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                        Anyone out there able to help Nadeen out at the last minute so she can pay her (and her sister’s) tuition to continue their studies? You would be gifting the world two new dentists for the low price of $2,000.
The last day for them to register is tomorrow.
Please share + donate if you can.
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#academia #dentists #dentistry #university #study #scholarships #fediAid #mutualAid #GazaVerified https://mastodon.social/@Dr_Nadeen98/115394228274365361
#BrownUniversity Rejects #Trump #Extortion Attempt
#Brown was the second #university to turn down the *deal*, which would have given a #funding preference to #universities that agreed to conform to #conservative *values* including #censorship & restrictions on #InternationalStudents.
 #law  #US  #Constitution  #FirstAmendment  #AcademicFreedom  #education  #democracy  #authoritarianism  #autocracy  #dictatorship  #fascism  #tyranny 
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/us/brown-university-trump-compact-funding.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
#Brown was the 2nd #university to rebuff the government’s proposal of so-called compact, after #MIT did so last week. But Brown’s decision was likely to carry extraordinary weight in #HigherEducation because it had previously reached a settlement with the #Trump admin to restore hundreds of millions in #federal #research #funding.
#extortion #law #US #Constitution #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #education #democracy #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
“I am concerned that the compact by its nature & by various provisions would restrict #AcademicFreedom & undermine the #autonomy of #Brown’s governance, critically compromising our ability to fulfill our mission,” the #university’s president, Christina H. Paxson, told #Trump admin officials in a letter Wednesday.
#extortion #law #US #Constitution #FirstAmendment #education #democracy #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
#Brown was the 2nd #university to rebuff the government’s proposal of so-called compact, after #MIT did so last week. But Brown’s decision was likely to carry extraordinary weight in #HigherEducation because it had previously reached a settlement with the #Trump admin to restore hundreds of millions in #federal #research #funding.
#extortion #law #US #Constitution #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #education #democracy #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
#BrownUniversity Rejects #Trump #Extortion Attempt
#Brown was the second #university to turn down the *deal*, which would have given a #funding preference to #universities that agreed to conform to #conservative *values* including #censorship & restrictions on #InternationalStudents.
 #law  #US  #Constitution  #FirstAmendment  #AcademicFreedom  #education  #democracy  #authoritarianism  #autocracy  #dictatorship  #fascism  #tyranny 
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/us/brown-university-trump-compact-funding.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
#BrownUniversity Rejects #Trump #Extortion Attempt
#Brown was the second #university to turn down the *deal*, which would have given a #funding preference to #universities that agreed to conform to #conservative *values* including #censorship & restrictions on #InternationalStudents.
 #law  #US  #Constitution  #FirstAmendment  #AcademicFreedom  #education  #democracy  #authoritarianism  #autocracy  #dictatorship  #fascism  #tyranny 
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/us/brown-university-trump-compact-funding.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
I love the errors that I get in my CompE labs because they're always weird errors that no one else has gotten before and the TAs don't even know how to fix it 😭
Here's a sad story. Most of NZ's universities have given up using AI detection software. That's a big win for plagiarism in general.
AI slop: 1
Universities: 0
"AI -- dumbing down society as a service."
"A strong majority of #Jewish #Americans said they are concerned about #antisemitism on #college campuses but disagree with President #Trump’s approach to combating it, a national #poll showed.
By nearly 3 to 1, #American #Jews believe that Trump is using antisemitism as an “excuse” to “penalize and tax college campuses,” according to the poll released Tuesday by Ipsos in collaboration with social and political scientists at UC Berkeley and the #University of Rochester."
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-16/jewish-americans-trump-poll
"A strong majority of #Jewish #Americans said they are concerned about #antisemitism on #college campuses but disagree with President #Trump’s approach to combating it, a national #poll showed.
By nearly 3 to 1, #American #Jews believe that Trump is using antisemitism as an “excuse” to “penalize and tax college campuses,” according to the poll released Tuesday by Ipsos in collaboration with social and political scientists at UC Berkeley and the #University of Rochester."
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-16/jewish-americans-trump-poll
"A strong majority of #Jewish #Americans said they are concerned about #antisemitism on #college campuses but disagree with President #Trump’s approach to combating it, a national #poll showed.
By nearly 3 to 1, #American #Jews believe that Trump is using antisemitism as an “excuse” to “penalize and tax college campuses,” according to the poll released Tuesday by Ipsos in collaboration with social and political scientists at UC Berkeley and the #University of Rochester."
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-16/jewish-americans-trump-poll
Petition: Immediately facilitate the evacuation of Gazan students holding acceptances to Irish Universities and who meet all the requirements for Irish student visas.
Please sign if you’re in Ireland.
https://my.uplift.ie/petitions/evacuate-irish-university-students-from-gaza-1
#ireland#Gaza #university #students #evacuation #academia #israel #genocide#Palestine#FreePalestine
The continuing financial crisis across the university sector has led to the Post-92 universities seeking permission from Govt. to reduce their employers' pension contribution payments... so as so often, rubbish management & counter productive national HE policy results in the future impoverishment of retiring staff...
The Post-92's could be an engine room of educational uplift but instead we'll see more morale collapse among university staff... ever was it thus.
 #university #politics
h/t FT
The continuing financial crisis across the university sector has led to the Post-92 universities seeking permission from Govt. to reduce their employers' pension contribution payments... so as so often, rubbish management & counter productive national HE policy results in the future impoverishment of retiring staff...
The Post-92's could be an engine room of educational uplift but instead we'll see more morale collapse among university staff... ever was it thus.
 #university #politics
h/t FT
I argued a couple of days ago that the sector is unprepared for our first academic year where the use of generative AI is completely normalised amongst students. HEPI found 92% of undergraduates using LLMs this year, up from 66% the previous year, which matches AdvancedHE’s finding of 62% using AI in their studies “in a way that is allowed by their university” (huge caveat). This largely accords with my own experience in which it appeared that last year LLMs become mainstream amongst students and this year they it to become a near uniform phenomenon.
The problem arises from the gap between near uniform use of LLMs in some way and the the lack of support being offered. Only 36% of students in the HEPI survey said they had been offered support by their university: a 56% gap. Only 26% of students say their university provides access to AI tools: a 66% gap. This is particularly problematic because we have evidence that wealthier students are tending to use LLMs more and in more analytical and reflective ways. They are more likely to use LLMs in a way that supports rather than hinders learning.
How do we close that gap between student LLM use and the support students are offered? My concern is that centralised training is either going to tend towards banality or irrelevance because the objective of GenAI training for students needs to be how to learn with LLMs rather than outsource learning to them. There are general principles which can be offered here but the concrete questions which have to be answered for students are going to vary between disciplinary areas:
Furthermore answering these questions is a process taking place in relating to changes in the technology and the culture emerging around it. Even if those changes are now slowing down, they are certainly not stopping. We need infrastructure for continuous adaptation in a context where the sector is already in crisis for entirely unrelated reasons. Furthermore, that has to willingly enrol academics in a way consistent with their workload and outlook. My sense is we have to find ways of embedding this within existing conversations and processes. The only way to do this I think is to genuinely give academics voice within the process, finding ways to network existing interactions in order that norms and standards emerge from practice rather than the institution expecting practice adapts to another centrally imposed policy.
#higherEducation #technology #university #academic #students #generativeAI #malpractice #LLMs #HEPI
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