Alice Dreger
Freelance Writer at Freelance
Writer, journalist, historian. Managing editor @HdxAcademy but all opinions here just my own. Bylines NYT, WaPo, WSJ, Boston Globe, WIRED, The Atlantic, CHE...
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2 days ago |
heterodoxacademy.substack.com | Alice Dreger
Harvard University’s decision to sue the federal government over the freezing of $2.2 billion in federal funding – and the actions of the Trump administration on higher education to date – has lit a fire in the field, with numerous college and university presidents indicating support for pushing back.
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5 days ago |
heterodoxacademy.substack.com | Alice Dreger
Ratcheting up his administration’s recent actions against Harvard University, President Donald Trump is now calling on the IRS to revoke the institution’s tax exempt status, in part over his displeasure with their DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) practices, according to the Washington Post.
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1 week ago |
heterodoxacademy.substack.com | Alice Dreger
Add Northwestern and Cornell to the growing list of universities whose federal funding is being threatened because of alleged failure to appropriately manage antisemitism on those campuses.
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2 weeks ago |
heterodoxacademy.substack.com | Alice Dreger
If academics and their administrators don’t find smart ways to fix the lack of viewpoint diversity on their campuses, politicians may well try to do it for them — and they could make things much worse for open inquiry. That was the message of three professors speaking at a special Heterodox Academy (HxA) event last week.
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1 month ago |
heterodoxacademy.substack.com | Alice Dreger
It’s not often American higher ed lands on the front page of every national news site for days and days in a row, but that’s happened in part thanks to the Trump administration’s $400 million defunding of Columbia University. “Universities must comply with all federal antidiscrimination laws if they are going to receive federal funding,” Education Secretary Linda McMahon said in a statement on the matter.
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RT @DrTonyLetai: I run an academic lab, and the service contracts on instruments are absolutely killing our budget. Anyone know of a better…
People sometime ask me how I can stand living in a neighborhood that has student rentals. It's the little things like this. (The boys throw things to try and hit it.) https://t.co/3S9pcNO6NM