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Message to Jason Greenblatt of the Anti-Defamation League: Jason, I have a Columbia Ph.D. Please tell me how employers are going to identify them? And where the hell is the ADL? Why aren't your lawyers suing Columbia's ass off? Why have all of the major Jewish organizations let it get to this? Why have these students been left to defend themselves without the help of major Jewish organizations? LinkedIn posts don't cut it, Jason. Where are your lawyers? Why aren't they in court suing Columbia? If this isn't an emergency, what is? Why do we send you donations, and the ADL is doing nothing. or are you waiting for our Black brothers to join arms with us to help? Stop looking to form relationships and get your lawyers into court; otherwise, don't even bother to post. Posting about your outrage is utterly useless.

I get it. Higher education needs to reform. I've been saying that for years. But to me it's not what you teach, rather how you teach. More accurately, how the system wants you to teach. Instead consider.... How you deliver programs. How you measure competency. How you model the curriculum. How you integrate a 400 year old system into a modern, complex society. How you deliver the product at scale. How you make it affordable and desirable. How you signal achievement. How you make it agile and adaptable to the workforce. How you make it less time consuming. How you leverage technology. How you measure outcomes. You can still offer Humanities programs, but do it better. Do everything better...

Hendrix is featured among the South’s best colleges by The Princeton Review! The Princeton Review’s 2024 Best Colleges: Region by Region highlights 630 colleges considered “academically outstanding” and “well worth consideration” for prospective students in the college search process. The institutions are divided among seven zones (Northeast, South, Southwest, Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, West, and International). Read more, including highlights provided by Hendrix students: https://lnkd.in/gH-WTzg7

The Princeton Review has once again recognized Wofford as one of the "The Best 389 Colleges." Wofford also ranked No. 15 on the “Top 20 Best Alumni Networks” list. Read more: https://bit.ly/3OZIkEi #woffordcollege #terriers #wocoalumni #wherethoughtleads

College Towns in the United States: Revitalization or Gentrification? The announcement of establishing a new university campus is one of celebration, marking economic opportunities and urban growth. While the transformation of these towns brings economic expansion and cultural vibrancy, it often comes at the cost of displacing long-time residents, erasing historic character, and altering the essence of these towns. American college towns offer a unique perspective on how cities can balance progress and preservation. https://lnkd.in/eWccgNtK

Institutions of all stripes “speak” in ways that influence the speech or thoughts of their members. Colleges are no exception. Universities “express their values” not just via formal statements from the office of the president, but in subtler ways—from the naming of buildings and placing of monuments to the awarding of honorary degrees and even the invitation of speakers. But does this institutional expression undermine free inquiry and viewpoint diversity? For a university to remain true to its truth-seeking mission, ought it pursue a policy of “institutional neutrality” instead? “A university, if it is to be true to its faith in intellectual inquiry, must embrace, be hospitable to, and encourage the widest diversity of views within its own community,” argued a 1967 report by the Kalven Committee for the University of Chicago. John Tomasi will invite you to consider how the ideal of neutrality might be appropriate to Catholic or faith-based colleges generally, and to Providence College in particular. https://lnkd.in/guNFKWQR

Insights from the reknowned Gardner Institute and Lawrence University President Laurie Carter. It’s imperative we meet our students where they are and understand where society is (and could be), so our students are ready for whatever the future holds. #preparingfuturechangeagents

In this episode of The Research Files, we speak with Suzanne Rice from the University of Melbourne about her new research paper which explores the current diversity of Australia’s teacher workforce, the positive impact a diverse teacher workforce can have on student outcomes, and practical strategies for school leaders on retaining a diverse staff: https://lnkd.in/ggAv4Ky4

Greetings from BMC '97. Your Jewish alumni, parents of Jewish students, Jewish faculty, and staff have been through a year of incredible trauma at Bryn Mawr and Haverford, as a result of decisions, actions and complicit inactions by school administrators as a result of a hostile antisemitic environment on both campuses, in response to the Hamas terrorist attacks of October 7. While this recent lawsuit filed by the Deborah Project is against Haverford, Bryn Mawr's complicity is also implicated - allowing an "encampment" and permitting Haverford students who had committed antisemitic acts of violence to come to Bryn Mawr and terrorize the women there. Recently, the BiCo News published an article by a visiting professor, which advocated for armed "revolution" against Israel (i.e., Jews), which contradicts every tenant of Bryn Mawr's Quaker tradition of nonviolence. Yet, when alumni posted a comment in response, her comment was deleted by BiCo editorial staff (twice). These aggressions, overt and micro, are but some recent examples of ongoing an unaddressed trauma and harm, for which there has been no acknowledgement, much less remediation and accountability. As far as I know, you are not a BMC graduate, so while your sentiments here about BMC's history and culture are nice, I was educated there, and have very memories of Bryn Mawr, so much so that I have contributed to the institution in innumerable ways since graduation. Memories that are now tarnished by the betrayal of watching an institution I loved turn on me like a snake, and betray every ideal it espoused in the process - logic, reason, tolerance and respect. Other alumni feel the same. So forgive me if your breezy post about Bryn Mawr's storied past and ice cream socials don't quite land. We look forward to engaging with you on these issues.

We need to listen to each other, in order to do so we need free press, free speech and free social media. Humanity needs fresh ideas and a new type of politics, representing mankind as a whole instead of fragmented political interests! We have to grow together in order to urgently address the issues that impact all of us like conflict, climate change, inequality and forced migration together. This we can only do without any dominance, as equals. Collectively in Solidarity. www.convergence.ngo & www.pax.ngo