As a professor who has worked with brilliant young people for over two decades, I’m heartbroken by the #NEET_परीक्षा scandal! May the youth get #justice and a #fairchance , may the corrupt officials rot in hell!

⏰ Daily reminder ⏰

A bow to Professor Sohi UW-Madison Computer Sciences! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

So proud of, and grateful to these UW–Madison #students for being role models for civic discussion despite differences of opinion. They are the hope of democracy, our young generation. Thank you 🙏🏾 students, you make us proud & hopeful. Thank you, Ro Khanna for hosting this.

Open Call for Submissions — Voices of the Campus Protest Movement:

publicbooks.org/events/open-ca…

Pls correct inaccuracy circulating in MSM, including by CNN -- those arrested in the first roundup at Columbia University WERE ALL STUDENTS. About 26 Columbia students & about 58 Barnard College students arrested & suspended.

Others were from other schools AT COLUMBIA. No outside

Curtains made of words neither hide the grotesque nor contain the stench. Emails written by lawyers and “strategic communication officers” on campus= bad prose out of writers’ workshops. Published because of literary agents, zero in sincerity or emotional content.

Yup! “Time for #leaders , not #managers .” Bad ones at that, I’ll add. No people skills, no negotiation talent! They should look back every once in a while to see nobody’s is following them! Inside Higher Ed 👇🏾
insidehighered.com/opinion/blogs/…

And here are my #grades :
Class of 2024 (Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Christian…): A+
Class of bloated spineless overpaid uni admin pretending to be leaders: F minus!
They failed us all: students of all faith, faculty and staff, donors, future donors, all!
Campus DEI officers: F-

👇🏾 Kudos, Das Bundesarchiv 👏🏾

“The time has come to end what has been a long political war on universities.” Powerful call by Jeremi Suri 👇🏾

May I offer my brown hand of solidarity to all? May I stand up for #Jewish _students who may feel unsafe because #antisemitism is real? AND stand with #Jewish , #Muslims because #islamophobia is real? May I put a balm on hurt and pain? Don’t stone me: not a radical theorist or prof

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Calling unpublished Nigerian and African writers! 📣 Submissions are now open for the 8th edition of the annual Quramo Writers’ Prize (QWP). Writers may submit a fiction prose manuscript by the deadline of May 31.

Deadline: May 31, 2024

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I stand against all atrocities against minorities: Jews & Muslims, against oppression. But right now, what really matters is I stand with #university_students : #Brilliant , #diligent , #hopeful , who’ve made me a better teacher, scholar & human being! 💪🏾 to students, nationwide!

For ⁦Ali Velshi⁩ 🙏🏾

Yes, why are we so afraid of teaching empathy? Why are we so afraid of reading? Thank you, Ali Velshi and your #BannedBooks features for exposing another set of #Bibliophobes . Thank you, Maulik Pancholy for writing your book! Power to knowledge!

“By shifting responsibility for refugees […] restricting access to legal remedies in the UK […] this new legislation seriously hinders the rule of law in the UK & sets a perilous precedent globally.” ⁦—UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency⁩ ⁦⁦Volker Türk⁩ 👇🏾 unrefugees.org.uk/media-centre/u…