IU on Strike

#copsoffcampus / Crane off campus / victory to @IndianaGrads -- fighting for a life worth living, on campus and off.

[Dennis M. Hogan @dennismhogan]

I think it’s interesting that everyone laments the decline of scholarly rigor in the humanities when social sciences and applied social sciences (in business schools) have been rocked by major fraud and replication scandals. But those fields make money so no one says anything

[IU on Strike @IUonStrike]

@somanyshrimp if teen takeovers did not exist, we would have to invent them.

[Kyle Olson @olsonkyleg]

i gotta dip, but re the WashU-Vandy report: framing "social justice" as the paradigmatic extra-academic force that might improperly shape scholarship while at the same time not mentioning a damn thing about dual-use tech or military spending is disingenuous to say the least

[IU on Strike @IUonStrike]

@MoundLore @jasoncinevv Why presume that the utopia failed or that there was such a clean break between the founding years and the magnificent legacy you’re describing?

[IU on Strike @IUonStrike]

Today, the minimum level of organization needed to defend shared governance is not only strike-readiness, but capacity to block/occupy AND to mobilize other campus sectors AND off-campus sectors in support. We must start thinking strategically. The old symbolic order is dead

[Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered]

Auburn Board Takes Full Curricular Control, Dissolves Faculty Senate

The Auburn University Board of Trustees on Friday gave itself complete control over course offerings, curriculum, degree requirements and academic credentials while eliminating shared... https://t.co/zi9CHBa9n6

[reclaim UC @reclaimuc]

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[IU on Strike @IUonStrike]

@GBX_Press This is part of a global wave of protests. People’s Want does a great job describing this movement. https://t.co/81rQu49fmk

[Vogliamo Tutto ☭ @vogliamo_tutto]

One of problems with AI in academia and in schools is that it emerged in forms that are already integrated into basic tools like search engines and immediately and without much warning began training students to use them in the way that the user interfaces were designed
to do.

[IU on Strike @IUonStrike]

@anders_aslund @MiracleSeeeker You’re right that the delay is confusing, but this is likely coming soon to America

[Periódico Anarquía @anarquia_p]

Chile: estudiantes marchan contra los recortes de presupuesto en la educación. Ni gobiernos, ni partidos, ni nada, solo el pueblo salva al pueblo

[IU on Strike @IUonStrike]

Great piece on the counterinsurgency micro-strategies deployed on campus

[Minor Compositions @minorcomps]

https://t.co/uVekjzgYDo

[Communist Front Of The Dispossessed @LouisABlanqui]

Ask not how much a university paid for AI, ask how much equity in AI its trustees, president, and administrators own.

[IU on Strike @IUonStrike]

We need this

[Progressive International @ProgIntl]

HAPPENING NOW 🇨🇴 Students from Universidad del Valle, one of the largest public universities in Colombia, are striking against far-right candidate Abelardo de la Espriella until after the second round of the presidential election.

[IU on Strike @IUonStrike]

@doubtline Wrong

[IU on Strike @IUonStrike]

ALL OUT FOR SALAH SARSOUR

On Sunday, June 14, at 12:30pm ET, Jews and allies from across the Midwest will gather outside Clay County Jail in Brazil, Indiana, where ICE has caged Salah Sarsour for nearly two months.

[IU on Strike @IUonStrike]

@babadookspinoza Not blaming anybody. Just saying “walk, don’t run” applies not just when retreating from police but during the legal process too. But yes, totally agreed on the question of voluntary arrest.

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

students are vigorously encouraged to use AI programs for--what? composing their work, doing their projects? unless this means something else altogether it does seem to suggest that undergraduate teaching is becoming an empty ritual, students will graduate without really knowing anything, & will then promptly be unemployable because they don't know anything except what an AI device could provide for them.
please let's all hope that medical school is different. if you need surgery, let's hope that the surgeon actually knows what she/he is doing.
frankly, it is surprising that the University of Chicago would so quickly cave in; it does, or did, have a very high reputation.

[IU on Strike @IUonStrike]

@TheLastFarm @borrowNOTrent Especially funny that they won’t consider flexing their political muscle for longer-running work like building out public transit infrastructure

[IU on Strike @IUonStrike]

@babadookspinoza B) what does it mean to commit to avoiding arrest in a time of rising authoritarian reaction? Seems better to normalize it the way that the old Bolsheviks and anarchists knew they’d do a few years eventually and then get a party when they made it to exile in Switzerland.

[IU on Strike @IUonStrike]

@babadookspinoza A) when you are arrested, staying calm and unperturbed is the best way to survive less traumatized & bear the case. Culture of panic around j20 made it all much worse. And then everyone who stayed calm did ok, only time done was by person who took a plea too quick