Above Photo: With skyrocketing costs of education and tuition, university campuses have been investing in fancy infrastructures — increasing their operational costs and pouring money into athletic programs while lowering their instructional costs. Ayo Walker / Truthout. We are living through a moment of great decline in the United States. The U.S.’s turn toward authoritarianism is evidenced by actions of the Trump Administration And The GOP; the January 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol fomented by the big lie that former president Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election; and anti-Black right-wing attacks against voting rights, among many other right-wing machinations. Meanwhile, there is […]
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Above Photo: The Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition said they’ll strike for at least a week, but could extend it if a majority of the union vote in favor. Justin Hicks / IPB News. Bloomington, Indiana – Around 1,000 graduate student workers at Indiana University’s Bloomington campus are on strike to demand the school recognize them as a union. But the school said it has no intention of bargaining with the group – and no legal obligation to do so. The Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition-United Electrical Workers began the week-long strike on Wednesday. The strike includes in-person picket lines and labor education events […]
Howard University Faculty Win Tentative Agreement By Maximillian Alvarez, In These Times. March 24, 2022 Howard University Faculty Win Tentative Agreement2022-03-242022-03-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/20220324-4.jpg200px200px Above Photo: A sign welcomes visitors to Howard University in Washington, DC, on February 1, 2022. Mandel Ngan / AFP Via Getty Images. After Nearly Four Years Of Bargaining With The University To Get Their First Union Contract, Lecturers At Howard University Narrowly Avert A Strike At The 11th Hour. Since full-time lecturers at Howard University originally voted to unionize, they have spent nearly four years bargaining with the university administration to get their first contract. On March 23, just hours before […]
Howard University Faculty Are Ready To Strike March 23, 2022 Howard University Faculty Are Ready To Strike2022-03-232022-03-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/20220323-3.jpg200px200px Above Photo: The Howard University campus, Washington, DC. Drew Angerer / Getty Images. Roughly 350 non-tenure-track and adjunct professors at Howard University, one of the nation’s most important historically black universities, are demanding fairer compensation and better job security. If no agreement is reached by Wednesday, they’ll strike. After more than three years of negotiating their first contract since they unionized, 150 full-time lecturers are expected to strike at Howard University beginning this Wednesday. Unless an agreement is reached in the coming days, they […]
Above Photo: Students are seen walking on Brown University’s campus in Providence, Rhode Island on November 11, 2021. Jonathan Wiggs / The Boston Globe via Getty Images. “I did not come to Brown to study at an institution that promotes the presence of the Koch anti-science, anti-democratic ideology,” wrote one student in a recent op-ed. More than 60% of Brown University faculty members voted Tuesday to postpone a vote on the creation of a new academic center until next month, giving professors more time to assess whether administrators have adequately strengthened the institution’s gift policy to ensure that wealthy right-wing donors are not bankrolling […]
Above Photo: Columbia student workers picket on campus. (Student Workers Of Columbia). A Dispute Over Whether The University Can Permanently Replace Striking Student Workers Is Coming To A Head This Week. Thousands of striking Columbia University graduate student workers are vowing to “shut down” the campus Wednesday with a major picket line aimed at highlighting the university’s threat to fire those who are still on strike by December 10. In a year marked by labor strikes, one of the largest and most contentious is happening at one of the most elite bastions of American higher education. The 3,000 members of the Student Workers of Columbia, members of UAW Local 2110, […]
Our newest report, “The Regulatory Studies Center: A Stain on the George Washington University Name,” delves into the Koch and ExxonMobil funded RSC, which has repeatedly acted as a front for fossil fuel interests with a history of using GW’s name to provide credibility to climate deniers, fossil fuel cronies, and other discredited backers of pseudoscience. The report, written by UnKoch My Campus Student Organizer and GW student Jake Lowe, highlights a number of instances of climate disinformation and details how the RSC has played a role in promoting a deregulation agenda that benefits its donors. The post The Regulatory Studies […]
Above Photo: Author, Tony Platt. (T.William Wallin/The Lumberjack) Tony Platt’s recently re-released book, “Grave Matters” digs into the Golden State’s dark history of not only massacring Indigenous Peoples, but later desecrating their graves and excavating their remains without their descendants’ consent. The United States of America is founded on the original sin of Native American genocide and the myth that the Indigenous Peoples that lived on these lands for thousands of years had no right to it. White settler colonialism is not just a stain on the country’s history, it is its very raison d’etre. To this day, all non-Native Americans live […]
Over 3,000 Columbia graduate student workers have been on strike since November 3. This is the latest in a series of actions by graduate students workers in universities across the US, many of which are extremely wealthy Thousands of Columbia graduate student workers are into their second week on strike demanding fair pay and healthcare benefits. The Student Workers of Columbia has been negotiating a contract with the university for more than four years now. Source link
Above Photo: The protest encampment at Howard University. As the student occupation of Howard University’s Blackburn Center has entered its fifth week, protesters have garnered significant support for their demands that administration at the historically black university immediately address deplorable living conditions. In early October, students occupied the Blackburn Center to protest vermin infestations, mold, asbestos and other conditions overseen by the for-profit building management company Corvias. Students have camped outside the building in tents demanding that Howard University President Wayne A. I. Frederick convene a school-wide town hall meeting to discuss student and alumni representation on the Howard board of trustees, improved […]
