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Alexander KarnDear Leader expects—nay, demands—ideological conformity. Very American, very presidential, very liberating. <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/highered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#highered</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#academia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democracy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uspol</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/us/politics/cornell-northwestern-university-funds-trump.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/us/politics/cornell-northwestern-university-funds-trump.html</a>

A. Rivera> Higher Ed’s Paltry Investment in Training Its Own Leaders <a href="https://www.chronicle.com/article/higher-eds-paltry-investment-in-training-its-own-leaders" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.chronicle.com/article/higher-eds-paltry-investment-in-training-its-own-leaders</a>They mostly do NO training at all, so people moving up pretty much are on their own, or if higher level position, they get an experience outsider, often a messiah type figure. This is applicable to <a href="https://mas.to/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#libraries</a> in <a href="https://mas.to/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#academia</a> as well. Have some other thoughts on this, but the walls have ears.<a href="https://mas.to/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HigherEd</a>

Megan Lynch (she/her)The willing capitulation of most of US academic administrations to fascism should point the lesson of how important it is *not* to have wanna-be corporate types in higher ed administration. We need educators in the highest places in education.So much of the gallop towards fascism has been led, either appeasingly or enthusiastically, by US higher ed chancellors, deans, and trustees. <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpol</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HigherEd</a>

A. RiveraIf you're a scholar, and you can, leave while you still can. Believe me, if I could afford to, I'd be gone already. > 'Major Brain Drain': Researchers Eye Exit From Trump's America <a href="https://www.latintimes.com/major-brain-drain-researchers-eye-exit-trumps-america-580143" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.latintimes.com/major-brain-drain-researchers-eye-exit-trumps-america-580143</a><a href="https://mas.to/tags/BoycottUSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BoycottUSA</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#academia</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HigherEd</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/BrainDrain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BrainDrain</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/PendejoInChief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PendejoInChief</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/PartyOfStupid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PartyOfStupid</a>

Alexander KarnIt is possible to be disgusted and outraged and yet remain silent. Some would even call this prudence. But it is not possible to advance politics or defend principles without determined speech and action. There is obviously risk in the latter approach (do I make myself a target when I might have skated through?), but not so much as with quietly absorbing each blow with a vague hope it will be the last. <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/highered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#highered</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#academia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democracy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uspol</a>

Katina Rogers🔥 📝 FOLKS — I'm working on a piece for Slate about the NEH cuts. If you've been affected in ANY way and would be willing to talk with me, please message me! I would love to learn more and include your story. katina [at] katinarogers [dot] com<a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/humanities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#humanities</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/neh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#neh</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#education</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/highered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#highered</a>

Charlie McHenryHundreds of student visas revoked at schools across the nation, including UCLA - Ominous, this is… A pogrom in the making. <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HigherEd</a> <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/StudentVisas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StudentVisas</a> <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/ForeignStudents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ForeignStudents</a> <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/Universities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Universities</a> <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/Colleges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Colleges</a> <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AcademicChatter</a> <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/Academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Academia</a> <a href="https://ktla.com/news/local-news/hundreds-of-student-visas-revoked-at-schools-across-the-nation-including-ucla/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ktla.com/news/local-news/hundreds-of-student-visas-revoked-at-schools-across-the-nation-including-ucla/</a>

Kate Nyhan<a href="https://librarianhats.net/2025/04/04/in-memoriam/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://librarianhats.net/2025/04/04/in-memoriam/</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#libraries</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HigherEd</a>

John Refior"As the first Jewish president of a formerly Methodist university, I find no comfort in the Trump administration’s embrace of my people, on college campuses or elsewhere. Jew hatred is real, but today’s anti-antisemitism isn’t a legitimate effort to fight it. It’s a cover for a wide range of agendas that have nothing to do with the welfare of Jewish people."Op-Ed by the president of Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT) <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/opinion/trump-jewish-antisemitism-wesleyan.html?unlocked_article_code=1.904.5k2j.oinUIzZvinoE&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/opinion/trump-jewish-antisemitism-wesleyan.html?unlocked_article_code=1.904.5k2j.oinUIzZvinoE&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare</a><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/GiftArticle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GiftArticle</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/wesu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wesu</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/highered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#highered</a>

AnnaAnthroOpinion | A Playbook for Law Firms and Colleges to Stand Up to President <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> - The New York Times Editorial Board <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/highered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#highered</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lawyers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lawyers</a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/opinion/trump-law-firms-universities.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/opinion/trump-law-firms-universities.html</a>

Robin DeRosa<a href="https://social.coop/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HigherEd</a> is so lost<a href="https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/local/capitol-watch/idaho-governor-signs-ban-on-diversity-programs-in-higher-education-into-law-politcs/277-49d75ac3-8189-4c99-ba2a-44fce7d406a5" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/local/capitol-watch/idaho-governor-signs-ban-on-diversity-programs-in-higher-education-into-law-politcs/277-49d75ac3-8189-4c99-ba2a-44fce7d406a5</a>

Deborah Edwards-OñoroTrump administration strips legal residency from Central Michigan University international students.And didn't notify the students or the university. <a href="https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2025/04/trump-administration-strips-legal-residency-from-central-michigan-u-international-students.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2025/04/trump-administration-strips-legal-residency-from-central-michigan-u-international-students.html</a><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HigherEd</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CentralMichiganUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CentralMichiganUniversity</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Michigan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Michigan</a>

