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The IntellectualProducing Knowledge on Palestine feat. Dana El Kurd Podcast: It Could Happen Here (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: Producing Knowledge on Palestine feat. Dana El KurdPub date: 2025-11-20Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationDana El Kurd speaks with professor, author, historian, and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Palestine Studies Sherene Seikaly. They discuss the importance of producing knowledge and learning about Palestine, the intersectionality of the Palestinian cause, and how to combat a system trying to make you stupid. Sources: Journal of Palestine Studies – https://www.p...
2025-12-0530 min
It Could Happen HereProducing Knowledge on Palestine feat. Dana El KurdDana El Kurd speaks with professor, author, historian, and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Palestine Studies Sherene Seikaly. They discuss the importance of producing knowledge and learning about Palestine, the intersectionality of the Palestinian cause, and how to combat a system trying to make you stupid. Sources: Journal of Palestine Studies – https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/journals/jps/about Donate to the Journal of Palestine Studies – https://palestine-studies.networkforgood.com/projects/18346-donate-to-support-palestinian-knowledge-production Mahmoud Darwish interview - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrvzKOYeQZY&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Feliaayoub.com%2F&so...
2025-11-2030 min
American Campus PodcastCreating the AAUP with Henry ReichmanBrought to us, in part, by the race scientistsReferences mentioned this episode:Henry Reichman. 2025. Understanding Academic Freedom, 2nd edition. Johns Hopkins University Press. J. McKeen Cattell. 1913. University Control.Joy Ann Williamson-Lott. 2018. Jim Crow Campus: Higher Education and the Struggle for a New Southern Social Order. Teachers College Press.Lauren Lassabe Shepherd. 2025. Whose Side are Administrators On? HNN.Russell Banks. 2007. Continental Drift. Ecco.AAUP’s Academe blogHank Reichman on Bluesky @hankreichman.bsky.social AAUP’s At-Large chapter for anyone! AAUP resources Support the showBrowse the American Campus bookshelf at htt...
2025-11-1940 min
CircumscriptionEpisode 10: The Cloth of ProtectionThis episode features a discussion of academic freedom with David Rabban, the Dahr Jamail, Randall Hage Jamail, and Robert Lee Jamail Regents Chair in Law, and Distinguished Teaching Professor in the University of Texas at Austin School of Law. Previously, he served as counsel, and then general counsel, to the AAUP (American Association of University Professors), and he has chaired its committee on academic freedom and tenure. In his teaching and research, he focuses on free speech, academic freedom, higher education and the law, and American legal history. His most recent book (published in 2024) is Academic Freedom: From Professional...
2025-11-1157 min
Haymarket Books LiveAgainst the New McCarthyism: Organizing Resistance in Higher EducationThe Trump regime took advantage of the repression of the Palestine solidarity movement under the Biden administration to launch a full-scale assault on higher education. He has unleashed ICE on student activists, branded any dissent against Israel’s genocidal war “antisemitic,” bullied universities into cancelling programs on race and gender, and defunded entire institutions. Join us for this Spectre Live panel of activist educators to discuss how to resist Trump’s New McCarthyism.Speakers:Isaac Kamola is a professor of political science at Trinity College, Hartford, CT. He is author of Free Speech and Koch Money: M...
2025-11-061h 28
American Campus PodcastHow dark money shapes the vernaculars of the culture war with Isaac KamolaA lesson on dark money influence in campus culture warsReferences and suggested readings:Isaac Kamola. Spring 2025. Understanding the Evolving Culture-War Vernacular. Academe Magazine. Isaac Kamola. 2019. Making the World Global: U.S. Universities and the Production of the Global Imaginary. Duke University Press.Ralph Wilson and Isaac Kamola. 2021. Free Speech and Koch Money: Manufacturing a Campus Culture War. Pluto Press. Roderick A. Ferguson. 2017. We Demand: The University and Student Protests. University of California Press.Nancy MacLean. 2018. Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America. Penguin.Christopher Newfield. 2011. Unmaking the Public Un...
2025-10-2934 min
AAUP PresentsDefending Academic Freedom: Learning to ResistThe 9th episode of our special series “Academic Freedom on the Line” is a conversation among 4 authors who contributed to the recently published University Keywords, a volume on how universities operate as social and economic engines that shape society beyond their traditional educational roles. Andy Hines, the volume editor, Senior Associate Director of the Aydelotte Foundation at Swarthmore College, and author of Outside Literary Studies: Black Criticism and the University; Jennifer Ruth, professor in the School of Film at Portland State University, and co-director of The Palestine Exception, who serves on the steering committee of Coalition for Action in Highe...
