Letter from Trump admin officials telling #Columbia to abandon any semblance of academic freedom, internal due process, etc.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12ogIcvdLniO9fYl2wyLVj4ON0Ke2rL0n/view
(attribution: shared on Bsky by Jameel Jaffer, Knight 1A Inst director at Columbia)
Reflecting on 5 years of pandemic/"post"-pandemic teaching...and still working on how to make #online discussions feel engaging and worthwhile! Here are my top three challenges facilitating online discussions - what are yours? #teachingonline #highered #onlineteaching
https://higheredpraxis.substack.com/p/tip-where-do-online-discussions-go
NASA, Yale, and Stanford Scientists Consider 'Scientific Exile,' French University Says. #Science #academia #HigherEd #HigherEducation #Research #AmericanCoup
Ex-CFPB ombudsman’s message to federal student loan borrowers: ‘Demand’ what you’re ‘legally entitled to’
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ex-cfpb-ombudsman-message-federal-200052816.html #USpol #HigherEd
As ICE Jails Palestinian Protester, Universities Must Commit to Academic Freedom
Universities may sow their own demise if they continue to aid the suppression of pro-Palestine campus movements.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/ice-palestinian-protester-columbia-mahmoud-khalil-gaza #Fascism #HigherEd #USpol
"But those new rules were reversed in January after nearly two dozen states sued the Biden administration to block separate parts of the measure aimed at protecting LGBTQ students from discrimination. In January, a federal judge struck down the changes, which tossed out the expanded protections for pregnant and parenting students, too."
Science thrives when knowledge is open! 
Check out this strategy for #OpenScience: integrating #FAIR & #CARE principles, responsible researcher assessment #DORA, and digital infrastructure for transparent research
@BarcelonaDORI:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15007508
Let's build a transparent, inclusive, and impactful research ecosystem together! Global impact begins locally!
"Protesters arrested during peaceful walkout at #Cornell University"
“The first protester, who spoke about Livni’s alleged war crimes, left peacefully when asked but was still arrested.”
The pandemic’s impact on #education runs deeper than an embrace of remote learning. New research shows growing mistrust of #teachers, reversing the praise they received during lockdowns. https://theconversation.com/5-ways-schools-have-shifted-in-5-years-since-the-covid-19-246449
#COVID19 #highered #edsky
“By these actions, by their willingness to scapegoat and vilify the pro-Palestine student movement, these institutions have invited their enemies in, becoming testing grounds for the authoritarianism that threatens our nation.”
https://truthout.org/articles/as-ice-jails-palestinian-protester-universities-must-commit-to-academic-freedom/
I wonder at what point Nazis decided it would be amusing to use accusations of anti-Semitism as the front for destroying higher ed?
Davis, Cal, UCSB, and UCSD are on their hit list.
H-Net is pleased to announce the creation of two new fellowship opportunities for network and reviews editors: H-Net Editor Project Fellowships and H-Net Editor Recognition Fellowships.
"Sacrificing the principles and independence of the University in the short-term hope of pacifying the administration will not work. By abandoning our most vulnerable and stigmatized colleagues, we would simply invite further threats and the eventual destruction of things that are worth fighting for."
Profs. Vincent Brown and Walter Johnson of the #Harvard History Department on standing up to #Trump
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/3/7/brown-johnson-harvard-trump-dei-aaup/
Sad – though not surprised – to see what was anticipated almost a decade ago is now the norm in some places.
https://manifold.umn.edu/projects/the-uberfication-of-the-university
According to the University and College Union, nearly two-thirds of essential tutorial teaching at Oxford is carried out by academics employed on precarious short-term contracts or paid by the hour in a manner akin to Uber-style gig economy work.
“They compared our work to bedroom fitters, security guards and cleaners, and I kept thinking: ‘Yes, and all those people have no chance of fighting the gig economy, but we do.’”
Hey folks, I'm adding this pinned post on advice from @FediTips
(whom I recommend you follow)
My interests are #HigherEd, #education in general, #SciFi, how people network through #SocialMedia (less the biz/marketing stuff, though I make exceptions).
I'm more active on Bluesky, tbh. I'm @ harmonygritz.bsky.social. You'll find my longtime "rainbow" profile image from Twitter/X there.
Here we go —> Recently graduated #Columbia pro-#Palestine organizer Mahmoud Khalil gets grabbed by feds in his university-owned apartment.
#FreePalestine #FuckColumbia
#Gaza #GazaGenocide
#HigherEd #Academia
#Fascism #FightFascism
#mazeldon #jewdiverse
#AntizionismIsNotAntisemitism
#FreeMahmoudKhalil
https://bsky.app/profile/jameeljaffer.bsky.social/post/3ljxatjpwr22u
Cornell researchers used marine spatial planning, a method that evaluates the use of ocean space and the needs of the ocean’s users, to map areas off the northeastern U.S..
The researchers used publicly available geographic information system data and #opensource software to evaluate more than 7,000 locations, identifying 52 feasible aqua-farming sites off the coast of Maine.
#OpenScience #OpenResearch #EdTech #HigherEducation
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/02/researchers-find-sweet-spot-wave-powered-fish-farms
Research software produced at University of Twente, Netherlands, will be globally available and reusable through a new #opensource sharing policy.
Open sourcing research software speeds up research time considerably and can help save money.
