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In the latest post on the Cambridge University Libraries Digital Preservation blog, we explore the unique challenges and considerations involved in preserving Minecraft Cambridge.
We'd love to hear how others are tackling the preservation of community-led digital culture. Are you archiving born-digital campus life?
#DigitalPreservation #BornDigital #Minecraft #Archives #HigherEd #CambridgeUniversity #DigitalHeritage #Library
Down But Not Out: Laid-Off SF State Faculty Still Kicking
University cuts make headlines. But what happens to lecturers after they lose their jobs?
"Universities are increasingly managed like business, and they’ve been at the vanguard of the gig economy, to the detriment of students and faculty alike."
https://bayareacurrent.com/down-but-not-out-laid-off-sf-state-faculty-still-kicking/ @academicchatter #BayArea #California #HigherEd
"The university-educated elite" means something very different in countries where everybody gets a student loan and nobody pays tuition. Some might even say that there, the university-educated elite is something a person of average intelligence can *opt out of* at their own peril.
When George Mason University president Gregory Washington received notice that the Trump administration had opened an investigation into complaints of antisemitism, he was “perplexed.”
But there are signs it may be part of a coordinated campaign to oust him.
https://www.propublica.org/article/george-mason-university-antisemitism-investigation-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
The more school you attend, the later you’re likely to marry, but you’re not less likely to marry overall.
And who will you marry? Education plays a big role there too.
A nuanced look at how schooling shapes love lives:
https://theconversation.com/higher-eds-relationship-with-marriage-its-complicated-and-depends-on-age-258664
New numbers reveal 10,000-plus Ontario college layoffs, 600 programs cancelled or suspended over past year
"The wide-ranging megabill is the vehicle for much of Trump’s domestic policy agenda for his second term in the White House, with major changes in health care, immigration and tax policy that are sure to touch nearly every American. Here are the major ways Texas will be affected."
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07/03/trump-megabill-breakdown-texas-medicaid-snap-border/
> Trans swimmer Lia Thomas' records revoked in UPenn deal with Trump admin https://www.axios.com/2025/07/01/university-pennsylvania-trump-education-trans-athletes-lia-thomas
#UPenn basically tossed her under the bus to appease the #PendejoInChief and the #GOP #PartyOfStupid
@TheConversationUS Alternative title: “#University ‘manager’ re-invents the traditional liberal #arts college”? 
https://theconversation.com/here-are-five-signs-that-universities-are-turning-into-corporations-93100
#HigherEd should return to focusing on the #education of students, not the production of ‘trained widgets’ - with a #sports #entertainment side-hustle.
"Universities are about engaging deeply with the subject matter. The goal of academic training is not to solve problems as efficiently and quickly as possible, but to develop skills for identifying and dealing with novel problems, which have never been solved before. We expect students to be given space and time to form their own deeply considered opinions informed by our expertise and nurtured by our educational spaces. Such spaces must be protected from industry advertising, and our funding must not be misspent on profit-making companies, which offer little in return and actively deskill our students. Even the term 'Artificial Intelligence' itself (which scientifically refers to a field of academic study) is widely misused, with conceptual unclarity coopted to advance industry agendas and undermine scholarly discussions. It is our task to demystify and to challenge 'AI' in our teaching, research and in our engagement with society.
We must protect and cultivate the ecosystem of human knowledge. AI models can mimic the appearance of scholarly work, but they are (by construction) unconcerned with truth—the result is a torrential outpouring of unchecked but convincing-sounding "information". At best, such output is accidentally true, but generally citationless, divorced from human reasoning and the web of scholarship that it steals from. At worst, it is confidently wrong. Both outcomes are dangerous to the ecosystem."
One by one, they buckle.
#Academia and #HigherEd need a coordinated strategy and resource sharing plan to stave off fascist attacks on scientific knowledge and free inquiry.
Of course, it also takes courageous and determined leadership and that means trustees and regents who place intellectual values above dollars.
What’s the point of having “eff-you” endowments if you’ll capitulate under pressure to protect them?
Experience & shape sustainability
From climate change to social responsibility – today’s challenges call for fresh thinking.
Hof University’s Sustainability Management module is more than a lecture: it’s a hands-on, international learning project focused on real impact.
https://t1p.de/yk0dl
#dieforschendehochschulehof #hierwirdknallhartgeforscht #ScienceMastodon #Sustainability #HigherEd #ClimateAction #InternationalTeaching #FutureSkills
At Columbia, International Students Face “Chilling Effects” of Trump Admin
https://inthesetimes.com/article/grad-student-workers-face-fear-at-columbia #USpol #HigherEd
“everyone in a position of responsibility in world science needs to gather evidence to rebut authoritarian, anti-science narratives, and speak out.”
#Science #ScienceMatters #HigherEd #Authoritarianism
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01966-4
“‘We’re spending time figuring out how to comply with all these state mandates, rather than focusing on research and teaching,’” Mockabee said of the SB1 bill, signed into law by Gov DeWine on March 28.
“Members of Youngstown State Univ’s chapter of the Ohio Ed Assn are trying to get a referendum on the Nov 4 ballot to stop SB1.…About 248,092 signatures are needed….”
#ohio #OHpol #resist #dei #redstateblues #highered #govdewine #statelegislatures
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A new “Ohio higher education law banning diversity efforts, prohibiting faculty strikes and regulating classroom discussion goes into effect Friday.…
“The new law is making things more difficult for faculty & administrators, said Univ of Cincinnati American Assn of Univ Professors Pres Stephen Mockabee.…
#ohio #OHpol #dei #redstateblues #highered
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Meanwhile, in #Florida - A White Nationalist Wrote a Law School Paper Promoting Racist Views. It Won Him an Award https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/us/white-supremacist-university-of-florida-paper.html:
‘The University of Florida student won an academic honor after he argued in a paper that the Constitution applies only to white people. Preston Damsky… law student… white nationalist… antisemite…took a seminar taught by a federal judge on “originalism”… (he) argued that the framers had intended for the phrase “We the People,” in the Constitution’s preamble, to refer exclusively to white people…he argued for the removal of voting rights protections for nonwhites, and for the issuance of shoot-to-kill orders against “criminal infiltrators at the border.” Turning over the country to “a nonwhite majority,” Mr. Damsky wrote, would constitute a “terrible crime.”… Mr. Damsky, 29, was given the “book award,” which designated him as the best student in the class.’ #academia #LawSchool #HigherEd #AcademicChatter #racism #Constitution #WhiteNationalism #BLM #UniversityOfFlorida