2025-10-2246 min
Original Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder October 20, 2025 Non Citizens And Free Speech Rights: AAUP v RubioOn September 30, 2025 a federal judge in Boston issued one of the most important decisions that has been rendered during the 9 months of Donald Trump's second term. Following a nine-day trial in July that included the testimony of 15 witnesses and the admission of scores of documents, US District Judge William G. Young of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts ruled that the Trump administration’s policy of arresting, detaining, and deporting noncitizen students and faculty members for th...
2025-10-2057 minAAUP PresentsFaculty on the Front Lines (Intro)In this special episode of our series Academic Freedom on the Line, Vineeta Singh interviews Anna Feder, an organizer, curator, and cinema exhibition consultant who serves as the Director of Programming for the Resistance of Vision Film Festival. Anna has collaborated with the Palestine Anti-Repression Network and the AAUP’s Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom to create a series of video testimonies from educators who have faced backlash for standing with their students or for questioning the Palestine exception. We also hear the testimony of one of her interviewees, MIT professor Michel De Graff...
2025-10-0916 min
Thinking about...Save American Higher Education (video)Dear Friends, One of the many wrongs of this last week has been an attempt by the Trump administration to destroy American higher education: by way of “compacts” in which universities and other institutions would sacrifice their independence and the freedoms of the students, staff and faculty in exchange for essentially nothing — a meaningless assurance though not a binding obligation that the government might perhaps then follow its legal and contractual obligations to fund research. This amounts to an attempt to make American institutions of higher education resemble those in, for example, Russia: where the government is always...
2025-10-0705 min
Labor Radio-Podcast DailySword of Damocles Over Free SpeechOn today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: AAUP Presents warns against the government using immigration law to silence dissent. In labor history, the NHL lockout cancels the 2004–05 season. Quote of the day: Richard Trumka.
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2025-09-1602 min
Labor Radio-Podcast WeeklyExploits of Play; The SAG-AFTRA Podcast; Buwa Basebetsi Updates; AAUP Presents; Power at WorkOn this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: how workers, artists, and activists are pushing back, telling their stories, and demanding change.
Over on Exploits of Play, hosts dig into video games and capitalism, exploring how play shapes the way we work and learn.
This week on the SAG-AFTRA Podcast, veteran narrator Sean Pratt shares what it really takes to build a career in the booming world of audiobooks.
From South Africa, Buwa Basebetsi follows a factory worker named Happiness as she struggles to raise two kids on a national minimum wage that doesn’t cove...
2025-09-1532 min
AAUP PresentsAAUP v. Rubio: The AAUP Takes the Trump Administration to CourtUpdate: Judge William G . Young ruled in favor of the AAUP and its fellow plaintiffs in the case. The full ruling is here. In this episode we discuss case AAUP v. Rubio, the lawsuit challenging the Trump Administration's policy of arresting, detaining, and deporting non-citizens, students and faculty who participate in pro-Palestinian activism, with Ramya Krishnan, the lead attorney for the AAUP in the case. We also hear from Todd Wolfson, the AAUP's president, about the AAUP's broader legal work and strategy as it fights to protect higher education from the onslaught of attacks by the Trump a...
2025-09-1048 min
AAUP PresentsUnderstanding Governing Boards & Academic FreedomA new episode of our special series Academic Freedom on the Line with the AAUP’s Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom focuses on university governing boards and their workings. Raquel Rall, Associate Professor in the School of Education at UC Riverside and Demetri Morgan, Associate Professor of Education at University of Michigan Marsal School of Education and CDAF fellow, join us to explain the differences between public and private boards, what an “advisory role” actually means, and how to create meaningful communication between board members and academic workers and community members. Be sure to visit the webs...
2025-09-0944 min
WHMP RadioMax Page w/ AAUP Pres Todd Wolfson9/5//25: Max Page w/ AAUP Pres Todd Wolfson who won lawsuit when court ruled Trump illegally froze research grants from Harvard. 1st Congressional District candidate Jeromie Whalen. Northampton at-large City Council candidate Meg Robbins. Paul Gulla of Michelson Gallery: A Month of Music (Art.) Donnabelle Casis w/ Dir Rachel Rushing of HCC’s Taber Art Gallery.
2025-09-0527 minIt Could Happen HerePalestine and the American University feat. Dana El KurdDana El Kurd outlines what is happening in higher education, how and why the Trump administration is attacking universities, and the role Palestine plays in all of this. Sources: Clifford Ando – The Crisis of the University Started Long Before Trump - https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-crisis-of-the-university-started-long-before-trump/ Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism - https://jerusalemdeclaration.org/ Ken Stern on IHRA definition - https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5326047/kenneth-stern-antimsietim-executive-order-free-speech 2023 Pew Research Center Poll on Black Lives Matter - https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2023/06/14/views-on-the-black-lives-matter-movement/ Marc Bousquet – How the Univ...
