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Update. "Faculty Letter to #Yale University Administration"
sites.google.com/view/yalefacu

"We stand together at a crossroads. American universities are facing extraordinary attacks that threaten the bedrock principles of a democratic society, including rights of free expression, association, and academic freedom. We write as one faculty, to ask you to stand with us now. We urge you to: …Resist and legally challenge any unlawful demands that threaten academic freedom and university self-governance…Protect science and other research at Yale from funding cutoffs… Defend the rights to free speech on campus…Work purposefully and proactively with other colleges and universities in collective defense."

#Academia #AcademicFreedom #DefendResearch #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
@academicchatter

sites.google.comYale Faculty LetterApril 2025 Dear President McInnis, Provost Strobel, and Members of the Yale Board of Trustees: We stand together at a crossroads. American universities are facing extraordinary attacks that threaten the bedrock principles of a democratic society, including rights of free expression, association,

Yale Law should issue a statement condemning #Vance's perversion of the law. Perhaps #Yale (and then #Harvard) should consider rescinding the degrees of the #fascists who attended and are now eviscerating the institutions from which they graduated. I know this is a slippery slope and all but I do wonder just how attached these #Nazis are to the prestige that comes from the universities they are so intent on destroying.

salon.com/2025/04/16/why-not-t

Salon.com · Why not tyranny? JD Vance says he's fine with the "inevitable errors" of abandoning due processThe vice president argues it would difficult to provide due process to those he wants to imprison or deport.

#Yale alumni are organizing a letter to our President and Trustees to ask them to stand up to the authoritarianism of Donald Trump and his attempts to take over American universities. Get your own alumni together now to do the same. We must stick together. All of us.

Harvard University USA have defied tRUMP's authoritarian demands with a heartening statement of why openess & inquiry are why Harvard & other top universities have produced so many great Americans.

Yale has yet to decide on where it stands concerning its conduct within the nations constitution, or instead might it meekly sit down and examine its shoe laces while taking the federal money instead!

The alumni & world of universities are watching you #Yale, now!

Or a new darker age?

Seeds of Resistance highlights the inspirational stories of activists working to advance climate science environmental justice.

Arresting Science and Farming While Black show us that no matter our background or profession, we all have an essential role to play in combating climate change.

Join Seeds of Resistance and discover how embracing our mortality and protecting our natural heritage can guide us toward a more mindful and sustainable future.

*This event features climatologist Peter Kalmus, one of the subjects of The Crisis Scientists, and the film's producer Holly Becker. 1/2

effy.yale.edu/

#EFFY #Film #Documentary #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #ClimateAction #FilmFestival #ClimateEducation #EnvironmentalEducation #ClimateJustice #Education #SocialJustice #Yale #PeterKalmus #HollBecker @education @film

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#NEWS OF THE DAY:

UKRAINIAN #CHILDREN #DATA MAY BE HANDED OVER TO #EU: The US may transfer data on the abduction of Ukrainian children to EU law enforcement. But America will permanently cease the work of #Yale researchers who assisted in locating returning deported minors.

washingtonpost.com/national-se

The Washington Post · Trump reverses termination of program tracking mass child abductions in UkraineBy John Hudson