#uatx — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #uatx, aggregated by home.social.
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“According to Niall, under the constitution of #UATX Joe Lonsdale, as chair of the board, had no authority to tell those of us at the meeting:
“That all staff and faculty of UATX must subscribe to the four principles of anti-communism, anti-socialism, identity politics, and anti-Islamism (this is the first time I heard of these four principles); (1/2)
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“According to Niall, under the constitution of #UATX Joe Lonsdale, as chair of the board, had no authority to tell those of us at the meeting:
“That all staff and faculty of UATX must subscribe to the four principles of anti-communism, anti-socialism, identity politics, and anti-Islamism (this is the first time I heard of these four principles); (1/2)
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“According to Niall, under the constitution of #UATX Joe Lonsdale, as chair of the board, had no authority to tell those of us at the meeting:
“That all staff and faculty of UATX must subscribe to the four principles of anti-communism, anti-socialism, identity politics, and anti-Islamism (this is the first time I heard of these four principles); (1/2)
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“According to Niall, under the constitution of #UATX Joe Lonsdale, as chair of the board, had no authority to tell those of us at the meeting:
“That all staff and faculty of UATX must subscribe to the four principles of anti-communism, anti-socialism, identity politics, and anti-Islamism (this is the first time I heard of these four principles); (1/2)
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“According to Niall, under the constitution of #UATX Joe Lonsdale, as chair of the board, had no authority to tell those of us at the meeting:
“That all staff and faculty of UATX must subscribe to the four principles of anti-communism, anti-socialism, identity politics, and anti-Islamism (this is the first time I heard of these four principles); (1/2)
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Bari Weiss’ Tiny Fake Austin College Sees Mass Staff, Advisor Exodus
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Bari Weiss’ Tiny Fake Austin College Sees Mass Staff, Advisor Exodus
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Bari Weiss’ Tiny Fake Austin College Sees Mass Staff, Advisor Exodus
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Bari Weiss’ Tiny Fake Austin College Sees Mass Staff, Advisor Exodus
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Bari Weiss’ Tiny Fake Austin College Sees Mass Staff, Advisor Exodus
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Reactionary speech police in U.S. Academia: What else is new?
"That morning, I got onto what I thought was a casual call with a senior colleague, someone who spoke with me regularly in order to keep the university updated on Mill Institute activities. Once we were past the opening pleasantries, it immediately became clear that something was wrong.
My colleague told me that we needed to talk about a social-media post of mine that “had become a big problem.” I rarely post anything online, so I was confused about what he meant. Apparently, it had something to do with DEI, and had angered a major funder. “We’re trying to slow things down,” my colleague told me. I got the impression that he was upset about the message he was delivering.
I dimly recalled that I’d written something about DEI on LinkedIn. But I was still confused, because it had seemed like such an innocuous post (to me, anyway); and I couldn’t imagine how it would upset anyone in the UATX community, let alone lead to this ominous phone call.
In that post (reproduced below), I’d thanked writer and Yale professor Michael J. Strambler for mentioning the Mill Institute in a magazine article titled The False Binary of the DEI Debate. The piece, which struck a liberal tone, walked readers through the pros and cons of DEI programs, concluding that regardless of one’s position on DEI, none of us should lose respect for those who hold different opinions."
https://quillette.com/2025/05/16/is-the-university-of-austin-betraying-its-founding-principles/
#USA #DEI #Universities #HigherEd #Academia #UATX #Texas #FreedomOfExpression #FreedomOfSpeech
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Reactionary speech police in U.S. Academia: What else is new?
"That morning, I got onto what I thought was a casual call with a senior colleague, someone who spoke with me regularly in order to keep the university updated on Mill Institute activities. Once we were past the opening pleasantries, it immediately became clear that something was wrong.
My colleague told me that we needed to talk about a social-media post of mine that “had become a big problem.” I rarely post anything online, so I was confused about what he meant. Apparently, it had something to do with DEI, and had angered a major funder. “We’re trying to slow things down,” my colleague told me. I got the impression that he was upset about the message he was delivering.
