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Declining accommodations for a cancer patient?? New low at UMich
A @michigandaily.bsky.social investigation: hundreds of @umich.edu employees who looked to Work Connections for support/medical leave during an illness report years-long pattern of misconduct.
2 key complaints: WC disregarded physicians’ recommendations, and WC employees were hostile/demeaning.
2 key complaints: WC disregarded physicians’ recommendations, and WC employees were hostile/demeaning.
Following injury and illness, hundreds of U-M employees relied on the University to facilitate their return to work. They say it failed them.
On Dec. 20, 2024, Marcellous Demps, a former patient-care provider at Michigan Medicine, was working the night shift when he slipped and fell in a dimly lit, wet hallway while carrying a 150-pound por...
www.michigandaily.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Declining accommodations for a cancer patient?? New low at UMich
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When I chaired the Faculty Senate last year, Regent Jordan Acker, enraged that he couldn’t control faculty voice, doxxed me on social media. UM police installed security cameras on my home to protect me from his threats. Now Acker wants to be re-elected. @aft.org is considering an endorsement
October 31, 2025 at 12:19 PM
When I chaired the Faculty Senate last year, Regent Jordan Acker, enraged that he couldn’t control faculty voice, doxxed me on social media. UM police installed security cameras on my home to protect me from his threats. Now Acker wants to be re-elected. @aft.org is considering an endorsement
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Shall we sacrifice the people, families, businesses, and environmental well-being of Yspilanti on the altar of TechBro fantasies? This UM prof says NO.
@silkyweineck.bsky.social @umdeidefense.bsky.social @rebekahmodrak.bsky.social
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Excellent article just dropped by Nathan Kim at the MDaily!
"Judging from the lab’s activity as a whole,[...] there seems to be no reasonable possibility that the data center will be independent from LANL’s primary mission of nuclear weapons development."
www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...
"Judging from the lab’s activity as a whole,[...] there seems to be no reasonable possibility that the data center will be independent from LANL’s primary mission of nuclear weapons development."
www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...
UMich says the Ypsi Data Center won’t “manufacture nuclear weapons.” What does Los Alamos think?
University administration must make a choice: Will it side with the public and live up to its stated ideals of serving the public good and public interest? Or will it side with LANL and spend hundreds...
www.michigandaily.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Shall we sacrifice the people, families, businesses, and environmental well-being of Yspilanti on the altar of TechBro fantasies? This UM prof says NO.
@silkyweineck.bsky.social @umdeidefense.bsky.social @rebekahmodrak.bsky.social
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UM Regents Paul Brown and Jordan Acker are trying to get on ballot for re-election. They refused to hear reports from Faculty. Dismantled DEI at UM. Stopped gender-affirming care at UM Medicine. Expelled students who criticized Israeli actions in Gaza
And yet, aft.org is considering endorsing them
And yet, aft.org is considering endorsing them
AFT - American Federation of Teachers - A Union of Professionals
American Federation of Teachers public web site.
aft.org
October 31, 2025 at 12:10 PM
UM Regents Paul Brown and Jordan Acker are trying to get on ballot for re-election. They refused to hear reports from Faculty. Dismantled DEI at UM. Stopped gender-affirming care at UM Medicine. Expelled students who criticized Israeli actions in Gaza
And yet, aft.org is considering endorsing them
And yet, aft.org is considering endorsing them
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@umich.edu faculty call for an honorary degree for Trump
“We have proven that we have no hard moral principles and no hill on which we will die.”
www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...
“We have proven that we have no hard moral principles and no hill on which we will die.”
www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...
Why Trump would be perfect for an honorary U-M doctoral degree
Awarding Trump an honorary doctoral degree would be an opportunity to recognize the long way the University has walked in less than two years. U-M juniors may still remember times when the campus code...
www.michigandaily.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
@umich.edu faculty call for an honorary degree for Trump
“We have proven that we have no hard moral principles and no hill on which we will die.”
www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...
“We have proven that we have no hard moral principles and no hill on which we will die.”
www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...
“The African American unemployment rate has surged over the past four months, from 6 to 7.5 percent, while the rate for white people ticked down slightly to 3.7 percent.”
Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.
www.nytimes.com
October 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
“The African American unemployment rate has surged over the past four months, from 6 to 7.5 percent, while the rate for white people ticked down slightly to 3.7 percent.”
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From the @michigandaily.bsky.social Editorial Board: “We now see [the University of Michigan administration’s changes to the student code of conduct] as a catalyst, accelerating the construction of a disciplinary apparatus that the University can aim at whoever it deems threatening.”
UMich weaponizes the rules in new student code of conduct
The administration has created a space where rules only cut one way. For those that still doubt the severity of the situation on campus, Grasso and the regents stated their intentions clearly — discip...
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September 30, 2025 at 11:22 AM
From the @michigandaily.bsky.social Editorial Board: “We now see [the University of Michigan administration’s changes to the student code of conduct] as a catalyst, accelerating the construction of a disciplinary apparatus that the University can aim at whoever it deems threatening.”
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Some public school teachers are courageously protecting kids rights to access all material, despite threats and retaliation. Thank you to @palan57.bsky.social at @forbes.com for shining a light on their remarkable stories. More than ever, we need heroes to be visible.
Book Shares Teacher Voices From The Culture Wars
Many of those stories have been covered by journalists, but the book Trouble In Censorville features educators who tell their own stories.
www.forbes.com
September 22, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Some public school teachers are courageously protecting kids rights to access all material, despite threats and retaliation. Thank you to @palan57.bsky.social at @forbes.com for shining a light on their remarkable stories. More than ever, we need heroes to be visible.
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This Tuesday in Ann Arbor. A reading about attempts to intimidate and silence academics.
September 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM
This Tuesday in Ann Arbor. A reading about attempts to intimidate and silence academics.
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University of Michigan faculty and staff speak up about what we want in our new president. (post-Ono)
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U-M faculty and staff on the next University president
On May 4, University President Santa Ono announced that he was departing from the University of Michigan. His controversial tenure — from his handling of pro-Palestine activism to his decision to cut ...
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September 2, 2025 at 3:18 AM
University of Michigan faculty and staff speak up about what we want in our new president. (post-Ono)
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Ohio State University has banned land acknowledgements.
But there's no ban on ceding the land and the institution to indigenous people. Even the Heritage Foundation recommends this. Buckeyes, this is your moment.
www.heritage.org/progressivis...
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But there's no ban on ceding the land and the institution to indigenous people. Even the Heritage Foundation recommends this. Buckeyes, this is your moment.
www.heritage.org/progressivis...
@ohiostatelaw.bsky.social @osuhistory.bsky.social
Native Land Whiners Should Match Words With Deeds
Over the last several years, an odd ritual known as a “land acknowledgment” has become the fashionable way to begin academic, arts and other elite events. Like a woke version of the “Pledge of Allegia...
www.heritage.org
August 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Ohio State University has banned land acknowledgements.
But there's no ban on ceding the land and the institution to indigenous people. Even the Heritage Foundation recommends this. Buckeyes, this is your moment.
www.heritage.org/progressivis...
@ohiostatelaw.bsky.social @osuhistory.bsky.social
But there's no ban on ceding the land and the institution to indigenous people. Even the Heritage Foundation recommends this. Buckeyes, this is your moment.
www.heritage.org/progressivis...
@ohiostatelaw.bsky.social @osuhistory.bsky.social
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A lakh is 100,000, so ~300,000 (331,602 to be exact in 2024) students from #India study in US every year, paying $8 billion to US economy.
There were ~1300 #Indian students at UMich alone. I met one recently, and he's counting days to finish degree and leave US
Our campus will lose millions of $
There were ~1300 #Indian students at UMich alone. I met one recently, and he's counting days to finish degree and leave US
Our campus will lose millions of $
August 27, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Why we need DEI
Just watched Monica Coles' devastating testimony about being fired on her 3rd day teaching K-5 art—for wearing pants and short hair in a monoculture of teachers w/ long hair, heels and dresses—in a conservative public school district where the PTA funds the school.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_Qm...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_Qm...
