#GWU had students arrested & barred from campus, sanctioned orgs, modified policies, closed quads, brought in extra security, & more that I say obstructed too much legit #speech. Even built an ugly fence in Trumpian style - maybe if they’d gilded it!
All called “no meaningful action” and demands for “immediate remediation … and related reforms.” Testing social sciences theory is tough but pretty tidy proof “anticipatory obedience” won’t save you! #law #academia #higherEd https://www.justice.gov/crt/media/1410936/dl?inline

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I teach zoology at university and I come across people (not my students but working people) who don’t see the value in zoology.
Firstly I don’t really understand why they’d think that…zoology is the animal side of ecology, so understanding animals is pretty important if you want to protect biodiversity.
Secondly, I’m kind of tired of this expectation that subject experts and teachers are the ones that need to argue against such attacks based either on ignorance or bad faith.
#ukhe #highered

https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025/08/student-council-passes-vote-of-no-confidence-in-the-board-of-visitors #UVa #academia #HigherEd

Editor’s Note | Columbia University Has Become a Political Pawn  https://www.byteseu.com/1270815/ #ColumbiaUniversity #Democracy #EdNote #EDUCATION #freedom #HigherEd #Israel #Palestine #Politics

Now the mobster president might steal Harvard’s patents—

“worth hundreds of millions of dollars”

#USA #USpol #trump #HigherEd #MobsterPresident #Harvard

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https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-patents-trump-d4297409

“The Trump administration is using its deal with Columbia as a template for other universities, with financial penalties that are now seen as an expectation.”

#USA #trump #UCLA #HigherEd #education #universities

~ Trump administration seeks $1 billion settlement from UCLA, a White House official says ~

https://apnews.com/article/trump-administration-ucla-ec848b4bee5c184f29dba9d7181904a1

"Not only did Columbia and the Trump administration have detailed exchanges about altering the university’s disciplinary proceedings — especially in how they impacted protesters — but new rules regarding disciplinary procedures were also imposed on the university by its powerful board of trustees in a manner explicitly outlined by the Trump administration.

Though Shipman said Columbia’s academic independence was the school’s “north star” during the negotiations, the private research university has made several concessions on academic functioning in its agreement with the federal government. And Shipman said that Columbia retains control over its operational decisions, yet the deal with the Trump administration includes clauses such as one in which the university has agreed to “examine its business model and take steps to decrease financial dependence on international student enrollment.”
(...)
A key element of the agreement was the appointment of a third-party “Resolution Monitor” to oversee compliance.
(...)
The man selected for the role, Bart Schwartz, is the co-founder of Guidepost Solutions, which sponsored an event in June 2025 “helping Israel heal and rebuild.” He was selected in a joint decision by the university and government officials.

On top of it all, the school paid a massive $200 million fine — roughly half of the federal grants that had been frozen, which the university was seeking to recoup in the negotiations.

“It seems,” Joseph Slaughter, an English and comparative literature professor and the director of the Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia, told The Intercept, “they paid off an extortionist and they hope that the extortionists won’t come back.”"

https://theintercept.com/2025/08/07/columbia-gaza-student-protests-expulsions-trump/

Cannot overstate how depressing and angering this is. We have everything to win if we fight back and everything to lose if we don't. (signed, a non-UC California fac member)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-administration-ucla-ec848b4bee5c184f29dba9d7181904a1

It is not just ‘Snowbirds’ from #Canada that won’t be arriving this year, there is also projected to be a 30-40% drop in new international students arriving at #universities and #colleges in the #UnitedStates. https://www.nafsa.org/about/about-nafsa/us-economy-could-suffer-7-billion-loss-precipitous-drop-international-students

In #BadEconomy #fuckery. I will keep saying it: college loans are nothing more than a legalized racket.

> Student Loan Interest Is Accruing Again for 1 in 5 Kentucky Borrowers https://kypolicy.org/student-loan-interest-is-accruing-again-for-1-in-5-kentucky-borrowers/

#HigherEd #academia ##KentuckyProud

Worried about research and universities in #Portugal being DOGE-d: the government just extinguished the country's main public #research and #science funding body, without consulting researchers at all, to merge it with an agency focused on "innovation". Looks like a way to move funding from public universities and basic research (already under-funded) to start-ups and "unicorns" coming up with dodgy apps. #politics #highered https://cnnportugal.iol.pt/fct/governo/e-uma-tragedia-que-caiu-que-nem-uma-bomba-cientistas-chocados-com-extincao-da-fct-sem-aviso-previo/20250731/688bbcdfd34e3f0baea1297d

"[campus] leaders said they were hoping the multimillion-dollar settlement would buy them time.

“It backfired,” said one senior administrator at UCLA, reflecting the sense of whiplash felt among many who were interviewed. “Within hours of announcing our settlement, the DOJ was on our back.”"

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-08-02/ucla-doj-trump-settlement-or-lawsuit

archive link: https://archive.ph/yBbcF

« Lancaster University is proposing over 450 job cuts, with a Voluntary Redundancy Scheme underway and a Compulsory Redundancy scheme likely to launch in September 2025. That’s roughly 1 in 4 staff — gone. »

https://www.change.org/p/stop-mass-redundancies-at-lancaster-university-hold-senior-management-accountable