Higher Education News From Around The Web

Dan Mithcell’s UCLA Faculty Association Blog:

  • The Pay and Benefits Man
    From UCNet:UC Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Rachael Nava made the following announcement:Dear Colleagues, Following an extensive nationwide search, I am pleased to announce that Calvin W. Turner has been selected as the vice president of Systemwide Shared Services (VP SWSS), effective August 10. This is a critical role on my senior leadership team and an […]
  • Straws in the Wind – Part 442
    From the Chronicle of Higher Education: The University of Texas at Austin unveiled plans… for a sweeping makeover of its undergraduate core curriculum, replacing a sprawling system of hundreds of course options with a more prescriptive menu organized around foundational texts, broad fields of study, and what the university calls the “fundamental questions and themes” […]
  • Hacked
    From the Daily Californian: Most know better than to wire money to a Nigerian prince — but today’s scammers have adapted their strategies, according to Charron Andrus, associate chief information security officer at UC Berkeley. “Phishing,” according to UC Berkeley’s Information Security Office, is when “cyber criminals trick you into giving them your personal information, […]
  • Will Harvard Continue to Lead the Charge? – Part 190
    From the Harvard Crimson: House Republicans published a sweeping report… accusing Harvard of failing to protect national security interests through repeated academic collaborations with China. The 53-page report — released jointly by the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party and the Education and Workforce Committee — is the product of a 15-month investigation […]
  • Robinson Retires as UC general counsel
    From UCNet: UC Board of Regents Chair Maria Anguiano and UC President James B. Milliken made the following announcement last week:Dear Colleagues,We write to share that Charles F. “Charlie” Robinson, general counsel and senior vice president, Legal Affairs, has announced his plans to retire in June 2027, after 20 years as the University of California’s chief […]

Chris Newfield & Michael Meranze’s Remaking the University

  • Liner Note 55. In the Empire of AI, Universities Will Reinvest or Die (Part 1)
    by Chris Newfield
    Leonora Carrington, Crookhey Hall seen July 17 2026  I want to talk about the relations among AI, university teaching, and university budgeting. These links are not getting nearly enough combined attention.College graduates are chief among the frontline victims of the AI story, joining non-college workers in a new phase of disposability (see Heck et al. 2026 for Brookings, […]
  • How to Make AI Good for the Humanities (Guest Post)
    by Chris Newfield
    Banff, Alberta back country on June 5, 2026  by Dennis M. Hogan, Lecturer on History & Literature, Harvard UniversityThis is the third of the talks from the CHCI panel, "The Humanities We Can Build Right Now" in Banff, Alberta. The others were Chris Nealon’s and Asheesh Kapur Siddique’s is here, along with my introduction to […]
  • A Response to the Report on Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences by One of Its Targets (Guest Post)
    by Chris Newfield
    Landing Santa Barbara Airport on Jan 30, 2026    by Charlie Hale, Dean of Social Sciences and Professor of Anthropology and Global Studies, UC Santa Barbara. This is his response as a scholar, whose writings were called into question by the Report.  The response does not represent the views of the dean's office, or of the […]
  • We Need to Build Actual Political Support for the Humanities (Guest Post)
    by Chris Newfield
    From Tunnel Mtn, Banff on June 6, 2026By Asheesh Kapur Siddique, Associate Professor of History, UMass Amherst  This is the second of the talks from the CHCI panel, "The Humanities We Can Build Right Now" in Banff, Alberta. Chris Nealon’s is here, my introduction to the panel is here. Society needs the cultural knowledge that the […]
  • The Ceiling of Liberalism and the Concept of Capital (guest post)
    by Chris Newfield
    by Christopher Nealon, John Dewey Professor of English, Johns Hopkins UniversityThis is one of talks from the CHCI panel, "The Humanities We Can Build Right Now" in Banff, Alberta. My explanation of the context and my introduction to the panel are here.** Thanks for having me, folks. I had been planning to devote my short presentation to […]

National higher education blogs of interest, starting with AAUP’s Academe Blog:

  • Who Will Protect Faculty of Color?
    by Guest Blogger
    BY SYDNEY FREEMAN JR. Too many scholars of color are leaving the academy, and too few higher education organizations, faculty senates, and faculty advocates are doing tangible work to combat this. After fifteen years in the academy, I recently stepped away from a tenured full professor position at a Research 1 university after receiving outside…
  • 2026 Faculty in the South Survey
    by Matthew Boedy
    BY MATTHEW BOEDY Please share widely. Faculty in the South Colleague: That’s you in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. The Georgia conference of the American Association of University Professors and its partners in states across the South would like to know your opinion as a…
  • Reproductive Justice Is a Labor Issue
    by Guest Blogger
    BY JAMES RIVER ROBBINS I was at an educators’ union meeting recently when a member raised the issue of reproductive care. Their argument was simple: With institutions and governments cutting away at members’ reproductive rights, the union should stand behind its members and, at minimum, connect them with accurate information about reproductive health. Before I…
  • Jason Arday, Ward Churchill, Marc Tessier-Lavigne and the Problem of “Academic Misconduct”
    by Hank Reichman
    BY HANK REICHMAN What might celebrated incidents of “academic misconduct,” specifically plagiarism and falsifications, tell us about the crisis of academia?  Recent events offer some suggestions. Jason Arday, who days earlier had resigned as professor of sociology at Cambridge University in the wake of credible charges of plagiarism and fabrication, was found dead August 14. …
  • Vanderbilt AAUP Statement Against VU BoT’s “Declaration” and Dept. of Education’s “Call”
    by Guest Blogger
    BY VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY AAUP The Vanderbilt University chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) registers its profound disagreement with the Vanderbilt Board of Trust’s “Declaration of First Principles” (July 29, 2026) as well as its opposition to the Department of Education’s “National Call to Action to University Presidents and Governing Boards” (August 3,…

Higher Ed Labor United:

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