#academic-freedom — Public Fediverse posts
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Looking at median grade-point averages, & standardized test scores broken down by race, the #Trump #DOJ concluded that “Yale’s use of race resulted in a Black applicant being as much as 29 times higher odds of getting an interview for admission than an equally strong Asian applicant with similar academic credentials.”
#Yale medical school does not only consider grades & test scores when evaluating applications.#law #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #CivilRights #education
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The #DOJ requested documents from #Yale to determine whether its admissions practices were in compliance with federal #CivilRights #law, & determined that the medical school “continues to intentionally discriminate against applicants based on their race,” despite a 2023 #SCOTUS ruling rejecting race-conscious #AffirmativeAction in college admissions.
#FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #education #Trump #WhiteSupremacy
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After a year-long “investigation”, the #Trump #DOJ concluded that #Yale School of Medicine “discriminated” based on race in its admissions, favoring Black & Hispanic applicants over White & Asian ones, the agency said Thursday.
#law #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #education #CivilRights #SCOTUS #WhiteSupremacy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2026/05/14/doj-says-yale-medical-school-discriminated-against-asian-white-applicants/ -
"Since the beginning of world-wide #campusProtests in the wake of October 7, 2023, there has been a tremendous upswell of organizing and support for #PalestinianLiberation and #activism against #USmilitarism. In response, a wave of #repression against students, staff and faculty on campus began in 2023 and accelerated after Donald Trump took office."
MERIP welcomes Aslı Bâli & Darryl Li to discuss
https://www.merip.org/2026/05/the-merip-podcast-episode-22-asli-bali-and-darryl-li/
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Texas Tech students held a funeral for academic freedom 🪦
https://pen.org/texas-tech-academic-freedom-funeral/
#Texas #TexasTech #DavidBowie #AcademicFreedom #HIgherEd #Academia
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CW: U.S. Politics, Texas higher education
Students at Texas Tech University hold funeral for academic freedom.
This is courage.
#USPolitics #Texas #Censorship #AcademicFreedom #USHigherEducation #HigherEducation
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"After #USDA request, Indiana plant biologist locked out of lab by school."
https://www.science.org/content/article/after-usda-request-indiana-plant-biologist-locked-out-lab-school"A faculty member at #IndianaUniversity, who has sharply criticized the government’s recent prosecution of several Chinese scientists accused of smuggling biological materials into the United States, has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders."
#Academia #AcademicFreedom #Censorship #China #DefendResearch #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
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There has never been real #AcademicFreedom in #EPNEcuador, having to have approved projects to be allowed to allocate time for research, and not just teaching.
Even then, you notice this complete decay of #academic freedom when the administration of the so-called university tries to force massive teaching loads in every possible dirty way they can.
It is time for an exit plan.
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#Rutgers yanked alum Rami Elghandour’s engineering school graduation invite over pro-Palestine social posts he wasn’t even planning to mention in his speech. We’re watching a livestreamed genocide, and unis are worried about hurting the feelings of people backing it.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/06/rutgers-cancel-graduation-speech-pro-palestine-post
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Israel's Education Minister Yoav Kisch (#Likud) today demanded university presidents sign a written commitment to avoid "political agendas" on campus or face budget sanctions and government legislation. The threatened bill would give the minister discretionary control over ~14bn NIS/year in university funding and the power to dismiss and replace senior academic appointments at will.
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From the letter:
Accordingly, the institution heads commit to:
- Prevent the expression of a political position by the institution or its institutional representatives in a political manner.
- Ensure the continuity of the academic activities and administration of the institutions.
- Prevent disruptions, shutdowns or strikes in the activities of institutions originating from political disputes or political struggles, and to make clear that there is no place for a strike to harm the normal functioning of higher education institutions for political reasons.
All of this, in order to prevent a split, to maintain the functioning of the institutions, and to allow all members of the faculty and students to inquire, learn, and express positions in a free and independent manner.
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"express positions in a free and independent manner" ... 🤔 the hallmark of fascism: the document suppresses institutional dissent while invoking the language of free inquiry to legitimize that suppression...
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"#MERIP’s Spring issue, #CampusPolitics — #Palestine and the New University Order, comes two years after mass #studentMobilizations against #Israel’s genocide in Palestine reached their peak with #studentEncampments across the United States and Europe.
"The issue takes stock of #higherEducation following this inflection point..."
https://www.merip.org/issue-318/
#Gaza #PalestineSolidarity #studentProtests #activism #campusActivism #higherEd #academicFreedom #USpol #EuPol #censorship #stateRepression -
School boards and universities will both be affected by Ontario’s Bill 101 sweeping changes
#Ontario #Canada #Bill101 #Education #Politics #PublicPolicy #Universities #Schools #Students #Teachers #AcademicFreedom #PolicyReform #HigherEducation #StudentData
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In France, American Universities Lose Their Allure in the Trump Era
Celeste Wang, 20, from Belmont, Calif., said: “A lot of people use it as a proxy for saying…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #academicfreedom #Collegesanduniversities #DonaldJ #Europe #ForeignStudents(inUS) #France #Institutd'EtudesPolitiquesdeParis #Reims(France) #Trump #UnitedStatesInternationalRelations #UnitedStatesPoliticsandGovernment #World
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#Ithaka did a national survey on how state and federal policies are repressing research, researchers, and research institutions.
https://sr.ithaka.org/publications/the-impact-of-state-and-federal-policies-on-academic-researchers/Key findings:
<quote>* State and federal policies targeting divisive concepts or #DEI are shaping research agendas at scale and across disciplines. Twenty percent of all respondents, and 29 percent of researchers working in states with divisive concepts or similar laws, reported having avoided certain research topics because of state laws and policies.
