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This is an autocratic assault on higher #education. The reluctance of these institutions to mount a strong defense, attributed to their conservative nature, ties to wealthy donors, and a focus on endowment growth, is a critical vulnerability.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/elite-ivy-league-colleges-caving-trump-administration-endowment-donors-deals-harvard-columbia-princeton-charlie-eaton-interview/ #Universities #Politics #USA
Mother JonesWhy elite colleges aren't pushing back on Trump, and why silence is dangerousTheir caution, one expert notes, is "potentially fatal for the university as we know it."
If you live in the #UK, please help bring this petition to 10k, to ensure it gets a government response. It asks to embed food, #farming, and #sustainability #education into the national curriculum, so that students reconnect to the #earth, understand their actions impact the #environment, health, and society.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700029
Petitions - UK Government and ParliamentPetition: Embed food, farming, and sustainability education into the national curriculumWe are calling on the government to integrate comprehensive food, farming, and sustainability education into the national curriculum, making these subjects core to students’ learning from early years through secondary school.
Biosphère
À la découverte des espèces d’insectes du Québec.
https://actualites.uqam.ca/2025/a-la-decouverte-des-especes-dinsectes-du-quebec/
#Biosphère #Montréal #Québec #Canada #science #nature #insectes #éducation #découverte #exposition #loisirs #UQAM
Actualités UQAM · À la découverte des espèces d’insectes du Québec | UQAMLes Uqamiens Julie Bélisle et Frédéric Lavoie sont les maîtres d’œuvre d’une exposition à la Biosphère.
Les nouveaux défis des bibliothèques universitaires
Six bibliothécaires de l’UQAM contribuent à un ouvrage collectif sur les enjeux de leur profession en 2025
https://actualites.uqam.ca/2025/les-nouveaux-defis-des-bibliotheques-universitaires/
#bibliothèques #université #UQAM #livre #recherche #bibliothécaire #culture #éducation #Montréal #Québec #Canada #Asted
Actualités UQAM · Les nouveaux défis des bibliothèques universitaires | UQAMSix bibliothécaires de l'UQAM contribuent à un ouvrage collectif sur les enjeux de leur profession en 2025.
Academic freedom in the US is under threat – universities of the world, unite! | Andrew Graham https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/09/universities-lies-truth-columbia-harvard-princeton #Trumpadministration #Universities #Worldnews #Academics #Education #USnews
The Guardian · Academic freedom in the US is under threat – universities of the world, unite!
A truly free education means DRM-free. Together, we can build a future in which everyone will be able to learn in freedom and will know their rights as a user. Donate to the FSF to help bring free software to every learning environment around the world. https://donate.fsf.org/ #LearnLibre #EndDRM #DRMFree #Education
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More science research cuts—
Commerce Secretary Lutnick announced yesterday that he is taking back ~ $4 million of funding to Princeton University intended to study the effects and risks of climate change, global warming, water availability, and rising sea levels since those objectives do not meet Trump’s new goals for NOAA.
#USA #USGov #trump #ClimateChange #NOAA #education #research #science #princeton
U.S. Department of CommerceEnding Cooperative Agreements’ Funding to Princeton UniversityOn Tuesday, April 8, 2025, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick announced that nearly $4 million in funding is ending to Princeton University after a detailed, careful, and thorough review of the Department’s financial assistance programs against National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (“NOAA”) current program objectives.
https://www.alojapan.com/1241958/how-preschool-in-japan-shaped-teen-choices-decades-later/ How preschool in Japan shaped teen choices decades later #children #Education #Japan #JapanNews #news #pregnancy #research #TeenagePregnancy Researchers explored the long-term effects of preschool expansion in Japan in the 1960s, revealing significant reductions in risky behaviors amongst teenagers. By analyzing regional differences in the rollout of the program, the study identified links between early childhood education and lower rates of…
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Make sure you don't only talk about social media when you talk about differences to 1920s.
There are many things that are either too ubiquous or hidden or too specialized in everyday use:
* useful encryption (unavailable before 1970s)
* LAN networks and popular internet (late 1990s), Tor (2002)
* directories, crawling based search (1998) and web 2.0 (coined in 2004, mainstream crash)
* web in our pocket (iPhone in 2006)
* crypto currencies (since 2009, intl. fallback where banking systems fail)
* web shops, online banking, ERMs, crowd funding ...
Now, in this world, power (Macht) means to know and care about hierarchical/centralized structures such as physical backbones (cables, antennas, fibers, satellites), search engines and their results, influencers and their funding, central certificate authorities, hardware production, crypto security...
https://www.europesays.com/1979552/ Auckland college closed due to water supply issues #auckland #education #NewZealand
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Just started on this, laying in bed. One in my car earlier when it was said. Starting from gradeschool, arithmetic, this playlist will eventually teach you STEM Like a Genius.
Check out my playlist made on Suno! https://suno.com/playlist/861f3b69-2dfb-4243-825d-0d6cf1db656a
On Monday night, UW announced five students and four post-grad trainees had their visas revoked, and on Tuesday, Seattle University said three of its post-grads also had status revoked.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/washington-students-post-grads-trump-administration-visas-revoked-uw-seattle-university
#KUOW #News #Politics #Politics #Education #Immigration #DonaldTrump #Government
www.kuow.org · Trump is revoking visas. Students, post-grads in Seattle worry they'll be targeted for supporting GazaOn Monday night, UW announced five students and four post-grad trainees had their visas revoked, and on Tuesday, Seattle University said three of its post-grads also had status revoked.
QNFOGeometric Physics - QNFOGeometric Physics Mathematical Frameworks for Physical Description 1. Introduction Mathematics serves as the fundamental language through which the intricate laws and diverse phenomena of the physica…
https://www.europesays.com/1979298/ Israel shuts down UNRWA-affiliated schools in occupied East Jerusalem | Israel-Palestine conflict News #education #HumanRights #Israel #IsraelPalestineConflict #MiddleEast #News #Palestine
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The #Trump admin has frozen more than $1 billion in funding for #Cornell & $790 million for #Northwestern amid *#CivilRights* [white man sad] investigations into both schools.
The #funding pause involves mostly grants & contracts with the depts of #Agriculture [HUGE school at Cornell], #Defense, #Education & #Health & Human Services.
AI "artists": "There was NO WAY I could possibly make art before AI!"
Children with a sidewalk and cheap chalk:
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I’m an alum, so… 
#Trump Officials Freeze $1 Billion for #CornellUniversity & $790 Million for #NorthwesternUniversity
The funding pause amid *#CivilRights* investigations into both #universities sharply escalates the Trump admin’s campaign against elite #colleges.
#law #AntiIntellectualism #NaziState #ThoughtPolice #Censorship #WhiteWashing #FreeSpeech #FirstAmendment #education #Cornell
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/us/politics/cornell-northwestern-university-funds-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=0C341DDC-17F7-403A-A100-B68F51396C05
The New York Times · Trump Administration Freezes $1 Billion for Cornell and $790 Million for Northwestern, Officials Say
Alberta moves to restrict public boards’ power to police trustees, councilors
The government of Alberta is planning to make changes how public school boards and municipal councils can enforce codes of conduct and discipline those who breach them.
#politics #education #law #Alberta
https://globalnews.ca/news/11122108/alberta-moves-to-restrict-public-boards-power-to-police-trustees-councilors/
