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#academicfreedom

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kriykat

Losing Academic Freedom
consortiumnews.com/2025/03/27/
The neoliberal university doesn’t need overt censorship, writes Samyuktha Kannan. It’s perfected the art of silent control. It’s not that one is explicitly told what can’t be written — it’s that over time, one simply learns what is too dangerous…
#Politics #Censorship #Commentary #FreeSpeech #Academia #AcademicFreedom #Education #SamyukthaKannan #SelfCensorship #University

Consortium News · Losing Academic FreedomThe neoliberal university doesn't need overt censorship, writes Samyuktha Kannan. It's perfected the art of silent control. It's not that one is explicitly told what can't be written — it's that over time, one simply learns what is too dangerous to say.  By Samyuktha Kannan Z Network The
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kriykat

Chris Hedges: Surrendering to Authoritarianism
consortiumnews.com/2025/03/27/
Elite universities cowering before Trump’s crackdown on free speech continue their history of supporting plutocracy, delivering us into the arms of fascism. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost I was not surprised when Columbia University’s interim president Katrina Armstrong caved to the demands…
#Politics #AmericanEmpire #Censorship #CivilRights #Column #Commentary #HumanRights #Israel #Nazism #Academia #AcademicFreedom #AntiSemitism #Columbia #Education #Harvard #IvyLeague #KatherineFranke #MahmoudKhalil

Consortium News · Chris Hedges: Surrendering to AuthoritarianismElite universities cowering before Trump's crackdown on free speech continue their history of supporting plutocracy, delivering us into the arms of fascism.  By Chris Hedges ScheerPost I was not surprised when Columbia University’s interim president Katrina Armstrong caved to the demands
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MediaFaro News Digest

European universities offer ‘scientific asylum’ to US researchers fleeing Trump’s cuts.

Laced with terms such as “censorship” and “political interference”, the jobs advert was a-typical.

The promise of academic freedom, however, hinted at who it was aimed at: researchers in the US looking to flee the funding freezes, cuts and ideological impositions ushered in by Trump’s administration.

mediafaro.org/article/20250325

The Guardian · European universities offer ‘scientific asylum’ to US researchers fleeing Trump’s cuts.By Ashifa Kassam
#Europe#Universities#Research
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"To begin with, universities should not be intimidated by the claim that public opinion is turning against them. Surveys that show a growing polarisation in public attitudes towards universities only demonstrate the effectiveness of decades of rightwing agitation. It is not a given that conservatives are inherently against universities. In other democracies, even voters of far-right parties are generally not anti-universities, even if they can be mobilized against bogeymen like “gender ideology”.

Universities must defend their truth-seeking and educational missions. They can point to obvious benefits, including economic ones. As the social scientist Adam Przeworski recently pointed out, “every dollar spent in publicly funded research yields $8.30 after eight years”. But universities must also insist that one cannot pick and chose research, as in: say medical research OK, but climate research not. They must not allow governments to dictate which departments are legitimate and which should be placed in “receivership”, a demand by the Trump administration on Columbia (Orbán – a “model”, according to Vance – showed the way by simply prohibiting gender studies).

Universities must avoid the trap of “we’ll sacrifice humanities if you leave us the hard sciences”. Humanities (and social sciences) are, after all, disciplines: its practitioners are disciplined by professional standards in what the former NYU president John Sexton calls “transparent, testable processes”. This is also why universities are governed by norms of academic freedom, not free speech; the latter is not subject to such processes."

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The Guardian · Academic freedom in America needs to be defended. Here’s howBy Jan-Werner Müller
#USA#Trump#Universities
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Moto

#学術会議の民間法人化に反対します
#日本学術会議への人事介入に抗議する
#学問の自由を守ろう
#日本学術会議を守ろう
#学術会議解体に抗する
#日本学術会議を応援します
Protect the Science Council of Japan.
#AcademicFreedom

from 佐々木敏昭 （@sasakitoshiaki2　X/Twitter）さん
【　#学術会議法人化法案を審議未了の廃案に！
日弁連会長声明　①
政府は、2025年3月7日、「国の特別の機関」とされている現在の学術会議廃止し、国から独立した法人格を有する組織としての特殊法人を新設する学術会議法案を閣議決定し、衆議院に提出した。

声明全文 nichibenren.or.jp/document/sta 】
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Moto

