Archives: Universities

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 and damaged our 1st Amendment (Salaita Case)

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…

In defeat for Israel Lobbies, Professors’ Union censures U of Illinois Over Salaita Firing

By Lauren McCauley, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | - - Attorneys for Professor Steven Salaita called the move by leading academic group 'a serious blemish on the university’s record' The university rescinded…