Tag: higher education
MIT rejects Trump funding compact, ignites academic freedom showdown
First elite university publicly refuses White House pledge critics call “extortion,” setting up a legal, financial, and political fight over free inquiry and federal research dollars.
The leader of Trump’s assault on higher education has a troubled...
Terrell, meanwhile, rebranded himself as “Leo 2.0,” attacking “DEI nonsense,” comparing Black Lives Matter to ISIS and declaring the 2020 election was “stolen from President Trump and America!”
Prestige, power, and dear old alma mater
Must higher education always genuflect before America’s highest incomes?
Republican judge blocks student debt relief rule before it’s finalized, delaying...
The Biden administration has been working to alleviate the burden of student loans, especially for long-term borrowers who have been repaying loans for decades.
How oil and gas companies infiltrate higher education to maintain influence
It’s a global climate obstruction strategy that dates back decades, researchers from six universities argue in a new study.
Supreme Court preserves college preferences for wealthy whites
In its recent ruling on affirmative action in college admissions, the Supreme Court’s conservative justices squarely came down on the side of race and class-based preferences—for wealthy whites.
In steep decline: Body blows to America’s vaunted, quality higher education
Once the world’s best, U.S. higher education staggers, with no easy fixes.
Charles Koch ramps up higher ed funding to fuel ‘talent pipeline’
"Charles Koch is doubling down on the multi-million dollar money dumps that buy him real control over professors."
Academic freedom at risk after decades of attacks and underfunding from...
We look at one of the consequences of this crisis: the growing threat to academic freedom with academic and author Henry Reichman.
This is how white privilege goes to college
The recent college cheating scandal surprises no one. The super-rich have long relied on “legacy admissions” to get them into their elite college of choice.
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Nearly all plant-based meat alternatives Contain mycotoxins
The researchers found that 100 percent of the plant-based meat substitutes contained at least one of 19 different types of mycotoxins, often showing high "co-occurrence" (multiple toxins in a single product).
Supreme Court rulings and new Southern maps intensify battle over Black voting power before...
A series of redistricting fights in Alabama, Tennessee, and Virginia is reshaping the struggle over voting rights and congressional control as critics warn that recent Supreme Court decisions are accelerating the erosion of protections for Black voters.
The electric car is the only winner in the latest Iran war
The Hormuz Choke Point and the Twilight of Petroleum.
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.