Berklee Faculty Union
@berkleefacunion.bsky.social
Representing Berklee College of Music and Boston Conservatory faculty, a chapter of the American Federation of Teachers, Local 4412, AFT-MA, AFL-CIO.
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Hello Bluesky. We are the Berklee Faculty Union, representing the amazing faculty of Berklee College of Music and Boston Conservatory in Boston, MA.
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Colleges Push Back Against Trump’s Effort to Collect More Admissions Data
Institutions and advocates took issue with the proposal’s vague language and lack of privacy safeguards as well as the vast time and effort needed to collect the required data. https://bit.ly/495B1p2
#EDUSky #AcademicSky
Institutions and advocates took issue with the proposal’s vague language and lack of privacy safeguards as well as the vast time and effort needed to collect the required data. https://bit.ly/495B1p2
#EDUSky #AcademicSky
October 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Colleges Push Back Against Trump’s Effort to Collect More Admissions Data
Institutions and advocates took issue with the proposal’s vague language and lack of privacy safeguards as well as the vast time and effort needed to collect the required data. https://bit.ly/495B1p2
#EDUSky #AcademicSky
Institutions and advocates took issue with the proposal’s vague language and lack of privacy safeguards as well as the vast time and effort needed to collect the required data. https://bit.ly/495B1p2
#EDUSky #AcademicSky
Results of our recent faculty poll regarding our ongoing bargain negotiations with Berklee management.
October 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Results of our recent faculty poll regarding our ongoing bargain negotiations with Berklee management.
Ruthie Ristich, Ear Training & Voice
12 years at Berklee
ONE WORD TO DESCRIBE MY STUDENTS:
Sponges
BEST PART ABOUT TEACHING AT BERKLEE:
The eagerness of the students.
GIVING STUDENTS OUR BEST REQUIRES …
having the support of the administration through fair pay and benefits.
12 years at Berklee
ONE WORD TO DESCRIBE MY STUDENTS:
Sponges
BEST PART ABOUT TEACHING AT BERKLEE:
The eagerness of the students.
GIVING STUDENTS OUR BEST REQUIRES …
having the support of the administration through fair pay and benefits.
October 6, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Ruthie Ristich, Ear Training & Voice
12 years at Berklee
ONE WORD TO DESCRIBE MY STUDENTS:
Sponges
BEST PART ABOUT TEACHING AT BERKLEE:
The eagerness of the students.
GIVING STUDENTS OUR BEST REQUIRES …
having the support of the administration through fair pay and benefits.
12 years at Berklee
ONE WORD TO DESCRIBE MY STUDENTS:
Sponges
BEST PART ABOUT TEACHING AT BERKLEE:
The eagerness of the students.
GIVING STUDENTS OUR BEST REQUIRES …
having the support of the administration through fair pay and benefits.
Faculty Voices - Apostolos Paraskevas, Composition
October 4, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Faculty Voices - Apostolos Paraskevas, Composition
Faculty Voices
BERKLEE FACULTY IN THEIR OWN WORDS.
Rick McLaughlin @rickmclaughlin.com, Harmony and Jazz Composition
BERKLEE FACULTY IN THEIR OWN WORDS.
Rick McLaughlin @rickmclaughlin.com, Harmony and Jazz Composition
October 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Faculty Voices
BERKLEE FACULTY IN THEIR OWN WORDS.
Rick McLaughlin @rickmclaughlin.com, Harmony and Jazz Composition
BERKLEE FACULTY IN THEIR OWN WORDS.
Rick McLaughlin @rickmclaughlin.com, Harmony and Jazz Composition
Welcome back Berklee!
September 3, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Welcome back Berklee!
(This account is maintained by @mikejjohnson.bsky.social, Professor, Contemporary Writing and Production)
July 30, 2025 at 6:06 PM
(This account is maintained by @mikejjohnson.bsky.social, Professor, Contemporary Writing and Production)
We are in week 4 of the Berklee Aspire summer music performance program. Seeing the joy on a young person’s face when they get up on stage to perform reminds me why I do what I do!
