Higher Education

Senate Passes New Bill Targeting College Students Who Criticize Israel

December 6, 2016 Jason Ditz, www.mintpressnews.com Resist! Higher Education, Israel, Legislation, Senate

By Jason Ditz for Mint Press News - In a move intended to dramatically broaden Department of Education probes of colleges and universities who tolerate students that criticize Israel, the Senate today unanimously passed the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act, which was passed with little debate or fanfare. Sen. Bob Casey (D – PA) and Tim Scott (R – SC) presented the bill as targeting a growing number of “religiously motivated hate crimes,” warning that the Department of Education needed to take “urgent action” to investigate all anti-semitism at school. The bill intends to do this by instructing the Department of Education to use the State Department’s definition of anti-semitism...

Why Professor Watchlist Gets My Teaching Values Completely Wrong

December 2, 2016 Robert Jensen, www.wagingnonviolence.org Educate! Higher Education, Watchlist

By Robert Jensen for Waging Nonviolence - From a “critique” of my work on the recently launched website Professor Watchlist, I learned that I’m a threat to my students for contending that we won’t end men’s violence against women “if we do not address the toxic notions about masculinity in patriarchy … rooted in control, conquest, aggression.” That quote is supposedly “evidence” for why I am one of those college professors who, according to the watchlist’s mission statement, “discriminate against conservative students, promote anti-American values and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom.”

Right-Wing Watchlist Registering Professors Accused Of ‘Anti-American Values’

November 28, 2016 Zach Cartwright, www.usuncut.com Educate! Fascism, Higher Education, Nationalism, White Nationalism

By Zach Cartwright for US Uncut - Late senator Joseph McCarthy would be proud about a new list being circulated identifying professors espousing ‘anti-American’ values. The website ProfessorWatchlist.org seeks to “expose and document college professors who discriminate against conservative students, promote anti-American values, and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom.”

Brown Students Stage Peaceful Walkout, Citing Post-Election ‘Danger’

November 19, 2016 G. Wayne Miller, www.providencejournal.com Resist! 2016 Elections, Donald Trump, Higher Education, Student Protests

By G. Wayne Miller for The Providence Journal - PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Several hundred Brown University students, most of them wearing black, on Wednesday afternoon staged a peaceful walkout urging school leaders to "protect" all Brown students, as organizers put it — particularly members of the Native American, black, Latino, undocumented, Muslim, LGBTQ and other communities who fear for their safety following the election of Donald Trump as president.

Students In The UK Prepare For A New Wave Of Rent Strikes

October 18, 2016 Callum Cant, www.roarmag.org Resist! Higher Education, Strikes, Students, United Kingdom (UK)

By Callum Cant for ROAR Magazine - The successful rent strike at University College London earlier this year broke the stale pattern of conflict between university managers and students. It showed how the rent strike tactic offers students in the UK opportunities to shut down higher education and how to gain the upper hand. Now a national network has been established with members from 25 campuses, and it’s calling for a co-ordinated wave of rent strikes in university halls.

Berkeley Bans A Palestine Class

September 19, 2016 John K. Wilson, www.academeblog.org Educate! Berkeley, Higher Education, Palestine

By John K. Wilson for Academe Blog - Suspending a course in the middle of a semester is one of the most serious actions a university can take. On Sept. 13, Dean Carla Hesse of the University of California at Berkeley did exactly that to a student-taught DeCal class about Palestine. DeCal stands for Democratic Education at Cal, an old-fashioned tradition where undergraduate students teach 1 or 2 unit courses, pass/fail, to their peers. The instructors, called facilitators, plan their own courses, which must be approved by a faculty committee and the chair of a department.

The Most Influential College You’ve Never Heard Of

September 17, 2016 Sammy Feldblum, www.scalawagmagazine.org Educate! Higher Education, History, University

By Sammy Feldblum for Scalawag - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill claims the title of oldest public university in the United States, having graduated its first class in 1795. In the centuries since, the state has added sixteen more campuses to the UNC system, including five historically black colleges and universities. The system, especially its flagship school, is the pride of the state: journalist John Gunther called it “a kind of intellectual capital for the whole South” in 1947

Unprecedented Lock-Out Of Faculty At Long Island University

September 14, 2016 E. Drabinski, www.liuff.net Resist! Higher Education, Workers Rights and Jobs

By E. Drabinski for LIUFF - Over the Labor Day weekend, the administration of Long Island University (LIU) announced an unprecedented lockout of all 400 members of its Brooklyn campus faculty union (the Long Island University Faculty Federation) in the midst of ongoing contract negotiations and in the absence of a strike, apparently in order to coerce faculty members into accepting the administration’s last offer. As of September 3, LIU Brooklyn faculty members were deprived, not only of their professional duties, but of their salaries, benefits, and access to their university e-mail accounts.

