ANU open to firing staff over 'wildly inappropriate behaviour'
By James Tugwell
Australian National University Vice-Chancellor Genevieve Bell confirms an external investigator will review allegations of "wildly inappropriate behaviour" within the College of Health and Medicine.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-28/anu-medical-college-allegations-to-be-investigated/105345824
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday ordered a suspension of student visa processing as President Donald Trump's administration ramps up vetting of their social media, according to an internal cable. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/05/28/world/politics/student-visa-trump-social-media-vetting/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #us #donaldtrump #republicans #universities #harvard #marcorubio #immigration
Scott Pelley commencement speech, Wake Forest Univ NC https://commencement.news.wfu.edu/2020s/c2025/2025-scott-pelley/ "Why attack #universities? Why attack #journalism? Because #ignorance works for #power. 1st make #truth seekers live in fear. Sue #journalists. For nothing. Then send masked agents to abduct a college student, a writer of her college paper who supported Palestinian rights, and send her to a prison in Louisiana charge her with nothing. Then, move to destroy law firms that stand up for the rights of others.#freespeech
https://www.europesays.com/2113125/ Fed Chair Jerome Powell urges Princeton grads to protect US democracy #Branch #colleges #CollegesU0026Universities #court #Economy #Executive #ExecutiveBranch #federal #FederalReserveSystem #Government #Ivy #IvyLeague #league #Negative #of #Overall #OverallNegative #Politics #princeton #PrincetonUniversity #réserve #States #Supreme #SupremeCourtOfTheUnitedStates #system #the #u0026 #United #universities #university
In order to replace #Pocket (shut down by #Mozilla ) I now test - at least for #academic purposes - #BibSonomy : created and managed by three #German #universities .It looks a bit old fashion but the #browser extensions work well and, in addition to #bookmark , #tag and/or share #links ,one can also upload #documents in different formats. It's free and non-profit.
"Conservatives have stoked resentment of 'liberal eggheads' for decades, but when their children get sick, they will still want to have access to the best medical schools; no parents wants their kids, away at college, to become pawns – as the Harvard Crimson put it – in political games and subject to an administration’s caprice. And even JD Vance is unlikely to send his offspring to Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest (no disrespect!)."
"It is naive to think that this is all primarily a Harvard problem, or even only a challenge to higher education. Noem’s letter to Harvard makes clear that Trump and his sycophants will weaponize the state against anyone who incurs their displeasure."
Jan-Werner Müller
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #AntiIntellectualism #Harvard #universities #WhiteChristianNationalism
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Jan-Werner Müller
"As Republicans embraced economic individualism and religion, they also embraced anti-intellectualism. Their version was not unlike that of the early colonists, in which rural Americans, especially those in the West, claimed their evangelical religion made them more worthy than the urban Americans in the East who far outnumbered them."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #AntiIntellectualism #Harvard #universities #WhiteChristianNationalism
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Trump threatens Harvard with loss of $4.6b in grant funding
The US president said on Truth Social that billions in previously awarded grants would instead go to trade schools.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-27/trump-vows-to-win-battle-with-harvard/105339994
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/may-24-2025
"While President Donald J. Trump might well have his own reasons for hating a university famous for its brain power, the anti-intellectual impulse behind Trump’s attacks on higher education has a long history in the United States."
“Do #MAGA types understand how much damage their campaign against #universities will do to #American prosperity and power? Probably not. But I suspect that it wouldn’t matter if they did.” open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug... #Harvard #Boston
The Economic Consequences of D...
"Things have changed. Ted Gioia describes modern students as checked-out, phone-addicted zombies. Troy Jollimore writes, “I once believed my students and I were in this together, engaged in a shared intellectual pursuit. That faith has been obliterated over the past few semesters.” Faculty have seen a stunning level of disconnection […] it is getting harder and harder and we don’t know what to do."
https://hilariusbookbinder.substack.com/p/the-average-college-student-today
Via #AstralCodexTen
https://www.europesays.com/2108246/ Trump wants ‘names and countries’ of Harvard’s international students #Barack #BarackObama #Branch #colleges #CollegesU0026Universities #congress #Donald #DonaldTrump #Executive #ExecutiveBranch #Harvard #HarvardUniversity #Immigration #Ivy #IvyLeague #league #Negative #obama #Overall #OverallNegative #Politics #trump #U.S. #U.S.Congress #u0026 #universities #university #Visa #VisaU0026Immigration
we can only hope so!
Trump’s Angry New Attack on Harvard Is About to Blow Up in His Face -- by stiffening institutional resistance to his dumbassery
#lawless #Harvard #resistance #protest #academics #universities https://newrepublic.com/article/195664/trump-angry-new-attack-harvard-already-blowing-face
Harvard University's links to China have become a liability as the Trump administration levels accusations that its campus is plagued by Beijing-backed influence operations. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/05/24/asia-pacific/society/harvard-china-ties-focus/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #society #harvarduniversity #universities #china #us #uschinarelations
Harvard University won a temporary court order blocking the Trump administration from enforcing a ban on international students, a win in a legal fight with broad implications for higher education in the U.S. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/05/24/world/society/harvard-temporary-block-trump-foreign-students-ban/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #society #harvard #universities #immigration #us #donaldtrump
"The National Science Foundation, which funds much of the fundamental scientific research at American universities, is awarding new grants at the slowest pace in at least 35 years.
The funding decreases touch virtually every area of science — extending far beyond the diversity programs and other “woke” targets that the Trump administration says it wants to cut.
That means less support for early-stage research that underpins future technological advancements — and American competitiveness — in areas like computer science and engineering; physics and chemistry; climate science and weather forecasting; and materials and manufacturing innovations.
It also means less money for undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and early-career professors — potentially disrupting the nation’s future scientific work force.
Economists have warned that cutting federal funding for scientific research could, in the long run, damage the U.S. economy by an amount equivalent to a major recession."
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/05/22/upshot/nsf-grants-trump-cuts.html
@dbattistella I hope they are smart enough to know that China... well isn't so keen on Free Speech(or thinking) either.
On the other hand, we as #EUrope really have to get our shit together if we want to compete.
#Harvard asking for money is really off-the-charts level grifting. As of June 30, 2024, the Harvard endowment was valued at around $53.2 billion. It is the largest academic endowment in the world, and the highest in the school's history. Harvard does not need anyone's money!
Meanwhile...