Above Photo: Protesters say the president’s remarks don’t meet their demands. (Dee Dwyer / DCist/WAMU) Stops Short Of Meeting Protesters’ Demands Amid a nearly month-long student protest, Howard University President Wayne A.I. Frederick attempted to correct course during a semiannual state-of-the-university address, acknowledging some of the issues that have sparked an ongoing occupation of a campus building. “The current events that are taking place on campus are very important. I hear the concerns, I want to be absolutely clear about that,” Frederick said. “We apologize for anybody that was inconvenienced in any way, shape, or form.” Originally slated to occur on Oct. […]
San Juan. – The first student general assembly 2021-2022 at the Rio Piedras campus of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) has announced an indefinite strike starting today, while other universities are on strike. The university students, who arrived on stage at the main campus for the UPR, made the decision in light of the academic, administrative, social and economic problems that the campus suffers from. The President of the Student General Council, Fabiana Marini Martinez, indicated that the debt settlement plan, which was promoted by the Financial Supervisory Board (JSF), was also rejected due to the implications for the academic […]
Above Photo: Dozens of students have been camped outside the Blackburn University Center since Oct. 12 in protest of unsanitary living conditions at Howard University. (Elliot C. Williams / DCist/WAMU) In an open letter published Tuesday, Howard University President Wayne A. I. Frederick wrote that students’ two-week occupation of a campus building in protest of poor housing conditions and other issues “must end.” Students have occupied Howard’s Armour J. Blackburn Center for two weeks, vowing to stay put until the university remediates mold in students’ dorms; creates a housing plan for incoming freshmen; and reinstates student, faculty, and alumni members to the university’s Board of […]
Students at Howard University have historically been in the forefront of movement struggles. Now they are protesting tuition hikes, student loan debt, a lack of accountability, and all the hallmarks of the neo-liberal university. On late Tuesday, Oct. 12, Howard University students began staging a sit-in demonstration at the Blackburn building in front of the historic Yard. Students brought sleeping bags and food and began demonstrating and making demands that the university protect their health on campus. In the past month, as students returned to the school after more than a year under COVID conditions, a Twitter video went viral showing a puddle […]
Above photo: On Oct. 13. 2021 Students gather in front of the Armour J. Blackburn building as student protestors occupy the space inside. DCist/WAMU / Dee Dwyer. Washington, DC – Hundreds of Howard University students protested on campus Wednesday morning following a sit-in Tuesday night over housing and other concerns. Students with the group Live Movement, a coalition of students from historically Black colleges and universities who advocate for education reform, began their sit-in at the Blackburn University Center Tuesday evening to demand university officials, including President Wayne Frederick, agree to a town hall meeting by the end of the month to negotiate their demands. […]
Columbia University Students Are Preparing To Launch A Tuition Strike By Indigo Olivier, In These Times. December 10, 2020 Columbia University Students Are Preparing To Launch A Tuition Strike2020-12-102020-12-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/columbia.png200px200px Above photo: People are seen on the campus of Columbia University during the coronavirus pandemic on April 14, 2020, in New York City. Rob Kim. With an $11 billion endowment, Columbia University has been fleecing students during the pandemic. Now students are fighting back. At the end of November, members of the Columbia University-Barnard College chapter of Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA) launched a tuition strike campaign against “exorbitant tuition rates” which, they […]
As the University of Miami campus filled up again for an uncertain new school year last month, a group of students, faculty, and on-campus workers acted out a grim warning. On Sept. 4, demonstrators lay on the ground as if dead, some of them holding tombstones, while a Birkenstock-clad person in a grim reaper costume patrolled the scene. The protesters were targeting what they said were unsafe working conditions for staff and faculty amid the COVID-19 pandemic. (Students have the option of learning remotely.) But they soon experienced a second scare: Despite all participants wearing masks, the university had managed to […]
Scientists at the University of Oxford have developed a rapid COVID-19 test that they say can identify the presence of the disease in less than five minutes. According to a report on the test published Wednesday on preprint server MedRxiv, the test can detect SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, with “high accuracy.” “Our method quickly detects intact virus particles,” professor Achilles Kapanidis, who was involved in the study and development of the test, told Reuters, adding that the test is “simple, extremely rapid, and cost-effective.” Oxford’s rapid diagnostic test directly detects the presence of virus antigens, rather than antibodies or […]
Idaho’s Brigham Young University has urged students to refrain from purposely infecting themselves with the coronavirus in hopes of cashing in on payments for plasma donations, threatening expulsion for those caught doing so. “BYU-Idaho is deeply troubled by accounts of individuals who have intentionally exposed themselves for others to Covid-19, with the hope of getting the disease and being paid for plasma that contains COVID-19 antibodies,” the school said in a recent notice. The university condemns this behavior and is actively seeking evidence of any such conduct among our student body. Students who are determined to have intentionally exposed themselves or […]
At least one person has been killed after a roof collapsed on the campus of Curtin University in Western Australia. Several injuries have been reported as emergency workers search through the rubble for survivors. A glass ceiling caved in at a construction site located on the premises of the Perth university on Tuesday. Firefighters and paramedics are at the scene and have begun to look for victims. At least one person was killed in the collapse, with several others reportedly injured, one critically, local media reported. An ambulance service confirmed that it had transported two men in their 20s who sustained […]