2025-08-2619 min
AAUP PresentsAcademic Freedom on the Line: Science FundingWe’ve all heard about the changes to federal research funding since the beginning of the Trump administration. This episode of our special series Academic Freedom on the Line takes a deeper look at the landscape of federal research funding. How is research funding allocated? What is disrupted when these funds are precipitously cut? What could this mean for the future of research in the United States? To help us answer these questions, we call on experts in the fields of federal bureaucracy and legal studies. Our guests are Mary Feeney and Ethan Prall. Feeney is...
2025-07-2436 minOriginal Law and Disorder Radio ™Law and Disorder July 14, 2025 American Association of University Professors v. RubioSadly, listeners to Law & Disorder are all too familiar with how the Trump administration has systematically created a climate of repression and fear on our university campuses. Federal agencies are attempting to deport multiple individuals for their pro-Palestinian advocacy, including Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of the pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University. These actions have sent chills through the community of noncitizen students and faculty on campuses around the country, causing some to pull out of academic conferences, stay home from protests, and...
2025-07-1454 min
AAUP PresentsAcademic Freedom: Thinking TransnationallyThis episode of our special series in partnership with the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom zooms out from the “Trump versus Harvard” headlines to situate attacks on US higher education institutions in a transnational context. We ask an interdisciplinary panel of scholars studying different parts of the world to help us set aside American exceptionalist frameworks and understand what is happening in the US in broader geographical, historical, and political contexts. Our guests: Audrey Truschke is Professor of South Asian History at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey. For the last three years...
2025-06-1847 min
Broken LawEpisode 175: Defending Academic FreedomIn recent weeks, the Trump Administration has escalated intimidation efforts against Harvard University and other private colleges, by canceling billions in federal funding and threatening to revoke tax-exempt status unless the schools make major changes to their hiring and teaching practices. Andrew Manuel Crespo joins Taongal Leslie to discuss the legal strategies behind the administration's attacks on higher education and how the academy can defend its independence.Join the Progressive Legal Movement Today: ACSLaw.orgHost: Lindsay Langholz, Senior Director of Policy and Program, ACSGuest: Andrew M...
2025-05-271h 01
AAUP PresentsEducational (e)quality on the LineThis episode of our special series “Academic Freedom on the Line” takes a look at accreditation, a seemingly complex but essential mechanism for safeguarding both the quality of education our institutions offer as well as the institutional and disciplinary autonomy that allows them to create and enforce standards of rigor without direct interference from the federal government. Robert Shireman of the Century Foundation joins us to demystify the role of accreditation agencies and help us understand why changes to accreditation threaten academic freedom in the United States. Links: CDAF’s...
2025-05-1535 min
AAUP PresentsAcademic Freedom On the Line: The StudentsIn this episode, we speak with a coalition of student leaders actively organizing against state-level DEI bans in Texas and Kentucky. This is the third episode in the special series, "Academic Freedom on the Line," being produced in conjunction with the AAUP's Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom (CDAF). Host Vineeta Singh also speaks with Clare Carter at the Freedom to Learn team to help us understand how state legislatures have attacked the principles of academic freedom, institutional autonomy, and shared governance, and then we get to hear from the students about what this has looked like on t...
2025-04-3045 min
Unpacking ZionismFrom Above: Mothers Against College Antisemitism (MACA) with Zach SamalinThis is the first episode in a mini-series called "From Above," which looks at the Zionist organizations that have been laying the groundwork for Trump-era fascism and are now helping it advance. This mini-series isn’t so much a “how did we get here” as an effort to demystify the ongoing structures of Zionism that underwrite this present moment. In this episode, we’re joined by Zach Samalin from New York University to discuss the group called Mothers Against College Antisemitism (MACA), which was among the first Zionist groups to publicly embrace Trump’s deportation machine. RESOURCEShttps...
2025-04-1436 min
Block & BuildMAGA’s Campus Crusade w/ Aaron NisensonThis week on the show we take a look at how ICE is being used to disappear outspoken voices and effective organizers from their communities; from campuses to farms. It’s also challenging to think through what we can do to fight back...but as you know, that’s what we do on this show.
First, we look at how detainment and deportation is being weaponized against labor organizers. Cayden is joined by organizer with Community to Community, Liz Darrow to discuss this and the work being done to free illegally detained farmworker unionist, Alfredo Juarez.
