From the Community | Is it 1984 in 2025?

From the Community | Is it 1984 in 2025?

Stanford’s leadership must join with other universities to stand up and fight for American higher education, write Professors Riskin and Satia.

Amsterdam Universities condemn ‘reckless’ education cuts, demand reversal

The University of Amsterdam (UvA) and the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA) are calling on the Dutch government to reverse planned budget cuts to higher education, warning of severe consequences for research and teaching.

Around five thousand people demonstrated today against the announced cuts of 1.2 billion euros in higher education. Employees, students and administrators of the University and the University of Amsterdam joined a march from the Roeterseiland campus to Dam Square. The protest in our city is the fourth in a series of relay strikes. Earlier, students and employees in The Hague, Leiden and Utrecht, among others, took to the streets. "And other citi…