(NaturalNews) The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has become the first elite academic institution in the United States to publicly get rid of… Source Views: 0
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MIT eliminates DEI statements from faculty hiring process because “they don’t work”
Humboldt faculty condemn police violence against students, join demands for boycott and divestment from Israel
As faculty at Cal Poly Humboldt, we deplore the use of physical violence by police and the deployment of extreme tactics to surveil students, escalate tensions, and criminalize free speech exercised by students calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Source Views: 0
UC Berkeley students and faculty reject university condemnation of protest of anti-Palestinian speaker
The UC Berkeley chapters of Graduate Students for Justice in Palestine, and Faculty and Staff for Justice In Palestine respond to the university’s condemnation of a protest of an event featuring Israeli genocide apologist Ran Bar-Yoshafat. Source Views: 0
CUNY faculty and staff: We reject the Palestine Exception to free speech at CUNY
CUNY staff and faculty reject Chancellor Félix Matos Rodríguez’s efforts to censure solidarity with the Palestinian people. Source Views: 0
Nearly 400 Penn State Faculty Protest White Professor’s Lawsuit Against Race-Based Grading
By The College Fix UPDATED Nearly 400 Pennsylvania State University professors have signed a letter that defends antiracism teaching and administrative practices targeted in a lawsuit objecting to giving black students inflated grades. The four-paragraph “Letter in Support of Antiracist Faculty at Penn State” denigrates a recent lawsuit filed against the university by Zack De Piero, who […]
Columbia University to open learning center in Israel amid faculty backlash
Columbia University’s plans to open a learning center in Israel is being criticized by faculty members. Source Views: 0
NYC councilwoman pulls CUNY Law School funding over faculty endorsement of BDS
GOP councilwoman Inna Vernikov is pulling $50,000 earmarked for CUNY Law School in response to the faculty endorsing a BDS resolution. Views: 0
SFSU President Lynn Mahoney overrules faculty for a third time and upholds the silencing of Palestine
SFSU President Lynn Mahoney’s third veto of an independent Faculty Hearing Panel demonstrates the University’s allegiance to and acquiescence of corporatized Big Tech’s increasing control over curriculum content as well as the university’s complicity with Zionist organizations that deliberately seek to stifle all critiques of the apartheid state of Israel. Source Views: 0
U. Michigan on Track to Hire 20 New ‘Anti-Racism’ Faculty
By Christian Schneider An initiative by the University of Michigan to hire 20 new “anti-racism” faculty has moved into the third round of hiring, according to a recent statement from the school. “The Anti-Racism Faculty Hiring Initiative, one of the Office of the Provost’s programs and activities to address systemic racism, will begin its third […]
This Week in Ed-jew-cation: Drag Lap Dances for Faculty, Field Trip to a Gay Bar, and ‘Racist’ Gifted Programs
I was considering writing articles for all three of these stories, but there is really too much insanity to keep up with these days. Let’s start off with the boys dressing in drag for a “man pageant” and giving lap dances to faculty (including the principal/ mayor) in Hazard, KY. This was part of their […]
Ohio State requiring all students, faculty and staff to get COVID 19 vaccine
The Ohio State University has announced it will require all students, staff and faculty to get the COVID-19 vaccine by October. “With the rising prevalence of the more transmissible Delta variant fueling a resurgence of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, Ohio State is focused on enhancing the health and safety of our community,” Ohio State said […]
How Contingent Faculty Organizing Can Succeed In Higher Education
Despite recent organizing gains among some contingent faculty members, the adjunctification of higher education has left hundreds of thousands of college and university teachers with low pay, spotty benefit coverage, and little job security. As former adjuncts Joe Berry and Helena Worthen report in their new book, Power Despite Precarity: Strategies for the Contingent Movement in […]
Rutgers faculty stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people
Editor’s Note: The following statement was issued by faculty at Rutgers University. Mondoweiss occasionally publishes press releases and statements from organizations in an effort to draw attention to overlooked issues. We stand in Solidarity with the Palestinian People Rutgers University faculty condemn Israel’s military assault against the Palestinian people across all Palestinian geographies. We join and […]
Dozens of Princeton Faculty Sign Letter on Mideast Conflict That Condemns Israel’s ‘Jewish Supremacy,’ Does Not Mention Hamas
Princeton University in New Jersey. Photo: Flickr. At least fifty Princeton University faculty and staff signed a statement condemning “the ongoing attacks on the Palestinian people in Gaza by the Israeli armed forces,” in an open letter that decried Israel as a system based on Jewish supremacy, and made no mention of the Hamas militant […]
Antwerp faculty at Orthodox school strike due to kids not tested for COVID
Non-Jewish faculty members at a haredi Orthodox school in Antwerp, Belgium, have gone on strike, citing the failure of some parents to test their children for the coronavirus to the teachers’ satisfaction. Most of the non-Jewish teachers at the girls’ department of the Jesode Hatora Beth Jacob school stopped working on Wednesday, the Gazet van […]
University of Illinois faculty and staff reject efforts to suppress Palestinian freedom and solidarity
As faculty and staff within the University of Illinois system, we are writing to renew our outrage at the rampant anti-Semitism and racism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. We condemn all forms of racism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, anti-Blackness, xenophobia, and other forms of hatred and dehumanization. We are also deeply concerned about the way […]
Report: Progressive CUNY Faculty Group Scheduled Meeting on Shabbat to Exclude Orthodox Jewish Professor
Kingsborough Community College. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. A group of faculty members at the City University of New York’s Kingsborough Community College (KCC) are suspected of purposely excluding an Orthodox Jewish colleague from a meeting by scheduling it on Shabbat, according to a New York Post report. The meeting in question was to be held in […]
Talks to end six-week junior faculty strike in Israeli colleges blow up
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Israeli universities to be rewarded for achieving 50% female faculty
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