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2025-04-1453 min
Working People'People are hiding in their apartments': Inside Trump's assault on universitiesInternational students are being abducted and disappeared by ICE in broad daylight. Life-saving research projects across the academy are being halted or thrown into disarray by seismic cuts to federal grants. Dozens of universities are under federal investigation for their Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs, their allowance of trans athletes to compete in college sports, and their tolerance of constitutionally protected Palestine solidarity protests. In today's urgent episode of Working People, we get a harrowing, on-the-ground view of the Trump administration's all-out assault on institutions of higher education and the people who live, learn, and work there. TRNN Editor-in-Chief...
2025-04-131h 00
The Real News PodcastFunding cuts, ICE abductions, chaos, fear: Higher education in the new Trump era | Working PeopleInternational students are being abducted and disappeared by ICE in broad daylight. Life-saving research projects across the academy are being halted or thrown into disarray by seismic cuts to federal grants. Dozens of universities are under federal investigation for their Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs, their allowance of trans athletes to compete in college sports, and their tolerance of constitutionally protected Palestine solidarity protests. In today’s urgent episode of Working People, we get a harrowing, on-the-ground view of the Trump administration's all-out assault on institutions of higher education and the people who live, learn, and work there. TRNN Editor-in-Chief Max...
2025-04-111h 00
Labor Radio-Podcast WeeklyEverything U$P$; ETUI Podcast; Buwa Basebetsi Updates; El Cafecito del Día; AAUP Presents; Labor JawnOn this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: the US Postal Service is under the most existential attack in it’s history; Everything U$P$ assesses the situation.
What's behind Europe's labor shortages? We’ll find out, on the ETUI Podcast.
From brand-new Network member Buwa Basebetsi Updates; migrant workers say enough is enough.
Machinists Secretary-Treasurer Dora Cervantes talks about Latinas in the labor movement on El Cafecito del Día.
AAUP Presents talks with Stephanie Hall about how academic freedom is on the line.
And, in our final segment, the Labor Jawn podcast...
2025-03-2834 min
AAUP PresentsPublic Life on the LineThis is the second episode of the limited series AAUP Presents: Academic Freedom on the Line. Our guest Dr. Stephanie Hall is a leading expert on college accountability and the for-profit higher education industry. Her research and advocacy in these areas have been instrumental for federal and state legislation, congressional oversight, and federal agency action. We ask her what the Department of Education is for, why the right perceives it as a threat, and how the right uses “polarizing” language to obfuscate its attacks on civil rights. CDAF host Vineeta Singh is joined for this episode by Hall and...
2025-03-2532 min
AAUP PresentsAnticipatory Obedience: 'To Yield a Little is to Run the Risk of Sacrificing All'In this episode we discuss the AAUP's statement "Against Anticipatory Obedience" which offers guidelines about how to respond to attacks on higher ed like those being launched by the Trump administration and its right wing allies. The statement says in times like these, "it is the higher education community’s responsibility not to surrender to such attacks—and not to surrender in anticipation of them. Instead, we must vigorously and loudly oppose them." Henry Reichman, a professor emeritus of history at California State University–East Bay and one of the statement's writers, walks us through the history and the recomm...
2025-03-2551 min
AAUP PresentsAcademic Freedom on the LineThis episode kicks off a new limited series hosted by the AAUP’s Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom (CDAF), AAUP Presents: Academic Freedom on the Line. CDAF serves as a resource and knowledge hub for all people—including faculty, students, campus workers, alumni, administrators, trustees, parents, journalists, policymakers, and business leaders—seeking to build a flourishing higher education system, rooted in institutional autonomy, workplace democracy, and freedom from coercion and external interference. Its current projects include an Academic Freedom field guide that curates resources for individuals, institutions, and organizations facing attacks on academic freedom and Executive Power...
2025-03-2541 min
Good News for Lefties | Daily News for DemocracyBernie Sanders In Nebraska, Trump Loses On DEI, and Fighting Offshore DrillingPositive, daily news for democracy lovers! From Bernie Sanders rallying thousands in GOP strongholds to a federal judge halting Trump's anti-DEI orders, we explore the triumphs of democracy and the fight for equity. We also celebrate the signing of "Karina's Law" in Illinois, aimed at protecting domestic violence survivors, and the legal victories for diversity in higher education. Plus, environmental groups are taking a stand against Trump's offshore drilling plans. Join us for a dose of optimism and humor as we navigate the daily news landscape, proving that leftist ideals are alive and well in America.Listen...
2025-02-2412 min
AAUP PresentsOn Institutional NeutralityIn 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 Com...
