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Student leaders call on SA president to resign
SA Executive Vice President Brandon Hill, three cabinet members and 10 other student leaders are calling on SA President Howard Brookins to resign.
Foreign policy experts talk U.S.-China relations under Biden
Foreign policy experts discussed the future of the United States-China relations under President Joe Biden's administration last week.
D.C. spectators talk significance of Biden, Harris administration on Inauguration Day
Spectators surrounding the U.S. Capitol Wednesday discussed the significance of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris' inauguration.

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articles from Inside Higher Ed

Live Updates: Latest News on Coronavirus and Higher Education
Brown Commencement Will Be In Person -- Without Guests Jan. 22, 6:09 a.m. Brown University announced that its commencement, May 1-2, will be in […]
Australian study examines impact of pandemic on scientists
Academics who are tempted to remain in pajamas during the working day should think again, says an Australian study that has linked the practice to a […]
Survey outlines student concerns 10 months into pandemic
Nearly one year into the pandemic that upended higher education, students continue to be concerned about mental health, catching COVID-19 and the […]

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articles from the Chronicle of Higher Ed

When This Is All Over, Keep Recording Your Lectures
How will the successes and failures of your online pivot change the way you teach?How will the successes and failures of your online pivot change the way you teach?
Kansas Regents Make It Easier to Dismiss Tenured Professors
The temporary policy permits public universities to suspend or terminate employees without declaring financial exigencyThe temporary policy permits the state's public universities to suspend or terminate employees without declaring financial exigency.
Same Covid Stress, Different Benefits
The disparity in how institutions have treated staff versus faculty members during the pandemic reflects a long-term inequity in employee benefits.The disparity in how institutions have treated staff versus faculty members during the pandemic reflects a long-term inequity in employee benefits.

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from the New York Times

Chairwoman of San Francisco Art School Facing Budget Issues Resigns
The leader of the board at the 150-year-old San Francisco Art Institute said she is confident the college has a plan to address its financial problems, but critics have suggested otherwise.
A Report Card for U.S. Schools
Seven districts, seven very different experiences of pandemic learning.
A Slice of What Education Looks Like in Pandemic America
The Times assigned reporters to observe seven public school districts and the different ways they’re reaching students.

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articles from the Washington Post

That didn’t take long: Biden removes Trump’s ‘1776 Report’ on U.S. history from White House website
And disbands the commission that wrote what historians said was a racist work.
Read Biden’s executive order on safely reopening schools
Plus the president's full plan to attack the pandemic and what it says about schools.

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The Undercommons

Battling with the University for the University: Organizing, Friendship, and Performativity in the NYU Sanctuary Movement
[Photo: Ryan Quan from NYU News] by James McMaster and Olivia Michiko Gagnon What follows is not an account of escalating strategies and spectacular confrontations. That can be found in the news. Consider this a fragmentary homage to and audit of the ideological and intimate micropolitics of […]
Join us for our first open online strategy session March 25, 3:45pm EST
All those who struggle within, against and beyond the neoliberal, neocolonial university are invited to join us on March 25 (15:45-17:15 EST) for a special online/offline strategy session, broadcasting live from the Organizing Equality conference in London, Ontario. This session aims to share and […]
CFP: From Sanctuary to Sabotage: Fighting the Fascist Creep at and beyond Universities
CALL FOR PROVOCATIONS (April 30, 2017) The 2016 US election has been framed as both a decisive break from “politics as usual” and as a continuation and intensification of longstanding racialized, gendered, and sexualized global class warfare. In this allegedly post-truth era, the university […]