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"Worried and concerned": international students navigate Middle East conflict As heightened tensions in the Middle East enter their seventh day, international students in the UAE and Iran are facing disruption, from postponed exams and online learning to internet outages, as em...

“Worried and concerned”: international students navigate Middle East conflict
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‘Passive suppression’ eroding academic freedom, ERC head warns Funding pressures and bureaucratic demands are undermining the credibility of scientists, says Maria Leptin

‘Passive suppression’ eroding academic freedom, ERC head warns. Funding pressures and bureaucratic demands are undermining the credibility of scientists, says Maria Leptin

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Haiti looks to restore universities amid instability Strong institutions can help contribute to country’s development as it grapples with violence and uncertainty, say members of new oversight body

Haiti looks to restore universities amid instability

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Bangladesh shuts universities, limits fuel sale as Iran war causes shortage Bangladesh relies on imports for 95 percent of energy needs which have been disrupted after conflict in the Middle East.

Bangladesh shuts universities, limits fuel sale as Iran war causes shortage. Bangladesh relies on imports for 95 percent of its energy needs, which have been disrupted after the Iran war engulfed the Middle East.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...

Three brushes with populist power tell me no one in academia is safe Experiences in Hungary, the US and the Netherlands make threats like autocratic legalism and oligarchic capture feel existential, says Ferenc Laczó

Three brushes with populist power tell me no one in academia is safe. Experiences in Hungary, the US and the Netherlands make threats like autocratic legalism and oligarchic capture feel existential, says Ferenc Laczó

www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/thre...

The Unmaking of the American University For decades, research universities have relied on federal funding, with no guarantee that it will last. Now their survival may depend on compliance with the government.

The Unmaking of the American University
For decades, research universities have relied on federal funding, with no guarantee that it will last. Now their survival may depend on compliance with the government.

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JNU Crackdown and the ‘Victim Card’: When Campus Dissent Meets Ideological Power | Outlook India The immediate backdrop to the recent showdown at Jawaharlal Nehru University lay in earlier tensions

India: JNU Violence And The ‘Victim Card’: When Campus Dissent Meets A Police Crackdown

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UK ‘must not be complacent’ over Trump effect on student flows American universities expected to experience steeper declines in enrolments during second year of Trump presidency

UK ‘must not be complacent’ over Trump effect on student flows -- American universities expected to experience steeper declines in enrolments during second year of Trump presidency

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Putin’s war has birthed quislings in Russia’s ivory towers Since the attack on Ukraine in 2022, Russian universities have moved from passive enablers of the war to active recruiters, with professors counsellin...

RUSSIA: Putin’s war has birthed quislings in Russia’s ivory towers
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The Fallout from Reporting on White Nationalism in Canada | The Tyee Journalist Rachel Gilmore published an investigation in The Tyee. The men she unmasked showed up to intimidate her in person.

Journalist Rachel Gilmore published an investigation in The Tyee. The men she unmasked showed up to intimidate her in person.

thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

UBC Public Talk: Prof. Sadiah Qureshi - An Empire of Unnatural Extinction

Seminar will explore the origins of the modern notion of extinction and what it means to discuss extinction as a political choice with significance for all life on earth.

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To sustain “business as usual” policy toward Israel, European govts are criminalizing Palestine solidarity. This visual depicts this architecture of repression, which we must understand as we build the architecture of solidarity. #visualizingpalestine

In 25-Country Survey, Americans Especially Likely To View Fellow Citizens as Morally Bad | Pew Research Center Across 25 countries, Americans are the most likely to see the morality and ethics of people in their country as somewhat or very bad.

In 25-Country Survey, Americans Especially Likely To View Fellow Citizens as Morally Bad

53% of U.S. adults say Americans have bad morals and ethics

www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...

Kwantlen Polytechnic University fires president Bruce Choy Newly hired president Bruce Choy was absent for weeks and the Surrey school's faculty association didn't know why

Kwantlen fires no-show president.

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In the Spirit of H. Chandler Davis The essays collected in this book honor H. Chandler Davis (1926-2022), a University of Michigan faculty member who became a symbol of principled dissent when suspended and fired in 1954 for refusing t...

New book: In the Spirit of H. Chandler Davis: Activism and The Struggle for Academic Freedom
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We just did that in British Columbia, year round DST.

Peak oil on the way.

Sources Briefed on Iran War Say U.S. Has No Plans for What Comes Next “The administration doesn’t have a clue. They do not have an actual, real rationale, endgame, or plan for the aftermath of this.”

White House has no plan for what comes next in war on Iran … or anything else

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Threat of libel ‘chilling academic freedom’, say UK researchers Academics urge government to strengthen legal protections for scholars undertaking studies in controversial fields

Threat of libel ‘chilling academic freedom’, say UK researchers
Academics urge government to strengthen legal protections for scholars undertaking studies in controversial fields

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Condemnation as universities in Darfur come under attack Sudan’s Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research has condemned the drone strikes on Kordofan University in El-Obeid, the capital of Nort...

Condemnation as universities in Darfur come under attack

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Academic freedom under quiet siege Imagine a regional state university where a faculty committee spends months designing a new interdisciplinary course on environmental governance.

Phillippines: Academic freedom under quiet siege
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2026 🌊

The boycott of OpenAI(ChatGPT) has now surpassed 4 million. We’re also seeing many small businesses (and even some mid-sized companies) cancel their subscriptions. One of the most amazing things over the past year has been watching consumers remind big corporations just how much power they have.

Trump and His Soulless Cronies Have Managed to Suck the Joy Out of the World Cup Not even soccer is immune from Trump’s reverse Midas touch.

Dave Zirin: Trump and His Soulless Cronies Have Managed to Suck the Joy Out of the World Cup

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Rich Gibson: Another “Peace Candidate” just started another war.

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Vaughn Palmer: NDP set to weaken B.C.'s FOI law and keep public in the dark Vaughn Palmer: New bill would give public servants more power to refuse to supply requested information

Eby and NDP working to weaken BC's FOI law.

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It's genuinely insane that many of the newspaper columnists who cheered us into the war in Iraq are still employed at big legacy outlets cheering us into a new war with Iran.

Has the U.S. Been Set up for a Reichstag Moment? The Steady State | by J. William Leonard

The Steady State: Is Trump's attack on Iran part of a plan to induce a pre-text for suspension of civil liberties -- a US Reichstag moment?
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Nobel Peace Prize, my ass.