Late last month, Arizona State University placed dozens of students and four Greek chapters on interim suspension, pending an investigation of their alleged violations of COVID-19 safety protocols. The photos displayed in a local news broadcast that night—dozens of students packed together, maskless, on a boat; sorority sisters packing together for rush week—were shocking. But even more surprising was the revelation that they hadn’t been unearthed by a school administrator or the campus newspaper, but by an anonymous student Twitter account known as “ASUcovidTracker.” The account, which has racked up more than 4,000 followers in the two months since it started, […]
BRUSSELS (Sputnik), Luc Rivet – George Soros and his allies in the European parliament are currently celebrating a victory at the European Court of Human Rights against Hungary and its Prime Minister Viktor Orban after the ruling that the country’s law that forced its Central European University out of Hungary contradicts the EU law. This is only the latest of attacks on the Eastern European country and its leader mounted by Europe’s various leftist parties and EU institutions in their ongoing crusade against the so-called illiberal states, which is how they describe Christian right-of-centre governments of countries such as Poland and […]
Out of all the universities with blockchain education programs, two stand out by offering students paid opportunities to learn by working. At MIT and Berkeley, students can take accessible and well-paid jobs at blockchain startups, often for part-time arrangements like 12 hours a week. This post is part of CoinDesk’s 2020 university package. See our exclusive ranking of blockchain universities here. MIT Bitcoin Club President Nate Foss said his student organization has a dedicated Slack channel for crypto-related job openings. Plus, the MIT Bitcoin Club’s alumni network includes local companies like Skynet Labs, which often hires undergraduates. “We don’t have any […]
Six Reflections On The Abolitionist Strike At The University Of Michigan October 1, 2020 Six Reflections On The Abolitionist Strike At The University Of Michigan2020-10-012020-10-01https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/umich-e1601580499767.jpg200px200px Above photo: Members of GEO and other University of Michigan students protested and marched in Ann Arbor, Michigan on Friday, Sept. 11. Sahil Kumar. In this piece, an anonymous abolitionist in so-called Ann Arbor presents six reflections on the fallout of the GEO 3550 Strike at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. After a week and a half of strike actions, and nationwide attention on the demands for a demilitarized campus, it became clear that what is needed […]
Is the prospect of a presidential debate too triggering? Well, the Ohio University hosting the showdown between Donald Trump and Joe Biden has offered “presidential debate support spaces” for students traumatized by the face-off. President Donald Trump and former vice president Joe Biden face off against each other on Tuesday night, in the first of three debates before November’s election. The political slugfest takes place at Ohio’s Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), and will be moderated by Fox News’s Chris Wallace. It’ll be watched by a studio audience of around 75 people, and by millions of Americans at home. Also on […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107925/99/1079259974_0:0:3072:1728_1200x675_80_0_0_cd97bc5d6522693fc09ecf43320a9d17.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Andrei Dergalin. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/us/202009271080590530-us-university-says-biden-didnt-attend-it-despite-him-claiming-he-started-out-there—media-/ The former vice president’s 2007 memoir reportedly “details his years at private Catholic school Archmere Academy to his time as a freshman at the University of Delaware” (UD), noting that “there is no mention of Delaware State University” (DSU). Even as US Democratic presidential candidate and former VP Joe Biden previously said that he “started out” at Delaware State University, that claim has been recently shot down by a representative of that very academic institution, Fox News reports. According to the media outlet, Biden made the claim in question during a town […]
Just two weeks after going remote because of a COVID-19 spike, the University of Wisconsin Madison is resuming in-person activities, despite what Gov. Tony Evers described as a “near-exponential” increase in coronavirus cases in the state. UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank announced Wednesday that the 45,000-student school would return to classroom instruction and reopen some dining, recreation and library functions. The next day, Wisconsin reported the highest number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 in the state since the pandemic began. There were 528 hospitalizations and 2,392 new positive tests in Wisconsin Thursday, the state’s second-highest one-day case count ever. According to a […]
The UC Berkeley campus sits empty on July 22.The University of California admitted at least 64 students over more qualified applicants due to the students’ connections to university staff or donors, according to a California state audit released Tuesday. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The UC Berkeley campus sits empty on July 22.The University of California admitted at least 64 students over more qualified applicants due to the students’ connections to university staff or donors, according to a California state audit released Tuesday. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The University of California was found to have admitted at […]
by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Italy Versione originale in Italiano Senior army officers, national intelligence officials, CIA analysts and even Israeli cyber experts. These are the teachers who train the students at Link Campus University in Rome. Especially in the exclusive Master in Intelligence and Security intended on paper for future managers of national authorities and agencies, employees of the arms industry, scholars of geopolitics and strategic affairs but in fact a real “forge” of 007 agents ready to be recruited by the Italian secret services , by the military ones of NATO or by the American Central Intelligence […]