Censorville — Monica Coles - refinished 9May
YouTube video by Trouble In Censorville
www.youtube.com
July 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Why we need DEI
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Guidepost Solutions' chairman is monitoring the extortion of Columbia by Trump. U. of Michigan regents, all on their own, hired "consultants" from Guidepost last year to comb through video tapes to harass and attempt to expel students who protested the war on Gaza.
July 29, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Guidepost Solutions' chairman is monitoring the extortion of Columbia by Trump. U. of Michigan regents, all on their own, hired "consultants" from Guidepost last year to comb through video tapes to harass and attempt to expel students who protested the war on Gaza.
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Regent Bernstein makes a mockery of First Amendment rights. According to the state charter, regents have no authority to meddle in hiring decisions, let alone to subject members of our campus to their petty whims and biases. Donating $$ to the Dems shouldn’t protect him.
Fired D.E.I. Administrator Sues the University of Michigan
www.nytimes.com
July 17, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Regent Bernstein makes a mockery of First Amendment rights. According to the state charter, regents have no authority to meddle in hiring decisions, let alone to subject members of our campus to their petty whims and biases. Donating $$ to the Dems shouldn’t protect him.
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U-Mich's Regent Bernstein overrides the assessment of UM administrators and tells the General Counsel to immediately terminate Rachel Dawson, our director of multicultural initiatives. Our regents have turned U-M's campus into a theater where they act on their biases and pettiness.
Former DEI administrator sues University of Michigan, alleges discrimination in firing
Rachel Dawson claims the University of Michigan deviated from its normal disciplinary process to fire her.
www.freep.com
July 16, 2025 at 2:17 PM
U-Mich's Regent Bernstein overrides the assessment of UM administrators and tells the General Counsel to immediately terminate Rachel Dawson, our director of multicultural initiatives. Our regents have turned U-M's campus into a theater where they act on their biases and pettiness.
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I love the Michigan Daily.
“the relative silence from the regents surrounding their efforts to commit acts of espionage against their own student body is alarming. Their response …shows that even despite the accusations, the regents have no interest in taking responsibility for their actions.”
“the relative silence from the regents surrounding their efforts to commit acts of espionage against their own student body is alarming. Their response …shows that even despite the accusations, the regents have no interest in taking responsibility for their actions.”
From The Daily: The Regents must answer for the surveillance of students
It is crucial to explicitly condemn those responsible for this assault on students: the University’s Board of Regents. This Editorial Board believes regents who authorized the payments to Amerishield ...
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July 3, 2025 at 12:22 AM
I love the Michigan Daily.
“the relative silence from the regents surrounding their efforts to commit acts of espionage against their own student body is alarming. Their response …shows that even despite the accusations, the regents have no interest in taking responsibility for their actions.”
“the relative silence from the regents surrounding their efforts to commit acts of espionage against their own student body is alarming. Their response …shows that even despite the accusations, the regents have no interest in taking responsibility for their actions.”
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Bravo to the Mississippi educators seeking a restraining order to the law prohibiting educators from teaching students about issues "related to race, sex, color, gender identity, sexual orientation or national origin.” @insurgentprof.bsky.social
![In April, Mississippi enacted a new anti-DEI law that would, among other things, prohibit public colleges, universities and K-12 schools from “engag[ing]” in “any formal or informal education . . . that focus[es] on increasing awareness or understanding of issues related to race, sex, color, gender identity, sexual orientation or national origin.”
So, we’re suing.
We had our first hearing in federal court on Tuesday, seeking a temporary restraining order and a preliminary junction.
We’re right, and we’re going to win.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtyavl6xibywpdtlldx7rpl/bafkreicuta7i4ztqjmy7l3vl5qf5kj3spdxzzvz44srbqohppplzmwka5m@jpeg)
June 29, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Bravo to the Mississippi educators seeking a restraining order to the law prohibiting educators from teaching students about issues "related to race, sex, color, gender identity, sexual orientation or national origin.” @insurgentprof.bsky.social
@cantb.bsky.social on the federal government forcing UVA's president to resign. (Inside Higher Ed)
June 27, 2025 at 10:45 PM
@cantb.bsky.social on the federal government forcing UVA's president to resign. (Inside Higher Ed)
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Here's the problem: Universities' recent embrace of "institutional neutrality" policies are at odds with their goals to help students develop as thoughtful, moral citizens.
