Liz Lightfoot

Sara Whitmer • • • 1h • 8 I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town. Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming. Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance. 75 12 comments

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

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The disabled teen stuck in a hospital for six years finally gets her own home When a disabled young woman moved out of a hospital to her own apartment, the Trump administration celebrated — even though it's ending the federal program that made it possible.

When a disabled young woman moved out of a hospital to her own apartment, the Trump administration celebrated — even though it's ending the federal program that made it possible.

Really concerned about the Fulbright program!

International students contribute $44 billion to the US economy annually, creating 1 job for every 4 students enrolled.

Higher ed is America’s 10th largest export industry. A finance professor explores how their impact reaches beyond big cities to small towns like Mankato, MN.

RFK Jr. moves to close Administration for Community Living The shutdown will mean "more people forced into institutional settings."

Here's another article. Can't find much coverage in major news sources, though this could be devastating to people with disabilities.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

One part of the ACL that could be in danger is the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), which funds research that has led to vast improvements in the lives of disabled people.

I am not sure which of the critical ACL programs will be saved, but I'm very worried that older people and disabled people will lose much of the progress they have gained through ACL programs over the years

ACL also brings together major offices, like the Admin on Aging and the Admin on Disability, which is important for coordination and EFFICIENCY.

Agency for older adults, people with disabilities to be shuttered under HHS cuts In 2022, the Administration for Community Living provided more than 261 million meals to older adults, assistance such as respite care to more than 1.5 million family caregivers, and independent-livin...

I'm very concerned about the dismantling of the Administration on Community Living. ACL funds programs like Meals on Wheels or Independent Living Services that support people to live in the community. This has not been much getting attention in the media.

www.marketwatch.com/story/agency...

Attend the 2025 Ann Adalist-Estrin Memorial National Children of Incarcerated Parents Conference to explore the impact of parental incarceration and ways to foster healing.

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ICE detains UMN student A University of Minnesota graduate student was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers Thursday night, according to a statement from University leadership. The international gra...

Univ of Minn student taken by ICE. mndaily.com/293237/top-s...

Under Pressure, Psychology Accreditation Board Suspends Diversity Standards As the Trump administration threatens to strip accrediting bodies of their power, many are scrambling to purge diversity requirements.

Very surprising of APA.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/h...

Meta might have used 42 of my articles to train its AI. I'd encourage social work scholars to search their name and see how much of your work might have been pirated.

#socialwork

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts.

Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

First page of ACE letter

Second page and beginning of signatures

Third page - CSWE listed

Fourth and final page of letter - just signatures

The Council on Social Work Education (@cswe.bsky.social) is a signatory to the American Council on Education letter in response to the February 14th "Dear Colleague" letter aimed at institutions of education K-12 through higher ed. #socialwork

Photo of title of the talk - "recent federal government changes and their impacts on social work."

Great to see 225+ faculty, staff, and students from Arizona State University School of Social Work at our talk yesterday about recent federal changes and their potential impacts on social work education, social work research, and social work practice. Social workers are paying attention.

Trump Killed a Major Report on Nature. They’re Trying to Publish It Anyway. The first full draft of the assessment, on the state of America’s land, water and wildlife, was weeks from completion. The project leader called the study “too important to die.”

One of our faculty at @asusocialwork.bsky.social, Dr. Shanondora Billiot, is an author of this major report.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/c...

How Trump’s Medical Research Cuts Would Hit Colleges and Hospitals in Every State Changes to a key funding formula will reduce research grants at hospitals and universities by billions — and may discourage future research.

How Trump’s medical research cuts would hit colleges and hospitals in every state: www.nytimes.com/interactive/... My colleagues and I crunched the numbers.

Nice distraction to read about the history of Valentines Cards. Apparently may of the original cards sent in the 1860s were "absolutely intended to be sent as cruel insults."

Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic.

globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

Sam Nujoma, Namibia's fiery freedom fighter and first president, dies aged 95 Sam Nujoma, the freedom fighter who led Namibia to independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990 and served as its first president for 15 years, has died. He was 95.

Sam Nujoma, the freedom fighter who led Namibia to independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990 and served as its first president for 15 years, has died. He was 95.

Photo of a tweet. Last year, $9B of the $35B that NIH granted for research was used for administrative overhead, what is known as "indirect costs." Today, NIH lowered the maximum indirect cost research institutions chan charge the government to 15%.

Shocking!

This will have huge effects on research universities.

Apparently there has been an all night fillibuster in the Senate that's still going on. It wasn't mentioned in the NYT. Guess I need to go to Bluesky first in the morning...

Campuses no longer off-limits to ICE The Trump administration cleared the way for immigration enforcement officers to take action on campuses, sowing fear among undocumented students. Higher ed leaders are struggling with how to respond.

Pretty good article discussing various ways campuses are responding to potential ICE raids.

www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

Some of the terms included: disability, disabilities, female, women, trauma, political, excluded, systemic, underserved, and just about every variation of diversity you could come up with. It's worth opening it up and reading these lists.

They also have developed a policy toolkit specific to social work: Policy Update: President Trump’s Executive Orders Tracking Tool

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