March 2025 - Future U

Monthly Archive: June 2025

NEWS BRIEFS: Question Posed at East Lansing Rally, “Will Michigan State Administration Follow U Michigan’s Lead?”

"Participants shouted “We fight fascism!” as the rally concluded."

by Future U/ March 31, 2025/ MSU, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed/

Perspectives: We are Witnessing the Breakup of the University as We Knew It

Through "political organizing & solidarity building we may build the university as something new, not just recovery of the old."

by Future U/ March 30, 2025/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

NEWS BRIEFS: University of Michigan, Long-time Champion, Closes Its Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Rebekah Modrak, chair Faculty Senate: ""Univ of Michigan leaders seem determined to comply/collaborate in our destruction."

by Future U/ March 29, 2025/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed/

COMMENTARY by B.M. Ryan: A Battle We Can’t Lose

I"t is a battle for the academy’s soul; if universities lose, the consequences will stretch far beyond campus walls."

by B.M. Ryan/ March 28, 2025/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

COMMENTARY: “When Academic Freedom is Lost, We Lose the Foundation of Higher Education as a Space for Critical Inquiry and Moral Courage”

"We take up this struggle with clear eyes about the forces aligned against us."

by Future U/ March 27, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Columbia Faculty & Students Vow to Fight Against Authoritarian Influence in Higher Ed

Professor Faye: "We've allowed our critics to define us by not countering their misleading narratives. We must do so now.”

by Future U/ March 26, 2025/ Higher Ed, News Briefs/

COMMENTARY by B.M. Ryan: The War on Free Speech: From College Campuses to the PGA Tour

"University administrators, protected by the doctrine of qualified immunity, can silence dissent without consequence."

by B.M. Ryan/ March 24, 2025/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

COMMENTARY: Trump Administration, a “Neoliberal Antisocial State, Downsizing its Redistributive Functions”

"Patrimonialism teaches subordinates that their only hope of security lies in the patronage of the boss or the landlord."

by Future U/ March 23, 2025/ Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

VIDEO: Princeton University President Christopher L. Eisgruber Defends Higher Education’s Grounding Principles

"It is the greatest threat to American universities since the Red Scare of the 1950s. Every American should be concerned."

by Future U/ March 22, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

VIDEO: J.D. Vance, “We Have to Honestly and Aggressively Attack the Universities in This Country”

"Nixon said fifty-five years ago that professors are the enemy." (audience applauds)

by Future U/ March 22, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: New Academic Book Sheds Light on Trump’s Political Underpinnings and Approach

Rauch, in "The Atlantic": "Corruption is patrimonialism’s Achilles’ heel because the public understands it and doesn’t like it."

by Future U/ March 21, 2025/ Perspectives, Society/

Trump’s “Scorched Earth” Approach: Dimimish and Remove Liberal/Progressive Programs, Policies, and Entities, with Education (at all levels) a Primary Target

David Horsey, Seattle Times: "A garish show of petulance, vindictiveness, boorishness, and monumental narcissism."

by Future U/ March 20, 2025/ Public Higher Ed/

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