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NEWS BRIEFS: Scientists Send Collective Letter to Trump, Urging Continuing Public Support of Science

"We are sending this SOS to sound a clear warning: The nation's scientific enterprise is being decimated."
by Future U/ April 6, 2025/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Rutgers Faculty Leadership Stance: Establish Big Ten Firewall Against Trump Administration Incursion of Higher Education

Prof Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, Univ of Minnesota: "This seems like a very positive big step in the right direction."
by Future U/ April 5, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, News Briefs/

PODCAST: “Professors are the Enemy,” Trump’s War on Higher Education

Richard Nixon (on tape): "The establishment is the enemy. The press is the enemy. The professors are the enemy."
by Future U/ April 4, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Podcast, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: It’s a Good Time to Refresh Our Memories, “The Woodward Report”

Do “everything possible to ensure the fullest degree of intellectual freedom.”
by Future U/ April 3, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: With Higher Ed, Museums, and Libraries Under Siege, Is Public Broadcasting Next?

From NPR: "At NPR, diversity is not a program or initiative. It is an inextricable part of our mission to …
by Future U/ April 2, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

COMMENTARY: “Trump’s Academic Purge Will Make America Stupid and Provincial Again”

"The current Republican embrace of xenophobic anti-intellectualism is bad for America."
by Future U/ April 1, 2025/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

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: “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: 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/
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