
3⃣ Today, the original objective of disciplining children remains at the core of how most schools operate. The future of education systems—and their ability to promote individual autonomy—hinges on acknowledging this troubling history
'Research by the Oxford University Students’ Union, found that only 4 per cent of the university’s postgraduate scholarships go to the most socio-economically disadvantaged group in the UK, while 51 per cent are received by the most privileged groups.' 1/4
Looking forward to a thoughtful and productive workshop again this year! Highly encourage any interested PhDs to apply
Ahh congratulations, Agustina!! Looking forward to reading it and learning from you! 🥳
Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism.
We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive
