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Carlos Morales, “The State as Donor: How Indiana Uses SEA 202 and HEA 1001 to Reshape Academic Freedom and Faculty Governance”
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Quote from “The State as Donor: How Indiana Uses SEA 202 and HEA 1001 to Reshape Academic Freedom and Faculty Governance” by Carlos Morales: State governments are using their role as donors and primary funders of state universities to exert power over professors and universities in a manner that erodes academic freedom and autonomy.
November 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Sibeso Lisulo, “Navigating Fiscal Precarity and the Erosion of Academic Freedom in an Era of Resource Dependence in Africa: A Zambian Perspective”
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Quote from “Navigating Fiscal Precarity and the Erosion of Academic Freedom in an Era of Resource Dependence in Africa: A Zambian Perspective” by Sibeso Lisulo: Willingness to allow external forces to dictate their internal academic affairs, taking away from their scholars’ intellectual autonomy, creates the uncomfortable tightrope that many resource-dependent institutions in Africa must walk.
November 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Michael Davis, “Conspicuously Exercising Academic Freedom as a Response to Incremental Threats”
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Quote from "Conspicuously Exercising Academic Freedom as a Response to Incremental Threats" by Michael Davis: Understanding that there will not be a single climactic showdown means that academia must bolster its frequent and visible exercise of protected freedoms.
November 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Drew X. Coles and Adara Hoyne, “Philanthropy, Class, and Cultural Hegemony in Music Education”
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Quote from "Philanthropy, Class, and Cultural Hegemony in Music Education" by Drew X. Coles and Adara Hoyne: The entanglement of philanthropy and music education reveals a deeply entrenched system in which financial power structures dictate artistic and academic priorities.
November 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Noah Drezner, “The Double Standards of Financial Activism: Academic Freedom, Philanthropy, and BDS in Higher Education”
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Quote from “The Double Standards of Financial Activism: Academic Freedom, Philanthropy, and BDS in Higher Education” by Noah D. Drezner: If academic boycotts are accepted as legitimate moral interventions, should not donor activism also be viewed as a valid form of expression?
November 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Fatemeh Almasarweh, “The Blueprint for Silencing Dissent in US Higher Education”
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Quote from “The Blueprint for Silencing Dissent in US Higher Education” by Fatemeh Almasarweh: When ideological conformity is tied to the survival of an entire institution, academic freedom shifts from a personal right to an institutional liability.
November 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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J. R. Caldwell Jr., “Black Institutions, White Interests: The Dilemma of HBCUs, Academic Freedom, and Philanthropic Capture”
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Quote from “Black Institutions, White Interests: The Dilemma of HBCUs, Academic Freedom, and Philanthropic Capture” by J. R. Caldwell Jr.: HBCUs are subject to philanthropic capture, in which external funding subordinates intellectual production and governance to the interests of donors and corporate partners rather than faculty and students.
November 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Katie Rainwater and Robert Cassanello, “Proselytizing Speech: Florida’s Publicly Funded Libertarian Centers and Elevating Political Speech” 4/4

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Quote from "Proselytizing Speech: Florida’s Publicly Funded Conservative Centers" by Katie Rainwater and Robert Cassanello: While faculty members opposing donor-funded libertarian centers have typically targeted their university administrations, resistance to publicly funded libertarian centers must also target the state.
October 31, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Jarvis Tyrell Curry, “Faculty Governance and the Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest in Private University Donations” 3/4

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Quote from “Faculty Governance and the Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest in Private University Donations” by Jarvis Tyrell Curry: Donor contributions should support, rather than dictate, the future of higher education
October 31, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Mich Ciurria, “UnKoch My Philosophy Department: A Case Study in Billionaire Philanthropy” 2/4

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Quote from "UnKoch My Philosophy Department: A Case Study in Billionaire Philanthropy" by Mich Ciurria: We, as academics, should avoid complicity in academia’s depressing descent into corporate sycophancy.
October 31, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Isaac Kamola, Aaron Supple, and Ralph Wilson, “From Direct to Diffuse Donor Influence: Charles Koch Foundation Funding in Higher Education, 1990–2024” 1/4

