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TKM is More Than File Storage.

Teaching-related knowledge management means creating, using, and sharing insights—not just archiving lesson plans.

Shift from storage to reflection.
Use tools for thinking, not just storing.
Turn data into actionable knowledge.

Read more: https://doi.org/10.58079/1305i

Let’s stop managing files and start managing meaning.
#PKM #EdTech #Teaching #HigherEd #Mythbusting #SustainabilityEducation

Good to see this letter now signed by app 300 university and college presidents:

“As leaders of America’s colleges, universities, and scholarly societies, we speak with one voice against the unprecedented government overreach and political interference”

#highered #science

https://www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-call-for-constructive-engagement

So glad that so many Catholic universities are opposing the "unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education."

Statement published by American Association of Colleges and Universities: https://www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-call-for-constructive-engagement

#uspol #highered

https://www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-call-for-constructive-engagement “As leaders of America’s colleges, universities, and scholarly societies, we speak with one voice against the unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education.” #AACU #HigherEd #USPolitics

Over 150 US university presidents, including #Harvard #Brown #Princeton, sign letter decrying #Trump administration

#highered

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/21/us-university-presidents-trump-administration

Haven't heard much talk of how abled people in the US are going to stand up for disabled people in this eugenicist fascist time.

One thing about the university having maintained a policing system for disabled people is that many profs and staff acted as if no accessibility could be had except through that system. So if it isn't being done through that system, fascists are likely to miss it.

That is: It is more important than ever to make your courses, workshops, symposia, etc as accessible as possible by default. Do not make it "accommodations" through the policing system, but something offered to everyone as part of how you design your course.

Captions by default, avoid strobing film/graphics by default, more accessible fonts by default, online accessibility and flexibility by default. Don't highlight it as "accessibility", just BE AS ACCESSIBLE AS POSSIBLE as your normal modus operandi. #HigherEd #USpol @academicchatter @disability

Hundreds of scholars say U.S. is swiftly heading toward authoritarianism - is there any doubt left? The USA is now Germany in 1939… Will academics, usually ensconced in their ivory towers, resist? Here’s to #Harvard for setting an example. But not all universities have a $54 billion endowment to fall back on. #Academia #AcademicChatter #HigherEd #Authoritarianism #Autocracy #AmericanCoup #USCoup #Coup #Fascism #politics #USPol #USPolitics

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/22/nx-s1-5340753/trump-democracy-authoritarianism-competive-survey-political-scientist

[update: they were screening to ensure that a department or employee wasn't engaged in banned DEI activities.]
Our university's webpage managmnt system won't allow us to add or update a webpage (including our faculty pages) which include the banned words (such as "inclusive" and "diversity"). If we have a journal title with those words, even if it's about bacteria, we have to use an alternative symbol in the banned word that eludes the surveillance algorithm.
#HigherEd #Academia #AcademicChatter

We would like to share an open "Call for Participants" to attend (travel funds provided) a U.S. National Science Foundation workshop on open source software supporting the development and sustainability of academic research, organized by the Apereo Foundation and Ithaka S&R.

For more info and to apply, please see: https://www.apereo.org/news/2025/sustaining-open-source-software-research-enterprise-call-participants

Feel free to share with others you feel might be interested.

#OpenSource #HigherEd #HigherEducation #OpenScience #Openresearch #EdTech

Report: "Harvard Sues Trump Administration Over Threats to Cut Funding"

The lawsuit signals a major escalation of the ongoing fight between higher education & President Trump, who has vowed to “reclaim” elite universities.

"The administration has cast its campaign as a fight against antisemitism, but has also targeted programs and teaching related to racial diversity and gender issues."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/us/harvard-lawsuit-trump-administration.html

#trump #harvard #highered #uspol #autocracy #trumpfundingcuts .

https://www.vox.com/technology/409256/trump-tariffs-student-visas-andreessen-horowitz “Now, she is stuck in a detention center in Louisiana.” #USPolitics #SiliconValley #TradeWar #HigherEd

Why are educational myths so sticky?

Because they:
feel intuitive
promise one-size-fits-all solutions
offer quick & easy fixes

But learning is complex. Teaching, too.
So let’s stop chasing unicorns. They don't exist.

What’s one myth in education you used to believe—but no longer do?

#Education #EducationalMyths #CriticalThinking #HigherEd

Report: "Harvard Sues Trump Administration Over Threats to Cut Funding"

The lawsuit signals a major escalation of the ongoing fight between higher education & President Trump, who has vowed to “reclaim” elite universities.

"The administration has cast its campaign as a fight against antisemitism, but has also targeted programs and teaching related to racial diversity and gender issues."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/us/harvard-lawsuit-trump-administration.html

#trump #harvard #highered #uspol #autocracy #trumpfundingcuts .

"Today, a group of Columbia University students and alumni chained themselves to the campus gates, demanding the release of Mahmoud Khalil and Mohsen Mahdawi"
https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/04/21/students-and-alumni-tether-themselves-to-116th-and-amsterdam-gates-in-protest-of-ice-detaining-affiliates/

#PolicingTheCampus #academia #HigherEd #Columbia #uspol

In a flyer listing engineering programs: "B.E. in Mechanical Engineering with Minor in Data Science/Artificial Intelligence"

Why not. Everyone else is doing it.

BE = Bachelor of Engineering

#India #HigherEd #education #AI #DataScience