2025-02-1239 min
So to Speak: The Free Speech PodcastEp. 231: What is academic freedom? With Keith Whittington"Who controls what is taught in American universities — professors or politicians?" Yale Law professor Keith Whittington answers this timely question and more in his new book, "You Can't Teach That! The Battle over University Classrooms." He joins the podcast to discuss the history of academic freedom, the difference between intramural and extramural speech, and why there is a "weaponization" of intellectual diversity. Keith E. Whittington is the David Boies Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Whittington's teaching and scholarship span American constitutional theory, American political and constitutional history, judicial politics, the presidency, and free sp...
2024-12-121h 07
AAUP PresentsThe Nonpartisan College Voter Registration and Education Project: What Faculty Can DoIn 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 A...
2024-09-3018 minUnpacking ZionismReclaiming Knowledge Production, Resisting Zionist Enclosures“Reclaiming Knowledge Production, Resisting Zionist Enclosures” is a recording of a panel discussion among scholars, organizers, and faculty labor leaders who are resisting Israel’s genocide of Palestinian in Gaza and also resisting the upsurging forces of intellectual and cultural repression in the US. The panel is moderated by Black studies scholar and ICSZ collective member Dylan Rodriguez, with brilliant talks from Heather Ferguson, Pranav Jani, Aaron Kirshenbaum, and Karim Mattar.We’re also really proud to announce that with this talk, we kick off the Coalition to End Zionist Repression — and its first campaign, called the Right to R...
2024-09-231h 30
AAUP PresentsNew AAUP Statement on Academic Boycotts: What It Really MeansIn 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.
2024-09-2034 min
The I Love CVille Show With Jerry Miller!UVA AAUP Backs 128 UVA Physicians Groups Docs; Carlton Mobile Home Park Development DetailsThe I Love CVille Show headlines:
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2024-09-1654 min
Union City RadioLabor Radio-Podcast Daily Labor Radio Podcast Daily HighlightsAAUP and the Black Freedom Struggle, 1955–1965; Detroit Industry and ‘The Mural’; KAMALAUTUMN; The 1934 Minneapolis trucker’s strike; Organizing app-based drivers
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2024-08-1002 minUnion City RadioLabor Radio-Podcast Daily AAUP and the Black Freedom Struggle, 1955–1965AAUP Presents looks back
Today’s labor history: FDR’s National Labor Board
Today’s labor quote: Saul Alinsky
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2024-08-0502 min
Labor History TodayThe AAUP and the Black Freedom Struggle, 1955–1965Between 1955 and 1965, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) investigated numerous southern institutions of higher education that had dismissed faculty members for publicly supporting desegregation and racial equality. In today’s episode, from the AAUP Presents podcast, a discussion 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, "The AAUP and the Black Freedom Struggle, 1955–1965.”
On this week’s Labor History in Two: The year was 1821. That was the day Knights of Labor founder Uriah Smi...
2024-08-0442 min
Labor Radio-Podcast WeeklyOn the Line; Power at Work; Organizing for a Change Radio; AAUP PresentsOn this week’s show: Project 2025 and the labor movement…The plan to destroy worker power…Universal basic income and the 4 day week…The AAUP and the Black Freedom Struggle, 1955-1965.
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2024-07-2728 min
Power At WorkThe Power Hour #8: Democracy Under Attack: Lieberwitz and Reddy on Unions, Universities, the Supreme Court, and more!In this edition of The Power Hour, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Risa Lieberwitz, a Professor of Labor and Employment Law in the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR); and Diana Reddy, an Assistant Professor in UC Berkeley's School of Law; to discuss changes and infringement's on democracy taking place in labor unions, universities in the U.S., recent Supreme Court decisions, and more.
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2024-07-1558 min
AAUP PresentsThe AAUP and the Black Freedom Struggle, 1955–1965In 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...
2024-07-1135 min
AAUP PresentsThe Campus Protests: A View from the GroundAs 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 Ap...
2024-05-1051 minLabor Radio-Podcast WeeklyAAUP Presents; Power at Work; PFFA Pod; Union or BustPolitical interference in higher ed, from the AAUP Presents podcast; on thePower at Work podcast, Stadium battles: how to beat a billionaire; we meet Fire fighter Audrey Tollefson on the Air Line Pilot Podcast, and on Union or Bust, Paul Diaz, the Portland iron worker from the Chasing the Hook podcast, another Network member. Plus: why the Weekly is good RX.
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2024-05-1029 min
AAUP PresentsPolitical Interference in Higher Ed: Escalations, Attacks, and the Billionaires Behind ItAs 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 confr...
2024-05-0352 min
AAUP PresentsEdTech: The Perils of Bad Data in Higher EdIn 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 teacher...
2024-05-0343 min
AAUP PresentsA National Day of Action For Higher EducationFaculty 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, t...
