Bryan Alexander
@BryanAlexander
Education futurist. Author of Universities on Fire and Academia Next. Writer, speaker, convener, consultant, teacher. "The Ax-Wielding Futurist" - Ozy
"Harvard University has signaled a willingness to meet the Trump administration’s demand to spend as much as $500 million to end its dispute with the White House" #shakedown nytimes.com/2025/07/28/us/…
Good to see this:
GMU’s Faculty Senate passed a resolution declaring confidence in President Gregory Washington and defending the university’s DEI efforts. “Evidence, truth, and due process should be the foundation for all decisions — not allegations,” they wrote. chroni.cl/3U0XtHm
The island nation of Tuvalu has started unwinding due to climate change. Residents are starting to migrate to Australia as the sea rises. wired.com/story/the-firs…
The 10 most widely taught literary works in American middle and high schools, according to a new NCTE study:

A historical speaks out against climate pessimism: yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/07/its-no…
I explore the possibility that AI search will devour the web: aiandacademia.substack.com/p/will-ai-sear…

"GUIDANCE TO NONPROFITS REGARDING IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT" from Lawyers Alliance for New York: nylpi.org/wp-content/upl…
"One of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the US says he caught measles in west Texas and traveled back home – but he seems not to have alerted local authorities of his illness, which means the highly transmissible virus may have spread onward."
Just had a captcha on a video meeting for the first time. Teams.