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Research Network Digi-Oek.ch

[en] Harvard "Teaches a Valuable Lesson"

"#History has long taught us that such #appeasement doesn’t work when concession is seen as weakness - or even as surrender."

"Even critics of higher #education and Trump allies believe #Trump is dramatically overplaying his hand."

"This battle is one as vital as higher education has ever faced."

time.com/7278903/harvard-teach

#harvard #university #research @academicchatter #time #MediaHighlights

TIME · Harvard Teaches U.S. Leaders a Valuable LessonHarvard's decision to reject the Trump administration's demands is a watershed moment for higher education.
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ProPublica

Hundreds of scholars have had their visas revoked and dozens have been detained.

What’s exceptional about Öztürk’s case is how her detention was caught on camera.

What’s scariest, immigration lawyers say, is how little is known about all the others.
propublica.org/article/rumeysa

ProPublicaAmerican Rendition: Rümeysa Öztürk’s Journey From Ph.D. Scholar to Trump Target Languishing in Louisiana Cell
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#News#ICE#University
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Peter

Daughter, PhD student in Australia and member of PhD student groups involving folks all around the world, has been warned (as have all the others) not to travel to or even via the USA for conferences without scrubbing ALL social media and private info (e-mail, etc).

This is government advice, not just students talking to students.

The world is going to have to align around the USA, rather than with it.

#USA#University#Travel
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Badass Britt :mastodon_lgbt:

I’m driving myself mad because I can’t decide on a minor for my degree. I want to do one, especially if I end up not doing an Honours degree.

I. Cannot. Decide. Ahhhhh.

Edit: important info, I’m doing this for me, not for any future employability or job. I’m disabled and don’t plan to ever work for anyone except myself in the future.

#school#studying#university
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Rowland Mosbergen

@adam I've worked with over 200 undergrads and graduates in the last 4 years and I can say that most of them (75%) don't have critical thinking skills IE. Ability to think for themselves.

The program I've created tests their critical thinking skills and it is clear that high school and university do not develop this in their curriculum.

I have to get them to unlearn so that they can start to develop these skills.

#university#skills
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“Harvard didn’t blink. The fight starts here,” writes @Daojoan for her Index newsletter. “[It] did not act quickly. But it acted clearly. That clarity must be contagious. Because unless every university in America is ready to say no to federal ideological coercion, this moment will not be a line in the sand. It will be a footnote in the obituary of academic freedom,” she writes. “The government has already decided it can control the curriculum by controlling the cash. What happens next is not up to them. It's up to everyone else.”

theindex.media/harvard-didnt-b

#Education #HigherEducation #University #Harvard #TrumpAdministration #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

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The Index. · Harvard Didn’t Blink. The Fight Starts Here.Harvard stood its ground. Now every university faces a choice: comply or resist.
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James Akers

Back in Brooklyn now. On my way back, I stopped at my alma mater- Alfred University in a rural one stoplight town of Alfred, NY.

Nice to see my old sculpture and art school building haunts. While I was there I saw a bunch of old and new professors, sat in on 2 student critiques, and met with a promising young neon bender, artist and glassblower,

@AbbeyfuckingDivens

and chatted a bunch with my former neon teacher, Sarah Blood.

The roll of paper next to the neon bombarder in the neon shop is the "high tech temperature guage". Long a controversial practice in neon nerddom, when the paper smokes and discolors- the glass is hot. I aim for incinerating the paper :).

Exciting things to see at the school as per usual- an its nice to be back home. About to head back in to work as I type this.

A neon wall at Alfred University, with various turquoise, pink, red, and purple squiggles, text and shapes.
A roll of paper kept next to neon processing equipment. A labelmaker label reads "HIGH TECH TEMPERATURE GUAGE" atop a wood table
Color samples, looking exactly the same as when I attended 10 years ago. My original neon and glass mentor wrote and maybe made or supervides the production of these back in 2002. Those tubes have been on, and up, since then. One rainbow of argon mercury donated tubes on the right and the same rainbow filled with just neon on the left, brick wall showing the light gradient.
An Abbey Divens piece dealing with chronic illness and medication. Her handwriting is a little sloppy with some crazy bends and blown out powders- which in this case makes the piece stronger. White neon letters reading "CHRONIC LIFE LONG ONGOING" mounted on a white rectangle with two black, visible transformers on the face.
#neon#college#artschool
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Nonilex

"As is required, #Harvard's reports include information on gifts & contracts from foreign sources exceeding $250K annually. This includes contracts to provide executive #education, other training, & academic publications," the #university said.

Among info also sought by #Trump within 30 days are records relating to expelled foreign #students…, #research by those who were expelled & a #list of visiting researchers, students & #faculty at Harvard who are *affiliated* w/ foreign govts.

#law
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yianiris

Universities have been funding prostitutes (like my diplomatic use of terms?) from admin to dept.heads for decades now, and human rights have never been a concern. In "pursuit of excellence " (# of research articles approved on elite journals) they will hand out any state enemy to hang.

A small family owned used car business may have higher moral standards than most research universities, and this is OK with most "scientists".

@heretical_i @palestine

#university#research
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Mab_813

Austria is planning a "Students at risk" program for students from the USA and other countries - including support for changing one's studies to an Austrian university and € 1200 per month.

It's only for 50 students, but if this sounds interesting for you, keep an eye on this website (which has info on lots of different grants):

grants.at/en/

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mastodon.derstandard.at/@derSt

grants.atAustrian Database for Scholarships and Research Grantsgrants.at is Austria’s biggest database for scholarships and research grants. It offers more than 1,200 entries for students, graduates and researchers.
#Austria#university#grant
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Covidiocracy

The effort by a number of #universities to create a mutual defense compact is a good start, but y’all *need* to involve #sports. Collectively agree to cancel all of your #college #basketball, #football, #baseball, and #soccer games until the #Trump administration stops attacking universities.

Fuck up the sports and MAGAts *will* start caring.

chronicle.com/article/these-fa
#Big10 #university #academia #education

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