2024-04-0850 minLabor Radio-Podcast WeeklyUnion or Bust; AAUP Presents; SayWatt; Working to Live In Southwest Washington; On The Line: Stories of BC WorkersOn this week’s show: Members of IATSE Local 122 discuss their contract fight in San Diego; Fighting political interference in higher ed: From Florida to Texas, Ohio to Indiana, politicians are trying to substitute their own ideological beliefs for educational freedom by passing legislation that interferes with how colleges and universities operate. Then, a chat with Jamell Thrower, National Secretary of the Electrical Workers Minority Caucus. Next, meet Ray Connor, the new president of the Southwest Washington Central Labor Council. And in our final segment, Paul Robeson sings at Peace Arch Park.
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2024-03-0829 min
AAUP PresentsFighting Political Interference in Higher Ed: Lessons Learned in Ohio and TexasFrom 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 eac...
2024-02-2835 min
Changing Higher EdAAUP Report on Political Interference in Higher EducationThe American Association of University Professors (AAUP) released its comprehensive report titled "Political Interference and Academic Freedom in Florida's Public Higher Education System." This report marks a critical juncture in the AAUP's history, being one of only eight special reports issued, and underscores a growing concern over political interference in the realm of academic governance. Hank Reichman, co-author of the report and co-chair of AAUP, joins the Changing Higher Ed podcast to discuss the report and provides details about Governor DeSantis's legislative efforts to control what can be taught, how it's taught and who teaches, particularly attacking...
2023-12-1249 min
AAUP PresentsPolitical Interference and Academic Freedom in Florida’s Public Higher Education System.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 pre...
2023-12-051h 01
AAUP PresentsEquity In Higher Ed after the Affirmative Action DecisionIn 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 educationThe Legal Defense Fund website
2023-11-2929 min
AAUP PresentsThe Rutgers Strike and the Wall-to-Wall ModelIn 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 Don...
2023-10-0229 min
AAUP PresentsAcademia, Women of Color, and Motherhood: A Conversation with Atia SattarIn 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...
2023-10-0134 min
AAUP PresentsHigher Ed After the Affirmative Action DecisionIn 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...
2023-09-1244 min
AAUP PresentsThe Racial Equity Initiative at the AAUPIn this episode we focus on AAUP’s work around racial justice. This is the first in a series of podcasts this season that will examine issues around the fight for greater racial equity in higher education. Tune in to hear our discussion about efforts to restrict teaching about race, the racial equity initiative at the AAUP, and what's ahead. The guest are Irene Mulvey and Glinda Rawls. Irene Mulvey is the president of the AAUP. She taught mathematics for 40 years, first at Swarthmore College and then Fairfield University in Connecticut. In Fall 2022, she retired as a full...
2023-09-0833 min
Out d’Coup PodcastFriday Politics Roundup | Trump indictments; UPS Teamsters deal; AAUP joins AFT; era of global boiling; electric car infrastructure; CBSD sweetheart deal; Pennridge secrets; Barbie; Sinéad O’ConnorNew indictments against Trump announced. The ditch keeps getting deeper.
UPS Teamsters announced a “historic” contract win a week before what could have been one of the largest strikes in American history. The details of the contract will be the proof to that claim. Since the announcement some UPS Teamsters are saying the unions 180,000 part-time workers may not get as good of a deal as suggested.
In what could prove to be a sign that higher education faculty are willing to step up and fight to a greater degree, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP...
2023-07-291h 12
Beyond the News WFLA InterviewsProf Henry Reichman - AAUP vs Florida University SystemThe American Association of University Professors declares in a preliminary report that Florida's public colleges and universities are "under assault" by recent efforts such as the ban on DEI courses and the overhaul at New College in Sarasota. We speak with Professor Henry Reichman, professor emeritus at Cal State - East Bay. He chairs the AAUP's committee on academic freedom.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2023-05-2510 min
Working PeopleA "Do or Die" Moment for the Academic Labor Movement (w/ Matt Thomas, Kristina Mensik, Bryan Sacks, & Todd Wolfson)At colleges and universities across the country, a heated battle is playing out right now over workers' right to organize and have a say over how the institutions they keep afloat with their labor are run. From graduate student-worker unionization efforts and strikes at Temple University, the University of California, Columbia University, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern University, Northeastern University, the University of Chicago, and Indiana University, to faculty strikes (and near-strikes) at the University of Illinois at Chicago, The New School, Howard University, etc., to workers across the higher ed sector striking in the UK, the academic labor movement is...
