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The Modern Language Associationâs refusal to allow a boycott, divest, and sanctions resolution to be debated by its members has caused a stir within the group â and demonstrated the chilling influence of anti-BDS laws nationwide.
From a scathing new report lambasting colleges for their response to campus protests related to the Israel-Hamas war to one institution eliminating its military base locations, here are the top-line figures from some of our biggest stories of the week.
Yet, ânot having enough money to just live on, to pay for housing and food, becomes such a great stress that we constantly are hearing stories of academics who leave jobs they love because they simply canât afford to exist.â
Over all, college graduatesâwhich, in the exit polls conducted by Edison Research in collaboration with the National Election Pool, means individuals with a bachelorâs or advanced degreeâmade up 43 percent of the electorate this year.
Late last month, Cal State East Bay said it would send letters to high school seniors in two K-12 districts, San Leandro and Hayward Unified, informing them that they will be guaranteed acceptance if they meet the universityâs admissions requirements.
A majority of the three-judge panel supported a lower courtâs ruling that the colleges did not have a âsignificantly protectable interestâ and, as parties not participating in the settlement to the long-running Sweet v. Cardona lawsuit, lacked a particular form of legal standing needed to challenge it.
The idea behind personhood credentials is to solve these problems by creating something to prove that the online user is a unique human, not AI, and not on multiple accounts in the same platform.
U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman wrote Monday that the groups are "likely to succeed" at proving the institutionsâ executive order-informed policies chilled free speech and violated the First Amendment.But he dismissed the claims against some of the defendants, including the governor.
That username and password are attached to some internal identifier, and thatâs linked â directly or indirectly â to the entire spectrum of information that the university has about the person.
As higher education institutions continue to discover the benefits of hosting data in the cloud, these environments are becoming increasingly complex.
The vice president frequently refers to the immigration system as âbrokenâ and told the Democratic National Convention in August that âwe can create an earned pathway to citizenship and secure our border.â Sheâs also championed DACA in the past.
The academyâs talent pipeline begins with three Lincoln Tech recruiters working on Johnson Controlsâ behalf to identify and build relationships with students at the technical collegeâs 14 â soon to be 18 â training campuses, Feilen said in an interview.