Higher Education

Solidarity With Professor At Purdue For Palestinian Activism

March 23, 2016 Staff, www.usacbi.org Resist! Activism, Higher Education, Palestine

By Staff of USACBI - We, the undersigned, are deeply disturbed by the attempts to smear those advocating for Palestinians’ rights to racial equality and freedom from occupation with false charges of anti-Semitism. Professor Bill Mullen of Purdue University was recently the target of a vicious smear campaign that linked him to swastikas and anti-Semitic slurs found outside the American Studies department office at Purdue. Professor Mullen is an American Studies scholar who is nationally renowned for his leadership in the Palestine solidarity movement...

#BlackLivesMatter Drastically Impacted College Admins And Campus Policy

March 18, 2016 JE Reich, www.jezebel.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Higher Education, Student Activism, Student Protests

By JE Reich for Jezebel - The youths! Everyone loves to complain about the youths. But a study that polled the presidents of hundreds of higher educational institutes have more or less proved that the last gasp of Millennials and the first wave on Gen Z-ers are organizing for social causes—and in turn, they’re changing the very make-up of their campuses. But it’s not only students who are doing this—it’s the administrators, too. The study opened with three simple words that have embodied the dynamism of the socio-political activist movement over the past few years: “Black Lives Matter”

Puerto Rico Students Shut Down University Over Austerity Cuts

March 18, 2016 Staff, www.telesurtv.net Resist! Austerity, Education, Higher Education, Puerto Rico, Student Protests

By Staff of Tele Sur - The students are calling for people all over the country to join the protest against "unpayable debt" and austerity. Thousands of college students from the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) approved a three-day, full-campus shutdown Tuesday to protest recent austerity measures, which they say endanger the higher education system. The students held a general student assembly, after which they marched through the university and closed all entrances to the campus.

Stand With Community Colleges Resisting Corporatization

March 11, 2016 Amanda Loos, www.kzoo.edu Resist! Community Colleges, Corporatization, Higher Education

By Amanda Loos for Praxis Center - On February 4th, the faculty of the City Colleges of Chicago (CCC) delivered a vote of no confidence in mayor-appointed Chancellor Cheryl Hyman. At Harold Washington College (HWC) where I have taught arts and humanities with women’s/gender studies/social justice themes for the last 13 years, 114 out of 116 full-time faculty cast a ballot. Of those, 93% voted “no confidence.” We were triggered by sudden changes that will have devastating effects on students, faculty, and Chicago’s communities – made by CCC District Administration over the Summer of 2015 without any faculty or student input or warning.

For-Profit College Scam These Students Are Still Paying For

March 10, 2016 Sarah Jaffe, www.billmoyers.com Resist! Activism, Higher Education, Student Debt

By Sarah Jaffe for Moyers Company - She had been working since she was 16, but thought that an accounting degree would help her get a better job, one that paid more and maybe even offered her some additional flexibility. A friend of hers was taking classes at Florida Metropolitan University, a subsidiary of the massive Corinthian Colleges chain, and in 2005, Stevens signed up, taking out government-backed student loans to cover the costs of her program. I did what I was supposed to do, I went to school, I expected the Department of Education to protect me and let me know if the school was going to defraud me.”

Students Assert Their ‘Right To Dissent’ In India

March 9, 2016 Bhavana Mahajan, www.wagingnonviolence.org Resist! Higher Education, India, Students

By Bhavana Mahajan for Waging Nonviolence - A new era in public debate and polarization has dawned in India over the last few weeks following the government’s crackdown on students and universities across the country under the guise of protecting “nationalist sentiment.” In May 2014, the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, came to power in India with an absolute majority.

MIT Climate Sit-In Ends As University Agrees To Work With Students

March 4, 2016 Zahra Hirji, www.insideclimatenews.org Resist! Climate Change, College Activism, Higher Education, MIT, Student Protests

By Zahra Hirji for Inside Climate News - Four months of student protests demanding fossil fuel divestment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ended on Thursday, when school administrators and members of the student group Fossil Free MITannounced a compromise. The agreement gives students a role in crafting and tracking the university's climate policy, but the university did not budge on its refusal to partially divest MIT's $13.5 billion endowment of its holdings in fossil fuel companies, which was a major goal of many of the protesters.

UC Berkeley Student Gov Pass Resolution Banning Urban Shield Trainings

February 27, 2016 Sydney Johnson, www.eastbayexpress.com Resist! Higher Education, Militarized police, University of California

By Sydney Johnson for East Bay Express - The Associated Students of the University of California (ASUC) approved aresolution Wednesday night that recommends banning the University of California Police Department (UCPD) from taking part in highly militarized Urban Shield trainings. The resolution, which was passed unanimously by the ASUC Senate, called for the “cessation of UCPD participation in, and funding for participation in, Urban Shield competitions, vendor expos, and seminars.”

