#Trump demands unprecedented control at #ColumbiaUniversity, alarming scholars and speech groups
By COLLIN BINKLEY and JAKE OFFENHARTZ
Updated 7:52 PM EDT, March 14, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — "The Trump administration brushed aside decades of precedent when it ordered Columbia University to oust the leadership of an academic department, a demand seen as a direct attack on academic freedom and a warning of what’s to come for other colleges facing federal scrutiny.
"Federal officials told the university it must immediately place its #MiddleEasternStudies, #SouthAsianStudies, and #AfricanStudies Department under 'academic receivership for a minimum of five years.' The demand was among several described as conditions for receiving federal funding, including $400 million already pulled over allegations of #antisemitism.
"Across #academia, it was seen as a stunning intrusion.
"'It’s an escalation of a kind that is unheard of,' said Joan Scott, a historian and member of the academic freedom committee of the American Association of University Professors [#AAUP]. 'Even during the #McCarthy period in the United States, this was not done.'"
https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-mahmoud-khalil-ice-arrests-1921e26f6b5a8585ad5cbda790846324
#CharacteristicsOfFascism #USPol #Censorship #DumbingUsDown #Authoritarianism #SilencingDissent #AcademicFreedom #Fascism
The Trump administration has delivered an extraordinary ultimatum to Columbia University, threatening to permanently end federal funding to the school unless it cedes control of an international studies department and implements sweeping changes to other policies. Federal officials wrote in a letter Thursday that the university must immediately place its Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies Department under “academic receivership for a minimum of five years.” It must also ban masks on campus meant to hide the wearer's identity, adopt a new definition of antisemitism and abolish its current process for disciplining students. The letter marks a significant escalation in the Trump administration’s efforts to impose sweeping changes on academic institutions.
The Ohio State African American and African Studies Community Extension Center has been a long-standing pillar of support for Columbus’ Black community since its founding in 1972. The center aims to “provide academic and community education opportunities for its Near Eastside neighbors and the greater Central Ohio community,” according to its website. Just last year, […]
„Forschen und kämpfen“! @rheinze legt euch in der neuen @analysekritik unsere Neuerscheinung »Dekolonialer Marxismus« des guyanischen Historikers und Aktivisten Walter Rodney (1942 geboren, 1980 ermordet) ans Herz, der in seiner Aktualität, Radikalität und Brillanz der Analyse zur „Unterentwicklung“ Afrikas durch Europa tief beeindruckt: https://dietzberlin.de/produkt/dekolonialer-marxismus
#walterrodney #afrika #kolonialismus #kapitalismus #dekolonial #decolonization #marx #karlmarx #decolonial #africanstudies
Hi everyone,
I have assembled a google sheet for everybody working on or interested in #africanstudies, so that we can find and follow each other on #mastodon. If you want to add yourself to the list, please fill out the form here:
https://forms.gle/9Lq63ShxQQg1iUkt9
The list itself, which you can export as a .csv file to import into #mastodon using the link provided in the sheet, is here:
https://tinyurl.com/2p9xbv36
Please boost and share among those who might be interested!
As other disciplines have done (cf. the list of lists for Academics here), to help scholars, graduate students, and any other academics, museum curators etc. of all disciplines who research and study topics connected to Africa find each other on Mastodon, consider adding yourself to this list, which will be publicly available on the web. Contact @rheinze@assemblag.es on Mastodon if you have any questions.
Re-upping this in case any new Africanist refugees have come over from Xitter:
#Africa #AfricanStudies #AfricanHistory #Afrique #Afrika
From: @rheinze
https://assemblag.es/@rheinze/109388834018042436
@africanstudies@a.gup.pe Hi everyone, I have assembled a google sheet for everybody working on or interested in #africanstudies, so that we can find and follow each other on #mastodon. If you want to add yourself to the list, please fill out the form here: https://forms.gle/9Lq63ShxQQg1iUkt9 The list itself, which you can export as a .csv file to import into #mastodon using the link provided in the sheet, is here: https://tinyurl.com/2p9xbv36 Please boost and share among those who might be interested!
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