Miro CollasBrown University rejects Trump proposal to overhaul policies for preferential funding | Rhode Island | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/15/brown-university-rejects-trump-proposal
Well done!
Nonilex#BrownUniversity Rejects #Trump #Extortion Attempt
#Brown was the second #university to turn down the *deal*, which would have given a #funding preference to #universities that agreed to conform to #conservative *values* including #censorship & restrictions on #InternationalStudents.
#law #US #Constitution #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #education #democracy #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/us/brown-university-trump-compact-funding.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
petersuberUpdate. #Brown just rejected the Trump compact. Here's the public letter from Brown President Christina Paxson.
https://www.brown.edu/sites/default/files/brown-response-federal-compact-10-15-2025.pdf
"Brown’s existing agreement with the federal government expressly affirms the government’s lack of authority to dictate our curriculum or the content of academic speech -- a principle that is not reflected in the Compact."
h/t #WilliamCross
#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
Mark CarriganThe two tier future of LLM-infused higher education
I find this analysis extremely plausible about organisational crisis leading to a far greater embrace of LLMs in universities which are already struggling:
In a two-tier system of ‘massified’ AI-infused and AI-maintained higher education, the value premium of education and training would be comparably inferior and so too positionality in performance league tables that are fundamental to student recruitment and therefore fee income.
The overall effect of technological saviourism might, therefore, be of hardening the status hierarchy bifurcating elite and non-elite higher education; significantly devaluing the latter. In turn, accessibility to high order private returns from higher education participation – if measured only in terms of employability – would suffer negative impact as would the supply of graduate talent replete with global skills.
Metro – Metro.co.uk: News, Sport, Showbiz, Celebrities from MetroI graduated – then found myself homeless
Update. #Dartmouth has not yet made a public statement rejecting the Trump compact. But two Dartmouth sources "who asked to speak anonymously…said they participated in a meeting with President Sian Leah Beilock in which…she said 'she would not sign the compact as written.'"
https://www.chronicle.com/article/dartmouths-president-balks-at-trump-compact-sources-say-as-feds-expand-offer-to-any-institution
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Update. More detail on the #Sorbonne objections to all university rankings, not just the #THE rankings.
https://sciencebusiness.net/news/universities/why-sorbonne-pulled-out-university-ranking
Why Sorbonne pulled out of university ranking
France’s Sorbonne University plans to leave the Times Higher Education (THE) Rankings, adding its name to a growing number of universities rejecting lists that play one institution off against another. According to its president, most of these rankings are “black boxes” whose methods not only raise ethical questions but also fail to cover the breadth and diversity of university contributions.
cathillDo British royals get admitted to Oxford or Cambridge even if they do not have the required high school grades?
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JiKoIn the PH, scientists from Ateneo de Manila University are researching a potential vaccine that could stop Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori), the bacterium responsible for most ulcer cases.
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