July 30, 2025 at 11:16 AM
We are in week 4 of the Berklee Aspire summer music performance program. Seeing the joy on a young person’s face when they get up on stage to perform reminds me why I do what I do!
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“When you peel back all the connections, it’s hard to imagine this is not orchestrated. How can faculty feel safe, not just to exercise their academic freedom, but safe in their personhood, when you have extremist board members siccing their orgs on us.”
— Bethany Letiecq, @aaupmason.bsky.social
— Bethany Letiecq, @aaupmason.bsky.social
Judge Removes Youngkin’s University Board Picks
The ruling in favor of state Democrats will likely be appealed.
www.insidehighered.com
July 30, 2025 at 10:05 AM
“When you peel back all the connections, it’s hard to imagine this is not orchestrated. How can faculty feel safe, not just to exercise their academic freedom, but safe in their personhood, when you have extremist board members siccing their orgs on us.”
— Bethany Letiecq, @aaupmason.bsky.social
— Bethany Letiecq, @aaupmason.bsky.social
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CEOs of major corporations are apparently now bragging to investors about firing workers.
In some cases, fired staff are being replaced with AI.
The goal is surely to boost stock prices and CEO pay — even at the expense of workers.
Textbook corporate greed.
In some cases, fired staff are being replaced with AI.
The goal is surely to boost stock prices and CEO pay — even at the expense of workers.
Textbook corporate greed.
July 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM
CEOs of major corporations are apparently now bragging to investors about firing workers.
In some cases, fired staff are being replaced with AI.
The goal is surely to boost stock prices and CEO pay — even at the expense of workers.
Textbook corporate greed.
In some cases, fired staff are being replaced with AI.
The goal is surely to boost stock prices and CEO pay — even at the expense of workers.
Textbook corporate greed.
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Donald Trump is attacking our colleges and universities to score political points.
Understand this: It’s hurting our economy—and threatening our global leadership.
Understand this: It’s hurting our economy—and threatening our global leadership.
July 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Donald Trump is attacking our colleges and universities to score political points.
Understand this: It’s hurting our economy—and threatening our global leadership.
Understand this: It’s hurting our economy—and threatening our global leadership.
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🎥: Kent Wong of the @cftunion.bsky.social delivers a powerful message on how educators are resisting ICE raids, protecting immigrant families and mobilizing against fear and injustice. #TEACH25
Standing Up for Immigrant Students
YouTube video by AFT
youtu.be
July 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🎥: Kent Wong of the @cftunion.bsky.social delivers a powerful message on how educators are resisting ICE raids, protecting immigrant families and mobilizing against fear and injustice. #TEACH25
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🚨Conservative Group Requests Materials for Over 70 UNC Courses🚨
“It’s a violation of academic freedom…of individual free speech rights &… teaching…in the name of…a right-wing agenda.”
—Joan Scott, AAUP Committee on Academic Freedom
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
@unc-ch-aaup.bsky.social
“It’s a violation of academic freedom…of individual free speech rights &… teaching…in the name of…a right-wing agenda.”
—Joan Scott, AAUP Committee on Academic Freedom
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
@unc-ch-aaup.bsky.social
Conservative Org. Requests Materials for 70 Chapel Hill Courses
The Oversight Project, founded by the Heritage Foundation, is using an open records request to search for terms like “DEI” and “gender identity.” Faculty say it encroaches on academic freedom.
www.insidehighered.com
July 29, 2025 at 2:44 PM
🚨Conservative Group Requests Materials for Over 70 UNC Courses🚨
“It’s a violation of academic freedom…of individual free speech rights &… teaching…in the name of…a right-wing agenda.”
—Joan Scott, AAUP Committee on Academic Freedom
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
@unc-ch-aaup.bsky.social
“It’s a violation of academic freedom…of individual free speech rights &… teaching…in the name of…a right-wing agenda.”
—Joan Scott, AAUP Committee on Academic Freedom
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
@unc-ch-aaup.bsky.social
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New on Academe Blog: academeblog.org/2025/07/29/a...
