The Trump administration is restoring the previously terminated legal statuses of hundreds of foreign students while it develops a policy for potentially ending them in the future. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/26/world/society/trump-foreign-students-legal-status/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #society #universities #education #schools #donaldtrump #us
#Trump upends #DOJ's #CivilRightsDivision, sparking 'bloodbath' in senior ranks
Trump's hand-picked head of the division has outlined priorities that are dramatically at odds with the way past administrations have enforced #CivilRights law.
April 23, 2025, 7:29 PM EDT
By Ken Dilanian
Excerpt: "Founded in 1957 after the passage of the 20th century’s first major civil rights legislation, the Civil Rights Division has always been subject to the policy preferences of the president, and enforcement priorities tend to differ in Republican and Democratic administrations. But there is no precedent for the changes that have been made over the last three months, which are far more consequential than anything that occurred in Trump’s first term, current and former officials say.
" 'I was there almost 18 years, and what’s happening now is basically the opposite of what we’ve been doing,' said a veteran lawyer who recently left the department. 'In the first Trump administration, they engaged with us as attorneys. The political appointees were normal lawyers. Sometimes we persuaded them and sometimes they disagreed, but there was always a conversation about why and what the law required. That is not happening.'
"In the Biden administration, the Civil Rights Division convicted 180 police officers of violating people’s civil rights, according to Justice Department records. It also prosecuted a variety of high-profile hate crimes cases, including one against the Texas man who targeted Mexicans when he killed 23 people at a Walmart in El Paso and the Pennsylvania man who killed 11 congregants at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh.
"Among the many settlements over racial discrimination, the division secured reforms at Hawkins County Schools in Tennessee, where an investigation found that incidents of harassment — including a mock 'slave auction' to sell Black students to their white counterparts and a 'monkey of the month' campaign to ridicule Black students — created a racially hostile environment. On voting rights, the division successfully challenged an Arizona law requiring people registering to vote to list their birthplaces and provide proof of citizenship.
"Current and former employees say many of those enforcement actions are unimaginable under the new regime.
" 'They are withdrawing everything we’ve done and taking the opposite side on voting rights, for example,' said a recently departed Civil Division lawyer. 'This is not ‘Oh, we want to do more religion cases’ or ‘We don’t want to do creative redlining cases.’ This is abandoning everything that we have done in the past. They are actively anti-civil rights. This didn’t happen in Trump 1.'
"Dhillon took office April 7, but the changes had already been underway. So far the Civil Rights Division has suspended investigations of police abuse and launched probes into whether Los Angeles is violating people’s gun rights and whether American #universities are tolerating antisemitism. The division was also involved in the lawsuit filed last week accusing the state of #Maine of violating the law by allowing #TransgenderAthletes to participate on women’s sports teams."
#TrumpIsABully #TrumpIsARacist #Fascism #AmeriKKKa #USPol
#CharacteristicsOfFascism #TrumpIsAWhiteSupremacist #BlackLivesMatter
The #Trump administration of lunacy continues its quest to take the #USA back to the Dark Ages -- and again demonstrates zero understanding of #scholarship. Y'know, concepts like 'evidence', 'peer review', 'empiricism' (!?!?).
I guess I'm just astonished that so many US citizens are taking this insidious trolling lying down. I know many aren't. But some are. C'mon compadres, where is the 'Tea Party spirit'?!
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/health/nejm-prosecutor-letter.html #NEJM #research #universities
EA on International Media: The Awful 1st 100 Days of #Trump 2.0
#Authoritarian #Musk #Migrants #Tariffs #Universities #Economy #Ukraine #TrumpRussia
https://eaworldview.com/2025/04/trump-2-0-1st-3-awful-months/
#Trump vs. #Science
American research thrived under a patronage system that funnels congressionally approved dollars to #universities, #nationallabs and institutes. Knowledge factory employs tens of thousands of researchers, draws talent from around world and generates scientific breakthroughs and #NobelPrizes.
#Facts are #elite, facts are fungible, facts are false. And once nothing is true, anything can be true.
Now some American scientists are looking for the exits.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/briefing/trump-vs-science.html?unlocked_article_code=1.CU8.WYEi.mEpRKVfKPweK&smid=url-share
#Indiana #Republicans just executed a sudden takeover of #IndianaUniversity without any legislative debate.
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/25/indiana-lawmakers-indiana-university-control-mike-braun/83265418007/
"Over the course of 36 hours at the tail end of the three-month legislative session, Indiana lawmakers made significant policy changes that fundamentally alter how state universities conduct themselves. These changes ― among them, giving Gov. Mike Braun sole appointing power over Indiana University's board of trustees, subjecting tenured faculty to "productivity" quotas that could lead to termination, dissolving the decision-making power of faculty governance organizations ― were never the subject of a filed bill or amendment and saw no opportunity for public testimony."
