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A University, a Rural Town and Their Fight to Survive Trump’s War on Higher Education

The administration’s research funding and DEI cuts present an existential threat to regional public universities like Southern Illinois University, the economic backbone of the conservative rural region it serves.
propublica.org/article/regiona

ProPublicaA University, a Rural Town and Their Fight to Survive Trump’s War on Higher Education
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Via #TheGuardian @ 5:26pm ET on Mar 26, 2025

A #Yale professor who studies #fascism is leaving the #US to work at a #Canadian #university because of the current US political climate, which he worries is putting the US at risk of becoming a “#FascistDictatorship”.

#JasonStanley, who wrote the 2018 #book How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, has accepted a position at the University of Toronto’s #MunkSchool of #GlobalAffairs and #PublicPolicy.

#USpoli #CANpoli

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m

The Guardian · Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in CanadaBy Rachel Leingang

A Palestinian American medical student objected to working alongside IOF soldiers. The university suspended her.

Emory University put Umaymah Mohammad through ‘one of the most dehumanizing’ experiences of her life as the silencing of pro-Palestinian, anti-genocide voices continues.

#WesternUniversities #University #Fascism #AntiArabRacism #AntiPalestinianRacism #FreePalestine theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m

The Guardian · A Palestinian American medical student objected to working alongside IDF soldiers. The university suspended herBy Timothy Pratt

Do you know of any self-organized, bottom-up, locally-rooted educational organizations?

I am asking this because I am talking intensely with @ceci about ideas and dreams we have for our home city, #Sanremo, Italy.

We are both coming to the conclusion that an autonomous, independent, cooperative, critical, and deeply rooted university is one of the very very few projects that could give young people in the area a real chance not to emigrate.

As we are also both deeply in love with fringe academia, it would also be the only reason for us to somehow maintain a bond with our homeland.

Please, boost and share this, and send us any kind of suggestions! We particularly welcome Italian initiatives.

🟥Today, staff at the #University of #Groningen #strike against the proposed budget cuts to #HigherEducation in the #Netherlands. This is part of a national relay strike supported by the labour unions AOb and FNV.

The cut-backs also affect academic libraries, like 'my' University of Groningen #Library @Bibliothecaris. That is why I, together with other library colleagues, join the strike.

More about the strike activities in Groningen:
organizetherug.wordpress.com/s

Organize the RUG · Strikes! / Stakingen!We gaan staken! / We’re going on strike! (English version below) Om ons te verzetten tegen de voorgenomen bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs hebben vakbonden AOb en FNV officieel een stakingstraj…

New #University of Groningen #Press publication 🥳

➡️ START Handbook: How can I help my first-year #students engage, persist and succeed?

This handbook is an #OpenEducation 'train-the-trainer' resource designed to support educators in guiding first-year students through their transition to #HigherEducation.

🔗 opentextbooks.rug.nl/start/

More about University of Groningen Press: rug.nl/research/ugp/

Every researchers should listen it !

A Manichean vision of everything, a simple rhetoric.

We can also heard these sentences in French TV shows, from far right mother fuckers.

We need to be prepared in EU.

#academia #university

J.D. Vance | The Universities are the Enemy | National Conservatism Conference II
youtube.com/watch?v=0FR65Cifnh

#GiftArticle

‘People Are Going Silent’: Fearing #Retribution, #Trump Critics Muzzle Themselves

The #silence grows louder every day

Fired #FederalWorkers worried about losing their homes ask not to be quoted by name. #University presidents fearing that millions in federal #funding could disappear are holding their fire. Chief execs alarmed by #tariffs that could hurt their businesses are on mute.

#law #FreeSpeech #democracy #USpol #autocracy #authoritarianism #dissent
nytimes.com/2025/03/06/us/poli

The New York Times · Fearing Retribution, Trump Critics Muzzle ThemselvesBy Elisabeth Bumiller