The Decline Of Nehru, Tagore & The Rise Of Savarkar: How Delhi University Got Itself A New Syllabus

Since 2019, Hindu right-wing organizations—both student and teachers’ groups—have successfully propelled syllabi changes in Delhi University’s (DU) English, history and other social sciences and humanities subjects. Some teachers are battling against these changes, many pushed through by a secretive ‘oversight committee’ and new policies. Article14 examines the syllabi changes, the ideological influences driving them, and the processes by which they are being brought in at DU, all pointing to Hindu right-wing control over the leading university in India’s capital.

https://article-14.com/post/the-decline-of-nehru-tagore-the-rise-of-savarkar-how-delhi-university-got-itself-a-new-syllabus-64eeaf5f94b31

#DelhiUniversity #universities #education #HinduNationalism #propaganda #RSS #ABVP #NDTF #BJP #misinformation #censorship #AcademicFreedom #history #india

India’s Universities Lack the Freedom to Excel

The abrupt resignation of an economics professor from a prestigious private university has highlighted concerns about academic freedom in India. The country will never be a “vishwaguru” (teacher to the world), as Prime Minister Narendra Modi often boasts, unless the government stops silencing dissenting voices.

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/economics-professor-resignation-ashoka-university-threatens-india-higher-education-aims-by-milan-vaishnav-2023-08

#universities #education #AcademicFreedom #AshokaUniversity #SabyasachiDas #ElectoralFraud #2019elections #research #BJP #hindutva #india

Universities – The BJP-RSS’s Killing Fields

What’s unfolding in Ashoka University reflects the ascendancy of a fascistic state. No country can be self-reliant if its universities are effectively destroyed and reduced to coaching centres.

https://www.newsclick.in/universities-bjp-rsss-killing-fields

#AshokaUniversity #universities #education #AcademicFreedom #RSS #BJP #HinduNationalism #hindutva #india

Intelligence Bureau at Ashoka University, Wants to Probe ‘Democratic Backsliding’ Paper

IB officials arrived Monday to speak to former faculty member Sabyasachi Das, and unsuccessfully tried to speak to others from the economics department after learning he was not on campus. A second visit was then set for Tuesday.

#AshokaUniversity #IntelligenceBureau #SabyasachiDas #BJP #ElectoralFraud #2019elections #democracy #AcademicFreedom #FreeSpeech #research #hindutva #india

https://thewire.in/education/intelligence-bureau-at-ashoka-university-wants-to-probe-democratic-backsliding-paper

320 economists from 91 institutions extend support to Prof Das, demand his reinstatement

As many as 320 economists from 91 institutions across the country have extended their support to Prof Sabyasachi Das, whose paper suggesting voter manipulation in the 2019 elections sparked a controversy.

#AshokaUniversity #SabyasachiDas #ElectoralFraud #2019elections #BJP #AcademicFreedom #censorship #hindutva #academia #education #india

https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/320-economists-91-institutions-extend-support-prof-das-demand-his-reinstatement-181243

The goal of a #university is not free inquiry, & other grand ideas of Ron DeSantis as he revised his background to command a conservative vanguard. #academicfreedom #FreeSpeech #FreePress #FirstAmendment #education #highereducation https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/20/us/politics/ron-desantis-takeaways.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Read a #book—which you bought at a #school district book fair—to your #students and then get fired. #FirstAmendment #FreePress #FreedomToRead #education #academicfreedom #censorship https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/18/us/georgia-teacher-fired-gender-book.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Here is a statement from a West Virginia Linguistics professor whose entire department has been eliminated. It provides additional context to the Board of Trustee's decision to cancel 38 majors and the faculty tenure and untenured faculty lines associated with them.

#highered #education #tenure #WVU #academicfreedom #academic #law #lawfedi #lawprofs

https://community.wvu.edu/~jokatz/Closure/?fbclid=IwAR1BIcLhe__wEivDYWWz2UeyUHvFuiGg3T2KDtHdlS93X-_KPi2gM-YFbbI_aem_ATi1jeijVosmXwGlwcoYwc8OU1e8tXm08Y0nPDH2hdMqqHYZKNN3R8Qmr3nLw1tXKrM&mibextid=Zxz2cZ https://awscommunity.social/@jackiegardina/110890605194730284

Dear Friends,

bostonjoan@bird.makeup starts a tenure tracked position at Boston University. This is excellent news coming as it does at the intersection of #AcademicFreedom, #disinformation research, and #USA #RightWing #extremism

Read the interesting article:
👉🏽 https://wapo.st/3qvYDPR

ESM

@jackiegardina

Copying OG message for @academicchatter

Here is a statement from a West Virginia Linguistics professor whose entire department has been eliminated. It provides additional context to the Provost's decision to cancel 38 majors and the tenure and untenured faculty lines associated with them.