University Of Michigan Asks Court To Halt Graduate Student Strike By Leah Graham, Barbara Collins, Emma Stein and Liat Weinsten, Michigan Daily. September 15, 2020 University Of Michigan Asks Court To Halt Graduate Student Strike2020-09-152020-09-15https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/umich-e1600168731413.jpg200px200px Above photo: Abigail Finlay, left, a University of Michigan mathematics graduate student instructor, marches with fellow protestors in front of the University of Michigan’s Angell Hall on State Street in Ann Arbor, Tuesday, September 8, 2020. Lon Horwedel, Special to Detroit News. A day after the Graduate Employees’ Organization voted to extend its strike, University of Michigan President Mark Schlissel is seeking an injunction to get graduate students off the […]
Have you taken a cryptocurrency course at university? Are interested in learning about blockchain for your career? What have you heard about the institutions with the best teachers, research centers, student clubs and networking opportunities? We want to hear from you. CoinDesk is on a mission to find out which U.S. university is doing the best overall job of teaching, researching and otherwise engaging on the topic of cryptocurrency and decentralized tech. We’re gathering data on a host of blockchain-related criteria. And now we really want to know what you – the student, former student or prospective student – thinks. CoinDesk’s […]
University Of Michigan Residential Staff On Strike By Residential Staff, Popular Resistance. September 10, 2020 University Of Michigan Residential Staff On Strike2020-09-102020-09-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/umichresstaff-e1599737259619.jpg200px200px Above photo: Allison Engkvist/Daily. The bottom line is our health can’t wait. Our communities can’t wait. The University’s inaction in the face of ResStaff’s explicit concerns and action items over the last few weeks has made it clear that public health is not the priority. The University has repeatedly referred to the Wolverine Culture of Care, but has not extended this same care to us. If U of M administrators do not want to live up to the Michigan Difference, […]
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A prominent British university is fire-fighting toxic allegations of misogyny, assault, and snobbery Wednesday after a group of male students in a “lads chat” on WhatsApp joked about an alleged competition among “posh lads competing on fucking the poorest girl.” The group at tony Durham University also joked about the “most cost effective way” of getting women drunk to take advantage of them sexually, and are also alleged to have made a number of racist comments. The university told The Daily Beast that it would investigate the allegations, and could revoke admission offers or expel the students involved if the comments, […]
The college town of Pullman, Washington, is in the midst of a COVID-19 crisis. It has one of the highest per capita infection rates in the country; the National Guard was called in to help with testing; and Washington State University asked students to stay on campus last weekend to avoid spreading the virus. And yet, last Friday, more than two dozen people gathered in the driveway of WSU Head Women’s Basketball Coach Kamie Ethridge’s house for what she later described to police as a “mini block party.” An incident report from the evening in question, read to The Daily Beast […]
The mayor of Tuscaloosa is letting bars near the University of Alabama reopen on Tuesday, even though the school just reported more than 800 new cases. In a press release, Mayor Walt Maddox citied a “positive trend” in results, saying an overall decline in community positivity rates “provides an opportunity for a limited reopening of bars which have sacrificed a great deal to protect our healthcare system and economy.” At the same time, the university reported 846 new cases over the last week—the largest increase in a single week since classes began. Maddox shut down all bars in the area for […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/06/1080378999_0:0:3072:1729_1200x675_80_0_0_2452f22d149b1fd9c7230fcf7e3fc4a7.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202009061080379029-11-students-of-bostons-northeastern-university-dismissed-for-violating-coronavirus-requirements/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Eleven freshmen have been dismissed from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, for a semester for violating COVID-19 requirements for students, according to the university. “Cooperation and compliance with public health guidelines are absolutely essential. Those people who do not follow the guidelines – including wearing masks, avoiding parties and other gatherings, practicing healthy distancing, washing your hands, and getting tested – are putting everyone else at risk”, Madeleine Estabrook, senior vice chancellor for student affairs at Northeastern said, as quoted on the university’s news page on Friday. The students were discovered […]
The University of Rhode Island is taking down murals that were painted at its student Memorial Union more than 60 years ago because they show too many white people and lack “sensitivity to today’s complex and painful problems.” “These murals were a snapshot in time, but the images no longer represent who we are today and where we are going in the future,” university vice president for student affairs Kathy Collins said Thursday. She added that the school had received student complaints about the murals because “the persons painted and depicted on the wall are predominantly white.” A mural painted nearly […]
Amidst a national debate on how to safely reopen schools during the coronavirus pandemic, several colleges and universities took the plunge, inviting students back to dorms and classrooms with strict health and social distancing guidelines. More than a third of the nation’s 5,000 higher education campuses have reopened, with students from out of state ordered to quarantine, mask mandated and routine self-checks for symptoms instituted across the board. To comply with social distancing guidelines, parties or large gatherings are forbidden. But, just a few weeks into the fall semester, the experiment is faltering. Colleges and universities across the country are struggling […]
