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Here’s some of the stuff that happened in the world this week…
On Monday, two hundred French students blockaded the entrance to the main campus of the Sorbonne, forcing administrators to cancel classes at that university for the day. The students were protesting planned budget cuts at France’s state universities.
On Tuesday, thousands of students took to the streets of Nairobi, Kenya to protest police killings, including the shooting of a student demonstrator last week. (Here’s an interesting critical take on that protest from a professor at the University of Nairobi.)
On Wednesday, students at West Virginia University protested a speech on campus by J. Phillipe Rushton, who has claimed that race is linked to intelligence and other cognitive and behavioral traits. The same day, five hundred students at the University of Liverpool protested planned department closures.
On Friday, forty students from Grand Valley State University in Michigan staged a four-hour campus rally to protest the shooting of a GVSU student in a police raid on an off-campus apartment on Wednesday night, while — as I noted earlier — three hundred Finnish students occupied the main administration building of the University of Helsinki.
There was, of course, much more. That’s just a taste.
Finnish students have been occupying the main administration building of the University of Helsinki since Friday.
Approximately three hundred students took over the building on Friday evening to protest a new education law that would open up Finnish colleges and universities to greater business influence. The occupation followed a day of coordinated protests across Finland.
Students staged an overnight sit-in in the same space in late February. According to one news report, the February protesters discussed the education bill with a vice-chancellor and “served coffee to the returning staff” before leaving the building.
Eleven insights into the future of education from the Hacking Education conference.
UC Berkeley students protest student government bringing a chain fast food restaurant to campus.
Video from a SUNY tuition hike protest.
Texas Sikhs put fellow students in turbans to raise cultural awareness.
Vermont is moving to let some 17-year-olds vote in state primaries.
An angry audience member brandishing a Bible and a copy of Atlas Shrugged rushed Bill Ayers during a campus talk yesterday.
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