2023-03-241h 36
AAUP PresentsThe High Court Weighs in on Student Debt ReliefWe’re returning to the topic of student debt after this week’s arguments before the Supreme Court over the Biden administration’s student debt relief program. Risa Lieberwitz, AAUP’s general counsel and a professor of labor and employment law in the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, and Jenna Sablan, AAUP’s senior program officer for government relations, weigh in on what happened at the high court this week and what's next. In August, the Department of Education announced that borrowers with federally-held loans making less than $125K for individuals or $250K for households w...
2023-03-0233 minAAUP PresentsThe Case of Dr. Mark McPhailIn this episode we discuss the AAUP’s new investigative report on the summary suspension and dismissal of Dr. Mark McPhail, at Indiana University Northwest. In September 2021, the administration dispatched campus police officers to McPhail’s home to inform him that he had been dismissed and banned from campus, supposedly for making racially charged threats of physical violence. No accuser was identified, and no criminal charges were filed. An AAUP investigation found that, in acting against McPhail, the administration disregarded AAUP-supported standards of academic due process. The committee deemed “implausible” the charge that McPhail had made violent...
2023-02-1536 minAAUP PresentsAAUP Presents: The Past, Present, and Future of the Student Debt CrisisAs student debt has grown astronomically over the past few decades, topping $1.7 trillion in federal and privately held debt, there seemed a moment of (limited) hope over the summer after years of activism and pressure when the Biden administration announced a federal plan to cancel $10K of debt for most federal loan holders and $20K of debt for those who had received Pell Grants. That plan ground to a halt in November when Republican-led courts halted the program. In this episode we discuss the current state of student debt in the U.S., how we got here, and where...
2022-12-2139 minAAUP PresentsAAUP Presents: Black Out: Backlash and Betrayal in the Academy and BeyondIn this episode we sit down with Professor Lori Latrice Martin, an associate dean in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and professor in the Department of African and African American Studies at Louisiana State University, to discuss her article “Black Out: Backlash and Betrayal in the Academy and Beyond,” which examines what Professor Martin describes as the "predictability of efforts to silence conversations and actions related to combating anti-Blackness in America and the continued use of Black deaths to further the social, economic, and political progress of non-Black groups in the academy and beyond" in the aftermath of th...
2022-12-2027 minAAUP PresentsStolen Lands and State UniversitiesIn this episode of the podcast we discuss the issue of the massive transfer of wealth from tribal nations who underwrote the founding of land-grant universities and how institutions are beginning to address and contend with difficult questions about their relationship to Indigenous communities. The issue is the topic of a recent article in AAUP’s Academe magazine entitled “Confronting the Wealth Transfer from Tribal Nations That Established Land-Grant Universities” written by today’s guests, Stephen M. Gavazzi, a professor of human development and family science in the College of Education and Human Ecology at Ohio State University, and John N. Lo...
2022-08-0344 min
New Books in EducationAn Inside Look at the American Association of University ProfessorsWelcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about:
Why the AAUP was formed.
Their role in supporting academic freedom.
Why the threat to tenure is a threat to higher education.
The importance of collective bargaining, and of transparency in academic salaries.
Our guest is: Dr. Irene Mulvey, who is a Professor of Mathematics at Fairfield University where she has been teaching for 37 years. She has been fighting to protect academic freedom, to promote shared governance, and to uphold AAUP principles and standards at the campus, state and national level for ov...
2022-06-231h 01
The Academic LifeAn Inside Look at the American Association of University ProfessorsWelcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about:
Why the AAUP was formed.
Their role in supporting academic freedom.
Why the threat to tenure is a threat to higher education.
The importance of collective bargaining, and of transparency in academic salaries.
Our guest is: Dr. Irene Mulvey, who is a Professor of Mathematics at Fairfield University where she has been teaching for 37 years. She has been fighting to protect academic freedom, to promote shared governance, and to uphold AAUP principles and standards at the campus, state and national level for ov...
2022-06-2359 min
New Books in Higher EducationAn Inside Look at the American Association of University ProfessorsWelcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about:
Why the AAUP was formed.
Their role in supporting academic freedom.
Why the threat to tenure is a threat to higher education.
The importance of collective bargaining, and of transparency in academic salaries.
Our guest is: Dr. Irene Mulvey, who is a Professor of Mathematics at Fairfield University where she has been teaching for 37 years. She has been fighting to protect academic freedom, to promote shared governance, and to uphold AAUP principles and standards at the campus, state and national level for ov...
