Cornell AAUP

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Cornell’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors

@weedenkim.bsky.socialReposted by @cornellaaup.bsky.social

In the last 3 days, 3 men in semi-rural PA, rural GA, & rural CA murdered their families. This isn't just about guns or mental illness. It's about violence against women: kill who she loves, then kill her as ultimate show of who's boss. Misogyny is everywhere, but it's an epidemic in MAGA-land.

@tressiemcphd.bsky.socialReposted by @cornellaaup.bsky.social

A real successful 1A day here on campus. Heavy hitters. Big student turnout. Engaged questions. My notes for the academic freedom panel is a sort of Cliff Notes of how I approach this thing. This is it. My whole talk.

Notes app reads: Neoliberalism weaponizes bias to justify austerity. Austerity creates corporate universities. Corporate universities are unhealthy organizations. Unhealthy organizations cannot inculcate or defend academic freedom. Without academic freedom to check administrative power, corporate universities will translate austerity into financialized predation. Predation undermines public trust in higher education. Death spiral accelerates.
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@nbedera.bsky.socialReposted by @cornellaaup.bsky.social

I spent a year watching school administrators do their jobs—and interviewing the students most impacted.

I spoke to @thecut.com in a long-form Q&A about what I saw. Mainly, a system designed to protect perpetrators and punish victims in each and every case.

thecut.comThe Reason Why Colleges Still Fail to Address Sexual ViolenceThe “Cornell Seven” case highlights what’s wrong with Trump’s Title IX rules — and how the system was always designed to fail.
@aaup.orgReposted by @cornellaaup.bsky.social

🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: The AAUP is suing the Trump administration over new policies that threaten green card applicants with family separation. 1/

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Here's that list: "The immediate resignation and/or termination of Cornell administrators ... The expulsion or revocation of the degrees of all Chi Phi brothers involved... The abolition of all Interfraternity Council (IFC) Greek Life... And the dissolution of the Office of Student Conduct..."

@nbedera.bsky.socialReposted by @cornellaaup.bsky.social

I’m starting to get requests from people to evaluate proposed solutions to campus sexual violence. The best list of demands I’ve seen so far comes from the students at Cornell. They understand the role of power and the kinds of big structural and cultural shifts that are required to end violence.

@nbedera.bsky.socialReposted by @cornellaaup.bsky.social

Whenever I see a current or former university president in the news for sexual misconduct, I think of this chart from 2015. (ABC seems to have pulled down the original Five Thirty Eight article, but here’s a Feministing blog about it.)

@proftwolf.bsky.socialReposted by @cornellaaup.bsky.social

My PhD advisor, Peggy Sanday, published Fraternity Gang Rape (1990). She found gang rape functions as male bonding through domination: men use women to prove masculinity, gain status, & demonstrate loyalty. Group norms normalize coercion, erase consent, & institutional privilege shields perpetrators

@elifriedman.bsky.socialReposted by @cornellaaup.bsky.social

I'm not defending the "normal" system of policing, but at least the mayor of a city is subjected to degree of democratic oversight. Cornell PD does what the boss says, and the people who live and work at the university have zero mechanism for oversight.

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