I dimly recalled that I’d written something about DEI on LinkedIn. But I was still confused, because it had seemed like such an innocuous post (to me, anyway); and I couldn’t imagine how it would upset anyone in the UATX community, let alone lead to this ominous phone call.
In that post (reproduced below), I’d thanked writer and Yale professor Michael J. Strambler for mentioning the Mill Institute in a magazine article titled The False Binary of the DEI Debate. The piece, which struck a liberal tone, walked readers through the pros and cons of DEI programs, concluding that regardless of one’s position on DEI, none of us should lose respect for those who hold different opinions."
https://quillette.com/2025/05/16/is-the-university-of-austin-betraying-its-founding-principles/
#USA #DEI #Universities #HigherEd #Academia #UATX #Texas #FreedomOfExpression #FreedomOfSpeech
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Reactionary speech police in U.S. Academia: What else is new?
"That morning, I got onto what I thought was a casual call with a senior colleague, someone who spoke with me regularly in order to keep the university updated on Mill Institute activities. Once we were past the opening pleasantries, it immediately became clear that something was wrong.
My colleague told me that we needed to talk about a social-media post of mine that “had become a big problem.” I rarely post anything online, so I was confused about what he meant. Apparently, it had something to do with DEI, and had angered a major funder. “We’re trying to slow things down,” my colleague told me. I got the impression that he was upset about the message he was delivering.
I dimly recalled that I’d written something about DEI on LinkedIn. But I was still confused, because it had seemed like such an innocuous post (to me, anyway); and I couldn’t imagine how it would upset anyone in the UATX community, let alone lead to this ominous phone call.
In that post (reproduced below), I’d thanked writer and Yale professor Michael J. Strambler for mentioning the Mill Institute in a magazine article titled The False Binary of the DEI Debate. The piece, which struck a liberal tone, walked readers through the pros and cons of DEI programs, concluding that regardless of one’s position on DEI, none of us should lose respect for those who hold different opinions."
https://quillette.com/2025/05/16/is-the-university-of-austin-betraying-its-founding-principles/
#USA #DEI #Universities #HigherEd #Academia #UATX #Texas #FreedomOfExpression #FreedomOfSpeech
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Reactionary speech police in U.S. Academia: What else is new?
"That morning, I got onto what I thought was a casual call with a senior colleague, someone who spoke with me regularly in order to keep the university updated on Mill Institute activities. Once we were past the opening pleasantries, it immediately became clear that something was wrong.
My colleague told me that we needed to talk about a social-media post of mine that “had become a big problem.” I rarely post anything online, so I was confused about what he meant. Apparently, it had something to do with DEI, and had angered a major funder. “We’re trying to slow things down,” my colleague told me. I got the impression that he was upset about the message he was delivering.
I dimly recalled that I’d written something about DEI on LinkedIn. But I was still confused, because it had seemed like such an innocuous post (to me, anyway); and I couldn’t imagine how it would upset anyone in the UATX community, let alone lead to this ominous phone call.
In that post (reproduced below), I’d thanked writer and Yale professor Michael J. Strambler for mentioning the Mill Institute in a magazine article titled The False Binary of the DEI Debate. The piece, which struck a liberal tone, walked readers through the pros and cons of DEI programs, concluding that regardless of one’s position on DEI, none of us should lose respect for those who hold different opinions."
https://quillette.com/2025/05/16/is-the-university-of-austin-betraying-its-founding-principles/
#USA #DEI #Universities #HigherEd #Academia #UATX #Texas #FreedomOfExpression #FreedomOfSpeech
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Reactionary speech police in U.S. Academia: What else is new?
"That morning, I got onto what I thought was a casual call with a senior colleague, someone who spoke with me regularly in order to keep the university updated on Mill Institute activities. Once we were past the opening pleasantries, it immediately became clear that something was wrong.
My colleague told me that we needed to talk about a social-media post of mine that “had become a big problem.” I rarely post anything online, so I was confused about what he meant. Apparently, it had something to do with DEI, and had angered a major funder. “We’re trying to slow things down,” my colleague told me. I got the impression that he was upset about the message he was delivering.
