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Thank you #California Department of Education. We MUST #standup to the #felon #bully in the #WhiteHouse. #Columbia, #Penn, #Harvard take note. This is how you #OpposeFascism!
#education #DEI #opposeTyranny #government #USPolitics #defeatGOP #defendDemocracy #SaveTheRepublic #impeach #SaveDemocarcy
https://www.yahoo.com/news/california-defies-trump-order-certify-030935959.html
![In a letter to school district superintendents Friday, the California Department of Education, or CDE, defended the legality of DEI efforts.
"There is nothing in state or federal law ... that outlaws the broad concepts of 'diversity,' 'equity,' or 'inclusion,'" wrote Chief Deputy Supt. David Schapira in the letter to school districts, county education offices and charter schools.
CDE also sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Education about the decision not to comply — and said the federal request was vague.
"It is also unclear which specific programs or activities [the federal agency] seeks to regulate by this certification, although the request for certification references 'certain DEI practices' or 'illegal DEI.' It does not define such..."](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/328/342/917/078/925/original/a3ce01933de9bb3b.png "In a letter to school district superintendents Friday, the California Department of Education, or CDE, defended the legality of DEI efforts.
\"There is nothing in state or federal law ... that outlaws the broad concepts of 'diversity,' 'equity,' or 'inclusion,'\" wrote Chief Deputy Supt. David Schapira in the letter to school districts, county education offices and charter schools.
CDE also sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Education about the decision not to comply — and said the federal request was vague.
\"It is also unclear which specific programs or activities [the federal agency] seeks to regulate by this certification, although the request for certification references 'certain DEI practices' or 'illegal DEI.' It does not define such...\"")
"If this becomes a pattern — the Trump administration threatens to withhold funding to institutions that don’t match its position on culture war issues — this would speak volumes about the state of America’s colleges and universities. They say they’re graduating irreverent rebels who are ready to change society. Yet they’re willing to bend to the will of the president?
One way for universities to stand on principle would be to tap into their endowments. Elite colleges are sitting on massive pots of money.
In Penn’s case, that endowment is about $22 billion.
In Columbia’s case, that endowment is nearly $15 billion.
These funds could easily be used to buttress any federal funding that the administration is using as leverage over these schools. They don’t have to simply comply. They have more than enough money to weather the storm for four years.
Does that mean that there are no legitimate debates about transgender athletes or protests over the Middle East conflict? Absolutely not. I think both of these highly contentious issues have plenty of nuance to them.
But if these colleges and universities decide to let the threat of federal funding decide these debates for them, it would prove that they’re far from the bold, reformist institutions they portray themselves as. They’re just a bunch of conformists, worried about their prestige and paychecks, after all."
https://www.theamericansaga.com/p/if-elite-universities-really-oppose
The American Saga · If Elite Universities Really Oppose Trump's Crackdowns, They Should Put Their Money Where Their Mouths Are
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[A #Trump admin ofcl said]…cuts would be made to federal funding that #Penn receives from #DOD & #HHS.
…On Feb 6, the #UnitedStates Dept of #Education launched an investigation into Penn for Title IX violations for allowing 2022 College graduate & #transgender woman Lia Thomas to represent Penn women’s swimming & diving during the 2021-22 NCAA swimming season. Shortly after, the NCAA changed its policy to align w/the order.
FFS
#Trump admin freezes $175 million in federal funding to #Penn
"This is just a taste of what could be coming down the pipe for Penn, one snr Trump admin ofcl told FauxNews.
“The official said that the decision to cut funding was made because Penn ‘infamously permitted a male to compete on its women’s swimming team.’”
This is straight up illegal — a violation of Title VI of the #CivilRights Act & the Administrative Procedure Act.
#law #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ
https://www.thedp.com/article/2025/03/penn-trump-freezes-federal-funding-sports
www.thedp.comTrump administration freezes $175 million in federal funding to PennAccording to a White House tweet, Wednesday's decision is a result of Penn's
#LuigiMangione, now arrested suspect in #UnitedHealth CEO murder is a 2020 #Penn graduate, the Ivy #AlmaMater of #DJT as well. Mangione's now deleted campus activities are discussed by student journalists in school's #DailyPennsylvanian newspaper.
http://www.thedp.com/article/2024/12/penn-luigi-mangione-united-healthcare-ceo-killing
www.thedp.comWho is Luigi Mangione? Penn alum ID'd as person of interest in UnitedHealthcare CEO murderPolice held Mangione for questioning throughout the morning, and the NYPD identified Mangione as the department’s person of interest in “brazen targeted murder” of Thompson at a press conference around 1:40 p.m.
