"It is never appropriate to call in armed police to arrest peaceful student demonstrators....
The faculty of Columbia University has every right – and, in my view, a duty – to protect peaceful free expression at #Columbia with a vote of no confidence in Shafik’s leadership and seek to have her presidency terminated"
“It was clear that there was no support for the student in terms of giving her a platform and investing in measures that would need to be taken to ensure that there was a secure commencement for her and everybody else”...
University protests against Israel's war in Gaza are spreading across the U.S. After multiple Columbia University students were arrested last week for refusing to leave an encampment, arrests were made at Yale University today.
Daily Beast has a recap of what's happening, including new protests at New York University and the University of Michigan: https://flip.it/2MJY.s
For more stories on the Mideast crisis, follow @israel
A grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation will further the work of the Open Source Program Office (#OSPO) at UC Santa Cruz (@ucsc) work with UC partners at Berkeley, Davis, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and San Diego to promote #OpenSource research, teaching, and public service.
The documentary "Berkeley in the Sixties" is a must-watch for how student activism revulsed the rich white supremacists in this country, making them slash education funding.
And here's a piece I wrote on why universities are reluctant to run their own Mastodon servers (recently updated with information on referrer tracking and social media platform support)
"A woman in a Keffiyeh shouted at a pro-Israel activist, 'We are Hamas,' outside Columbia on Wednesday. 'We're all Hamas,' she said at the counter-protesters that had rallied outside the university."
How the only tenure-track Black faculty member at Texas A&M University’s School of Nursing was targeted for harassment by white anti-DEI conservatives which led to her decision to leave.
Open letter from North American academics condemning scholasticide in #Gaza
If that's you, please consider signing
"“[T]hree university presidents have been killed in the Israeli attacks, along with more than 95 university deans and professors [...] Meanwhile, 88,000 students have been deprived of receiving their university education"
Day 8 of Western University teaching assistants striking.
Students and professors alike have arrived late to exams; exams started late due to unqualified proctors mishandling exam setups; many completed exams remain ungraded.
Western has finally reached out to PSAC 610 to return to the bargaining table.
"For Columbia’s president, Nemat Shafik, a hearing on antisemitism went relatively well. But on campus, intense protests suggest a difficult road ahead for the university."
Statement by #USCAAUP on the #USC administration's decision to cancel 2024 valedictorian Tabassum's commencement speech:
"By casting aside the achievements and USC’s own recognition of such an acclaimed student, the USC administration does not merely create a chilling effect on the academic freedom of the entire USC community. It actively strangles it."
Never a dull moment: my employer has just canceled the valedictorian's commencement speech, seemingly because they are afraid she will say something about human rights in #Gaza
"a swarm of on- and off-campus groups attacked Tabassum. They targeted her minor, resistance to genocide, as well as her pro-Palestinian views and “likes” expressed through her Instagram account."
No one believes us, but here it is again: at least in Canada, humanities grads make more money three years out than social and physical & life science grads.
My pitch to the parents of potential students: We're not the worst! Just imagine your kids' future if they studied psychology or physics.