I dimly recalled that I’d written something about DEI on LinkedIn. But I was still confused, because it had seemed like such an innocuous post (to me, anyway); and I couldn’t imagine how it would upset anyone in the UATX community, let alone lead to this ominous phone call.
In that post (reproduced below), I’d thanked writer and Yale professor Michael J. Strambler for mentioning the Mill Institute in a magazine article titled The False Binary of the DEI Debate. The piece, which struck a liberal tone, walked readers through the pros and cons of DEI programs, concluding that regardless of one’s position on DEI, none of us should lose respect for those who hold different opinions."
https://quillette.com/2025/05/16/is-the-university-of-austin-betraying-its-founding-principles/
#USA #DEI #Universities #HigherEd #Academia #UATX #Texas #FreedomOfExpression #FreedomOfSpeech
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Sadly but not surprisingly, the University of Austin has turned out to be nothing but a culture war vehicle for US conservatives.
https://quillette.com/2025/05/16/is-the-university-of-austin-betraying-its-founding-principles/
#UniversityOfAustin #Texas #HigherEducation #Universities #UATX
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Sadly but not surprisingly, the University of Austin has turned out to be nothing but a culture war vehicle for US conservatives.
https://quillette.com/2025/05/16/is-the-university-of-austin-betraying-its-founding-principles/
#UniversityOfAustin #Texas #HigherEducation #Universities #UATX
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Sadly but not surprisingly, the University of Austin has turned out to be nothing but a culture war vehicle for US conservatives.
https://quillette.com/2025/05/16/is-the-university-of-austin-betraying-its-founding-principles/
#UniversityOfAustin #Texas #HigherEducation #Universities #UATX
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Sadly but not surprisingly, the University of Austin has turned out to be nothing but a culture war vehicle for US conservatives.
https://quillette.com/2025/05/16/is-the-university-of-austin-betraying-its-founding-principles/
#UniversityOfAustin #Texas #HigherEducation #Universities #UATX
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Sadly but not surprisingly, the University of Austin has turned out to be nothing but a culture war vehicle for US conservatives.
https://quillette.com/2025/05/16/is-the-university-of-austin-betraying-its-founding-principles/
#UniversityOfAustin #Texas #HigherEducation #Universities #UATX
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"The Pursuit of Truth" only when it conveniently enables us to suppress speech we don't like.
How a Free-Speech University Sidles Up to Orbán’s Strongman Rule
Bari Weiss’s University of Austin, touted as a haven for free academic inquiry, has a dozen scholars and officials with ties to Hungary’s speech-suppressing regime
#Education #Politics #FreedomOfSpeech #Academia #AcademicFreedom #UATX #Hungary #Orban
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"The Pursuit of Truth" only when it conveniently enables us to suppress speech we don't like.
How a Free-Speech University Sidles Up to Orbán’s Strongman Rule
Bari Weiss’s University of Austin, touted as a haven for free academic inquiry, has a dozen scholars and officials with ties to Hungary’s speech-suppressing regime
#Education #Politics #FreedomOfSpeech #Academia #AcademicFreedom #UATX #Hungary #Orban
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"The Pursuit of Truth" only when it conveniently enables us to suppress speech we don't like.
How a Free-Speech University Sidles Up to Orbán’s Strongman Rule
Bari Weiss’s University of Austin, touted as a haven for free academic inquiry, has a dozen scholars and officials with ties to Hungary’s speech-suppressing regime
#Education #Politics #FreedomOfSpeech #Academia #AcademicFreedom #UATX #Hungary #Orban
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"The Pursuit of Truth" only when it conveniently enables us to suppress speech we don't like.
How a Free-Speech University Sidles Up to Orbán’s Strongman Rule
Bari Weiss’s University of Austin, touted as a haven for free academic inquiry, has a dozen scholars and officials with ties to Hungary’s speech-suppressing regime
#Education #Politics #FreedomOfSpeech #Academia #AcademicFreedom #UATX #Hungary #Orban
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"The Pursuit of Truth" only when it conveniently enables us to suppress speech we don't like.
