Opinion | The Hostile Takeover of Higher Education Business interests captured governing boards long before Trump.

“Faculty members & students continue to speak up & organize to oppose the radical reconfiguration of American institutions launched by the Trump administration & its private-sector allies. Frequently, this has included organizing outside the gates.”

— Reinhold Martin & Robert Newton, Columbia AAUP

¡feliz cumple querida Ethel! ¡xoxo!

sending hugs, hope you are resting and healing

this piece makes important points: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/war-...

Celebrated philosopher Jürgen Habermas dies aged 96 One of Germany's greatest postwar intellectuals, he continuously argued for a robust and inclusive democracy. His passing marks the end of an era.

RIP Jürgen Habermas. May we keep producing many public spheres. www.dw.com/en/celebrate...

‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

A digital job announcement, with text above in yellow against a rust background, and below a medieval scene of an audience before a king or potentate seated on a throne.

The Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Brown University seeks applicants at the rank of Assistant Professor (tenure-track) whose scholarship focuses on histories of medieval (ca. 500s-1400s) European art and architecture in the world.

apply.interfolio.com/174923

Assistant Professor - Global Black Geographies - Department of Geography University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

My department is hiring! We seek to hire an Assistant Professor in Global Black Geographies whose work engages "with the spatial dimensions of life in African and/or Black diasporic communities in the Global South". Job ad with more details: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05026

I loved reading this, thank you @cmonstah.bsky.social for writing. Gifted link —> wapo.st/44RBl7q

ACSA cancels Fall 2025 Journal of Architectural Education issue about Palestine and fires its interim executive editor ACSA announced this afternoon it has cancelled a forthcoming JAE edition about Palestine. The Fall 2025 issue was planned to be edited by Cruz Garcia, Nora Akawi, Omar Jabary Salamanca, Zoé Samudzi, a...

The Journal for Architectural Education’s Palestine issue — for which I was an issue co-editor — was cancelled by the board of Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture citing risks and “new actions by the U.S. presidential administration” 😐

www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...

Mabel Wilson's Mellon lectures will speak to this "interplay of race and the construction of national identity," acknowledging the US's Black architects — Sundays at 2pm from March 9 through March 30

Next week at the GSD. Thanks @anamarialeon.bsky.social and Fernando Martinez Nespral for leading this.