* Eight percent of respondents representing a wide range of disciplines reported having had a federal grant cancelled in 2025.
* Eleven percent of respondents reported that federal and state policies restricting research activities are compelling them to seek employment out of state, to leave the academy, or to look for academic positions overseas.
* Researchers, particularly those at doctoral institutions and those employed in states with divisive concepts legislation, report concerns about whether university presidents and, especially, boards are willing to advocate for their academic freedom as researchers.</quote>
#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics
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"Tyranny at #TexasTech."
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/debatable-ideas/2026/04/17/tyranny-texas-techPS: Serious question. When accused of "banning books" on #gender and #LGBTQ+ topics from elementary school libraries, many conservative institutions said they were just shifting access to "age appropriate" grades within the schools. Is Texas Tech saying that not even college students are old enough to handle readings and class discussions on gender and LGBTQ+ topics? Or is it giving up on the "age appropriate" approach and simply embracing censorship?
#Academia #AcademicFreedom #Censorship #DefendResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
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From an April 9th Texas Tech University System memorandum providing course conent guidelines:
>> To ensure academic objectivity, faculty are prohibited from teaching as absolute truth that:
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● Meritocracy or a strong work ethic are inherently racist, sexist, or constructs of oppression. <<A flagrant breach of academic freedom.
#USPolitics #HigherEducation #TexasTech #Texas #AcademicFreedom #Meritocracy
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One year of strife between #Harvard and the #Trump admin, March 2025 - March 2026. www.harvardmagazine.com/harvard-in-t... #AcademicFreedom #AcadSky #AcademicSky #DefendResearch #EduSky #Funding #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics @[email protected]
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One year of strife between #Harvard and the #Trump admin, March 2025 - March 2026.
https://www.harvardmagazine.com/harvard-in-the-crosshairs/harvard-trump-administration-lawsuits#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
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#francoisburgat doit encore se battre en appel
#Petition · Stand with François Burgat for #AcademicFreedom
https://www.change.org/p/stand-with-fran%C3%A7ois-burgat-for-academic-freedom
Le 29 mai se tiendra son procès en appel, il avait pourtant été relaxé
https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2025/05/28/l-islamologue-francois-burgat-poursuivi-pour-apologie-du-terrorisme-relaxe_6609001_3224.html
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#HumanRights #AcademicFreedom
#InternationalLawfrom IRAN in Geneva （@PMIRAN_GENEVA X/）
【 Iranian academics, through an open letter addressed to the global academic community, call upon universities and scholars worldwide to uphold #InternationalLaw, defend #HumanRights, and safeguard #AcademicFreedom ‥‥
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Academic Freedom index:
- good are northern countries;
- worst is Saudi Arabia;
- Pakistan, the USA and France have the same trend to zero;
- Germany and Israel are not shown because good and unchanged in the recent years, which demonstrates bias.Try it: https://v-dem.net/data_analysis/VariableGraph/
#science #agnotology #ignorance #academicChatter #academicFreedom #NL #university #research #Pakistan #India #France
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"Israeli universities are embedded in the Israeli state’s military-industrial complex and actively contribute to the occupation of Palestinian land and the apartheid and genocide of Palestinian life. German universities and academic institutions serve as strategic partners in the Israeli colonial apparatus."
The Academic Boycott Campaign Germany: https://theleftberlin.com/academic-boycott-campaign-germany/
#ABCDe #academicBoycott #culturalBoycott #israelBoycott #antiZionism #faculty #academia #academic #universities #higherEd #academicFreedom #university #academics #theocracy #JewishState #campus #campuses #Germany
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The [formerly] “Equal” Employment Opportunity Commission [#EEOC] has been pursuing an inquiry into potential workplace #discrimination against #Jewish faculty & staff at #Penn, a #school in Philadelphia, since 2023. While #university officials said they welcomed the investigation, they balked last year after the government issued a subpoena seeking names & phone numbers for members of #Jewish groups on campus.
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Judge Gerald J. Pappert of the US District Court in Philadelphia issued the decision, which largely sided with the #government, writing that #Penn’s “constitutional claims are easily dispensed with.”
He gave #Penn until May 1 to comply with the subpoena, though he said that the #university would not have to reveal any employee’s connection to a specific #Jewish-related organization.
#Trump #law #AcademicFreedom #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #dissent #RightToProtest
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The #Trump admin was within its rights to demand that the University of Pennsylvania turn over information about #Jewish people on campus as part of a federal investigation into #discrimination at the #school, a federal judge decided Tuesday.
The ruling clears a hurdle for the Trump admin as it targets elite #schools over accusations of antisemitism.
#law #AcademicFreedom #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #dissent #RightToProtest
