PERSPECTIVES: When Speaking Out for Justice Incurs Professional Penalty
"Universities and professional associations are ignoring their ethical codes to fall in line with government dictates."
Future U Archive
NEWS BRIEFS: Southern Cal Faculty Denounce Trump Administration Request
USC's Ed Saxon: "History will not judge USC kindly if it agrees. Capitulation is the fastest route to ruin."
October 8, 2025/
Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, News Briefs/
NEWS BRIEFS: “166 Schools Surveyed Got an F for their Speech Climate, Only 11 Received a Grade of C or Higher”
"For the first time: a majority of students would prevent speakers who express controversial views from stepping foot on campus."
October 7, 2025/
Higher Ed, Public Higher Ed/
NEWS BRIEFS: “Extralegal Activity to Crack Down on Independent Thought”
“The space for academic freedom has shrunk at an accelerating pace over the past decade.”
October 6, 2025/
Public Higher Ed/
PERSPECTIVES: Being a Professor These Days … “One Clumsy Sentence and You’re a Trending Target”
"The safest classroom is the quietest one. But safety is a coffin; silence is death. The only way forward is …
October 5, 2025/
Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/
PERSPECTIVES: “Our Institutions Must Reclaim Higher Education for the Common Good”
Maria Ressa, Nobel Peace Prize laureate: "If you do not hold the line, you will only get weaker over time."
October 4, 2025/
Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/
NEWS BRIEFS: Trump’s Mafia Tactics, “Sign, Higher Education, or Else….”
Prof Brian Heuser, Vanderbilt: (The request is) "a dangerous departure from the core values that should underpin our institutions."
October 3, 2025/
Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/
PERSPECTIVES: Calling the Kettle “Kirk”
"Civility sets a higher bar."
September 29, 2025/
Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Teaching/
PERSPECTIVES: Trump’s Executive Order Seeks to Disable Dissent
"It augurs the worst crackdown on political dissent in generations, targeting dissent & the groups that enable dissent."
September 28, 2025/
Fascist Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/
PERSPECTIVES: Reflexive Learning and Application, A Recipe for Higher Ed Response in These Tumultuous Times
"Universities are facing crucial, even existential, questions."
September 27, 2025/
Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/
NEWS BRIEFS: Vanderbilt Poll Shows Positive Bump in Americans’ Views of Higher Ed
"47% of respondents had a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher education."
September 26, 2025/
Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/
VIDEO: NPR’s “The Sunday Story,” “Trump’s War on Higher Education”
FROM NPR: “President Trump has a long list of grievances against many U.S. colleges and universities. He’s complained about antisemitism …
September 25, 2025/
Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Public Higher Ed, Video/
NEWS BRIEFS: “History is the Best Way to Inspire an Informed Patriotism and Love of Country”
"Trump administration’s attempt to create an Orwellian “truth ministry” and omit the more troubling aspects of the nation’s past."
September 24, 2025/
Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/
NEWS BRIEFS: Trump Administration Taps Far-Right Groups to Prepare “Civics” Material for USA’s 250th Celebration
"The far-right groups advance Trump’s whitewashing American history, including exclusionary depictions to aid his political movement."
September 23, 2025/
Fascist Neoliberalism, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/
PERSPECTIVES: “When the State Chooses Whom to Grieve, It Teaches Whose Humanity is Recognized”
"His words were not harmless. They were a politics of dehumanization, amplified daily through platforms that rewarded outrage."
September 22, 2025/
Perspectives, Society/