R. K. W. Donahue1h ago
[Re-share] Recommended Reading
Slater, Kailyn "Kay". "Against AI: Critical Refusal in the Library." Library Trends, vol. 73 no. 4, 2025, p. 588-608. Project MUSE, https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lib.2025.a968497
#genAI #generativeAI #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AcademicLibraries #Libraries #HigherEducation #HigherEd #Universities #Colleges #Faculty
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Peter Suber1d ago
One year of strife between #Harvard and the #Trump admin, March 2025 - March 2026. www.harvardmagazine.com/harvard-in-t... #AcademicFreedom #AcadSky #AcademicSky #DefendResearch #EduSky #Funding #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics @[email protected]

Harvard Weathers a Year of Tur...
Harvard Weathers a Year of Turmoil | Harvard Magazine

The federal government has launched unprecedented actions against the University. Here’s a guide.

Harvard Magazine
petersuber1d ago

One year of strife between #Harvard and the #Trump admin, March 2025 - March 2026.
https://www.harvardmagazine.com/harvard-in-the-crosshairs/harvard-trump-administration-lawsuits

#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics

Harvard Weathers a Year of Turmoil | Harvard Magazine

The federal government has launched unprecedented actions against the University. Here’s a guide.

Harvard Magazine
Robert Dale Parker1d ago

The phony claims that campuses are suppressing intellectual freedom are just a cover for right-wing efforts to shut down the intellectual freedom they pretend to support.

https://www.ms.now/opinion/iowa-intellectual-freedom-christopher-rufo-republicans

#Education #Universities

This university’s ‘intellectual freedom’ center creates the problem it claims to solve

Victor Ray: This conservative lie about schools like mine is furthering authoritarianism

MS NOW
M. Grégoire1d ago

How Ben Sasse is Living Now That He Is Dying
https://youtube.com/watch?v=7CFo6-6BN9k&si=gMbyomMvP3ZBYZ-z

#BenSasse #RossDouthat
#universities #uspol #cancer #Christianity

How Ben Sasse is Living Now That He Is Dying | Interesting Times with Ross Douthat

YouTube
Bich Nguyen1d ago

"Texas Tech University System’s chancellor on Friday ordered campuses to phase out academic programs 'centered on' sexual orientation and gender identity — a dramatically expanded policy that also places limits on what can be researched and which faculty can be hired."

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/04/10/texas-tech-ban-gender-identity-sexual-orientation-academics/

#PublicHealth #education #gender #lgbtq #colleges #universities #research #faculty #1A #texas

Texas Tech System leader cancels academic programs “centered on” sexual orientation, gender identity

Chancellor Brandon Creighton directed provosts to phase out the programs and ordered universities to recognize only “two human sexes.”

The Texas Tribune
Show threadAliide1d ago

I wonder if my Central European University tote bag (bearing a city map of Budapest) will soon no longer be a relic of bygone times..?

#education #universities #hungary

Forum Informatik für Frieden2d ago

Military Big Tech panel today 10am at #cablesofresistance

“We address how the tech sector, #universities and the #military-industrial complexes have been historically inextricably linked, how societies are being militarised through #BigTech, and how Big Tech companies are currently complicit in the #genocide in #Gaza. We then discuss how effective resistance against the ongoing militarisation of our societies could look like.“

With Vanessa Thomson, Antony Loewenstein, Rheinmetall Entwaffnen and Mal.

https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/CGN7DE/

Stream via https://cableresist.de/

Military Big Tech Cables of Resistance - movement conference against Big Tech

We discuss the big picture of digital militarisation as well as possibilities of resistance.

novaTopFlex2d ago

Hype for the Future 162L: The Museums of Greater Houston

Introduction Within the downtown and surrounding areas of the City of Houston are a cluster of notable museums attached to the citywide and regional culture, largely connected to history and the arts in most cases. Such museums are generally located to the southwest of the center of Downtown Houston and include the Museums of Health, Natural Science, Fine Arts, Contemporary Arts, the Holocaust, the Czech Society, Contemporary Craft, and African-American Culture. Outside the Museum […]

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Hype for the Future 162L: The Museums of Greater Houston

Introduction Within the downtown and surrounding areas of the City of Houston are a cluster of notable museums attached to the citywide and regional culture, largely connected to history and the ar…

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novaTopFlex3d ago

Hype for the Future 162H: List of Public State Colleges and Universities in Texas 🇺🇸

Introduction Within the State of Texas in the United States of America are notable communities associated with the numerous colleges and universities of the nation, including universities in the Texas A&M, Texas State, Texas Tech, University of Texas, University of Houston, University of North Texas, Texas Woman’s, and Texas Southern university campuses and systems. Mainstream Colleges and Universities by System Texas A&M University: College Station (Brazos County) East Texas A&M […]

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Hype for the Future 162H: List of Public State Colleges and Universities in Texas 🇺🇸

Introduction Within the State of Texas in the United States of America are notable communities associated with the numerous colleges and universities of the nation, including universities in the Te…

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