The students booing artificial intelligence at commencements across the country are not just worried about jobs. They have learned an urgent lesson from the not-so-distant past. They know that the familiar promise of empowerment and creativity will continue to give way to the pathologies of the online surveillance economy: viral slop, commercial manipulation and addictive apps — this time on automated steroids. The utopian promise of the tech industry is on life support. The hope that it would empower workers and revitalize democracy soured sometime between the massive data breach of the…

We represent students, parents, higher education faculty and staff, and concerned citizens united in opposition to the dangerous proposed rules. We write at a grave moment in our country’s history, ...

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My Gift to You On My Birthday

The family’s lawyers plan to appeal the judge’s decision to deport the family to Ecuador.

The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked its $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. It will...

Why Movements Need Art, Not Just Arguments

The Trump administration’s ban on diversity, equity and inclusion also targets gender. The ban may impact gender balancing practices that often benefit college men.

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By ending the minority recruitment program in May, Harvard shuttered a more than 50-year-old initiative to encourage minority high school students to apply.

A practice from the McCarthy era makes an ugly return.

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In an open letter, writers denounced abrupt scrapping of a Harvard Educational Review issue dedicated to Palestine

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More than 12,000 Harvard alumni asked a federal judge Monday to accept an amicus brief urging the court to shield their alma mater from what they described as an “existential threat” posed by the Trum...

During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump didn’t exactly hide what he was planning. He said he’d take control of higher education—and in the 100+ days since his second inauguration, he’s been …

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A Call for Constructive Engagement

Patricia McGuire has always been an outspoken advocate for her students at Trinity Washington University, a small, Catholic institution that serves largely Black and Hispanic women, just a few miles from the White House. She’s also criticized what she calls “the Trump administration’s wholesale assault on freedom of speech and human rights.” In her 36 years as president, though, McGuire told me, she has never felt so isolated, a lonely voice challenging an agenda she believes “demands a vigorous and loud response from all of higher education. “ It got a little bit louder this week, after Harvard University President Alan Garber…

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The National Endowment for the Humanities warned museums across the country that it was slashing funding, including money previously pledged to places such as LACMA and the Japanese American National ...