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Archives: Universities
How GOP Tax Bill’s assault on Universities will Devastate US Economy
By Benjamin J. Cohen | (The Conversation) | - - With the Senate’s passage of the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,” President Donald Trump seems close to notching his first legislative victory…
The Trump/GOP war on Science targets Grad Students
By Jill Richardson Imagine having to pay thousands of dollars of taxes on virtually no income. The Republican tax plan winding its way through Congress includes a special middle finger to the…
After CO2-fueled Disasters, Why won’t the U. of Michigan go Green?
Jonathan Morris | ( The Michigan Daily) | - - This month, two remarkable events occurred that passed mostly under the radar here on campus. First, to start off the month, the…
Now they hate Universities: Trumpie anti-Intellectualism infects GOP
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - A new Pew poll finds that 58% of Republicans now say that colleges and universities have a negative impact on the United States.…
Coultergate and the Truth About Campus Speech
David Faris | (Informed Comment) | - - The cancellation of human outrage machine Ann Coulter’s speech at the University of California-Berkeley has generated yet another round of pearl-clutching and hand-wringing about…
AG Jeff Sessions implies Asian-Americans in Hawaii not Real Americans
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Attorney-General Jeff Sessions was caught on tape saying the following: "“We are confident that the President will prevail on appeal and particularly in…
Give us your Huddled Scientists: France woos US Climate Researchers, Inventors in age of Trump
By Frédéric Simon | EurActiv.com | - - The United States of America. Home of the free. Land of the brave. And, until Donald Trump became president, a beacon of science, research…
Purge of teachers and academics bulldozes through Turkish education
By Moritz Pieper | (The Conversation) | - - As news of the attempted military coup in Turkey unfolded, I was in Pennsylvania. Travelling in the US, I had coincidentally found myself…
Trump University Was Textbook case of Fraud (TYT)
Cenk Uygur | (The Young Turks Video) | - - "Donald Trump is in a lot of trouble since a judge unsealed the documents of the Trump University case. This has the…
Student Protest, Black Lives Matter, & the Corporate University
By Aviva Chomsky | (Tomdispatch.com) | - - During the past academic year, an upsurge of student activism, a movement of millennials, has swept campuses across the country and attracted the attention…
Anti-Muslim Bigotry @ Idaho State to cost Pocatello $400 mn./ yr
Jay Hidlebrandt, Karole Honas, Misty Inglet | - KIFI Local News 8 | - - "The Idaho U.S. Attorney Wendy Olson held a press conference in Pocatello Thursday to address the recent…
End of Research in Egypt? The murder of my friend Giulio Regeni is an attack on academic freedom
By Neil Pyper | (the Conversation) | The body of Giulio Regeni was discovered in a ditch in Cairo on February 2, showing evidence of torture, and a slow and horrific death.…
Education under occupation: everyday disruption at a Palestinian university
Brendan Browne | (The Conversation) | - - As the clock moves towards 12.45pm I begin to anxiously await the flurry of emails that I’ve come to expect in advance of my…
How the Israel Lobbies hurt U of Illinois-UC & 1st Amendment (Salaita Case)
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - There is no honor among thieves or ideologues, and it is sad to see a great university's leadership descend into petty squabbling and…
Hillary v. Bernie on Student Debt: Whose Plan is more Progressive?
AJ+ | (Video report) | - - "Hillary Clinton announced on August 9 her New College Compact plan to tackle America's $1 trillion student debt problem. Clinton worked with education experts on…