This Public US University Has Seen Grades Soar Despite COVID-19 By Andrew Gumbel, The Guardian. September 3, 2020 This Public US University Has Seen Grades Soar Despite COVID-192020-09-032020-09-02https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/4163-e1599100407623.jpg200px200px Above photo: Georgia State University over the years has overturned received wisdom about the viability of lower-income, minority, and first-generation students. Illustration: Eric Pratt/Carolyn Richardson/ Meg Buscema/Georgia State University/The Guardian. What’s it doing right? Most of Georgia State’s students come from low-income backgrounds hard-hit by the pandemic. The school could serve as a model for others nationwide. If anywhere was going to take a pummeling from the coronavirus, you’d think it would be a place […]
When the email ordering them into quarantine on Tuesday night began pinging phones up and down the 10th floor of Martin, a freshman dorm at the University of Mississippi, some of the women who lived there were just getting into their beds. They didn’t stay in them for long. Three students on the hall had tested positive for coronavirus. The email said the other residents of those halls would need to be out of their dorms and in quarantine by the next day. “It was insane. Everyone at the same time, rushing out of their rooms, panicking and screaming,” said an […]
Chainlink has acquired Cornell University’s privacy oracle solution DECO for an undisclosed amount. This is Chainlink’s second acquisition to date, according to an announcement made by the firm on Saturday. DECO was co-created by Ari Juel, former chief scientist at digital security firm RSA, who will also join Chainlink Labs as part of the deal under the same title. Moreover, Chainlink CEO Sergey Nazarov and Juels have begun drafting a second Chainlink white paper, according to a phone interview with the pair. The duo authored the original Chainlink white paper in 2017. Chainlink’s oracle solution ports data from off-chain locations into […]
Becki Falwell had a sexual encounter with one of her son’s 22-year-old Liberty University classmates in 2008 and pursued him for months after, Politico reports. The former student told the outlet that and Trey Falwell were in a rock band together, and while the former student stayed in a guest room the Falwells’ house after a rehearsal, Becki Falwell entered his room and began to perform oral sex on him. Her husband, Jerry Falwell, Jr., then the university’s president, was away. The former student, originally from North Carolina and speaking anonymously, told the outlet he acquiesced to her advances but rejected […]
The University of Alabama made headlines this week with the shocking announcement that more than 500 students, faculty and staff had tested positive for the coronavirus in the first five days of classes. But professors at the university say they were just as disturbed by emails from the administration telling them not to speak up about outbreaks. In an email to the politics department, professors were explicitly instructed not to tell their students if someone in a class tests positive. “Do not tell the rest of the class,” the email reads, with the word “not” underlined. It goes on to say […]
Koch Academic Influence Returns To Massachusetts With New Tufts University Think Tank By Dana Drugmand, DeSmog Blog. August 25, 2020 Koch Academic Influence Returns To Massachusetts With New Tufts University Think Tank2020-08-252020-08-25https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/tufts-university-e1598364445281.jpg200px200px Above photo: Tufts University by Pete Jelliffe (CC BY–ND 2.0). When a new Massachusetts think tank housed at Tufts University launched earlier this year, Boston-based media described it as a “CBO-like center” (referring to the Congressional Budget Office) that would offer an “independent analysis” of proposed state policy and legislation. But one of the main funders of this think tank, called the Center for State Policy Analysis, is a program tied financially to the petrochemical billionaire Koch family. This apparent Koch-linked […]
The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay held a convocation ceremony in a virtual environment by creating unique 3D avatars for more than 2,000 of its students due to gathering restrictions imposed amid the coronavirus pandemic. IIT Bombay, one of the top technical universities in India, sent off its virtual graduates on Sunday. The students’ avatars received their diplomas and medals after walking across a 3D environment designed to look like a stage. Princeton University’s Duncan Haldane, joint winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize, was an invited chief guest at the ceremony, and was also represented by a computer model. Judging by […]
Minnesota Democrat Senator Amy Klobuchar admitted on national TV that she contacted a Big Ten official to shut down Big Ten football this fall. Klobuchar admitted to calling a Minnesota Big Ten official to shut down the football season. On FOX News Special Report Brett Baier started his conversation with Klobuchar by noting that the Big Ten shut down football and asked her if it was a political issue. Klobuchar responded as follows: Amy Klobuchar: Um, oh no, I actually talked to the University of Minnesota President about this. President [Joan T. A.] Gabel I like her a lot and she […]
Jerry Falwell Jr. speaks at a Liberty University commencement in 2017 in Lynchburg, Va. Alex Wong/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Alex Wong/Getty Images Jerry Falwell Jr. speaks at a Liberty University commencement in 2017 in Lynchburg, Va. Alex Wong/Getty Images Updated at 7:24 p.m. ET Jerry Falwell Jr., a leading evangelical ally of President Trump’s and son of the founder of one of the nation’s largest and most well-known Christian universities, has officially resigned as president of Liberty University after a series of controversies, a university source confirms to NPR. Falwell has not responded to NPR, but in an interview […]
Students move into dorms on Monday at the University of Georgia in Athens. Elissa Nadworny/NPR hide caption toggle caption Elissa Nadworny/NPR Students move into dorms on Monday at the University of Georgia in Athens. Elissa Nadworny/NPR The excitement in the air at the University of Georgia is palpable, with move-in days for the fall semester finally here. There are packed cars, overstuffed suitcases, a white shag rug, an old grey futon and a potted succulent named Susie. But nestled between the familiar college accessories were stark reminders of the coronavirus pandemic: Boxes of cleaning supplies. Masks. Hand sanitizer. Across the country, […]
by Alison Young and Jessica Blake for ProPublica SERIES:CORONAVIRUS The U.S. Response to COVID-19 ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. More voices indicate that coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 was engineered. Question was Fort Dietrich, UNC, Wuhan, or other – where was it engineered and who did it? Intentional […] Source link
