The lawsuit marks the second time in less than a month that the #Trump admin
has sued a #university over “civil rights” violations.
Last month, the #DOJ said #UCLA had tolerated “grossly antisemitic acts & systematically ignored cries for help from its own terrified Jewish & Israeli employees.”
The DOJ said that UCLA had “turned a blind eye” — the same phrase used in Friday’s lawsuit against Harvard [copy & paste.]
#law #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #AcademicFreedom #education #RevengePolitics
“The United States cannot & will not tolerate these failures & brings this action to compel Harvard to comply with Title VI, & to recover billions of dollars of taxpayer subsidies awarded to a discriminatory institution,” the #DOJ added.
#Harvard did not respond to a request for comment. In the past, Harvard leaders have acknowledged problems during #protests over the #war in #Gaza, but have also said they moved to address those issues.
Here we go again
#Trump Administration Sues #Harvard Over Accusations of “Antisemitism” [Protests for #Palestinian #HumanRights]
The admin spent months investigating the #school. The two sides had been in talks to negotiate a settlement.
#law #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #AcademicFreedom #RevengePolitics
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/us/trump-harvard-antisemitism-suit.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Amid the pageantry of his installation, the new Chancellor of the University of Cambridge made some pointed & interesting comments, & important commitments.
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Researchers are targeted under a US policy that allows visa denials and revocations based on their work. This is a direct attack on #AcademicFreedom
Coalition for Independent Technology Research filed a lawsuit challenging this policy – and asking the court to stop the government from targeting the public-interest research community so that scientists, students, and non-profit workers can continue their work without fear of retaliation.
Read about the case 👇
https://independenttechresearch.org/citr-challenges-censorship-policy/
The Coalition for Independent Technology Research filed a lawsuit today in partnership with the Knight First Amendment Institute and Protect Democracy, challenging the US government’s Censorship Policy that unconstitutionally targets noncitizen researchers, fact-checkers, and trust and safety workers for visa denials, revocations, detention, and deportation based on their work researching and reporting on social media … Continue reading CITR Challenges US Government Censorship Policy Threatening Deportation for Work on Social Media Platforms and Online Harms
"Alongside active suppression, there’s a quieter process through which scientific freedom can narrow without formal prohibition or visible coercion"
ERC President Maria Leptin warned of current decline of #academicfreedom.
Watch her @CARA1933 lecture!
🎥https://consent.youtube.com/m?continue=https%3A%2F%2Fm.youtube.com%2Flive%2F-rIBfB_UjvY%3Fcbrd%3D1&gl=BE&m=1&pc=yt&cm=2&hl=en-GB&src=1
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https://nitter.net/ERC_Research/status/2030720551530967255#m
Yesterday I was proudly told by a senior academic now a senior researcher at #Google #Deepmind that they are hiring more philosophers and ethicists.
This is a BAD THING. Settingaside teh fact that these are insecure jobs since corporations may change their mind about this direction on a whim, and only have the thinnest veneer of #AcademicFreedom, this is a further example of the privatisation of the #PublicRealm
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Sharing because I am humbled, honoured, proud, and galvanised - via 100% derived status - to work alongside the incredible Professor Kristina Hultgren at the #OpenUniversity on upholding #AcademicFreedom in #HigherEducation, which is being increasingly threatened.
The State Is Escalating Charges Against Protesters. Labor Must Defend Them.
John Caravello is facing decades in prison for an anti-ICE protest. He needs labor to build a national defense campaign.
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Claire Barnes
ResearchEquals
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Tom Stoneham
Dr Julia Molinari PhD SFHEA
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