Higher Education

Why Artificial Intelligence Must Be Stopped Now

October 12, 2026 Richard Heinberg, Resilience. Strategize! Artificial Intelligence, Higher Education, Regulations, Technology

Those advocating for artificial intelligence tout the huge benefits of using this technology. For instance, an article in CNN points out how AI is helping Princeton scientists solve “a key problem” with fusion energy. AI that can translate text to audio and audio to text is making information more accessible. Many digital tasks can be done faster using this technology. However, any advantages that AI may promise are eclipsed by the cataclysmic dangers of this controversial new technology. Humanity has a narrow chance to stop a technological revolution whose unintended negative consequences will vastly outweigh any short-term benefits.

Georgia Tech Students Demand Flock Off Campus

October 11, 2026 Fight Back! News. Resist! Flock, Georgia, Higher Education, Student Activism, Surveillance

Atlanta, GA – On October 7, Georgia Tech Students for a Democratic Society led a march to demand Flock technology be removed from campus. About 40 students, holding signs against mass surveillance, gathered on Tech Green and marched to each gunshot detector and automated license plate reader camera on campus. Speakers discussed Flock’s specific connections to Georgia Tech and the harms of mass surveillance in the U.S. as well as in Palestine. Chants at the march included “From Palestine to USA, mass surveillance go away!” and “What do we want? Flock off campus! When do we want it? Now!”

Student Protests Erupt Over Mishandling Of Gang-Rape Allegations

October 6, 2026 Sam Levin, Keely Aouga and Edward Helmore, The Guardian. Resist! Accountability, Cornell, Fraternities, Higher Education, Legal System, Sexual Violence

Mass protests erupted at Cornell University on Monday, with students criticizing officials’ handling of gang-rape allegations, demanding the president’s resignation and painting “SMASH THE PATRIARCHY” on an administration building. Thousands of students and faculty gathered for a demonstration, sparked by the high-profile case of a former student known as Jane Doe, who said in a recent lawsuit that she was plied with drugs and raped at a fraternity house in 2024. The case has prompted international outrage and intense scrutiny of college fraternities and sexual violence on US campuses.

Thoughts On The Mass Rape At Cornell University

October 5, 2026 Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. Educate! Accountability, Cornell University, Fraternities, Higher Education, Sexual Assault

Fraternities across the country are plagued by allegations of rape and sexual assault. Men in fraternities are three times more likely to commit rape than those who do not belong to fraternities. These crimes, well known to fraternity members and university administrators, are masked by a culture of silence. The president of Cornell, Michael I. Kotlikoff, whose university expels students who protest genocide and shields students who commit rape from criminal prosecution, issued the usual hour-of-reckoning statement that comes accompanied with a lot of vague promises of reform. He is no doubt busy doing damage control with his big donors, not a few of whom come out of the fraternity system.

Cornell University Journalists Kept Rape Case In Spotlight

October 3, 2026 Shireen Akram-Boshar, Truthout. Resist! Accountability, Cornell, Higher Education, Journalism

Student journalists at Cornell University who have relentlessly pursued the story about the alleged gang rape by seven fraternity members on campus are demanding accountability from their institution. “The Sun is really asking for something that everyone deserves, which is a level of transparency and accountability,” Sophia Dasser, editor-in-chief of Cornell’s student paper, told CNN’s Erin Burnett on Tuesday. “We are students, we have the right to demand safety from our university administrators, and we have the right to demand things like anonymized data reports of outcomes and sanctions and punishments from [sexual assault] cases that were reported.”

Montana State Students Protest Border Wall At Career Fair

October 3, 2026 Fight Back! News. Resist! Border Wall, Higher Education, Montana, Student Activism

Bozeman, MT – On October 30, members of Students for a Democratic Society at Montana State University surrounded the booth of Barnard Construction at MSU’s fall career fair. Students held signs decrying Barnard, a Bozeman-based construction company, for receiving a multi-billion-dollar contract to build the Trump administration's border wall in the Big Bend national park. One sign read, “Barnard’s border wall construction has high costs to the environment and immigrants, and diminishing returns,” while another read, “Border wall construction has already had destructive impacts on the Big Bend national park.”

Universities Work With Israel-Linked Arms Giant To Suppress Protests

September 25, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. Educate! Higher Education, Palestine, Surveillance, United Kingdom (UK)

Thirteen British universities held discussions with BAE Systems, Britain's largest arms manufacturer, about suppressing pro-Palestine protests on their campuses, according to a joint investigation by Liberty Investigates and Al Jazeera, published on 24 September. Emails and internal documents obtained in the investigation revealed the universities plotting with the weapons firm to ramp up security against protesting students and present a united front against those demanding they cut ties with the company. Six of the institutions – the universities of Manchester, Nottingham, Southampton, Birmingham, and Strathclyde, as well as Cranfield University – are classed by BAE as “strategic partners” and together pocket up to $20 million a year from the arms maker under funding agreements.