Yisrael Chai ✡︎ PART 2:
Ahead of the ruling against #UCLA, stating #Jews cannot be barred from parts of campus, watch this video from
#penn #university
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A group flashes strobe lights in a #Jewish student's eyes saying, "If you know what’s good for you, you’ll get out of here” and “Hope you have a good doctor."
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From a statement of the AAUP—Penn Executive Committee on Penn Libraries United:
https://aaup-penn.org/statement-of-the-aaup-penn-executive-committee-on-penn-libraries-united/
Seen on today's tour of the @royalsociety, the charter book with the signatures of Sir Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, and #Penn's founder Benjamin Franklin. Humbled to be signing this tomorrow... https://pic.x.com/tgdpxqqf2bhttps://pic.x.com/tgdpxqqf2bhttps://pic.x.com/tgdpxqqf2b
On June 21, 2024, librarians, curators, developers, and other staff at the Penn Libraries delivered a letter to the Vice Provost/Director of the Penn Libraries announcing that they are unionizing as Penn Libraries United (PLU)
pennlibrariesunited.github.ioPress releasePress release on Penn Libraries United
Deescalation seems to be working at #Penn's #Gaza solidarity encampment, though university police continue to issue advisories.
After university and city cops were out in major numbers this morning, "there has been a notable decrease in the number of police and University administrators present," according to the Daily Pennsylvanian at 2:45 EDT.
www.thedp.comLIVE UPDATES: Tensions surrounding Penn's pro-Palestinian encampment escalate on day eightSeveral students have received disciplinary hearing notices, and students previously reported threats from Penn's administration that the encampment would be cleared on Wednesday.
How the Human Brain Recognizes Patterns Simultaneously at Varying Timescales https://researchinenglish.com/article/2024.1/how-the-human-brain-recognizes-patterns-at-varying-l6xtcorl?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
researchinenglish.comHow the Human Brain Recognizes Patterns Simultaneously at Varying TimescalesNew research from the University of Pennsylvania suggests that the human brain can simultaneously grasp and anticipate both fast and slow patterns, chal...
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11 months earlier, there was no campaign to remove a white male University President on #plagiarism: https://social.coop/@eric/109893277642535577
"For this campaign to work, they needed mainstream media to support them. And the media obliged. All in all, it has been a very successful couple of weeks for bad-faith attacks on higher education. In just 10 days, the New York Times published 13 pieces about the President of one university in the aftermath of both the hearings and the plagiarism allegations.
"Is that a lot? To provide a comparison, we would need a benchmark of a university president accused of academic misconduct at a very prestigious institution. As it turns out, Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne faced more serious accusations of academic misconduct involving data manipulation. A formal investigation was announced in November of 2022, and he was forced to resign in July of 2023. So, how many articles did the Times write about the topic prior to his resignation? Zero. And zero is probably the right number, because this is not national news until an actual resignation. But that is not the standard being applied to Gay, because the campaign is not about academic misconduct."
Don Moynihan (22 Dec 2023) https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-campaign-to-remove-the-president
social.coopEric Maugendre (@eric@social.coop)"In 2009, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, then a top executive at the biotechnology company #Genentech, was the primary author of a #scientific paper published in the prestigious journal Nature that claimed to have found the potential cause for brain degeneration in #Alzheimer’s patients.
[…] Neither a correction nor a retraction was issued, and the paper stands to this day."
Impressive investigation by #TheoBaker: https://stanforddaily.com/2023/02/17/internal-review-found-falsified-data-in-stanford-presidents-alzheimers-research-colleagues-allege/ #medicines #authorship #science #historyOfScience #ethics 🧶
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@jmccyoung. Echoes of what #MarcRowan is doing at #Penn. I would like to know what his position is on #law #professor #AmyWax.
#Penn's Jewish a capella group, the Shabbatones performed at the #WhiteHouse
I love the song.)
X (formerly Twitter)Shelley Greenspan (@ShelleyGspan) on X.@Penn’s Jewish student a capella group, the Shabbatones, preformed at the @WhiteHouse today for Hanukkah.
A highlight was their beautiful rendition of Oseh Shalom, the Jewish prayer for peace. Chag Sameach 🕎
#US House Committee opens investigation into #Harvard, #Penn, #MIT after #antisemitism hearing
The panel said it believed the schools were not doing enough to address "rampant antisemitism" on their campuses.
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-777179#777179
The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com US opens investigation into US universities over antisemitism hearingsThe panel said it believed the schools were not doing enough to address "rampant antisemitism" on their campuses.
"A Race Against Time" | I comment on the #climatecrisis for #Penn @pennsas #Omnia magazine: https://omnia.sas.upenn.edu/issue/fall-winter-2023