#highered #education #tenure #WVU #academicfreedom #academic #law #lawfedi #lawprofs

https://community.wvu.edu/~jokatz/Closure/?fbclid=IwAR1BIcLhe__wEivDYWWz2UeyUHvFuiGg3T2KDtHdlS93X-_KPi2gM-YFbbI_aem_ATi1jeijVosmXwGlwcoYwc8OU1e8tXm08Y0nPDH2hdMqqHYZKNN3R8Qmr3nLw1tXKrM&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

Here is a statement from a West Virginia Linguistics professor whose entire department has been eliminated. It provides additional context to the Provost's decision to cancel 38 majors and the tenure and untenured faculty lines associated with them.

#highered #education #tenure #WVU #academicfreedom #academic #law #lawfedi #lawprofs

https://community.wvu.edu/~jokatz/Closure/?fbclid=IwAR1BIcLhe__wEivDYWWz2UeyUHvFuiGg3T2KDtHdlS93X-_KPi2gM-YFbbI_aem_ATi1jeijVosmXwGlwcoYwc8OU1e8tXm08Y0nPDH2hdMqqHYZKNN3R8Qmr3nLw1tXKrM&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

Highly recommended listening: Justin Brake of the theindependent.ca discusses
the impact of Meta's blocking of Canadian news media / enclosure of the online commons, not only for the Indy, but for all of us who care about the conditions for a functioning democracy. We need reliable news media more than ever.

#ClimateChange #Inequality #Democracy #Journalism #OpenScience #AcademicFreedom

https://cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-56-st-johns-morning-show/clip/16002011-the-effects-metas-canadian-news-ban-smaller-publications
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According to #Texas Lt. Gov. Patrick, #academicFreedom doesn't mean the government can't punish faculty for what they say. https://ericceller.substack.com/p/just-say-no

AP Psychology Redux in Florida: in a “no-win” situation, state’s largest #school districts won’t offer the course that touches on restricted material on sex and gender after confusing chain of events. I wonder what’s going to happen to Florida #students when they go to #college. I wonder. #education #AdvancedPlacement #FirstAmendment #academicfreedom

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/08/09/florida-schools-drop-ap-psychology-class/

Sections on gender and sexual orientation will be included in the Advanced Placement psychology course in Florida (because they’re a part of #reality—well that’s my opinion) despite state’s “Don’t Say Gay” law. A reversal from a disavowal the day before. #education #truth #facts #academicfreedom https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/04/us/florida-ap-psychology.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Fascist Texas A&M officials botched the hiring of a Black journalism professor and censured the free speech of another professor:

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/08/03/texas-am-regents-kathleen-mcelroy/

Wingnuts go on and on about unis censoring conservative speech, but THIS is what is actually happening.

#academicfreedom #fascism #censorship

Just want to re-introduce myself since so many of you have responded to my posting an article about Texas going after #booksellers #bookstores in an effort to #ban #books. I’m here because I want to be on the record against #censorship, for #FirstAmendment #FreePress #FreeSpeech; for #academicfreedom and the rights of #adjuncts. So welcome and I hope you can put up w/occasional attempts at self-promotion. (I write and occasionally publish stuff.) Peace out.

In the time it took a Texas A& M #professor to drive home from a #lecture on the opioid crisis, a #student complaint wound its way through the bureaucracy to threaten her #academicfreedom & #FreeSpeech #FirstAmendment rights, and her career was put on ice. There’s a reason for this speedy dispatch of her freedoms, and so much more to this story. Read it & despair. #highereducation

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/25/texas-a-m-professor-opioids-dan-patrick/

The Texas Tribune: Texas A&M put professor on leave for allegedly criticizing Dan Patrick

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/25/texas-a-m-professor-opioids-dan-patrick/

> The professor, an expert on the opioids crisis, was placed on paid administrative leave and investigated, raising questions about the extent of political interference in higher education, particularly in health-related matters.

#AcademicFreedom #politics #Texas

Records show that #Texas lieutenant governor Dan Patrick pressured Texas A&M University to fire a professor for criticizing him. The chancellor wrote back to Patrick's chief of staff, promising that an "investigation re firing her" should "be finished by end of week."

#AcademicFreedom https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/25/texas-a-m-professor-opioids-dan-patrick/