Somehow, economic diversity waits in line behind other priorities in #highereducation—read the article for the names of offending selective #colleges and #universities. I’m not naming names because my own public, state university isn’t doing that great of a job itself. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/09/07/magazine/duke-economic-diversity.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

The country’s most selective #colleges #universities ranked according to economic diversity. My school is one of the 100ths. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/09/07/magazine/college-access-index.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Pink News: Kamala Harris tour to inspire ‘critical generation’ of young people in fight for LGBTQ+ rights https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/08/kamala-harris-fight-for-our-freedoms-college-tour-lgbtq-rights/ #LGBT #LGBTQ #Trans #Lesbian #2SLGBTQ #kamalaharris #universities #WhiteHouse #News #US

New Yorker: The Virtues and the Sins of Big-Time High-School Football https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-virtues-and-the-sins-of-big-time-high-school-football #NewYorker #Culture/CulturalComment #Universities #HighSchool #Football #Colleges #Success #Sports #Media

as a former academic, i TOTALLY UNDERSTAND THIS! i was earning less money (by far) to teach than my students were earning

Since the 1970s, many #colleges & #universities have become #predatory financial giants, while mountains of student debt pile up & #academic work becomes ever more precarious. An ascendant academic #labor movement may be key to reversing these trends

https://jacobin.com/2023/08/us-university-neoliberalism-exploitation-financialization-debt-jobs/

All #NRENs serve #universities and #research institutions, but were you aware that in some cases they also connect users of cultural institutions, hospitals, and schools too?

Read more about #Europe's National #Research and #Education #Networks in the GÉANT #Compendium Report 2022 👉 https://resources.geant.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Compendium-2022-2023-IX.pdf

#GÉANT #HigherEducation #ResearchInstitutions #ResearchOrganisations #schools #hospitals #network

All #NRENs serve #universities and #research institutions, but were you aware that in some cases they also connect users of cultural institutions, hospitals, and schools too?

Read more about #Europe's National #Research and #Education #Networks in the GÉANT #Compendium Report 2022 👉 https://resources.geant.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Compendium-2022-2023-IX.pdf

#GÉANT #HigherEducation #ResearchInstitutions #ResearchOrganisations #schools #hospitals #network

In a reverse twist on #AffirmativeAction, #colleges and #universities may be pressured to *reduce* the number of minority students they let in, to avoid discrimination lawsuits from #white students after the #SCOTUS ruling.

After all, how can you prove you aren't secretly admitting too many #Black students? The only way is to admit fewer.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/what-the-media-is-missing-about-the-supreme-courts-affirmative-action-ruling/

Rishi Sunak will force universities to limit the number of students taking “low-value” degrees in England, a measure most likely to hit working class and black, Asian and minority ethnic applicants.
Courses will be capped that do not have a high proportion of graduates getting a professional job, going into postgraduate study or starting a business.

But don't worry. Kids from his class will be going to Oxbridge to study PPE so that's OK.
#Universities #Education

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/jul/14/rishi-sunak-force-english-universities-cap-low-value-degrees?CMP=GTUK_email

The QS World University Rankings 2024 have been announced - and Europe has claimed half of the top spots in the top 10.

English-speaking universities dominate the upper echelons of the rankings with perfect scores in categories such as academic reputation, employer reputation and faculty/student ratio.

https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/07/05/the-worlds-best-universities-in-2024-have-been-unveiled-5-of-the-top-10-are-in-europe

#Europe #Universities #HigherEducation

A bit of historical background from before there were racial #quotas: lots of #universities in the south with thousands of students would only have 15 or 20 #blacks. They would use all kinds of subtle admissions tests that whites would somehow always pass, extra fees for people from black neighborhoods, interviewers asking hostile questions, etc. Quotas with monetary fines were the only way of making sure the bigots couldnt exclude blacks, jews, gays, women, + from higher #education and housing.

Dutch universities rebel against plan to limit English courses.

The Dutch government's aim is to reduce the amount of English content of standard bachelor’s degrees to only one third of course credits.

The country welcomed 115,000 international students in 2022 alone, 35% of the total student body.

That number has been on the rise over the last decade, but now the Dutch government is trying to curb it.

https://www.euronews.com/2023/06/28/a-worrying-trend-dutch-universities-rebel-against-plan-to-limit-english-courses

#Netherlands #HigherEducation #English #Students #Universities

RT The Guild
📣 Associations of #knowledge transfer professionals, #research and technology organisations and #universities welcome the efforts of the @EUeic Board in listening to the community's concerns regarding the #IntellectualProperty provisions.
Read our joint recommendations here:… https://n.respublicae.eu/i/web/status/1673617778442469376 https://t.co/aHXjIkqdQm

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/guildeu/status/1673617778442469376

Why am I not in the least bit surprised that #RonDeSantis is performatively suing the US Dept. of Education for regulations that would prevent #Florida public #universities from finding whacka-a-doodle accreditation firms who will support his "Back to the 1890s" #education "reforms."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/06/22/desantis-lawsuit-college-accreditation-education-department/

A look at #FreeSpeech controversies in #highereducation #colleges #universities, and whether tedious, opaque investigations into hostile environments and harassed #students accomplishes anything.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/06/21/college-professors-fired-cancel-culture/

https://www.theage.com.au/business/workplace/inside-australia-s-university-wage-theft-machine-20230411-p5czn6.html #Australia #Universities #Teaching

"How universities can help to resolve research's mental health crisis" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01703-9

The text says "When power, responsibility and autonomy are shared, people work more collegially" is involving people in their own grant securing their research/survival "autonomy"? Don't tell me "pizza", we are already doing it and there are plenty of memes about this not being a real solution

#mentalhealth #universities #toxicworkplace #workculture #workplace #academic #academicchatter #phdlife

"How universities can help to resolve research's mental health crisis" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01703-9

The text says "When power, responsibility and autonomy are shared, people work more collegially" is involving people in their own grant securing their research/survival "autonomy"? Don't tell me "pizza", we are already doing it and there are plenty of memes about this not being a real solution

#mentalhealth #universities #toxicworkplace #workculture #workplace #academic #academicchatter #phdlife

‼️At the hearing “Let the other side be heard as well” @europarl_en rectors,polticians&students voiced their concerns about the ❌ of #HU #students& #teachers& #scientists from @EUErasmusPlus& @HorizonEU.⛔️Dragging HU #universities &punishing students must end asap!

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/toth_edina/status/1666457932446277632

We invite #universities, #research institutions, #businesses and #SMEs to take part in our upcoming info event.
📅 Register now: http://europa.eu/!xnxxgN

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/REA_research/status/1663500587407638531