Richard Finlay Fletcher
roffletcher.bsky.social
Richard Finlay Fletcher
@roffletcher.bsky.social
Arts Aneducation at a Land-Grab U

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http://www.ohiostateaaup.org/uploads/1/3/3/2/133252195/sb1_syllabus.pdf
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April 7, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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We must stand up for all of our students. The federal government's targeting and treatment of international students is completely unacceptable.
5 Ohio State University international students have visas revoked by Trump administration
Ohio State University is the latest college to report having international students whose visas were revoked by the Trump administration.
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April 4, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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"This administration has created nothing but a climate of fear of on campus...we have to protect our students, faculties, and communities in this moment. We must fight back."

– Todd Wolfson, AAUP President
March 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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if you’re a student at Ohio State who received this email and you want to talk, even anonymously, you can reach me on here or at andy (at) matternews (dot) org
Hundreds of international students have just received an email telling them their visas have been revoked.

The ‘justification’ is campus activism or social media posts.

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March 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Footnotes to Footnotes on Radio

March 29, 2025

Listen & read here:

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Footnotes to Footnotes on Radio
William Faulkner once allowed himself to be interviewed on the radio during a University of Virginia football game, and was introduced as a winner of the Mobil Prize. – David Markson, Vanishi…
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March 29, 2025 at 11:04 PM
This is not over!
March 29, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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I put my statement to @aaup.bsky.social members and public statement together in this blog post.

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Statement: SB1 Passes, But the Voice of the People is Unstoppable
Ohio Senate Bill 1, the Destruction of Higher Education Act, was signed into law on March 28, 2025 by Governor Mike DeWine. Below are the…
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March 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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What is an education that is founded on ignorance? We need to be thorns in the side of injustice

Listen to students & stop SB1

Call & email Gov. DeWine to veto

Link in bio to the @osuaaup.bsky.social Stop SB1 Syllabus

And, while we are at it, free Mahmoud Khalil
March 19, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Columbia AAUP chapter on the administration's unprecedented assault on Columbia U and higher ed generally: "At this fraught moment we must all stand together against the external assault on our institution."
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March 18, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Join us tomorrow to protest the impending destruction of higher education in Ohio
March 18, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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March 18, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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A few of the statements & letters to university administrations from our colleagues during this historical moment of assault on higher ed.

Solidarity to all those working hard to defend our institutions.

#academicsky

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Rising to the Occasion: Important Statements and Open Letters
BY JENNIFER RUTH AAUP and other campus unions are mobilizing to defend their institutions against the Trump administration’s outright assault on higher education and insist that their univers…
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March 17, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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