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U.S. Department of Education Ends Taxpayer Subsidization of Postsecondary Education for Illegal Aliens (U.S. Department of Education)
https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-ends-taxpayer-subsidization-of-postsecondary-education-illegal-aliens
http://www.memeorandum.com/250710/p135#a250710p135

Microsoft announces a $4B commitment in cash and tech to support AI education in schools and more, and starts Elevate Academy, an AI training program for adults (Natasha Singer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/business/microsoft-ai-educati…

Microsoft Pledges $4 Billion Toward A.I. Education
Microsoft said it would provide cash, artificial intelligence tools and computing services to schools, colleges and nonprofit groups.

Educators Union Rejects Anti-Defamation League, Cuts Ties
https://www.labornotes.org/blogs/2025/07/educators-union-rejects-anti-defamation-league-cuts-ties?utm_source=fli…

Educators Union Rejects Anti-Defamation League, Cuts Ties
The Anti-Defamation League has been a ubiquitous presence in U.S. schools for forty years, pushing curriculum, direct programming, and teacher training into K-12 schools and increasingly into universities, often over the objections of students, parents, and educators. Now, the three million-member National Education Association has finally said no. In July 6 vote, the NEA’s 7,000-member Representative Assembly cut all ties with the ADL.

If Americans don’t fight back against efforts to dismantle higher education,
the U.S. will lose lifesaving medical research, innovation that spurs our economy and the ability to freely study science and society
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article

Apathy Over Attacks on Higher Education Needs to Change
If Americans don’t fight back against efforts to dismantle higher education, the U.S. will lose lifesaving medical research, innovation that spurs our economy and the ability to freely study science and society

IT'S CHILLY!
https://social.edist.ro/@nws_dtx/115172738468758348

Bringing Multi-Modal Multi-Task Federated Foundation Models to Education Domain: Prospects and Challenges
Kasra Borazjani, Naji Khosravan, Rajeev Sahay, Bita Akram, Seyyedali Hosseinalipour
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07946

Bringing Multi-Modal Multi-Task Federated Foundation Models to Education Domain: Prospects and Challenges
Multi-modal multi-task (M3T) foundation models (FMs) have recently shown transformative potential in artificial intelligence, with emerging applications in education. However, their deployment in real-world educational settings is hindered by privacy regulations, data silos, and limited domain-specific data availability. We introduce M3T Federated Foundation Models (FedFMs) for education: a paradigm that integrates federated learning (FL) with M3T FMs to enable collaborative, privacy-preserving…

Starting my AI and higher education seminar https://bryanalexander.org/classes-and-teaching/starting-my-ai-and-higher-education-seminar/
I might follow along with some of the readings and open lectures in this course by

We’re witnessing unprecedented attempts to bully academic institutions with the administration’s ideological aims.
These attempts challenge long-standing norms of academic freedom
—that is, the ability of a teacher or researcher in higher education to investigate and discuss subjects without fear of political interference.
Our elected officials should stand up for scientific research and those who produce it in the face of politically motivated attacks.
But public a…

Apathy Over Attacks on Higher Education Needs to Change
If Americans don’t fight back against efforts to dismantle higher education, the U.S. will lose lifesaving medical research, innovation that spurs our economy and the ability to freely study science and society

Educators Union Rejects Anti-Defamation League, Cuts Ties
https://www.labornotes.org/blogs/2025/07/educators-union-rejects-anti-defamation-league-cuts-ties?utm_source=fli…

Educators Union Rejects Anti-Defamation League, Cuts Ties
The Anti-Defamation League has been a ubiquitous presence in U.S. schools for forty years, pushing curriculum, direct programming, and teacher training into K-12 schools and increasingly into universities, often over the objections of students, parents, and educators. Now, the three million-member National Education Association has finally said no. In July 6 vote, the NEA’s 7,000-member Representative Assembly cut all ties with the ADL.