At #Harvard, a conflict had been building for weeks, as the #Trump admin’s Joint Task Force to Combat *Antisemitism* criticized the university for anti-Israel bias. On April 11, the task force sent a letter demanding that Harvard comply with a list of demands that ranged from hiring an outside monitor to police the #ideology of #professors & #students to barring #InternationalStudents “hostile to American values.”
#law #immigration #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #AbuseOfPower
Calling students & professors
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#ChildLabour #HumanRights #Derisque #Students #Professors #Universities
If you have time to read just one article today, please let it be this one:
"A Professor’s Final Gift to Her Students: Her Life Savings"
The End of #College Life
If they persist attacks on #universities will destroy a cornerstone of #American life.
Every year in #US, almost 20 million go to college, representing every race, ethnicity, and social class. This is college in #America—or has been for a long time.
#HigherEducation is in chaos, and #professors and administrators are sounding alarm. Few administrators talk about the risk in public, but they take a different tone in private.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2025/03/end-of-college-life/682241/
https://archive.ph/fTcGF
A Professor’s Final Gift to Her Students: Her Life Savings
Cris Hassold, an art history professor at New College of Florida for 50 years, left a mark on her 31 favorite students. “I think about her almost every day,” one said.
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/us/cris-hassold-professor-new-college-will.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Gk8.9_SF.AWtGfPJ_fVd9&smid=url-share
#ArtHistory #Academia #Bequests #Childfree #Professors
#Professors & #teaching assistants increasingly found themselves staring at essays filled with clunky, robotic phrasing that, though grammatically flawless, didn’t sound quite like a #college student — or even a human. 2½ years later, #students at large state #schools, the Ivies, liberal-arts schools in New England, #universities abroad, professional schools, & community colleges are relying on #AI to ease their way through every facet of their #education.
by Anna Peterson, a professor of religion at the University of #Florida.
“In the 3yrs since Ron #DeSantis set out to rid Florida’s #universities of #woke #ideology, my campus changed significantly. #Professors suddenly worried about what they could say & teach. Some started avoiding terms like '#racism.' One student recently told me that when someone used '#intersectional' in class, the instructor told her not to use that word.
2 #professors from #Rutgers University in #NJ went out on a limb to write a “mutual defense compact” for #BigTen schools.
The professors—1 teaches chemistry in Camden, the other psychology in Newark—said they were frustrated by #Trump’s abrupt cuts to #research #funding & its efforts to dictate #policy on some campuses.
They were also troubled by the lack of a unified response by #university leaders.
#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #HigherEducation
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/nyregion/rutgers-mdc-big-10.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=538E3356-8E4C-43C0-A26D-93CCA3B0137D
the most dangerous #vatniksoup #russianassets and such are not the average alex jones rabling crazy shit. the most dangerous of them are respected #professors and #diplomats with titles an positions in #US #universities, #science in big #tech, the #environmental movement, etc.
#professors #nolonger #undergraduates #extremely #difficult #assignment #Justifying #phdstudent #doctoratestudent #phd #doctorate #motivation #meme #memes #phdmotivation #phdmeme #phdmemes #phdlife #phdstudentlife #phdtroll #doctoratemotivation #doctoratememe #doctoratememes #doctoratelife #doctoratestudentlife #doctoratetroll
Canadian academics are being urged to avoid all nonessential travel to the U.S. amid the Trump administration's crackdown on research and education along with heightened fears of being turned away at the border. On Tuesday, the Canadian Association of University Teachers issued a travel advisory to its members that “strongly recommends” Canadian academic staff travel to the United States only if necessary. #academics #education #professors #travel #canada #us #trump https://globalnews.ca/news/11132827/us-travel-warning-canadian-academics/
"The target of the administration’s campaign is a stratum of society that’s sometimes called the #ProfessionalManagerialClass, or the #PMC, although there’s not one universal moniker that #MAGA applies to the group it is now crushing. That group includes society’s knowledge workers, its cognitive elite, the winners of the tournament that is the American meritocracy. It covers not only #lawyers, university administrators, and #professors, but also #consultants, investment #bankers, #scientists, #journalists, and other white-collar workers who have prospered in the information age.