#学術会議の民間法人化に反対します
#日本学術会議への人事介入に抗議する
#学問の自由を守ろう
#日本学術会議を守ろう
#学術会議解体に抗する
#日本学術会議を応援します
Protect the Science Council of Japan.
#AcademicFreedom

from Shuuji Kajita （＠s-kajita.bsky.social）
【　読書猿 （『文章大全』執筆中）@kurubushi.bsky.social さんによるまとめ。

（まとめ）第2次トランプ政権（2025年～）による学術・研究・知的自由への影響（2025年3月まで）
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readingmonkey.blog.fc2.com（まとめ）第2次トランプ政権（2025年～）による学術・研究・知的自由への影響（2025年3月まで）学術研究への影響 主要な出来事（時系列）: 2025年1月下旬 – トランプ大統領就任直後、連邦政府機関に対し「無駄の削減」を求める大統領令（2月11日付）を発令。これを受け、国立衛生研究所（NIH）は2025年1月に助成金審査会議の開催を一時停止し、新規研究助成の決定が滞る事態となった。大学側は研究資金の流れが「細る」のを感じ始め、博士課程学生の受け入れ抑制やプロジェクト縮小を検討し始めた。 2025年2月～3月 – 連...
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Moto

#学術会議の民間法人化に反対します
#日本学術会議への人事介入に抗議する
#学問の自由を守ろう
#日本学術会議を守ろう
#学術会議解体に抗する
#日本学術会議を応援します
Protect the Science Council of Japan.
#AcademicFreedom

【　学術会議の独立性～会員任命拒否理由の情報公開訴訟【CALL4xデモクラシータイムス裁判から見える日本の現実】　20250320
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Bytes Europe

Columbia University’s Concessions to Trump Seen as a Watershed byteseu.com/856307/ #AcademicFreedom #America #Armstrong #CollegesAndUniversities #ColumbiaUniversity #DonaldJ #FederalAid(US) #FreedomOfSpeechAndExpression #KatrinaA #trump #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #UnitedStatesPoliticsAndGovernment #US #USNews #USA #USANews

Bytes Europe · Columbia University’s Concessions to Trump Seen as a WatershedMany professors saw it as surrender, a reward to the Trump administration’s heavy hand. Conservative critics of academia celebrated it as an overdue, righteous reset by an Ivy League university.Columbia University’s concession on Friday to a roster of government demands as it sought to restore about $400 million in federal funding is being widely viewed as a watershed in Washington’s relationships with the nation’s colleges.By design, the consequences will be felt immediately on Columbia’s campus, where, for example, some security personnel will soon have arrest powers and an academic department that had drawn conservative scrutiny is expected to face stringent
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Moto

#学問の自由を守ろう
#日本学術会議を守ろう
#学術会議解体に抗する
#学術会議への人事介入に抗議します
#学術会議の法人化に反対します
私たちは日本学術会議の法人化に反対します
Protect the Science Council of Japan.
Spread it all over the world. I ask for your cooperation.
#AcademicFreedom

政治の標的にされる日米のアカデミア - 科学・政策と社会ニュースクリップ

clip.kaseiken.info/entry/2025/

🟡#署名活動 #petition
このオンライン署名に賛同をお願いします！「日本学術会議の「特殊法人」化に反対する署名にご協力を！」
chng.it/GN5znNsWmC @change_jpより

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Moto

#学問の自由を守ろう
#日本学術会議を守ろう
#学術会議解体に抗する
#学術会議への人事介入に抗議します
#学術会議の法人化に反対します
Protect the Science Council of Japan.
Spread it all over the world. I ask for your cooperation.
#AcademicFreedom

学術会議法案の問題点、立ち上がるアメリカの研究者 - 科学・政策と社会ニュースクリップ

clip.kaseiken.info/entry/2025/

🟡#署名活動 #petition
このオンライン署名に賛同をお願いします！「日本学術会議の「特殊法人」化に反対する署名にご協力を！」
chng.it/GN5znNsWmC @change_jpより

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Touaregtweet

'Trump threatened to cancel $400 million in federal funding if Columbia University didn’t put its Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies Department in “academic receivership".

Columbia has now agreed to appoint a senior vice provost to oversee the department.'

Not even during the communist witch hunts of the early 1950s did a university agree to put an entire academic department under special oversight [...]
substack.com/home/post/p-15959 #academicfreedom #Trump #ColumbiaUniversity #Trump

Robert Reich · The shame of Columbia UniversityBy Robert Reich
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