As we navigate the difficult challenges that face us in higher education — and across our civic life in these United States — I return to the practices of blogging that have long enriched my academic and personal life. #HigherEd @humetricshss
https://cplong.org/2025/04/finding-new-modes-of-communicating-as-provost/
Just finished my final exam and am kicking off a 16 day break until my summer session 
I still have a ton of work to do for my job and around the house, but it’ll be nice to not have to deal with school for a minute.
Infusing critical thinking into undergraduate science education. https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blogs/higher-ed-gamma/2025/04/23/thinking-critically-about-science-media-and-society
'Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished #science #education #highered #criticalthinking
Government will restore international students’ immigration status
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/25/nx-s1-5377610/government-says-for-now-it-will-restore-international-students-status
Stellar work from @uniofbath.bsky.social
10 STEPS to creating a #neurodiverse inclusive environment
www.bath.ac.uk/publications...
#Research
#AcademicSky
#HigherEd
#Neurodivergent
#Employment
#Workplace
#HiddenDisability
#Dyslexia
#Autism
#ADHD
#AuDHD
#Dysgraphia
#Dyspraxia
#Dyscalculia
#OCD
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The Trump administration is reversing its termination of legal status for international students around the US after many filed court challenges, government lawyers said Friday.
https://apnews.com/article/international-student-status-restored-9e8a7cb90f4193ec52bf06edc5094cd9
https://apnews.com/article/international-student-status-restored-9e8a7cb90f4193ec52bf06edc5094cd9 “ICE is developing a policy that will provide a framework for SEVIS record terminations. Until such a policy is issued, the SEVIS records for plaintiff(s) in this case (and other similarly situated plaintiffs) will remain Active or shall be re-activated if not currently active and ICE will not modify the record solely based on the NCIC finding that resulted in the recent SEVIS record termination” #ICE #HigherEd #USPolitics
Strike fund!! University of Rochester grad workers!! Pay in if you can:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/ur-grad-labor-union-strike-and-hardship-fund
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/duke-university-warning-international-students-b2737198.html “increased risks involved in re-entering into the United States” #travel #HigherEd #detention #Duke #USPolitics
600 University of Pennsylvania faculty sign open letter urging the school's president to resist trump's 'assaults' on higher education — The Daily Pennsylvanian
http://www.thedp.com/article/2025/04/penn-faculty-letter-to-jameson
#AcademicFreedom #HigherEd
Not at my uni, but at others, administrators rushed to take down DEI “content” from their websites after receiving the government’s odious “Dear colleague” letter.
Now the courts are weighing in and pushing back.
DO NOT OBEY IN ADVANCE.
It only gives momentum to the things you claim to oppose.
#uspol #democracy #academia #highered
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/24/politics/education-dei-policy-blocked/index.html
Calling shots, in the service of demolishing civilizations and the New Crusades. The #abrahamAccord is all in; the #authoritarianPlaybook clearly states all defenders of humanity's remnants must either be silenced, or cleared. #higherEd #1A #zionismIsFascism #antiZionismIsNotAntisemitism #zionismIsAntisemitism #zionismIsUnconstitutional #justiceNews #news #breaking #militarism #Hasbara
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/24/barnard-college-texts-jewish-faculty “this survey in effect creates a list of Jewish faculty, staff and students at Barnard” #HigherEd #Barnard #USPolitics
Texas Senate considers whether college students without legal status in U.S. should receive financial aid
State Sen. Mayes Middleton, the Galveston Republican who authored Senate Bill 1798, says it would amend state law so that students without legal status — including Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) recipients — would also have to pay out-of-state tuition rates to attend universities or colleges in Texas.
“Power is not tied to knowledge,” Ferme said. “What is tied to knowledge is opportunity.”
https://www.abqjournal.com/news/article_6b97d946-63a5-48e3-8fbc-3c13fa67cd2f.html
With #Cornell and #Yale Presidents signing onto the statement by the #American Association of #Colleges and #Universities opposing the autocratic #Trump restrictions on #AcademicFreedom , the only Ivy League school that has not joined the now 300+ signatories is Dartmouth College, which is more like a #fraternity masquerading as a #HigherEd institution anyway. #ChangeMyMind
https://www.cornellsun.com/article/2025/04/kotlikoff-joins-more-than-230-higher-education-leaders-in-signing-letter-against-trump-s-political-interference
#Resist. #DoNotComply and #DoNotCollaborateWithFascists in #USpol.
My university president didn't sign The Letter and refuses to. “I think it sends the wrong message to students who are most vulnerable under these demands," a student said
https://www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/04/23/more-than-220-university-leaders-signed-a-statement-condemning-trump-but-no-one-from-usc/
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