Citadel CEO Ken Griffin on Trump, the Economy and the Future of America [ Amanpour and Company ]

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/citadels-griffin-donates-3-billion-carnegie-mellon-with-plans-miami-campus-2026-09-30/

I got a columbia masters at 40. here’s what’s broken. [ Elaine Chow ]

Research: A Manifesto, by Peter N. Miller [ New Books in Higher Education ]

Research: A Manifesto

How colleges are helping students build social skills for the workforce [ PBS NewsHour ]

This President Says Tradition Shouldn’t Feel Like Regulation [ Future U. ]

Meet Incarcerated Students | College Behind Bars | Part 1 of 4 | Full Episode [ Ken Burns ]

Workforce Pell Grants give students new options for job training [ PBS NewsHour ]

Trump’s Education Department Scaled Back Investigations Into Discrimination and Sexual Assault on Campus, New Data Shows [ ProPublica ]

The flava:

The civil rights arm of the U.S. Department of Education has dramatically scaled back investigations involving schools and colleges since the second Trump administration began, even as complaints continue to pour in, a ProPublica analysis of newly obtained records found.

The analysis shows how severely the department’s Office for Civil Rights has retracted from its mission, launching an average of about 100 new investigations a month — 1,839 total from Inauguration Day in 2025 through July 2026. The OCR launched an average of 310 new investigations each month in 2024 during the Biden administration, according to data previously obtained by ProPublica.

Under President Donald Trump, the OCR abandoned the public-facing list of schools it was investigating and the reasons for those investigations, including claims of discrimination based on race, sex and disability. ProPublica sued the department to obtain internal case data. The government subsequently provided records of the OCR’s actions in the first 18 months of Trump’s return to power, and we are publishing the data so the public can search the cases. . . .     

The article & the data:

https://www.propublica.org/article/civil-rights-office-education-department-investigations

The MIT Professors Bedazzling Security Cameras to Highlight Campus Surveillance [ Hyperallergic ]

The flava:

Tenured faculty members at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are decorating the university’s surveillance cameras with googly eyes, rhinestones, and glitzy decorations to protest its investment in what they call “Big Brother technology.”

Faculty members Catherine D’Ignazio, Marah Gubar, Tanalís Padilla, Dwai Banerjee, and Karrie Karahalios began decorating the cameras in August, four months after the student newspaper, The Tech, reported that MIT would be spending over $3 million on more than 500 surveillance cameras from 2025 to 2026. According to the report, the cameras can be activated to identify faces and objects with AI, and are stationed in exterior locations and academic facilities, among other high-traffic areas around campus.

“We have these little buckets of gems and tinsel, and create these little Gumby-type creatures with googly eyes,” D’Ignazio told Hyperallergic in a phone interview. None of the adornments interfere with the camera function, but are intended to remind passersby that they are under surveillance.

In a faculty newsletter announcing the deliberately unwieldy project name, “The Initiative to Beautify the AI-capable Surveillance Benevolently Installed by our Administrator Overseers and the MIT Corporation In Collaboration with Big Brother Tech Companies,” the faculty members said that the campus had been transformed into an “AI-capable Panopticon.” . . .       

The article:

https://hyperallergic.com/the-mit-professors-bedazzling-security-cameras-to-highlight-campus-surveillance/

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