Students Speak Out Against Bill Targeting University Boycotts Of Israel

September 22, 2026 Fight Back! News. Resist! BDS Movement, Congress, Higher Education, Palestine, Student Activism

New York, NY – On September 18, members of the Students for a Democratic Society at NYU held a speakout as part of a national week of action to oppose the “Protect Economic and Academic Freedom Act” (HR 4795), which was recently passed by the U.S. House of Representatives. If the bill becomes law, it will strip federal funding from universities that divest from the state of Israel. The speakout took place in front of Gould Plaza, the site of the 2024 NYU Palestine Solidarity Encampments. Hundreds of students, faculty and community members rallied during the encampments to demand NYU to divest from Israel and shut down the study-away site at Tel Aviv.

University Of Pennsylvania Sues To Block Graduate Students From Union

September 3, 2026 Kate Jones, People's World. Educate! Graduate Students, Higher Education, Lawfare, Unions, University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia—The University of Pennsylvania filed a lawsuit against the graduate student workers’ union in an effort to exclude hundreds of first- and second-year students from the bargaining unit. This marks a new high in tensions over enforcement of the graduate student workers’ collective bargaining agreement. The complaint asks the court to declare that first- and second-year students in the Biomedical Graduate Studies program are not “employees” because they do not provide services to Penn until their third year. Graduate students typically pursue a course of study including coursework, laboratory rotations, and dissertation research in a thesis laboratory.

Fight To Reinstate ‘Fired Fourth’ CUNY Faculty Member Continues

September 1, 2026 Olivia Wood, Left Voice. Resist! Adjunct, Employer retaliation, Higher Education, Palestine, Worker Rights

Most classes at the City University of New York (CUNY) start next week. As a lecturer at City College, the CUNY college in Harlem that was the site of the CUNY Gaza Solidarity Encampment in 2024, I am filled with back to school excitement even as I am scrambling to finish my class preparations. But I am also filled with sadness and anger, because one of my colleagues, known publicly as The Fired Fourth, is not returning to campus for a second school year. Students will not get to benefit from her teaching and mentorship, and colleagues will not get to benefit from her expertise and dedication to our students and to the mission of making our university truly serve the people of New York City.

Faculty At Elite US Universities Linked To National Endowment For Democracy

August 30, 2026 Jeremy Kuzmarov, Covert Action Magazine. Educate! CIA, Higher Education, National Endowment for Democracy (NED), Propaganda

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a CIA off-shoot that was founded in 1983 with the purpose of advancing political propaganda and U.S. regime-change operations. The NED routinely supports dissidents and highlights human rights abuses occurring in countries that are geopolitical rivals of the U.S., like China, Iran and Russia, or socialist countries that have tried to assert control over their natural resources, like Cuba, Venezuela and North Korea. Meanwhile, the NED is silent about the human rights abuses that occur in countries like Ukraine, Israel, Bangladesh, Kenya, Rwanda, Syria or others whose governments are supported or have been installed by the U.S.

Documents Reveal Trail Of Unreported Millions From Israeli Military To US Universities

August 26, 2026 Murtaza Hussain, Drop Site News. Educate! Elbit, Higher Education, Israel, Research, weapons

The Israeli Ministry of Defense and Israeli defense companies have directed millions in unreported funding to U.S. university research programs for weapons development, sponsoring research directly or serving as the pass-through entity for the funding, a Drop Site investigation has found. A sample of state and university audits, foreign-funding disclosures, and other institutional records identified millions of dollars in financial ties over the last two decades between the Israeli Ministry of Defense (MOD), Israeli weapons manufacturers, and American universities, much of which does not appear consistently in national databases intended to track foreign funding into U.S. universities.

How Universities Should Respond To Revelations That Antisemitism Charges Were A Sham

August 23, 2026 Austin Sarat, Scheer Post. Educate! Antisemitism, Civil Rights, Donald Trump, Fraud, Higher Education

At the start of his second term, President Trump opened fire on some of America’s most prestigious universities. His administration cut off or threatened to cut off millions of dollars in federal funding unless they agreed to unprecedented levels of federal oversight of their operations. To accomplish this purpose, the administration highlighted the problem of campus antisemitism and pointed to the way they handled protests in the wake of the October 7, 2023, terrorist attack in Israel. Working together, the Justice Department and the Departments of Education and Health and Human Services charged that Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Harvard University, Northwestern University, the University of California, Los Angeles, the University of Pennsylvania, and others had violated Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Who Killed Jason Arday?

August 19, 2026 Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Higher Education, Jason Arday, Systemic Racism, United Kingdom (UK), White Supremacy

Earlier this afternoon, my oldest boyhood friend, a distinguished international lawyer who received his doctorate at Cambridge, called me to share the tragic news that Jason Arday, the Black British academic, had been found dead. I have been following this story ever since it broke out in July. We commiserated about his tragic death, and concluded that Arday was killed by many people and institutions. Jason Arday’s death was the result of a convergence of forces that reveal the fragility of the racial settlement in post-imperial and postcolonial Britain and the contradictions of its elite institutions.

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