A New Accreditation Body with Invasive Aims Takes Root in the South
BY AUDREY BERLOWITZ The recent announcement of the founding of the Commission for Public Higher Education (CPHE) reveals another “axis of power” in the multiwebbed right-wing war on the US universi…
academeblog.org
July 29, 2025 at 2:53 PM
New on Academe Blog: academeblog.org/2025/07/29/a...
Faculty in the Arts are being hit especially hard now. Jobs in the arts are evaporating daily thanks to factors like AI and apps like Spotify. If you get laid off from your teaching job, there are fewer gigs out there and you’re competing with your former students.
July 29, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Faculty in the Arts are being hit especially hard now. Jobs in the arts are evaporating daily thanks to factors like AI and apps like Spotify. If you get laid off from your teaching job, there are fewer gigs out there and you’re competing with your former students.
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Wednesday, July 30: Join us for a strategy discussion about how we can build solidarity across job categories on campus. 6pm ET/5pm CT/4pm MT/3pm PT on Zoom: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
July 28, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Wednesday, July 30: Join us for a strategy discussion about how we can build solidarity across job categories on campus. 6pm ET/5pm CT/4pm MT/3pm PT on Zoom: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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From the @higheredlabor.bsky.social newsletter: fighting instructor layoffs at the University of Arizona
#contingent #adjunct #HigherEd
higheredlaborunited.org/2025/07/22/c...
#contingent #adjunct #HigherEd
higheredlaborunited.org/2025/07/22/c...
Contingent Labor at the University of Arizona: One Damn Thing After Another – Higher Education Labor United
higheredlaborunited.org
July 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
From the @higheredlabor.bsky.social newsletter: fighting instructor layoffs at the University of Arizona
#contingent #adjunct #HigherEd
higheredlaborunited.org/2025/07/22/c...
#contingent #adjunct #HigherEd
higheredlaborunited.org/2025/07/22/c...
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Without humanities studies, I would not have been a very good scientist. My humanities classes were a master class in creativity, envisioning new futures and how to think. The skills we learned in our humanities classes brought creativity to all our endeavors.
www.deseret.com/opinion/2025...
www.deseret.com/opinion/2025...
Opinion: Gutting humanities signals the end of innovation in business and STEM
Lose the humanities, and you lose the very ground of science and business that depend on it.
www.deseret.com
July 28, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Without humanities studies, I would not have been a very good scientist. My humanities classes were a master class in creativity, envisioning new futures and how to think. The skills we learned in our humanities classes brought creativity to all our endeavors.
www.deseret.com/opinion/2025...
www.deseret.com/opinion/2025...
Most of our faculty also work in the music industry in some capacity. It is a selling point for the school, but the truth is most of us need the extra income from our “side hustles” just to make ends meet!
July 29, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Most of our faculty also work in the music industry in some capacity. It is a selling point for the school, but the truth is most of us need the extra income from our “side hustles” just to make ends meet!
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94% of teachers have had to dip into their own pockets to buy school supplies. An estimated 1 in 6 have second jobs during the school year to make ends meet.
The average Wall Street employee got a record $244,700 bonus last year.
Something has gone terribly wrong.
The average Wall Street employee got a record $244,700 bonus last year.
Something has gone terribly wrong.
July 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
94% of teachers have had to dip into their own pockets to buy school supplies. An estimated 1 in 6 have second jobs during the school year to make ends meet.
The average Wall Street employee got a record $244,700 bonus last year.
Something has gone terribly wrong.
The average Wall Street employee got a record $244,700 bonus last year.
Something has gone terribly wrong.
We are in our 6th week of bargaining a new contract with the Berklee administration. We appreciate your support!
July 29, 2025 at 1:41 AM
We are in our 6th week of bargaining a new contract with the Berklee administration. We appreciate your support!
Hello Bluesky. We are the Berklee Faculty Union, representing the amazing faculty of Berklee College of Music and Boston Conservatory in Boston, MA.
July 29, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Hello Bluesky. We are the Berklee Faculty Union, representing the amazing faculty of Berklee College of Music and Boston Conservatory in Boston, MA.