The Emeriti Association has created a new reading group for emeriti and retirees to discuss two articles each month on how authoritarian regimes globally have attempted to control universities and how universities, their faculties, and students respond. The meetings are scheduled for the first Tuesday of the month, 4 - 5 pm on Zoom. Archived articles may be found below. For more information, please contact Ellen Pasternack, epasternack@ucsb.edu
- January 13, 2026
- Introduction to "Universities Under Dictatorships" (ed. John Connelly, and Michael Grüttner, Penn State University Press, 2005)
- Conclusion to "Universities Under Dictatorships" (ed. John Connelly, and Michael Grüttner, Penn State University Press, 2005)
- "Trump’s DOJ Pressured Lawyers to ‘Find’ Evidence UCLA Had Illegally Tolerated Antisemitism" by By Katherine Mangan and Peter Elkind, December 12, 2025
- Times Investigation: "Ex-Trump DOJ lawyers say ‘fraudulent’ UC antisemitism probes led them to quit" By Jaweed Kaleem , December 13, 2025
- October 14, 2025:
- "How Authoritarians Target Universities" by Ruth Ben Ghiat and
- "Targeting higher education is an essential tool in the autocratic playbook" by Renée Rippberger, Rachel Beatty Riedl, and Jonathan Katz
- November 11, 2025:
- "Talking with Faculty Leaders About the Trump Assault on the University of California" by Professor Jessica Taft (CUCFA) and Professor Charmaine Chua (CUCFA)
- New Yorker - "Inside the Trump Assault on Higher Education" by Emma Green
- "The War on Higher Education" University of Buffalo School of Law, various participants
- December 9, 2025:
