https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2026/02/19/colleges-cut-ties-diversity-groups/. #Racism in the #USA is now "respectable" again, even in the groves of #academe, thanks to Donald #Trump & his anti-DEI #policy. The leaders of these institutions should hang their heads in shame!
Colleges quietly cut ties with organizations that help people of color 

Under pressure from the Trump administration, 31 schools have signed agreements to end links with organizations that “restrict participation based on race.”

The Washington Post

I'm preparing a lecture for our #DigitalScholarlyEdition Summer School next week using the 3x3 format (in its shortest version).

I'm feeling so overwhelmed and rusty doing this! I haven't given a proper lecture in years, especially not an interactive one.

Kudos to all of you who teach on a regular basis - this is HARD!

#Teaching #HigherEducation #Lecture #Academe

Workshop-Reihe bietet berufliche Impulse für Frauen

Die Kontaktstelle Frau und Beruf Ludwigsburg lädt Frauen im August und September zur kostenlosen Workshop-Reihe „Sommer AcadeMe“ ein. Ziel der Sommer #AcadeMe ist es, Frauen neue berufliche Perspektiven aufzuzeigen, sie zu stärken, zu vernetzen und ihnen Werkzeuge an die Hand zu geben, um den eigenen beruflichen Weg selbstbewusst zu gestalten. Jeder Workshop hat eine andere Zielgruppe im Blick.

https://www.ludwigsburg.de/start/rathaus+und+service/workshop-reihe+bietet+berufliche+impulse+fuer+frauen.html

Workshop-Reihe bietet berufliche Impulse für Frauen

Resources on Immigration and Travel Safety from the AAUP

AAUP letter to college and university legal offices: Institutions Should Support Students Under Visa Threats with Legal Aid and Housing https://www.aaup.org/news/institutions-should-support-students-under-visa-threats-legal-aid-and-housing

Fact sheet on dealing with ICE on your campus (AAUP general counsel) https://www.aaup.org/sites/default/files/ICE-Flyer.pdf

Fact sheet on rights and risks for workers who are in the United States on visas (AFT) https://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/media/documents/2025/aftmembersonvisas.pdf

Issue brief on immigration-related campus concerns (American Council on Education) https://www.acenet.edu/Documents/Issue-Brief-Immigration-Related-Campus-Concerns-2025.pdf

Know Your Rights flyers (AFL-CIO)
https://aflcio.org/about/programs/adelante-we-rise/immigration-resources/know-your-rights-materials-immigrant-workers

Family Preparedness Plan template (Immigrant Legal Resource Center) https://www.ilrc.org/sites/default/files/resources/family_preparedness_plan.pdf

Immigration legal and digital security resources (AAUP Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom)
https://www.aaup.org/sites/default/files/CDAF_legal_personal_security_resources_1-pagers.pdf

#AAUP #immigration #Academe #USpol #Academia

Institutions Should Support Students Under Visa Threats with Legal Aid and Housing

In response to the Trump administration's recent actions subjecting more than one thousand international students to visa revocations or other involuntary changes to their immigration status, the AAUP has written to college and university counsels to clarify that they are not legally bound to deny legal assistance or housing to students facing these threats. While some institutions have provided support to noncitizen students in such cases, others have hesitated to do so for fear of being held criminally liable. The AAUP letter addresses concerns that colleges and universities may have about "harboring" individuals vulnerable to threats of detention or deportation by the Trump administration.

AAUP
Ah yes, a 🏆 riveting tale of academia's finest #legal wordsmiths jousting with the #government, because clearly nothing screams "cutting-edge research" like an #Ivy #League 🔍 scavenger hunt for the perfect lawyer letter. Meanwhile, somewhere in the background, actual #science and education are quietly sobbing in the corner. 🎓📜😅
https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=14556 #academe #drama #battles #research #struggles #HackerNews #ngated
The Situation at Columbia VII (and Harvard…)

The first good news I’ve heard so far: Harvard has announced that it will not cave-in the way Columbia did. The letter from their lawyers is the one Columbia’s lawyers should have writt…

Not Even Wrong

The End of American Higher Education:
Perhaps not a Dark Age but a darker age at least
by Paul Musgrave
Feb 20, 2025

"But the past four weeks—we are just one month into this administration!—have seen a federal government agency illegally vaporized, a strike team responsible to a literal oligarch access our most closely guarded federal systems, and NATO rent limb from limb. What exactly could you think is the ground for optimism? ... At this point, taking a pessimistic view of probable outcomes as the baseline isn’t doomerism—it’s an informed updating of priors."

https://musgrave.substack.com/p/the-end-of-american-higher-education

#Academe #USpol

The End of American Higher Education

Perhaps not a Dark Age but a darker age at least

Systematic Hatreds

#Academic #boycott of #Israel is on the rise

From Belgium to Italy, from the United States to the Netherlands, world #academe is turning its back on #Israeli researchers. Refusal to publish articles, cancellation of lectures and freezing of joint research have become widespread in universities around the world, according to new data revealed here for the first time.

https://thepalestineproject.medium.com/academic-boycott-of-israel-is-on-the-rise-632e7b9bc4c0

Academic boycott of Israel is on the rise - The Palestine Project - Medium

An unprecedented wave of academic boycotts has hit Israeli universities since the beginning of the war. Data collected by the Israeli Association of University Heads indicate that more than 300…

Medium
We have met the enemy, and he is us • Florida Phoenix

J.D. Vance, VP-wannabe, likes to say, “The professors are the enemy.” Christopher Rufo, a think-tank leech who fancies himself an education expert, also likes to say, “The professors are the enemy.” They’re both quoting Richard Nixon. The one-time holder of the “Most Criminal President” title (now, of course, second to Donald Trump) made the remark […]

Florida Phoenix

Is there any Computer Science instructor or professor here who could help a fellow Computer Science instructor who could help me ways on how should I teach Discrete Structures 2 and Mathematical/Real Analysis 1? Hoping for a good direction and some materials to help me teach those courses is really appreciated.

#ComputerScience
#ComputerScienceEducation
#ComputerScienceInstruction
#Academe

Surprising to learn that #publisher Taylor & Francis #advertises for #journal editors-in-chief, assoc. #editors, etc. — #service #roles in #academe (= no pay). https://tinyurl.com/4nn4caxb I've yet to see ads for #copyeditors, who require pay, in general-interest #magazines. Curious. #AmEditing
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