Zachary Wolfe<a href="https://fediscience.org/@petersuber" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@petersuber</a> <a href="https://bird.makeup/users/harvard_law" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@harvard_law</a> For everyone - esp in any university community - to take to heart: “Future students would be left to wonder if they were getting the education that faculty and administrators would have chosen or the modified version deemed palatable to Donald Trump. Worse, a failure to resist would prove profoundly demoralizing throughout academia and civil society as a whole.“ <a href="https://esq.social/tags/highered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#highered</a>

Daniel MacPhee 🔬🧬🧫🇨🇦Opportunities for Canada and for needed changes to the Canadian research landscape <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Canada</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Research</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HigherEd</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/us-scientists-canada-1.7502527" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/us-scientists-canada-1.7502527</a>

Journeys In FilmLooking for inspiring climate action materials to use in the classroom?Our newest teaching resource is for The Crisis Scientists! Introduce students to seven extraordinary people working to galvanize policy makers and the public to act to save the planet.We offer a PDF/Slide Show and a Mini Discussion Guide for this 6-minute short film. There are two versions, one for high school and one for higher ed.This is a great film to teach with for Earth Month! 2/2<a href="https://journeysinfilm.org/product/the-crisis-scientists/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://journeysinfilm.org/product/the-crisis-scientists/</a><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/education" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@education</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/edutooters" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@edutooters</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/academicchatter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@academicchatter</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/film" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@film</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Education</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Homeschooling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Homeschooling</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/HighSchool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HighSchool</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HigherEd</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/EarthMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EarthMonth</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/ClimateAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateAction</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/CivicEngagement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CivicEngagement</a><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/education" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@education</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/film" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@film</a>

John Mark OckerbloomFrom Columbia student Ranjani Srinivasan's letter on why she fled to Canada: "The reason why I am laying out this sequence of events is that it demonstrates not only the absolute power the Department of State has over F-1 visa holders and the few legal options before us, but also the extent to which Columbia has been cooperating with ICE, instead of protecting its students... Now is the time to come together and demand universities do the right thing." <a href="https://www.normanfinkelstein.com/letter-from-columbia-student-ranjani-srinivasan-after-fleeing-the-united-states-to-canada/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.normanfinkelstein.com/letter-from-columbia-student-ranjani-srinivasan-after-fleeing-the-united-states-to-canada/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpol</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HigherEd</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"The abduction and attempted deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, coupled with ongoing threats to university funding and crackdowns on activists, academics, and the imprisonment and attempted deportation of those without US citizenship, has stirred collective horror and rage among members of the Jewish Faculty Network, whose membership includes more than 200 faculty members at universities across Canada.Our anger is not new, but it has reached a boiling point, following a year and a half of pro-Israel lobby groups audaciously claiming to speak on our behalf in support of the genocide in Gaza. Worse, they claim objections to Israel’s actions since the horrific attacks of October 7th, 2023, are antisemitic. Even when human rights lawyers, international law experts and those expressing solidarity with Palestinian women, children and civilians object to the IDF’s brutal massacres of civilians, we are told that they too are modern day antisemites. Especially when Jewish intellectuals express solidarity with Palestinian suffering, we are called ‘self-hating’ or ‘antisemites’ ourselves. This absurdity must stop. Real harm is caused by diluting the definition of antisemitism and weaponizing antisemitism in response to political dissent.As Jewish faculty at universities and colleges across Canada, we extend solidarity to our colleagues in the United States who face this wave of xenophobic “cleansing.” We view with alarm the Trump administration’s renewed efforts to purge US public and private universities of students and staff whose speech and research it finds threatening to white and Christian supremacy. Among these efforts, we note in particular the scapegoating of gender and sexuality studies, social studies, humanities research on colonialism, racism, capitalism, and imperialism, and scientific research into climate change, social determinants of health, and public health."<a href="https://socialistproject.ca/2025/04/statements-abduction-mahmoud-khalil/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://socialistproject.ca/2025/04/statements-abduction-mahmoud-khalil/</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Universities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Universities</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HigherEd</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AcademicFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AcademicFreedom</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Israel</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Palestine</a>

instantiatethisDon't get me wrong: <a href="https://keyboards.social/tags/higherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#higherEd</a> has a lot of ways it can improve the way it spends and uses the money it does have (including paying non-administrators more), but grants are not nice extras, they are core to us having anything modern to offer the middle to lower income student for them to reach their dream career on every level. Tech is just one piece of the ways those funds let us have students that can compete and push society forward in very tangible ways like new building materials 4/?

A. RiveraI am listening in on our campus faculty meeting (streaming it, still working), and they've moved to one of those moments where "Academic politics are so vicious precisely because the stakes are so small." <a href="https://mas.to/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#academia</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HigherEd</a>

A. RiveraBecause despite the author's love of academic <a href="https://mas.to/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a>, academic writing is pretty much pretentious pompous elitist exclusionary claptrap. > Why do so many academics and nonacademics alike feel so hostile toward academic writing? <a href="https://www.chronicle.com/article/everyone-hates-academic-writing-theyre-wrong" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.chronicle.com/article/everyone-hates-academic-writing-theyre-wrong</a><a href="https://mas.to/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#academia</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HigherEd</a>

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