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How should university & college administrators respond to incidents of #transnationalrepression while protecting academic freedom? Our new report offers recommendations on how to defend the rights of international students & faculty on campus. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/e4f7BDJ

How can individuals in higher education protect themselves from demoralization caused by both internal and external factors? Should it be considered as an issue for academic integrity competency in higher education? #AcademicIntegrity #ArtificialIntelligence #GovernanceinHigherEd

The antisemitic activity taking place on college campuses right now is horrific. Graduation is supposed to be a time of joy and celebration. Instead, Jewish students and their families are scared for their safety.   Universities must step up and take clear, decisive action to prevent disruptions. This includes strengthening conduct policies, putting the campus community on clear notice, finalizing security protocols, ensuring there are consequences for any violations, and providing resources and support for Jewish students. https://lnkd.in/eD7NSsnp

Now everyone can see how deeply academia is broken. At Harvard just last year, students were told in a mandatory training session that using the wrong pronouns for a person constitutes “abuse” and that “any words used to lower a person’s self-worth” are “verbal abuse.” More: “sizeism and fatphobia,” students were told, are attitudes that “contribute to an environment that perpetuates violence.” Take a bet on whether the school has said similar things about openly antisemitic speech. The point is that university administrators selectively and unevenly enforce codes of conduct depending entirely on the viewpoint being expressed and the identity of the person expressing it. How to Really Fix American Higher Education By Bari Weiss https://lnkd.in/exgRpazs

https://lnkd.in/gmNseaTj I think we're at a turning point in higher education, and in this post I discuss two Issues: 1) Student affairs policy improvement, and 2) Congressional influence and overreach which continues to impact higher education governance. #highereducation

TEACH YOUR CHILDREN WELL: HISTORICAL MEMORY OF THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION, PUBLIC EDUCATION, AND EQUAL PROTECTION - PDF: https://lnkd.in/gYhFf8Sf Americans wrestle with the meaning of the Civil War today; the foundation for this debate was laid in the Reconstruction Era. Some might suggest that challenging the adoption of TEKS on the grounds that it promoted a neo-Confederate viewpoint for the origins of the Civil War would be unsuccessful. The state of jurisprudence suggests that courts would be reluctant to scrutinize such content. But curricular standards founded on a racist historiography of the Civil War and Antebellum Period is discriminatory and does not provide an equal educational opportunity to all students. A resurgence of education-related caselaw focused on systemic  disparity in public schools suggests that the time is ripe for a reimagining of the role education plays in preparing students for life as active citizens. 

In recent years partially due to the pandemic, school districts in Pennsylvania have found difficulty filling new positions. According to a study conducted by Penn State’s Center For Education Evaluation and Policy Analysis titled “Exacerbating the Shortage of Teachers: Rising Teacher Attrition in Pennsylvania from 2014 to 2023,” between the 2022 and 2023, Centre County had a teacher attrition rate of 9.3. The rate at which teachers leave a school district varies in surrounding counties, like Clinton County with an attrition rate of 10.1 and Clearfield County, which has a rate of 6.8, according to the analysis. Penn State University Park sends their student teachers to “a variety of schools and school districts within a 70 mile radius of University Park,” according to Penn State’s College of Education website. Despite the varying levels of teacher attrition in Centre County and its surrounding counties, student teachers are placed in districts depending on the supervisor they are randomly assigned to, according to Bryce Ervin.

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Higher education is at stake with these presidents

One thing we’ve learned from the recent congressional hearings with university presidents is that addressing antisemitism in American universities is crucial. The testimony has revealed serious issues on campuses, and the acknowledgment from university presidents about the need for antisemitism training for faculty, staff, and students. Here’s what I’m thinking. #HigherEducation #antisemitism