Update: VT has been tracking COVID stats and disinformation/censorship since day one. Now, in light of the Beirut attack (Trump backs us up), we now view the release of a hybridized version of COVID 19 on the New York metropolitan area as a terror attack. Stats on hospitalization and deaths there have been altered/censored which prove this was a biological attack. Death rates were many times higher than elsewhere and even target specifically the Jewish population, something Israel has done before. We have watched Google Corporation manipulation of the internet, we have tracked them and find clear and absolute evidence that […]
Researchers at Russia’s Tomsk Polytechnic University have developed a new technology for creating artificial vessels, which are used in the treatment of acute vein thrombosis. When treating thrombosis, doctors attempt to restore the functionality of blood vessels medically or surgically. When impossible, the vessel is removed and replaced with an artificial one. The new method enables artificial vessels to easily take root in the body while providing optimal blood flow. “The uniqueness of the new domestic technology is that it is much simpler and 90 percent cheaper than existing methods of producing artificial vessels,” said Sergey Tverdokhlebov, head of the Plasma […]
Jacquelyn Gill was angry. First she heard an academic she knew online had perished at the hands of the raging coronavirus pandemic. Then things got weird. “I went from thinking a Twitter friend and colleague died of COVID after being forced by her institution to teach, to doubting she had existed in the first place,” Gill, a University of Maine climate scientist, told The Daily Beast. Gill was referring to the mysterious Twitter account known as @Sciencing_Bi, which was created in 2016, had a flower for an avatar image, and had about 6,000 followers before it went private over the weekend. […]
The case of a missing Arizona State University professor who vanished in March took a dark turn on Friday as police announced his remains were found in a landfill, allegedly dumped there by two Louisiana teenagers. Junseok Chae, associate dean for research at ASU’s School of Engineering, was reported missing March 25 when he didn’t return home from work at the university. Authorities began searching a dump in Surprise, Arizona on May 11, but they only discovered his body on July 17 after a weeks-long manhunt that involved dozens of people working 15-hour shifts and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. […]
Defund The University Of Mississippi Police Department By Cam Calisch, The Appeal. July 22, 2020 Defund The University Of Mississippi Police Department2020-07-222020-07-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/ums-e1595429951892.png200px200px Above photo: Photo illustration by Kat Wawrykow. Photo from Getty Images. From crackdowns on Black students decades ago to more recent arrests during protests against neo-Confederates, the department has served as a tool for enforcing white supremacy. This piece is a commentary, part of The Appeal’s collection of opinion and analysis. In the fall of 2019, the governing board over Mississippi’s eight public higher education institutions, the state’s Institutions of Higher Learning (IHL), appointed a new chancellor at the University of Mississippi […]
Drone photos are taken as students move in on Thursday August 15, 2019. (Photo by KJ Jugar) Gateway Pundit readers may recall the covfefe that ensued after Liberty University announced they would be re-opening for spring classes as normal, in spite of Covid-19 fears. This of course sparked controversy throughout the leftist media, including an article by the New York Times which *allegedly* made several false and defamatory claims about the university and students that may or may not have gotten sick. Liberty University and its president, Jerry Falwell Jr., have now announced a $10 Million defamation suit against the formerly […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107968/45/1079684551_0:27:3072:1755_1200x675_80_0_0_3a460a9f81b1161d0ccf521cafed54be.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/russia/202007121079860277-russias-sechenov-university-successfully-completes-trials-of-worlds-1st-covid-19-vaccine/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The clinical trials of the world’s first coronavirus vaccine on volunteers at the Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University have been successfully completed, Vadim Tarasov, the director of the Institute for Translational Medicine and Biotechnology, told Sputnik. The university began clinical trials of a vaccine produced by Russia’s Gamalei Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology on 18 June. “Sechenov University has successfully completed tests on volunteers of the world’s first vaccine against coronavirus”, Tarasov said. He added that the first group of volunteers would be discharged on Wednesday and the second on […]
French officials have begun a new phase in an investigation over the mishandling of human bodies donated to a Paris university research center after photographs taken at the facility revealed horror-film-like conditions. An ongoing probe into “violations of the integrity of a corpse” at the Center for Body Donations (CDC) of Paris Descartes University has been transferred to magistrates by prosecutors who launched an initial investigation into the matter last year. Magistrates are endowed with wider powers and are better suited to investigate the affair, according to a lawyer representing affected families who pressed charges against the university. France’s l’Express reported […]
Lamenting declining minority enrollment, California State University’s faculty union has called for tuition-free education for nonwhite students, nixing a ban on affirmative action, and… segregating students and faculty by color? The California Faculty Association has published a list of demands aimed at “redress for systemic anti-Black racism in the CSU,” insisting that black faculty, students and staff are “criminalized both on CSU campuses and in our communities.” Its orders begin with a directive that “everyone needs to recognize: black lives are precious” and “take serious, tangible and public steps to protect Black lives, Black futures, and Black joy,” and spiral off […]
