"Why point out that the principle of freedom, that #Harvard upholds, is valid for **private** university?"

Is Garber - implicitly - suggesting that restrictions on freedom might be acceptable on public universities?

#Academic #freedom, from such a perspective, appears a means to an end - the final "product" - not a principle valid per-se.

Paraphrasing @brideshead

https://ilmanifesto.it/viva-la-liberta-se-non-e-lo-schermo-degli-investitori

Can any of you STEM professor types tell me how long a cover letter for a postdoc position should run?

#academia #academic

My dear fellow researchers in #America.

If you are in the midst of finding a new #academic home and securing new #research #funding the Academy of Finland is preparing a funding call of at least €50 million in budget to cover the period from 2026 to 2030. Stay tuned!

https://www.aka.fi/en/about-us/whats-new/press-releases/2025/rcf-preparing-call-for-universities-to-invite-foreign-researchers-to-finland/

#science #PhD #PostDoc

Academic Life Coaching: Empowering Students to Achieve Success and Fulfillment

https://www.wanderglobe.org/academic-life-coaching/

#Education #Academic #AcademicLifeCoaching #Coaching #Educators #HolisticStudentDevelopment #Parents #Students

#Harvard says no chance it will comply with changes feds demand

The #Trump administration has been using federal research funding as a cudgel. The government has blocked billions of dollars in #research funds and threatened to put a hold on even more in order to compel #universities to adopt what it presents as essential reforms. In the case of #Columbia University, that includes changes in the leadership of individual #academic departments.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/04/harvard-says-feds-research-funding-demands-amount-to-a-takeover/

#Harvard professors sue #Trump administration over funding cut threats

by Katie Cole, April 14, 2025, #WBUR

"The Harvard chapter of the American Association of University Professors sued the Trump administration Friday over what they call an 'unlawful and unprecedented' attempt to use federal funding cuts to restrict #FreeSpeech.

"The #DepartmentOfEducation announced in late March that it would review $8.7 billion in federal grants and contacts given to Harvard, alleging that the school failed to prevent #antisemitic discrimination on campus.

"The Trump administration then unveiled a broad set of demands on April 4 the university must agree to in order to keep getting federal funding, including cutting all diversity, equity and inclusion programming, and modifying any programming and departments that 'fuel antisemitic harassment.' The administration gave Columbia University a similar set of demands in March, which the school agreed to.

"The lawsuit by the professors' group, filed in #Massachusetts federal court, alleges that the administration's federal funding review violates the #TitleVI of the #CivilRightsAct, which prohibits discrimination in programs that receive federal funds. The court filing says the law requires specific procedures to cut federal funds and that the Trump administration has not taken any of those steps.

"The group said in a press release that the administration's actions are in effort to create a chilling effect among universities and faculty to stop speech that the president does not like.

" 'Eliminating discrimination and protecting all students is important,' said Nikolas Bowie, a Harvard law professor and the secretary-treasurer of the school's #AAUP chapter, in a statement. 'But Trump is defying the Civil Rights Act, terrifying students, and illegally holding hostage grants for hospitals and scientific research so he can accomplish his real goal of punishing academics for our politics.'

"The lawsuit says that the actions by the administration have 'already caused severe and irreparable harm by halting #academic #research and #inquiry at Harvard.'

"This is the second suit that the Harvard AAUP chapter has filed against the Trump administration this year. The first was a joint suit with other chapters, including one from Columbia, over federal efforts to deport #MahmoudKhalil and students that engaged in #ProPalestinian #activism."

https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/04/14/harvard-aaup-trump-funding-cuts-lawsuit

#SilencingDissent #CharacteristicsOfFascism #Fascism #Authoritarian #Authoritarianism #BibiIsAWarCriminal #FreeMahmoudKhalil #FreePalestine #AcademicFreedom #FreeSpeech #TrumpIsABully #DEI #Erasure #Censorship

Good grades ✅
Enough sleep ✅
Social life ✅

I think I have broken down the impossible. Haters gonna hate.

#sofiaflorina #ソフィアフロリナ #goodgrades #grades #sleep #enoughsleep #sociallife #social #student #students #studentstory #studentstories #college #collegestory #collegestories #collegelife #studentlife #academic #yes #studentstuff #studentthings #collegestuff #collegethings #academia #ican #yesican

If you are an #academic in the #US with a position comparable to tenured or associate professor and a solid research track record in a field related to computer science (treat this in a very broad manner) and are interested in relocating to beautiful, liberal, safe, #Austria, then please reach out to me. We'd love to welcome new colleagues in the Austrian academia!

A couple of us are collecting profiles to potentially match with organizations that are looking to fund such opportunities. Full caveat: I don't yet have concrete positions confirmed, but am trying to get the funding bodies into position to do so.

Please boost!