In Indiana, the governor is Republican and both chambers of the legislature are controlled by Republicans.
Update. Faculty at the #OhioStateUniversity signed on to the Mutual Academic Defense Compact (#MADC).
https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/ohio-state-university/ohio-state-faculty-vote-to-join-big-ten-alliance-against-trump/
#Academia #Universities #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
@academicchatter
dear #USpol #science #university #universities.
I HAVE NO MORE PATIENCE FOR U GUYS.
you keep on housing russian assets and let them give talks about how europe should just befriend ruzzia.
makes me wonder just how deep the ruzzians are into you.
yeah, let's hear jeffrey sach, an economist with 0 professional authority on eastern europe about how eastern europeans should "just befriend #ruzzia."
why should i trust you on anything ever again?!
Ενδιαφέρον άρθρο για όσους ενδιαφέρονται για την χρήση της τεχνητής νοημοσύνης στην εκπαίδευση.
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" #Bullshit #universities: the future of automated #education
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Harry Frankfurt famously defined bullshit as speech characterized by a ‘lack of concern with truth, or an indifference to how things really are’ (Frankfurt 2002: 340; Frankfurt 2005). "
... https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-025-02340-8
"#Foreignstudents, we have about a million of them in the country right now. They contribute to the #economy if they stay here. There's a lot of Fortune 100 companies that began because of international students. If they become elites in their country, then we have pro-American elites. They also contribute financially to American #colleges and #universities. They're central to the business model."
The level of vandalism currently being inflicted on #academia within the #USA -- and on the concept of #scholarship more generally -- beggars belief. It feels like the vandalism is irreparable too; rebuilding what has been lost, or even persuading scholars who left in the #Trump exodus to return, is going to take decades. Within a few months the US has become an anti-intellectual paradise.
Major #Education Resource Set to Shut Down This Week
https://www.governing.com/policy/major-education-resource-set-to-shut-down-this-week
#DOGE #universities #ERIC
"The academic leaders vowed to resist Trump’s efforts for “retribution, censorship, or deportation.”
The statement was signed by the heads of numerous prominent universities, including Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yale University, and more."
https://truthout.org/articles/over-200-higher-education-institutions-pledge-to-resist-trump-attacks/
With #Cornell and #Yale Presidents signing onto the statement by the #American Association of #Colleges and #Universities opposing the autocratic #Trump restrictions on #AcademicFreedom , the only Ivy League school that has not joined the now 300+ signatories is Dartmouth College, which is more like a #fraternity masquerading as a #HigherEd institution anyway. #ChangeMyMind
https://www.cornellsun.com/article/2025/04/kotlikoff-joins-more-than-230-higher-education-leaders-in-signing-letter-against-trump-s-political-interference
#Resist. #DoNotComply and #DoNotCollaborateWithFascists in #USpol.
Thru The Pinard Podcast
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/thru-the-pinard-podcast/
#GreatAusPods #AusPods #Podcast #Podcasts #Podcasting #Podcasters #Australia #Education #Medicine #AlliedHealth #Pregnancy #Universities
This is what state-sponsored repression looks like on the receiving end. No need to read 1984 any more.
"Fearing Trump’s Visa Crackdown, College Students Race to Scrub Op-Eds. Students—particularly those without U.S. citizenship—are asking to have their names removed from articles for fear of backlash by immigration officials."
#politics #history #media #deportations #immigration #Trump #universities
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/trump-student-visas-newspaper-op-eds-61595294
#Trump targets #college #accreditation process in new executive order | CNN Politics
#colleges #university #universities
The #executiveorder asks the secretary of education to “hold higher education accreditors accountable including through denial, monitoring, suspension, or termination for poor performance or violations to the federal Civil Rights Act,” a White House official told CNN ahead of the signing.
@TheConversationUS #Universities are not businesses. Students are not widgets. #Education is not a commodity. #Truth is unchanging.
EA-Times Radio VideoCast: #Hegseth Threat to National Security; #Trump Threat to #Universities
https://eaworldview.com/2025/04/hegseth-threat-to-national-security-trumps-threat-to-universities/
In this rapid changing world open source #foss technology is key. In this blog post we reflect on the importance of #floss education and explain how #OS-SCi is helping #schools and #universities with open source #education and job #placements.
https://os-sci.com/blog/our-blog-posts-1/teaching-kids-open-source-technology-57
This is a good time to say “NO!”
There’s a letter floating around among #American #universities. It’s a good letter that expresses some commendable statements, but is a bit light on specific actions they’re going to take. They “reject the coercive use of public #researchfunding,” which is nice, but how?
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/04/23/this-is-a-good-time-to-say-no/