Why India’s Leading University Is Under Siege

February 19, 2016 Vijay Prashad, www.counterpunch.org Resist! Higher Education, India, Left

By Vijay Prashad for Counter Punch - Indian political culture sits atop a fine edged blade. Pushing down on it is the Extreme Right, whose political wing – the BJP – is currently in power. Intolerance is the order of the day. India’s celebrated Nobel Prize winning economist Amartya Sen recently said, “India is being turned intolerant. We have been too tolerant with the intolerance. This has to end.” In the marrow of the Extreme Right is a demand for discipline enforced by violence. Anyone who strays from the authority of its world-view – Hindutva – is either anti-national or a terrorist.

4 Ways Colleges Block Your Activism (And How You Can Push Back)

February 13, 2016 James St. James, www.everydayfeminism.com Resist! Higher Education, Student Activism

By James St. James for Everyday Feminism - So what did I do when I realized I’d become a Rapunzel? I booked it out of there. Once I saw my peers start to turn on one another and form cliques based on their primary identities (God help the intersectional leftovers), I knew there was no future left for me there. For me, it was a great choice. I ended up with all sorts of experiences that reconnected me to the marginalized sub-worlds that I would have missed out on if I’d stayed in my program. I helped them, and they helped me. Listening to my gut and dropping out turned out to be one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.

Historic Number Of College Freshmen Expect To Protest This Year

February 13, 2016 Susan Svrluga, www.washingtonpost.com Resist! Higher Education, Student Activism, Student Protests

By Susan Svrluga for The Washington Post - This past year, colleges across the country, from Yale to Towson to Claremont McKenna, were rocked by protests. Students upset over racial issues took over the president’s office at Princeton, demanded the resignation of Ithaca College’s president, and forced out the chancellor and president of the entire University of Missouri system. And this spring may be even more intense: Researchers at UCLA are predicting a continued rise in campus demonstrations based on the results of their annual freshman survey...

Organizing To Resist Corporatization Of Higher Education

January 25, 2016 Malini Cadambi Daniel, www.newlaborforum.cuny.edu Strategize! Adjunct, Corporatization, Higher Education, Wages, Worker Rights

By Malini Cadambi Daniel for New Labor Forum - The once hallowed and secure work life of American university faculty has for the past quarter century been in turmoil. Being a professor was once a respected, stable profession, but is now increasingly characterized by low pay, minimal benefits, and no job security. An expectation of tenure—the permanent status that was once a hallmark of the profession—is replaced by the reality of contingency, which means that college instructors must reapply to teach courses every year, or even every semester. This new contingency is not a temporary employment arrangement, nor is it confined to a sector of higher education such as community colleges.

‘I Don’t Do Diversity, I Do Triage’

January 22, 2016 Lisa Brock, www.kzoo.edu Educate! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Higher Education, Student Protests

By Lisa Brock for Praxis Center - On November 3, 2015, Jonathan Butler, a graduate student at the University of Missouri’s flagship campus in Columbia, Missouri, launched a hunger strike. Fed up with “institutional racism” and the university’s unwillingness to seriously tackle it, he stated that he and other black students “felt unsafe” on campus. Mizzou’s students recounted scary drive-by insults, being called the n-word, and racist “pranks” as regular occurrences.[1]

Princeton University Students Are Right On Racist Woodrow Wilson

December 17, 2015 Harvey Wasserman, www.itruth-out.org Educate! Higher Education, Student Protests

By Harvey Wasserman for Truth Out - Princeton University's long-overdue uproar over Woodrow Wilson's racism barely scratches the surface of the damage he did to US democracy. At the core of his foul legacy is the fact that he dragged the United States into a hated world war based on a monstrous lie, and that he used that war as cover to illegally shatter the United States' democratic Socialist Party while permanently shredding the US Constitution. Students at Princeton are now demanding Wilson's name be removed from the university's prestigious School of Public and International Affairs and a residential dorm.

George Washington University Values Diversity Unless You’re Palestinian

December 12, 2015 Claire Bernish, www.theantimedia.org Educate! Higher Education, Palestine

By Claire Bernish for Anti Media - Washington, D.C. — Like many other students on campus at George Washington University, Ramie Abounaja wanted to display pride in his heritage by hanging a flag from his dorm window; but a visit from campus police demanding its removal made apparent Abounaja had discovered the single exception to the university’s self-congratulatory diversity policy: Palestinian pride. “Being a first generation American, I am grateful for everything America stands for and everything it has offered my family,” Abounaja penned in a letter to campus officials.

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