Back in the 1990s, as the group began to emerge in its current form, the liberal economics commentator Robert Reich hailed its members as “symbolic analysts”—people who identify and solve problems by thinking through ideas rather than via physical labor. A decade later, the urbanist Richard Florida put forth an even more triumphalist term: the “#creativeclass.” That is, its members had the academic training to master the complexities of a globalized economy, the intellectual skills to conquer the digital world."
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/trump-waging-war-professional-class/682409/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3-h3gdyrK22tbt8Qkwl4sX4
#Irony: #Harvard #professors are suing, but not the #university administration?
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/apr/12/harvard-university-sues-trump-administration?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
📌 "As Wellesley College professors go on strike, students are faced with ‘a moral dilemma’"⤵️
🔗 https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/01/business/wellesley-college-faculty-strike/
🏷️ #Wellesley #College #Students #Professors #Strike #Labor #Union
The first professors are leaving the US! Last Friday the first popular philosophical professors decided to leave the US because "what we are seeing now is fascism." - Jason Stanley
Why #pennstate professor left academia?
Reasons #professors are leaving academia. #PhD #phdlife #phdjourney
#UniversityOfToronto hires three prominent Yale #professors worried about Trump
#Fascism scholar #JasonStanley and #historians #TimothySnyder and #MarciShore have taken jobs at the University of Toronto amid concerns about the second #Trump administration
by Allison Smith, Mar 26, 2025
"U.S. President Donald Trump’s reelection has spurred several high-profile Yale #professors to leave New Haven for jobs at the University of Toronto.
"Bestselling author Timothy Snyder and historian Marci Shore are on leave from Yale and joined UofT earlier this year.
"Snyder and Shore, who are married, will begin teaching courses at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy this fall.
"Shore told TorontoToday they plan to stay at UofT 'for the long-term.'
"Snyder is the New York Times bestselling author of #OnTyranny and The Road to #Unfreedom, and an outspoken critic of the #Trump administration.
"UofT began recruiting her and Snyder two years ago, Shore said, 'and we were seriously considering the offers long before the November 2024 presidential elections.'
"'Both Toronto and the Munk School were and are very attractive places unto themselves, even bracketing the American descent into fascism,' she said in an email.
"'All that said, yes, of course our #AmericanCatastrophe played a role in our final decision.'"
Rea more:
https://www.torontotoday.ca/local/education/university-toronto-hires-three-prominent-yale-professors-worried-about-trump-10433643
#UofT #Authoritarianism #BrainDrain #CharacteristicsOfFascism #USPol
Da says modern forms of govt rose w/the Industrial Revolution.Now #tech is changing, & the govt may too.
He says some friends compare it to China's Cultural Revolution
…1966–1976, Chinese Communist leader Mao Tse-tung led an assault on suspected capitalist sympathizers,closing #universities, sending #professors & #intellectuals to work in fields, #purging govt workers & encouraging supporters to harass or attack their elders. It was "the most chaotic period of modern #China," the professor says.
Who’s to blame?
#Females ? #Transgenders ? #Homos ? #BlackPeople ? #Migrants ? #ANTIFA ? Soros ? #Biden ? #Clinton ? #Zelensky ? #Kallas ? #Milley ? #Pelosi ? #JackSmith #Kamala ? #Cheney ? #Schiff ? #PuertoRico ? #Mexico ? #FakeNews ? #CNN ? #ABC ? #CBS ? #TheNewYorkTimes ? #WashingtonPost ? #Researchers ? #Professors ? #USAID ? #FEMA ? #NATO ? #Windmills ? #PaperStraws ? #Maahanmuutto ?
https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/Vz2em4/misstankt-sabotage-pa-gotland-sapo-bekraftar-incident
