The UCLA Faculty Association has filed a California Public Records Act request for the DOJ ransom letter sent to UCLA, after it was learned yesterday that the UC and the Regents and UCLA administration has no intention of sharing it with faculty.
Sarah T Roberts, PhD
@ubiquity75.xyz
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Professor, researcher, author.
VP Association of Internet Researchers, synth lover, fan of many things, gay lady.
Wrote a book called Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (Yale 2019), and Meta stole it to train its LLM.
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Learning languages other than my own, including at the university level, changed my life. It has enriched my scholarship and my scholarly career. It has allowed me to be a world traveler in a different kind of way than if I had no knowledge or understanding or context.
Seems to me that billionaires who pay no taxes should have zero say in how taxes are allocated.
Just a thought.
I’ll ask again: is any journalist or media outlet trying to ascertain what is being done with these “fines” (extortion) paid by Columbia and Brown? No one seems to report on that obvious next step. Seems like this should be asked, doesn’t it.
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5452339-ucla-trump-funding-restored/
Tl;dr All “STEM” programs will continue unabated.
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UChicago Freezing Ph.D. Admissions for Multiple Programs
The indebted institution tasked committees of faculty and staff with planning for changes. But this week, a dean forged ahead and announced broad cuts. Two other units are also pausing admissions.