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Sep 18, 2024 | 
trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com | Jennifer Ruth |Gonzalo Garcia |Université Laval |Quebec City
In collaboration with the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group (CCCTG), we designed VITdALIZE-KIDS as a pragmatic, phase III, multicenter, individual patient 1:1 randomized double-blind superiority RCT. Our protocol adheres to the Standard Protocol Items: Recommendations for Interventional Trials (SPIRIT) checklist (see Additional file 1). A summary of the protocol is provided in Table 1.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
academeblog.org | Jennifer Ruth
BY JENNIFER RUTHRecently I had the pleasure of interviewing Saree Makdisi, UCLA professor and author of Palestine Inside Out and Tolerance is a Wasteland, for the documentary film The Palestine Exception. “The knowledge is out there,” Makdisi told me. “The genie is not going back in the bottle. In fact, the bottle is broken.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
academeblog.org | Jennifer Ruth
POSTED BY JENNIFER RUTHOn June 18, the executive committee of AAUP Local 6741 of the American Federation of Teachers issued the following statement on University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee’s proposal to close the College of General StudiesIn the United States, the university is in crisis. There is no starker evidence of this emergency than recent efforts to close the College of General Studies (CGS) at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
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Jun 8, 2024 | 
academeblog.org | Jennifer Ruth
POSTED BY JENNIFER RUTH For the June 3rd meeting of Portland State University’s Faculty Senate, twenty-one faculty and staff members submitted the following question for PSU President Ann Cudd: In your remarks to Senate last month and in your email “Evolving Community Expectations” on 5/7/2024, you refer to “vile messages” and to ‘”that kind of speech” and ‘”these words, slogans, and epithets.” “These words, slogans and epithets, while protected by the First Amendment, will not bring about a...
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May 30, 2024 | 
academeblog.org | Jennifer Ruth
POSTED BY JENNIFER RUTHThis open letter to the world from Gaza academics and university administrators was published yesterday by Al Jazeera here. On May 6, Israel’s cabinet voted to ban Al Jazeera and shut down its local offices. Among the many things American academics might do in response to help, one would be to listen to Professor Daniel Segal when he calls for the AAUP’s antiboycott position to be reexamined.
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May 15, 2024 | 
academeblog.org | Jennifer Ruth
POSTED BY JENNIFER RUTHI asked permission to post the Jewish Voice for Peace-Portland chapter’s letter to Portland State University President Ann Cudd. It works through some points in a way that I find helpful. I hope you do, too. May 13, 2024Dear President Cudd,Many campuses across this country, including PSU, have been sites of large student protests in the past weeks in opposition to Israel’s seven month assault on Gaza and to demand an end to the historical denial of Palestinian rights.
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May 10, 2024 | 
academeblog.org | Jennifer Ruth
BY JENNIFER RUTHPortland State University has no quads on which to pitch tents but running between some of our major buildings, including the library, are park blocks owned by the city. When threatened with trespassing by Portland Police, the students moved their protest from the grass onto the steps of the library. From there, joined by others from the community, they eventually moved inside, barricading themselves in.
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Apr 27, 2024 | 
academeblog.org | Jennifer Ruth
POSTED BY JENNIFER RUTH This morning, on April 27th, the AAUP-Penn Executive Committee sent the following urgent message to Interim President Jameson, Provost Jackson, and Senior Executive Vice President Carnaroli in response to last night’s message threatening to shut down the student antiwar protest on College Green: April 27, 2024 Dear President Jameson, Provost Jackson, and Senior Executive Vice President Carnaroli, We are deeply disturbed by the email you sent last night, which demands...
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
academeblog.org | Jennifer Ruth
POSTED BY JENNIFER RUTHOn April 23, 2024, the AAUP-Penn Executive Committee issued the following statement. We condemn in the strongest terms the wave of recent repression of students and faculty engaged in peaceful and principled protest by university administrations across the country.
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
beacon.org | Valerie Johnson |Jennifer Ruth |Ellen W. Schrecker
Foreword, by Irene MulveyINTRODUCTIONA Time for Faculty to ActValerie C. Johnson, Jennifer Ruth, and Ellen SchreckerPART I—THE CURRENT CULTURE WARCHAPTER 1Academic Freedom and Political Repression from McCarthyism to TrumpEllen SchreckerCHAPTER 2A Koch-Funded Racial Backlash: Understanding the Critical Race Theory Moral PanicIsaac KamolaCHAPTER 3The Rise of Educational Gag OrdersJonathan Friedman, Jeremy C.
