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Muzzled by DeSantis, Critical Race Theory Professors Cancel Courses or Modify Their Teaching

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by Daniel GoldenJan. 3, 7 a.m. ESTPropublica [UFF-FAU Prelude: Signed into law by Governor Ron DeSantis in April 2022, Florida’s “Stop Woke Act,” known officially and misleadingly as the Individual Freedom…

The Massive University of California Strike Is Now in Its Fifth Week

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AN INTERVIEW WITHMORGANNE BLAIS-MCPHERSON JOHNATHAN GUY SARAH MASONJacobin Click here to read the interview.

Battle looms for faculty tenure review across Florida

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By Christian CasaleDecember 5, 2022 The Alligator (UF Student Newspaper) [UFF preface: Any post-tenure review ultimately has to be bargained as a part of faculty workplace conditions. The BoG attempting to circumvent…

UC strike: Here’s what’s at stake in America’s largest ever higher education labor action

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BY MIA MCIVER AND LEVIN KIM SPECIAL TO THE SACRAMENTO BEENovember 16, 2022 Forty-eight thousand academic workers across the University of California system hit the picket lines this week in the…

What a 1960s Housewife Can Teach Us About Politics in Higher Ed

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Chronicle of Higher EdBy Emma PettitNOVEMBER 3, 2022 In the early 1960s, a Florida housewife named Jane Tarr Smith heard a frightening story about what a professor’s unbridled academic freedom could do…

Florida universities push back on proposed new rules for faculty tenure

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[UFF-FAU Correction: The time to submit public comments has been shortened from 30 days to two weeks: November 24. You can submit comments here: https://www.flbog.edu/regulations/proposed-regulations/. Scroll down to Chapter 10…

Criticisms of academic freedom miss the mark and risk the integrity of scholarship

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[UFF-FAU Preface: With both freedom of speech and academic freedom under attack from reactionary politicians and their wealthy donors, including boards of trustees in Florida and elsewhere, this article from…

The Inquisition

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State intrusion on higher ed is nothing new. Decades ago, Florida lawmakers tried to purge campus ‘immorality.’ [UFF Preface: This important history of political interference in Florida public universities focuses…

Criticisms of Academic Freedom Miss the Mark and Risk the Integrity of Scholarship

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[UFF Preface: With both freedom of speech and academic freedom under attack from reactionary politicians and their wealthy donors, including boards of trustees in Florida and elsewhere, this article from…

Florida Has An Outrageous New Law Targeting Teachers. Here’s Why I’ll Be Breaking It.

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Huff PostBy Beth L. MattersonAug 14, 2022, 08:30 AM EDT In a couple of weeks, I’ll walk back into my college classroom and continue my second decade of teaching at one of…

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