How a Free-Speech University Sidles Up to Orbán’s Strongman Rule
Bari Weiss’s University of Austin, touted as a haven for free academic inquiry, has a dozen scholars and officials with ties to Hungary’s speech-suppressing regime
#Education #Politics #FreedomOfSpeech #Academia #AcademicFreedom #UATX #Hungary #Orban
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Bitcoin firm, Texas university partner for $5M endowment fund - Bitcoin financial services firm and UATX plan to raise $5 million to inv... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/unchained-university-austin-partner-launch-5m-bitcoin-endowment-fund #alternativefinancialmodels #bitcoinendowmentfund #universityofaustin #custodysolutions #cryptoeducation #highereducation #josephkelly #unchained #uatx
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Bitcoin firm, Texas university partner for $5M endowment fund - Bitcoin financial services firm and UATX plan to raise $5 million to inv... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/unchained-university-austin-partner-launch-5m-bitcoin-endowment-fund #alternativefinancialmodels #bitcoinendowmentfund #universityofaustin #custodysolutions #cryptoeducation #highereducation #josephkelly #unchained #uatx
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Bitcoin firm, Texas university partner for $5M endowment fund - Bitcoin financial services firm and UATX plan to raise $5 million to inv... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/unchained-university-austin-partner-launch-5m-bitcoin-endowment-fund #alternativefinancialmodels #bitcoinendowmentfund #universityofaustin #custodysolutions #cryptoeducation #highereducation #josephkelly #unchained #uatx
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Bitcoin firm, Texas university partner for $5M endowment fund - Bitcoin financial services firm and UATX plan to raise $5 million to inv... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/unchained-university-austin-partner-launch-5m-bitcoin-endowment-fund #alternativefinancialmodels #bitcoinendowmentfund #universityofaustin #custodysolutions #cryptoeducation #highereducation #josephkelly #unchained #uatx
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Their servers are getting hammered, but this is a wild read (I've linked the Archive.org mirror). Ever wonder what that nutjobbery University of Austin ended up looking like?
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Their servers are getting hammered, but this is a wild read (I've linked the Archive.org mirror). Ever wonder what that nutjobbery University of Austin ended up looking like?
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Their servers are getting hammered, but this is a wild read (I've linked the Archive.org mirror). Ever wonder what that nutjobbery University of Austin ended up looking like?
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Their servers are getting hammered, but this is a wild read (I've linked the Archive.org mirror). Ever wonder what that nutjobbery University of Austin ended up looking like?
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Their servers are getting hammered, but this is a wild read (I've linked the Archive.org mirror). Ever wonder what that nutjobbery University of Austin ended up looking like?
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CW: Fulminating about "University" of Austin
Nauseated, but not surprised, to see the Last Principled Conservative, #GeorgeWill, in #WaPo shamelessly touting new school for right wing pundits and grifters, University of Austin. #UATX
Something smells off here. This is a little too tidy: he's angling for a gig, I think.
But I expect the rug pull (surely that notion is not confined to crypto?) -- long before he gets a teaching post.
(paywalled) https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/16/university-of-austin-intellectual-diversity/
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CW: Fulminating about "University" of Austin
Nauseated, but not surprised, to see the Last Principled Conservative, #GeorgeWill, in #WaPo shamelessly touting new school for right wing pundits and grifters, University of Austin. #UATX
Something smells off here. This is a little too tidy: he's angling for a gig, I think.
But I expect the rug pull (surely that notion is not confined to crypto?) -- long before he gets a teaching post.
(paywalled) https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/16/university-of-austin-intellectual-diversity/
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CW: Fulminating about "University" of Austin
Nauseated, but not surprised, to see the Last Principled Conservative, #GeorgeWill, in #WaPo shamelessly touting new school for right wing pundits and grifters, University of Austin. #UATX
Something smells off here. This is a little too tidy: he's angling for a gig, I think.
But I expect the rug pull (surely that notion is not confined to crypto?) -- long before he gets a teaching post.
(paywalled) https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/16/university-of-austin-intellectual-diversity/