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Une moto électrique explose à l’UCAD, faisant un mort et deux blessés

November 3, 2025 at 2:21 PM Everybody can reply

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Une moto électrique explose à l’UCAD, faisant un mort et deux blessés

Un drame s’est produit ce jeudi matin au campus de l’Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar (UCAD). Une moto électrique en charge a explosé au pavillon A, entraînant la mort d’un étudiant. La victime, El Hadj Mouhamed Niang, était…

Un drame s’est produit ce jeudi matin au campus de l’Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar (UCAD). Une moto électrique en charge a explosé au pavillon A, entraînant la mort d’un étudiant. La victime, El Hadj Mouhamed Niang, était en Licence 3 au Département d’Arabe. Originaire de Ndiedieng, dans la région de Kaolack, le jeune homme aurait été surpris dans sa chambre au moment de l’explosion.

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October 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM Everybody can reply

Miriam Posner

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As I understand it, this report is a sort of think-piece being floated for discussion. Bafflingly, a *new* committee, called “UCAD +” (which includes admins) has also been constituted to continue work on this. I think it’s important to let Academic Council know that this approach is untenable.

October 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM Everybody can reply

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Miriam Posner

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UC senate faculty, I know we are besieged right now, but I want to draw your attention to a wall-of-text report you likely got in your email, called the “Interim Report on UC Academic Disruption (UCAD).” Particularly this part. (Link: senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/under...)

Recommendations
For the Divisional Academic Senates:
• Review the Size of Graduate Student Cohorts: Coordinate decisions to resize graduate student cohorts holistically, at the campus level, rather than leaving decisions to individual programs and departments acting unilaterally. Campuses would benefit from a more coordinated and deliberate approach. It is noted that, for some programs, maintaining a viable cohort through yearly admissions cycles may not be possible. This may require shifts in both the teaching and research support provided by new graduate students as well as faculty's overall instructional commitments at the graduate level. Furthermore, there is a significant likelihood that the number of international students who have historically favored UC graduate programs may also decrease, leading to further pressures.
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• Rethink Approaches to Faculty Recruitment: Campus departments and colleges/schools should consider placing greater emphasis on teaching professorships and joint appointments that can afford greater flexibility to academic units going forward. These positions can help sustain instruction during times of uncertainty, while allowing research-oriented faculty to maintain scholarly progress. At the same time, campuses should evaluate how expanded use of such appointments aligns with the University's research mission, expectations for Senate faculty teaching, and UC's commitment to ladder-rank faculty positions supported in whole or in part with state funds.

• Review Instructional Offerings: Academic units should consider options for consolidating their instructional offerings through a variety of strategies such as increased use of relevant cross-listed courses, redesigning curricular requirements, and formal collaborations with units on other campuses to maintain the diversity of courses available to students. Overall, units, schools, and campuses should consider ways to streamline instruction while achieving financial sustainability and maintaining academic quality.
• Prioritize Academic Quality and UC's Comprehensive Identity: When evaluating programs for resizing, emphasize indicators of educational quality (such as graduation rates, learning outcomes, or research output) in addition to financial efficiency. UC must strive to remain a comprehensive university offering a full spectrum of academic disciplines, including the arts, humanities, social sciences, STEM, and professional fields.
Even as difficult choices are made, breadth of knowledge at UC should be preserved. This means ensuring that core disciplines are represented systemwide.
• Increase the Role of Academic Program Reviews: Campuses should strengthen their program review processes for both undergraduate majors and graduate programs. Reviews should occur on a regular cycle and incorporate the new evaluation criteria (see the recommendation to the systemwide Senate below). Importantly, program discontinuation or merger should be an explicit possible outcome of reviews. Conversely, reviews should also identify programs that warrant expansion or increased investment due to high demand
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October 28, 2025 at 2:19 PM Everybody can reply

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MARCAD Plus

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“This is an opportunity to sustain the existing strong engagement & collaboration between our partner institutions” highlighted Prof Oumar Gaye #MARCADPlus Director, during the official opening of the MRCG–UCAD Partnership Office in Dakar
#ResearchExcellence #ScienceCollaboration #Partnership

October 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM Everybody can reply

MARCAD Plus

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#MARCADPlus Director, Prof. Oumar Gaye & PI Prof Umberto D’Alessandro moderated a scientific showcase on cross-border research collaboration between the UCAD & @mrcunitgambia.bsky.social ; organized as part of the official opening of the MRCG–UCAD Partnership Office in Dakar.

#RegionalCollaboration

October 28, 2025 at 1:11 PM Everybody can reply

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MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM

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📍Dakar: The new MRCG–UCAD Partnership Office is open! A hub for collaboration, research & capacity building in #WestAfrica.

The partnership seeks to equip researchers to broaden capacity needed to address current & future health challenges.

#ResearchExcellence #AfricanScience

October 27, 2025 at 4:50 PM Everybody can reply

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ToastCreature 🍉

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Welcome to my channel! This is where I post content such as gameplay or dev logs, an maybe even the occasional stream! Uploads are infrequent, so, sorry Maybe it’ll get better in the future

Welcome to my channel! This is where I post content such as gameplay or dev logs, an maybe even the occasional stream! Uploads are infrequent, so, sorry Maybe it’ll get better in the future

October 25, 2025 at 10:39 AM Everybody can reply

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Imma start posting monthly devlogs on my game starting the 31st and posting them on my youtube (www.youtube.com/channel/UCaD...)

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October 25, 2025 at 10:37 AM Everybody can reply

4Qua Of Orion [ General NobuNaga Version ]

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Interstellar visitor now hurtling toward NASA spacecraft's path in a once-in-a-lifetime encounter
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#unilag #uct #uon #ug #makerere #unam #ucad #uab #uz #addisuni #ubue #uom #univmadagascar #cairouni #univalger #um5r #udsm #unza #unima #urwanda #3i/atlas

October 24, 2025 at 9:47 PM Everybody can reply

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4Qua Of Orion [ General NobuNaga Version ]

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October 24, 2025 at 8:04 PM Everybody can reply

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Dominic Favazzo

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Gaslighter Dilan bezuinigt miljoenen op de meest kwetsbare Nederlanders

October 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM Everybody can reply

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Gaslighter Dilan bezuinigt miljoenen op de meest kwetsbare Nederlanders
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October 22, 2025 at 12:03 PM Everybody can reply

Anna

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Gaslighter Dilan bezuinigt miljoenen op de meest kwetsbare Nederlanders

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Gaslighter Dilan bezuinigt miljoenen op de meest kwetsbare Nederlanders

October 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM Everybody can reply

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Winston Smith

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Als ik die voxpops zie in "Nu we er toch zijn" en in dit dan denk ik dat het een wonder is dat we het nog zo goed hebben in Nederland. Mama mia. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ucad...

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One of the early prophets of Republican Jesus, topmac82, from 2012.

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October 13, 2025 at 5:55 AM Everybody can reply

Live, love, drink wine

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Maganut sermon for the day

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