2022-06-2359 min
Office Hours wth Dr. De VeauOffice Hours Replay: UNC Special Committee ReportThank you for making “What’s Up in the Academy?” the #1 Substack for Higher Education Show Description: On April 28 the American Association of University Professors released a report of the Special Committee on Governance, Academic Freedom, and Institutional Racism in the University of North Carolina System. This replay of the June 1, 2022 episode of “Office Hours with Dr. De Veau” we were joined by Dr. Henry Reichman, a member of the committee to discuss the results of this system wide investigation which ultimately discovered extraordinary partisanship and political interference that has resulted in deep racism across the system that has im...
2022-06-061h 00AAUP PresentsGovernance, Academic Freedom & Institutional Racism in the UNC System On April 28 the AAUP released a report of the Special Committee on Governance, Academic Freedom, and Institutional Racism in the University of North Carolina System. The report considers the influence of the North Carolina state legislature on the systemwide board of governors and campus boards of trustees. It discusses how political pressure and top-down leadership have obstructed meaningful faculty participation in the UNC system, jeopardized academic freedom, and reinforced institutional racism.The guests are the co-chairs of the special committee that wrote the report, Nicholas Fleisher, professor of Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and Afshan J...
2022-04-2834 min
So to Speak: The Free Speech PodcastEp. 158 What is academic freedom?What is academic freedom? And who polices its boundaries? Our guests on today's show argue that the popular conception of academic freedom has become too closely connected with the concept of free speech. Penn State Professor Michael Bérubé and Portland State Professor Jennifer Ruth are the authors of "It's Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom." Show notes: Transcript The AAUP's 1915 and 1940 statements on academic freedom The AAUP's "On Freedom of Expression and Campus Speech Codes" "When Professors' Speech Is Disqualifying" by Michael Bérubé and Jennifer Ruth...
2022-04-211h 26AAUP PresentsLegislative Threats to Academic FreedomIn this episode we discuss AAUP’s recently released statement from Committee A, Legislative Threats to Academic Freedom: Redefinitions of Antisemitism and Racism, which addresses partisan efforts in state legislatures to enact bills targeting teaching about Israel and about the history of racism in the United States, in ways that present a significant threat to academic freedom. The guests are Rana Jaleel, an associate professor of gender, sexuality, and women’s studies at the University of California, Davis, and a member of the AAUP’s Committee A, and Risa Lieberwitz, who is AAUP’s general counsel and a professo...
2022-04-1339 minAAUP PresentsA Conversation with Rep. Michele Rayner of Florida The AAUP’s Kelly Benjamin talks to Michele Rayner, a member of the Florida House of Representatives, about attacks on academic freedom, the motivation for anti-critical race theory bills, and the state of the broader political situation in Florida. Episode update: When the episode was recorded, a bill Kelly and Rep. Rayner discussed that would make public college presidential searches in Florida secret had not passed the state legislature. It has since passed and Florida governor Ron DeSantis is expected to sign it. See the article below for more information.Episode Links:
2022-03-0823 minAAUP PresentsThe Fight for Academic Freedom at the University of FloridaAfter the University of Florida administration blocked faculty from testifying in a voting rights case, a battle over academic freedom broke out in the state, garnering national attention and a court case. Paul Ortiz, professor of history at the University of Florida and president of the United Faculty of Florida-UF, talks to host Mariah Quinn about how faculty in the state are geared up to protect academic freedom and the first amendment.Episode links:AAUP President Cautions Against Lack of Transparency as University of Florida Seeks New PresidentUniversity of Florida's Politically Motivated Violation of Academic Freedom U...
2022-03-0335 minAAUP PresentsThe Student Debt Crisis and Public Service Loan ForgivenessThis podcast discusses the student debt crisis, which affects than forty-five million people in the United States who are saddled with debt in excess of $1.7 trillion, and perils and promise of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program. The guests are Kaitlyn Vitez, Federal Government Relations Specialist, AAUP national office and Jessica Sponsler, art historian and adjunct professor and AAUP’s Pennsylvania state conference president. The podcast is hosted by Mariah Quinn, AAUP's digital organizer.Episode links:AAUP Joins Coalition to Call for Student Debt Cancelation"The Miseducation of the Indebted Student," Academe, Jason Thom...
2022-03-0232 min
Armchair HistoriansEllen Shrecker, Is Today's Anti-intellectualism Worse than McCarthyism?Send us a textIn this episode, Anne Marie talks to Yeshiva University professor emerita Ellen Schrecker about the history leading up to today's anti-intellectualism.Ellen has been involved with the politics of higher education and academic freedom for decades. According to Ellen, the current right-wing campaign against teaching critical race theory and other so-called “divisive concepts” is by far the most serious threat to academic freedom (as well as K-12 education) the United States has ever experienced. Schrecker’s research and experience enable her to speak about the impact of these issues, as well...
2022-03-0143 min