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PERSPECTIVES: “Institutional Neutrality, a False Narrative Designed to Maintain Institutional Legitimacy”

"Institutional neutrality makes power structures invisible and depoliticizes the deeply political functioning of higher education."

by Future U/ May 2, 2026/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

COMMENTARY: Giroux on the “Myth of the Apolitical University”

"Will higher education question, remember, and resist, or be a training ground for conformity, amnesia, and obedience?"

by Future U/ May 1, 2026/ Higher Ed, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Calls for “Viewpoint Diversity” Often Emerge Without Understanding How Viewpoints Emerge in Academic Discourse

"Government and foundation-driven efforts to increase viewpoint diversity fundamentally misunderstand the issue."

by Future U/ April 30, 2026/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: UCS President on Trump Administration Firing the NSF Board, “We Must Not Accept Anti-Science Actions”

"This unseemly political maneuver must be seen for what it is: politicization of the National Science Foundation."

by Future U/ April 29, 2026/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Trump Administration Fires NSF Board Members, Director, and Deputy Director

Willie May, Morgan St.: “I've watched the systematic dismantling of the scientific advisory infrastructure. NSF is the latest casualty."

by Future U/ April 28, 2026/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Public Higher Ed/

NEWS BRIEFS: Ohio Gubernatorial Candidate Ramaswamy (R) Recommends Closing “Struggling” State Universities

"The value of a degree is going down," Ramaswamy said.

by Future U/ April 27, 2026/ Fascist Neoliberalism, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Income Standard Proposal by Trump Administration Asks Colleges/Universities to Pass Student Earning Test or Else

"Public comment will be open until May 20."

by Future U/ April 26, 2026/ Neoliberalism, News Briefs, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: “Trump Officials Described Professors as “The Enemy,” and AAUP Goes from Defense to Offense

Prof William A. Herbert, Hunter College collective-bargaining scholar: "This is the greatest attack on higher ed in American history,”

by Future U/ April 25, 2026/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Critique of KU’s National Ranking Decline Blends Neoliberal and Legacy Perspectives

David Awbrey: There is little interest "in teaching what Matthew Arnold called 'the best that has been known and thought.'”

by Future U/ April 24, 2026/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Republican Anti-Higher Ed Campaign Spreads to Michigan, Michigan and Michigan State Targeted

Bill supporters claim "indoctrinatation" and assert that a MSU program targeting pregnant mothers and infants is a 'scam.'"

by Future U/ April 23, 2026/ Fascist Neoliberalism, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Higher Ed Group Joins Suit Against Trump Administration, Claiming Discriminatory Practices in Federal Contracting

Prof Karin Rosemblatt: "We strenuously object to the administration’s efforts to erase the realities of racial/ethnic inequality and discrimination.”

by Future U/ April 22, 2026/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

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