"The Promise of American Higher Education"
https://www.harvard.edu/president/news/2025/the-promise-of-american-higher-education/ via Alan Garber / #Harvard #HigherEd #HigherEducation
#NYT: State Department Halts Interviews Abroad for Student and Exchange Visas
He is going to choke the universities and bleed them dry. And set the country back significantly in so many ways.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/us/politics/trump-student-visas-interviews.html
#NorthCarolina #HigherEd #BlackHistory #art
'Back in December 2024, a mural was installed in the Dean’s office suite at the College of Arts and Sciences featuring JoAnne Smart and Bettye Tillman, the first two African American students at UNCG, formerly known as the Woman’s College (WC). '
Looks like anyone wanting to study in the US will have their social media scrutinized.
God forbid you say anything in support of #Palestine, and whose to say what will be flagged next to get you labeled a terrorist and your student visa application revoked.
Disusding international students, which many colleges rely on to stay solvent, is another solid blow in the fight against #HigherEd and critical thinking.
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/27/student-visas-trump-social-media
The Associated Students of the University of California, Riverside (ASUCR), on Wednesday held a Senate meeting to fill three open ASUCR positions, Non-traditional Student Director, International Student Director, Elections Director and President Pro-Tempore (PPT), through special elections.
https://www.highlandernews.org/93848/asucr-fills-vacant-positions-in-special-elections/ #UCRiverside #StudentGovernment #HigherEd
Critical Reflection, Week 2: Many of us in #Education share foundational beliefs about #teaching & #learning even if we rarely say them out loud, they shape most of our decision-making. What are yours?
#criticalreflection
#highered #facultydevelopment @academicchatter #academicchatter
Breaking: College becomes first-ever AI conversation simulator where humans pay to watch chatbots do homework while other chatbots grade it! For just $50,000/year, you too can observe artificial intelligence talking to itself. Bonus: No critical thinking required!
> How will Trump’s tariff policies impact college students? https://www.highereddive.com/news/tariffs-college-students-affordability-donald-trump/748842/
Well, if the poor American schmucks can't afford college, I am sure #Gringoville can import a few college educated folks on visas from abroad. Oh, they don't want to come here? Can't imagine why.
Excellent analysis by @adamserwer “By destroying knowledge, Trumpists…would annihilate some of the most effective systems for aggregating, accumulating, and applying human knowledge that have ever existed.”https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/trump-defund-schools-research-republicans/682742/ #censorship #HigherEd #DataScience #knowledge #research #studies
@small_cypress this looks fantastic; thanks for sharing. What follows isn’t aimed at you but at Canadian #highered: how do we ask students to build publicly available learning tools/exhibitions while complying w FIPPA’s rules requiring use of #Canada-based servers? I fully support #FIPPA, to be clear, particularly given ongoing events south of the border, but using only a LMS for student work forces us into walled gardens that frames all student work as a performance for credit.
Blocked from Harvard, the world's star students weigh staying in Asia and Europe https://www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/harvard-international-student-ban-trump-china-europe-rcna209044
FTA: " If President Donald Trump doesn’t want international students at Harvard, there are plenty of foreign governments and universities happy to take them..." and they won't suddenly deport you to an El Salvadoran gulag.
That sums it up.
The Trump regime is “… now undertaking—a deliberate destruction of education, science, and history …”
#fascism #knowledge #truth #highered #research #libraries #libraryofcongress #censorship #FDA #CDC #NASA #NOAA #NWS #EPA #NPR #CPB #climatechange
#NSF #NIH #Smithsonian #DEI #civilrights
#HigherEd #BlackHistory #HBCU #Getty #photography #ephemera
'Funded by Getty Images’ HBCU Grants Program, which started in 2021 with four institutions, the new partnership aims to digitize HBCU archival materials ranging from photos to student newspapers to course catalogs. Getty and Ancestry are working with 10 HBCUs—and counting—to create searchable digital archives for each institution, accessible to students and staff on Ancestry’s website.'
Make no mistake: if @harvard.edu falls, so does the autonomy of American academia.
#StandWithHarvard #AcademicFreedom #HigherEd #USPol #Democracy #ResearchSky #AcademicSky
Trump Intends to Cancel All Fe...
Whoever this anonymous academic is, they are on the money:
‘Universities are very unusual businesses in that their entire business is the knowledge and intellectual property of individual academic staff members, who write courses based on their individual decades of knowledge and individual research expertise, and also do research based on their own individual ideas, that brings the university funding and prestige,” the academic says. “This makes academic staff as individuals absolutely central to university operations. This document does not seem to acknowledge that reality anywhere. Academic staff, when referred to at all, appear to be viewed as just another expense, as replaceable as a vehicle or a building, rather than the whole point of a university.’
This was brought home to me today by Adelaide University’s own change plan for the academic staff, with pages and pages of reporting lines and structures for professional staff and senior managers, and not even the barest detail about which disciplines are being associated with our new colleges. It’s pretty clear they think the University would run a lot better without students and academics getting in the way of the smooth production of emails and PowerPoint slide decks. #highered
Maybe I'm just burnt out, but it really seems like everyone I know in US academia is either
a. Young, new, and filled with some unrealistic illusions about how things work here
b. Struggling to care enough about this increasingly enshittified, profession to teach, research, and advise effectively, let alone fake the smiles and tell the lies necessary to get promotion or awards
ICYMI
(reference to one thing I said in my last post)
Trump demands that universities remake themselves as he wants, but students didn’t sign up to attend Trump U. Nor did professors sign up to teach there.
