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A.I. Is Coming to Class. These Professors Want to Ease Your Worries.

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/nyregion/ai-college-classes.html

A.I. Is Coming to Class. These Professors Want to Ease Your Worries.

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/nyregion/ai-college-classes.html

A.I. Is Coming to Class. These Professors Want to Ease Your Worries.

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/nyregion/ai-college-classes.html

A.I. Is Coming to Class. These Professors Want to Ease Your Worries.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/nyregion/ai-college-classes.html

A.I. Is Coming to Class. These Professors Want to Ease Your Worries.

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/nyregion/ai-college-classes.html

#ColumbiaUniversity Bent Over Backward to Appease #RightWing, #ProIsrael Attacks — And #Trump Still Cut #FederalFunding

Instead of #outrage, the school’s interim president responded to the cuts by vowing to continue its misguided crackdown.

by Natasha Lennard, March 8 2025

"Columbia University could hardly have been more draconian in the last year and a half since students began speaking out against Israel’s assault on #Gaza.
In early November 2023, four months before the Columbia #GazaSolidarity encampment even began, the university banned its chapters of #StudentsForJusticeInPalestine and #JewishVoiceForPeace. A few hundred students from the groups had had the audacity to walk out from classes and hold a “die-in” protest on campus — some of the most widely celebrated nonviolent protest tactics available.

"The crackdown was just getting started.

Since then, the university has ordered police raids on campus three times, leading to the arrests of over 100 students. Last week, the school expelled four students, three from #BarnardCollege one from Columbia. Many dozens of students have faced discipline and suspensions for participating in pro-Palestine protests and speech.

"Professors have been slandered before Congress, censured, removed from positions, and reportedly pushed into retirement over their support for Palestine and criticism of Israel. The campus has been essentially locked down for almost a year.

"Again and again, Columbia has shown a willingness to throw #students, #faculty, #FreeSpeech, and academic freedom under the bus in acquiescence to a #RightWing, #ProIsrael narrative that treats support for Palestinians as an affront to Jewish safety.

"For all Columbia’s #appeasement, President Donald Trump’s Federal Task Force to Combat Antisemitism announced last week that it would cancel $400 million in #FederalGrants and contracts to the university.

"'Columbia has worked overtime to appease,' wrote Layla, a student at Columbia’s School of Social Work, who asked to withhold her last name having faced doxxing attacks and harassment from Zionist groups. 'Students are miserable. Campus is a #panopticon. And their funding was still cut.'

"The Trump administration can be expected to use its perverted conception of antisemitism to further its explicit plans to decimate, #corporatize, and #ReWhiten #HigherEducation. The shame here lies with university leaderships — at Columbia and schools nationwide — that have failed to stand up for their purported missions of #CriticalThinking and #AcademicFreedom. Instead, they have put some of their most vulnerable community members, particularly international students and students of color, at risk.

"There is no appeasing a political force like the #TrumpianRight, intent on a program of destruction. And there is no appeasing a nationalist #Zionist worldview that, defying reason, sees #antisemitism in every call for #Palestinian freedom. Columbia is proof of the failure of caving in; the administration has offered up a platter of repression for more than a year and is still slated to lose $400 million."

Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2025/03/08/columbia-trump-funding-gaza-israel/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/jrNva
#Fascism #Appeasement #FreePalestine #Gaza #RightToProtest #Censorship #Fascism #ICE #ACAB #Authoritarianism #USPol #FreeSpeech

Bullying at its finest.

#trump #columbiauniversity #barnardcollege #ivyleague #nyc
https://abc7ny.com/post/trump-administration-cancels-400-million-worth-grants-contracts-columbia-university/15988527/
via ABC7NY App

started a #wikipedia article on Austrian-born US art critic, Elise Grilli (1906-1969), who was based in #Japan after 1947: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elise_Grilli @wikiwomeninred @wikiasianmonth @wikipedia_la #JapaneseArt #JapanTimes #BarnardCollege #ColumbiaU

After Raids, #NYPD Denied Student #Protesters Water and Food in Jail

Two college protesters were placed in solitary confinement, according to Columbia professors who worked in real time to support jailed #students.

by Akela Lacy
May 6 2024

"Students arrested during the police crackdown on protests at universities in New York City last week were denied water and food for 16 hours, according to two faculty members at #ColumbiaUniversity’s #BarnardCollege who collected reports from students who were inside.

"Other students reported that they were beaten by New York City Police Department officers after their arrests and taken to the hospital for injuries before being returned to central booking. Photos of the injuries were provided to The Intercept.

"Police arrested 282 protesters at Columbia University and the #CityCollege of New York. According to the professors, they ended up at one of two jails downtown: NYPD headquarters or the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse.

"'The conditions we’re hearing about are inhumane. They take away the dignity of every person in there.'

"Students arrested during the crackdown said at least two of them were put in solitary confinement for three hours and others reported much longer stays, according to Barnard College professor #ShayoniMitra and a tenured faculty member who asked for anonymity to protect their livelihood. The faculty members were working to support jailed students. (The NYPD did not immediately respond to a request for comment.)

"Other students reported that they were held in mouse-infested cells, along with the general population of the jail. The students told the professors that they weren’t given water or food for 16 hours and that at least one student was left without shoes for the same period of time.

"'The conditions we’re hearing about are inhumane,' Mitra told The Intercept. 'They take away the dignity of every person in there.'

"Police forces and state troopers raided university protests at dozens of campuses across the country last week. Nationwide, police have arrested more than 2,500 people, according to an arrest tracker from The Appeal."

Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2024/05/06/columbia-student-protests-nypd-jail/

#ACAB #FreePalestine #GazaSolidarity #Protests #StudentProtests

Ask my library if $3,000 is right for you!

***Apply for a Barnard Library Research Award!***

The Barnard Library will award $3000 to two researchers to support their use of its Archives, Zine Library, and other collections/resources.

https://library.barnard.edu/news/apply-barnard-library-research-award

#zines #zineLibraries #archives #ResearchAwards #grants #WGSS #AmericanStudies #WomensStudies #GenderStudies #BarnardCollege