Gift link.
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A White Nationalist Wrote a Law School Paper Promoting Racist Views. It Won Him an Award.
www.nytimes.com
June 21, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Here's the problem: Universities' recent embrace of "institutional neutrality" policies are at odds with their goals to help students develop as thoughtful, moral citizens.
Gift link.
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“Accordingly, the Trump administration has engaged in selective outrage about discrimination, focusing disproportionately on a supposed rampant anti-White racism problem in this country that is not supported by data, while remaining silent about prevalent discrimination against racial minorities.”
Fact vs. Fiction: The Trump Administration’s Dubious War on Reverse Discrimination
The Trump administration’s focus on “reverse discrimination” against White people is not backed by data and reflects a political narrative of White grievance.
theglobepost.com
June 21, 2025 at 1:12 PM
“Accordingly, the Trump administration has engaged in selective outrage about discrimination, focusing disproportionately on a supposed rampant anti-White racism problem in this country that is not supported by data, while remaining silent about prevalent discrimination against racial minorities.”
"At a moment when higher education is in the political crosshairs, Ono appeared to some like he was more interested in joining the snipers than fighting back alongside his academic brethren."
www.chronicle.com/article/he-w...
www.chronicle.com/article/he-w...
June 13, 2025 at 2:20 PM
"At a moment when higher education is in the political crosshairs, Ono appeared to some like he was more interested in joining the snipers than fighting back alongside his academic brethren."
www.chronicle.com/article/he-w...
www.chronicle.com/article/he-w...
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“Leadership requires moral clarity, not strategic evasion. Students were followed, harassed, and criminalized under your watch. History will remember.”
@professorjvh.bsky.social
May U-M Faculty report to regents re: excessive surveillance:
regents.umich.edu/files/meetin...
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May U-M Faculty report to regents re: excessive surveillance:
regents.umich.edu/files/meetin...
Exposed: University of Michigan Hired Undercover Spies to Target Students
As a second-generation alum of the University of Michigan, I’ve often reflected on how this institution shaped my life. The Diag, the center of campus with its steady hum of voices calling out inju…
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June 8, 2025 at 4:13 AM
“Leadership requires moral clarity, not strategic evasion. Students were followed, harassed, and criminalized under your watch. History will remember.”
@professorjvh.bsky.social
May U-M Faculty report to regents re: excessive surveillance:
regents.umich.edu/files/meetin...
@professorjvh.bsky.social
May U-M Faculty report to regents re: excessive surveillance:
regents.umich.edu/files/meetin...
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How did Santa Ono lose a one-man race?
Professor @silkyweineck.bsky.social writes: “Perhaps it was the instinctive bipartisan contempt most of us feel for blatant pandering: Ono’s assurances that he would follow orders had .. an eagerness to humiliate himself that does not signal leadership.”
Professor @silkyweineck.bsky.social writes: “Perhaps it was the instinctive bipartisan contempt most of us feel for blatant pandering: Ono’s assurances that he would follow orders had .. an eagerness to humiliate himself that does not signal leadership.”
Opinion | The Ruination of Santa Ono
When an accomplished man is reduced to pandering, it’s a sad spectacle.
www.chronicle.com
June 4, 2025 at 5:29 PM
How did Santa Ono lose a one-man race?
Professor @silkyweineck.bsky.social writes: “Perhaps it was the instinctive bipartisan contempt most of us feel for blatant pandering: Ono’s assurances that he would follow orders had .. an eagerness to humiliate himself that does not signal leadership.”
Professor @silkyweineck.bsky.social writes: “Perhaps it was the instinctive bipartisan contempt most of us feel for blatant pandering: Ono’s assurances that he would follow orders had .. an eagerness to humiliate himself that does not signal leadership.”
The Chronicle is tracking higher ed’s dismantling of DEI efforts.
Tracking Higher Ed’s Dismantling of DEI
We’ve documented actions taken on hundreds of campuses to alter or eliminate jobs, offices, hiring practices, and programs amid mounting political pressure to end identity-conscious recruitment and re...
www.chronicle.com
May 29, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The Chronicle is tracking higher ed’s dismantling of DEI efforts.