Nearly three years ago in August 2017 President Trump warned that Democrats will soon be taking down Washington and Jefferson statues. Trump called it. President Trump: George Washington was a slave owner. Was George Washington a slave owner? So will George Washington now lose his status? Are we going to now take down, excuse me. Are we going to take down statues of George Washington? How about Thomas Jefferson? What do you think of Thomas Jefferson? You like him? OK, good. Are we going to take down his statue because he was a major slave owner? Now, are we going to […]
The University Community As A Microcosm Of The National Economy By Harry Targ, Diary of a Heartland Radical. July 4, 2020 The University Community As A Microcosm Of The National Economy2020-07-042020-07-04https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/dollar-bills.png200px200px In a recent article, Shawn Hubler surveys the impacts of the Covid 19 pandemic on the political economy of campus towns (The New York Times June 28, 2020). During the spring shutdowns of college campuses, millions of dollars were lost in revenues as students departed. Now with many universities and colleges contemplating reopening for the fall term, resistance has emerged from faculty, staff, and students because of the continuing threat of the spread […]
The University of Tennessee has become the first one to require students and faculty to receive vaccines for the flu and Covid-19 that is yet to be developed sparking “push back” from critics. The mandate was pushed through as an emergency rule by the university’s Board of Trustees, with the promise that it will soon become a permanent requirement. “There may be some push-back, but we believe this is in the best interest of our students,” UT System President Randy Boyd said. There are medical and religious exemptions from the new rule, and students who only take online classes do not […]
Princeton has decided to remove Woodrow Wilson’s name from its public policy school over his segregationist views, in the same way other historical leaders have been targeted during the protests over the death of George Floyd. “Wilson’s racist views and policies make him an inappropriate namesake,” the university’s president, Christopher L Eisgruber, announced in a letter sent to the school community on Saturday. Removing Wilson’s name from Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs had actually been discussed four years ago, though the trustees decided at that time to retain it. It appears that targeting long-dead leaders over views considered questionable […]
If you’re wondering where all these radical leftists in America came from, look no further than the nearest college campus. Academia has been spoon feeding a steady diet of leftism to American students for generations. Now they are beginning to see the fruits of their labor. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, students are now demanding the removal of a campus statue of Abraham Lincoln. TRENDING: Black Lives Matter Activist Loses One of His Testicles After Being Shot in the Balls with Rubber Bullets During George Floyd Riots From their petition: Remove and replace “The Lincoln Statue” from Bascom Hill Many UW-Madison […]
Cambridge has proclaimed that it will defend the seemingly indefensible, after one of its professors stated that ‘white lives’ aren’t valuable. Is this the same uni that ‘canceled’ Dr Jordan Peterson, Twitter has asked? In a series of now-deleted tweets, Dr Priyamvada Gopal, a lecturer who specializes in postcolonial literature and “critical race studies” at the University of Cambridge’s Churchill College, announced that “white lives don’t matter,” and that whiteness should be “abolished.” Unsurprisingly, she received mountains of criticism for her divisive utterances. In the current racially charged era, one might assume Cambridge would want to distance itself from her radical […]
Clark Atlanta University and alumna Pinky Cole are teaming up to offer full scholarships to Rayshard Brooks’ four children, who range in age from 1 to 13 years old. Jeff Martin/AP hide caption toggle caption Jeff Martin/AP Clark Atlanta University and alumna Pinky Cole are teaming up to offer full scholarships to Rayshard Brooks’ four children, who range in age from 1 to 13 years old. Jeff Martin/AP A university in Georgia is partnering with an alumna to award full scholarships to the four children of Rayshard Brooks, the Black man fatally shot by an Atlanta police officer in the parking […]
The logo had included curves on the handles of sabres meant to mimic the design of serpentine walls on campus. Those walls were originally built to hide enslaved people from public view. Source link
Antifa and BLM this week set up a new “autonomous zone” at Hyde Park inside and around the University of Chicago Police Department. Protesters set up tents outside and inside the police department. The UCPD chief agreed to meet with the malcontents protesting on Monday so they are staying put until then. Since there are no available restrooms nearby, the protesters are urinating in diapers. TRENDING: Atlanta Police Chief Resigns After Deadly Police Shooting of Black Man Resisting Arrest at Wendy’s Drive-Thru GOOD MORNING: HYDE PARK PROTESTS DAY 2 https://t.co/NCvQKQrOW8 — Grace Del Vecchio (@delvecchiograce) June 13, 2020 Protesters inside are […]
This article contains hard proof that cannot be questioned or denied, which you may submit to any government agency or healthcare professional. What is not yet proven but coming into focus is that the US biological weapons program at Fort Detrick, Maryland, equipment and certainly key staff, certainly migrated to secret labs at large state universities in order to “hide in plain sight.” Follow the careers, all links are included, of those who worked on the Wuhan-COVID project in 2017. Also, note that the exact same personnel and equipment is used for fake “prevention” research and testing as weaponization and actual […]
This article contains hard proof that cannot be questioned or denied, which you may submit to any government agency or healthcare professional. What is not yet proven but coming into focus is that the US biological weapons program at Fort Detrick, Maryland, equipment and certainly key staff, certainly migrated to secret labs at large state universities in order to “hide in plain sight.” Follow the careers, all links are included, of those who worked on the Wuhan-COVID project in 2017. Also, note that the exact same personnel and equipment is used for fake “prevention” research and testing as weaponization and actual […]