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Quote from "From Direct to Diffuse Donor Influence: Charles Koch Foundation Funding in Higher Education, 1990–2024”: The Koch network funds academic programs and centers as part of a political project of normalizing and legitimatizing their procorporate and libertarian agenda, pushing massive deregulation, tax cuts, and privatization of public goods.
October 31, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Aaron Ansell, “The Responsible Use of Academic Freedom in an Age of Polarization” 3/3
Quote from “The Responsible Use of Academic Freedom in an Age of Polarization” by Aaron Ansell: Under conditions of polarization, intrusions into academic freedom come from both sides and leave individual faculty who wish to practice bracketed viewpoint diversity vulnerable.
October 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Rubén Martinez, “Neoliberal Philanthropy and Academic Freedom” 2/3
Quote from "Neoliberal Philanthropy and Academic Freedom" by Ruben Martinez: While public policy advocacy by philanthropy foundations is not new, the neoliberal framework in which advocacy is nested is different.
October 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Natasha N. Johnson and Thaddeus L. Johnson, “Shaping Public Sentiments About Higher Education in an Era of Philanthropic Dependency” 1/3
Quote from "Shaping Public Sentiments About Higher Education in an Era of Philanthropic Dependency” by Natasha N. Johnson and Thaddeus L. Johnson: As a result of funding pressures, higher education has become a site of contestation between those who advocate for public investment and those who support private philanthropy.
October 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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The 2025 volume of #JAF is now live! This year’s volume brings together articles that probe the uneasy relationship between philanthropy and academic freedom and the financial infrastructures and political economies that sustain or threaten it. Check out the full issue at www.aaup.org/JAF16
Quote from "Editors' Introduction: Philanthropy, Public Funding, and the Future of Academic Freedom" by Michael Dreiling and Pedro Garcia-Caro: The convergence of private philanthropy and state power threatens to redefine the university not as a space of free inquiry but as a site of ideological enforcement.
October 29, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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We're excited to share the new call for papers for next year's volume of the Journal of Academic Freedom: www.aaup.org/CFP
October 15, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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DEADLINE EXTENDED: Apply to be the faculty editor of the Journal of Academic Freedom before June 15!
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June 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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DEADLINE EXTENDED: Submit your application for Academe faculty editor before June 15! www.aaup.org/academe-book...
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June 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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The AAUP has two new editorial opportunities for members who want to get more involved with our publications. Stipends are available, and the application deadline is June 1. Read more about each position below: 🧵
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May 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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The spring issue of #Academe focuses on the fight for higher education in the first months of the second Trump administration and includes new articles about using the AAUP's Redbook, data snapshots on tenure and contingency, and more. Read the full issue at www.aaup.org/issue/spring...
May 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Catherine L. Moran reviews Eric Fure-Slocum and Claire Goldstene’s “Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education," with contributions "linking the current state of academic labor to the broader gig economy of the twenty-first century." www.aaup.org/article/pers...
April 4, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Kevin R. McClure praises Barrett J. Taylor’s “Wrecked” as the “one book that, as a higher education scholar, I routinely recommend to colleagues seeking to better understand how higher education intersects with politics today.” www.aaup.org/article/unde...
April 4, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Barrett J. Taylor praises Neil Kraus’s The Fantasy Economy as “a vital read for anyone interested in understanding how higher education policy became what it is today and why decades of managerial reform have done little to change it.” www.aaup.org/article/fant...
Cover of "The Fantasy Economy: Neoliberalism, Inequality, and the Education Reform Movement" by Neil Kraus
February 14, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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“AI might have arrived in higher education without invitation—but not without resistance,” writes Robert Ovetz in a review of Lindsay Weinberg’s Smart University, which forecasts what "awaits us if we do not organize and escalate our refusal of AI." www.aaup.org/article/refu...
Cover of "Smart University: Student Surveillance in the Digital Age" by Lindsay Weinberg
February 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM