All the trustees on that committee: Goldman, Merrill Lynch, Carrick Capital, Schoenfeld Asset Management, Bankers Trust, venture capital. That’s it: 100% Wall Street.

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Trustees Chair Raghavendran “denied the Faculty Senate’s request to change the composition of the cmte searching for Penn’s next president… The cmte’s membership includes six trustees, a trustee emerita, + two profs. Only two women were tapped, both of them trustees.”

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“Over the summer, Rutgers University quietly paid at least $1.5 million for a powerful surveillance analytics system that can recognize faces, read license plates and identify objects…”

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this year alone: UIC paid $11.6M to Volt AI for surveillance data analysis, $4.4M to Allied Universal Security ON TOP of UIC PD budget, over $100K on flock cameras while enforcing hiring freezes+stonewalling on faculty contracts everywhere the same grift: $ for AI + cops, NO$ for education

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Funny, darkly funny!~!~!~ A haunted house where every room has a new Director of AI from the Teaching Excellence Center who asks how you're using AI in your assignments. @aaup.org @utaustinaaup.bsky.social @aaup-penn.bsky.social @aaupyale.org @wesleyanaaup.bsky.social @umn-tc-aaup.bsky.social

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