At least three black Liberty University employees have resigned directly as a result of President Jerry Falwell Jr.’s tweet in which he declared he would only wear a COVID-19 mask if it were one depicting the 1984 photo of Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam allegedly wearing blackface. Falwell, the long-time head of the evangelical Virginia school founded in 1971 by his father, tweeted the infamous photo of a person in Ku Klux Klan robe and another in blackface on May 27, attempting to mock the Democratic governor’s mask requirement amid the coronavirus pandemic. He apologized on Monday, but questions about his school’s […]
World 01:56 GMT 08.06.2020(updated 02:10 GMT 08.06.2020) Get short URL According to the Johns Hopkins University data, the countries that are most affected by COVID-19 are the United States with over 1,9 million cases, Brazil with more than 600,000 and Russia with around 460,000. Johns Hopkins University data shows that the cumulative number of COVID-19 cases confirmed globally has passed the 7 million mark, with the death toll now exceeding 402,000. As of 4.50 Moscow time (1:50 GMT), the number of registered coronavirus cases around the world was 7,006,436. The total number of deaths was 402,120, while 3,133,664 people recovered from […]
US 15:22 GMT 06.06.2020Get short URL The US president’s daughter will now join a growing list of conservatives, including world-renowned figures such as Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson, who have been prevented from talking at universities due to holding views that largely liberal university campuses deem politically incorrect. Ivanka Trump has condemned “cancel culture and viewpoint discrimination” after a graduation speech she was slated to give to students at a university in Kansas was canceled amid ongoing criticism of Donald Trump’s response to the killing of George Floyd. Just a few hours after Wichita University and WSU Tech announced that the 38-year-old […]
A professor at the University of Central Florida faces calls for his removal after claiming in a Twitter rant that “black privilege is real” and insisting that the answer to systematic oppression is to “stay in school” amid nationwide protests over the death of George Floyd. Charles Negy, an associate professor in the Psychology Department, has fired off over 30 contentious tweets about race, inequality, and oppression since May 25—the day Floyd was filmed repeatedly saying he couldn’t breathe while an officer pressed his knee on his neck for several minutes. The controversial tweets, which were sent while thousands of people […]
University of Alabama at Birmingham professor and Guggenheim Fellow Sarah Parcak was so moved by the rioters and looters this past weekend that she posted instructions on how to topple government monuments. Sarah Parcak was a guest on the Colbert Late Show. Parcak posted instructions this past weekend on how to rip down and destroy government monuments. She felt this was her civic duty. TRENDING: PURE EVIL: Police Chief Breaks Down After Describing How Richmond Leftist Rioters Torched Home with Children inside Then Blocked Fire Department (VIDEO) Of course, Twitter did not flag her tweets. On Monday afternoon the Office of […]
University of Alabama at Birmingham professor and Guggenheim Fellow Sarah Parcak was so moved by the rioters and looters this past weekend that she posted instructions on how to topple government monuments. Advertisement – story continues below Sarah Parcak was a guest on the Colbert Late Show. Parcak posted instructions this past weekend on how to rip down and destroy government monuments. She felt this was her civic duty. TRENDING: NYC Mayor De Blasio’s Daughter, Chiara, Arrested For Blocking Traffic in Manhattan Riot Of course, Twitter did not flag her tweets. Advertisement – story continues below Source link
21 May, 2020 06:11 Follow RT on The number of people worldwide who have tested positive for coronavirus has passed 5 million, according to a tally maintained by Johns Hopkins University. Globally, there have been over 328,000 Covid-19 related deaths. Follow RT on Source link
This article contains hard proof that cannot be questioned or denied, which you may submit to any government agency or healthcare professional. What is not yet proven but coming into focus is that the US biological weapons program at Fort Detrick, Maryland, equipment and certainly key staff, certainly migrated to secret labs at large state universities in order to “hide in plain sight.” Follow the careers, all links are included, of those who worked on the Wuhan-COVID project in 2017. Also, note that the exact same personnel and equipment is used for fake “prevention” research and testing as weaponization and actual […]
US 02:44 GMT 18.05.2020Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107721/74/1077217474_0:160:3071:1888_1200x675_80_0_0_45d5d9a0740a0562bf9d93bee4c4cb3d.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202005181079335398-this-is-nothing-schwarzenegger-addresses-graduates-holding-fake-trump-university-degree/ Trump University was a company owned by the Trump Organisation that provided a real estate training programme until it was closed in 2010. In 2018, the US Federal Court approved a $25 million settlement between President Trump and former students who have not been able to graduate. Terminator star and former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has used a mock Trump University doctorate while filming a virtual address to 2020 graduates. “You are celebrating that journey today, not just a piece of paper that you hang on the wall”, […]
Northwestern University is facing backlash for hosting a series of controversial virtual events for their “online sex week.” Events include topics such as “Masturbation for Manifestation,” a burlesque workshop and a drag makeup tutorial. The student-led “Sex Week” began on Monday and will run through May 15. It is described by the organizers as “a series of events put on by NU College Feminists over the course of a week that is designed to increase awareness of issues related to sexuality and sexual health. Sex Weeks exist at colleges across the nation; ours was founded in 2007. For this year’s Sex […]
A team affiliated with the University of Cambridge has released a new bitcoin data tool showing the countries with the highest concentration of mining activity. The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), which is based at the Cambridge Judge Business School, said Wednesday the Bitcoin Mining Map would visualize countries’ monthly share of global hashrate for the very first time, as well as provide more in-depth data for comparing Chinese provinces. On a global scale, the map shows China making up 65% of total global hashrate, with the U.S. and Russia back on 7%. While China is still way out in […]