The Woman Tracking Rape In College Football When No One Else Will

September 12, 2016 Leila Ettachfini, www.broadly.vice.com Organize! Higher Education, Rape

By Leila Ettachfini for Broadly - From Steubenville to Vanderbilt, stories of rape culture and football repeatedly made local and national headlines in the last couple of years. Though problems with sexual violence have coincided with football since the sport's inception, today a handful of survivors and journalists are bringing the issue to a national spotlight. Jessica Luther, an investigative journalist, is one of them. For the past three years, Luther has added to the dialogue surrounding rape in football.

UT Students Start School Year With Anti-Gun Protest

August 27, 2016 Jon Herskovitz, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! Guns, Higher Education, Student Protests

By Jon Herskovitz for Reuters - To protest a new state law that makes the carrying of concealed handguns legal in college classrooms, students at the University of Texas on Wednesday openly displayed sex toys, an act considered illegal under local indecency laws. “We are fighting absurdity with absurdity,” said Jessica Jin, leader of the protest called “Cocks Not Glocks: Campus (Dildo) Carry,” where hundreds of sex toys were given away at the rally on Wednesday that coincided with a return to classes at university’s flagship campus.

To Cut Costs, College Students Are Going Hungry

July 16, 2016 Sara Goldrick-Rab and Katharine Broton, www.theconversation.com Resist! Higher Education, Student Debt

By Sara Goldrick-Rab and Katharine Broton for The Conversation - Studies have long shown that a college student’s odds of achieving financial security and a better quality of life improve when he or she earns a degree. But what are some of the obstacles that prevent degree attainment? At the Wisconsin HOPE Lab, we study the challenges that students from low- and moderate-income households face in attaining a college degree.

Duopoly Parties Fall Short On Universal, Democratic Education

July 10, 2016 Jeff Bfryant, www.educationopportunitynetwork.org Educate! 2016 Elections, Education, Higher Education, Student Debt

By Jeff Bryant for Education Opportunity Network. Although education policy has not been a prominent issue in the current presidential race, the Democratic Party’s platform gives the subject some of its just due with a fairly extensive treatment. In the current draft, which will be finalized on June 8 and 9, there are numerous mentions of education and a special section with over 1,000 words devoted to the topic. Many are saying this platform “may be most progressive platform the Democratic Party may have ever had.” But is it progressive on education? Let’s weigh the evidence. First let’s examine how the Democratic Party platform differs from what’s proposed in the Republican Party’s platform.

Six Students Arrested At University Of Minnesota Regents Meeting

June 11, 2016 Staff, www.unicornriot.ninja Resist! Higher Education, Student Protests, Tuition

By Staff of Unicorn Riot - At a hot summer meeting on a mostly deserted campus, the “Differences Organized Coalition” of fifteen groups protested University of Minnesota Board of Regents’ proposed tuition hikes, as well as decreasing access for marginalized communities, numerous sports and research scandals, Dinkytown gentrification, and investments with abusive corporations. The “Do! Coalition” has several primary demands: to treat education like a public good; immediate free tuition for American Indian students; President Kaler’s immediate resignation...

Inside Growing Movement Against Campus Militarization

June 10, 2016 Shane Burley, www.wagingnonviolence.org Resist! Higher Education, Militarization, Student Activism

By Shane Burley for Waging Nonviolence - As the student leaders of the Portland State Student Union, or PSUSU, began leading chants to “disarm” the university, hundreds of students and community leaders had already begun circling the steps of the library. The rally was the meeting point for a planned student and faculty “walkout” on May 10, where more than 400 students promised to leave class to protest the Board of Trustees’ decision to arm campus police officers — which organizers see as just a piece of the larger trend towards the militarization of police officers around the country.

Student Activist Victory: U Mass Divests From Fossil Fuel

May 28, 2016 Robert P. Connolly, www.umass.edu Resist! Divestment, Fossil Fuels, Higher Education, Student Activism

By Robert P. Connolly for UMass Amherst - BOSTON – The University of Massachusetts today became the first major public university to divest its endowment from direct holdings in fossil fuels. The decision was made by a unanimous vote of the Board of Directors of the UMass Foundation, a separate not-for-profit corporation that oversees an endowment whose value was $770 million at the end of the last fiscal year. The decision followed a series of developments that signaled the University community’s desire to fight climate change.

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