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Battle looms for faculty tenure review across Florida
By Christian CasaleDecember 5, 2022 The Alligator (UF Student Newspaper) [UFF preface: Any post-tenure review ultimately has to be bargained as a...
UC strike: Here’s what’s at stake in America’s largest ever higher education labor action
BY MIA MCIVER AND LEVIN KIM SPECIAL TO THE SACRAMENTO BEENovember 16, 2022 Forty-eight thousand academic workers across the University of...
What a 1960s Housewife Can Teach Us About Politics in Higher Ed
Chronicle of Higher EdBy Emma PettitNOVEMBER 3, 2022 In the early 1960s, a Florida housewife named Jane Tarr Smith heard a frightening...
Florida universities push back on proposed new rules for faculty tenure
[UFF-FAU Correction: The time to submit public comments has been shortened from 30 days to two weeks: November 24. You...
Criticisms of academic freedom miss the mark and risk the integrity of scholarship
[UFF-FAU Preface: With both freedom of speech and academic freedom under attack from reactionary politicians and their wealthy donors, including...
The Inquisition
State intrusion on higher ed is nothing new. Decades ago, Florida lawmakers tried to purge campus ‘immorality.’ [UFF Preface: This...
Criticisms of Academic Freedom Miss the Mark and Risk the Integrity of Scholarship
[UFF Preface: With both freedom of speech and academic freedom under attack from reactionary politicians and their wealthy donors, including...
Florida Has An Outrageous New Law Targeting Teachers. Here’s Why I’ll Be Breaking It.
Huff PostBy Beth L. MattersonAug 14, 2022, 08:30 AM EDT In a couple of weeks, I’ll walk back into my college classroom...
Professors in Florida are feeling the chill from DeSantis’ education legislation
[UFF Preface: UFF opposes HB 7 as an authoritarian, anti-higher education measure. Recently, we held a town hall to assist...