Higher Education

Students Sue Harvard For Investment In Private Prisons

March 21, 2020 Staff, Harvardprisondivest.org Resist! Harvard, Higher Education, Lawsuit, Prisons, Student Activism

This is not a decision that our campaign arrived at lightly. Turning to the courts is a last resort. Having tried multiple channels, from protests to petitions to rallies to teach-ins to reports to non-official and official meetings, but finding no relief, we have been forced to file this lawsuit against the President and Fellows of Harvard College, the Harvard Management Company, Lawrence Bacow in his capacity as President of Harvard University, and William Lee in his capacity as Senior Fellow.

Wayne State Teachers Protest Mass Firings

March 8, 2020 Jamie McQuaid, Workers World. Resist! Austerity, Higher Education, Teachers, Worker Rights

On Feb. 26, nearly 100 lecturers, graduate instructors, students and allied workers marched through Wayne State University’s main campus in Detroit to protest the mass firing of lecturers, who are nontenured instructors, announced in February. Chanting passionately and carrying protest signs, teachers and their allies marched in the wind and snow through the campus student center and around the main library. Some historically minded lecturers created signs with nothing on them save illustrations of the traditional French guillotine. The march ended in the atrium of the Faculty Administration Building, where the offices of WSU’s president are located. The atmosphere was one of frustration and uncertainty, but also of solidarity and hope. While a representative of the lecturers’ union, the American Association of University Professors-AFT Local 6123, promised further protests at the next Board of Governors meeting, armed campus police assembled in the area.

Syracuse Students Lead A National Movement To End Oppressive Campus Environments

March 2, 2020 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Clearing the FOG. Podcast Higher Education, Homophobia, Racism, Syracuse University

For a long time, students and faculty of predominately-white universities across the country have been experiencing oppressive environments where racism and homophobia are tolerated. This academic year, a group of Syracuse University students who call themselves Not Again SU has taken strong actions to confront this environment. They garnered significant attention last fall when they occupied the Barnes Center and issued 19 demands to the university. The administration agreed to address many of the demands but months later not much has been done and hate incidents continue to occur without consequences to deter them. They are currently occupying the administrative building to press for more action. This time the university responded aggressively by suspending students, denying them access to food and other necessities and unleashing a violent police force against them. We speak with one of the student organizers about what is happening on campus and how their actions have sparked a nationwide movement.

#NotAgainSU Protest Shuts Down 2 Blocks Of City Streets Near Syracuse University

February 29, 2020 Julie McMahon and Chris Libonati, Syracuse.com Resist! Blockade, Higher Education, Protests

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- A #NotAgainSU protest shut down two city blocks near Syracuse University for about two hours Wednesday night. Around 100 students, faculty and supporters gathered in the intersection of South Crouse and Waverly avenues. Syracuse police blocked off Waverly Avenue, from Irving Avenue to Walnut Avenue. The protest also effectively blocked Marshall Street to incoming car traffic.

Johns Hopkins students protest speeches by Joshua Wong, Nathan Law

February 25, 2020 Wang Wenwen, Globaltimes.cn Educate! Higher Education, Protests, Students

More than 100 Chinese students at Johns Hopkins University in the US on Thursday night (US time) protested against speeches made by Hong Kong secessionists Joshua Wong Chi-fung and Nathan Law Kwun-chung. Inside and outside the speech hall, the Chinese students held banners that read "Hong Kong is part of China" and "Condemn violence" and also chanted patriotic slogans.

The Rise In Racism On College Campuses

February 24, 2020 By Kyla L. Wright, Essence.com Educate! Higher Education, Racism

In 2018, the FBI reported that hate crimes on college campuses have risen 25 percent from 2015-16 and risen 17 percent from 2016-17. An additional 27.6 percent of the crimes dealt with intimidation tactics. Effecting the mental health of students of color on campuses, many of them have stated they have shifted their focus from their education to looking over their shoulders.

Striking University Of California-Santa Cruz Grad Students Defy UAW, Arrests And Threats Of Termination

February 19, 2020 Stewart Bernays and David Brown, Wsws.org Resist! California, Higher Education, Strikes

Graduate student instructors (GSIs) and teaching assistants (TAs) at University of California-Santa Cruz are beginning the sixth day of their wildcat strike to demand a cost of living adjustment. Like many educators in California, grad students have confronted stagnant wages alongside skyrocketing rents that leave them struggling to survive in one of the most expensive cities in the United States.

Student Victory: Georgetown University Divests From Fossil Fuels

February 10, 2020 Staff, Georgetownfossilfree.wordpress.com Resist! Divestment, Fossil Fuels, Higher Education

On the evening of February 6, 2020, Georgetown University announced its decision to divest its endowment from all fossil fuel companies. This decision comes after eight years of dedicated campaigning from GU Fossil Free; our members, past and present, could not be more proud. We are thrilled that our university has taken this important step in supporting climate justice, student voices, and financial accountability.

Abby Martin Banned From Speaking At US University For Refusing To Sign Pro-Israel Pledge

January 21, 2020 Staff, Telesurenglish.net Resist! BDS, Censorship, Higher Education

Since 2014, 28 states, among those Georgia, have adopted anti-boycott laws, including five executive orders issued by governors. Former teleSUR presenter and creator of The Empire Files Abby Martin was blocked from delivering a keynote speech at Georgia Southern University for refusing to "sign a contractual pledge to not boycott Israel" to comply with the anti-Boycott, Divest and Sanctions state law. "After I was scheduled to give a keynote speech at an upcoming Georgia Southern conference, organizers said I must comply with Georgia's anti-BDS law," Martin tweeted on Friday.

Harvard Law School Students Disrupt Recruitment Event, Calling On Major Law Firm To #DropExxon

January 17, 2020 By Eoin Higgins, Commondreams.org Resist! Climate Change, Exxon, Harvard, Higher Education, Student Activism

Over 100 students from Harvard Law School staged a public protest against a recruitment dinner hosted by law firm Paul Weiss on Wednesday night, calling for the company to cut ties with fossil fuel giant Exxon. In a statement, the demonstrators said they were taking action because of the severity of the climate crisis. "This is a do-or-die moment in human history," said student Aaron Regunberg, one of the action's leaders, in a statement. "We have just a few years left to rein in corporate polluters and address the climate crisis."

Secretary Devos Denies Students’ Rights To Full Debt Cancellation

December 13, 2019 Staff, Predatorystudentlending.org Educate! Higher Education, Student Loans

BOSTON –United States Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced that she will deny full student loan cancellation to student borrowers who were cheated by their colleges and applied to have their federal loans cancelled. This announcement comes despite defrauded students’ legal right to have their loans fully cancelled as a result of their school’s misconduct. The Department’s action sends hundreds of thousands of student borrowers into the holiday season with the fear that their bogus loans may not be discharged and that they may face collections from the Department of Education.

JDL Canada Thugs Attack York Students Then Cry “Anti-Semitism”

November 29, 2019 By Nora Barrows-Friedman, Electronicintifada.net Resist! Higher Education, Repression, Student Activism

Canadian politicians are echoing fabricated claims of anti-Semitism after students rallying for Palestinian rights were attacked by a violent anti-Palestinian group at York University in Toronto last week. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has asserted that “violence and racist chants” were directed at Jewish students, and blamed “anti-Semitism.” But available evidence, including video, paints a completely different picture: It was pro-Israel extremists who attacked students protesting the presence of Israeli soldiers on their campus.

On Death And Dying As A Black Studies Professor At Portland State University

November 17, 2019 Ethan Johnson, Black Agenda Report. Educate! health, Higher Education, Police, Racism

Last Winter, fairly soon after the Portland State Board of Trustees, an unelected group of overwhelmingly white men, voted to arm the PSU police force, the first person they shot and killed was Jason Washington, a Black person, married and a father of two. A fight broke out in front of a bar on campus, he was carrying a gun which he was permitted to carry, it fell out in the fight and when he tried to grab it the cops shot and killed him. As is usually the case, the rule of impunity prevailed here and no one was held accountable in any substantive way. The struggle against arming the police force was strong on campus and overwhelmingly students and faculty expressed they did not want an armed police force on campus.

Power To Disrupt: Limits And Possibilities Of Campus Sit-Ins

November 7, 2019 Jason Koslowski, Roarmag.org Strategize! Higher Education, Sit-In, Student Activism

College campuses are systems of capitalist domination: of workers, students and surrounding communities. But campus revolts have been on the rise in recent years. In the US, for instance, as the university system comes to rely more and more on cheap, precarious labor, teacher and graduate student union struggles have been on the rise. As public funds for colleges are slashed, tuitions increase, and campuses become key sites for fascist recruitment among disillusioned youth, many students are pushing back in occupations, walk-outs, demonstrations and other actions.

The PSC-CUNY Contract—The Case For Voting NO

November 5, 2019 By Charlie Post, Portside.org Organize! Class Struggle, Higher Education, Labor Unions, Strikes

This is one of two contrasting viewpoints posted to Portside Labor today about the PSC (AFT) tentative agreement with CUNY, covering 30,000 faculty (including 12,000 adjuncts), professional and graduate employees. Over the past year and a half, the US has seen a revival of the strike. While increasingly drawing in workers across the public and private sectors, educational workers have been at the center of the new strike wave. Starting with the illegal and unofficial West Virginia public school teachers’ strike in February 2018, education workers in both K-12 and higher education have withdrawn their labor and forced bureaucrats and politicians across the US to raise wages...

«1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 »

assetto corsa mods

Daily movement news and resources