PERSPECTIVES: An Outgoing President’s Take on What Higher Ed Needs to Do
“We need to make sure we’re constantly asking the right question of how we make the institution better.”
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NEWS BRIEFS: CNN Reports Multiple Colleges/Universities Reaching Out to Trump Administration, Seeking to Avoid Becoming “The Next Harvard”
One university board member told CNN: “We do not have any interest in being their ‘model school’ or whatever.”
June 4, 2025/
Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Public Higher Ed/
TRINITY’S MICHAEL ROTH: “The Idea that We are to Supposed to Conform to the Ideologies in The White House is Bad for the Country”
Interview with Margaret Brennan on CBS, Face the Nation, June 1, 2025.
June 3, 2025/
Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society, Video/
AUDIO From NPR: “Why Is The Trump Administration Throwing So Many Curveballs at Higher Ed?”
With Ari Shapiro as host.
June 2, 2025/
Audio, Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/
FUTUREU VIDEO: Michael Gavin on White Nationalism in Higher Education and Politics
Dr. Gavin is president of Delta College (MI).
June 1, 2025/
FutureU Forum, Higher Ed, Public Higher Ed, Society, Video/
NEWS BRIEFS: DEI-Related Research Means Strike Off For Fubright Candidates
A Fulbright faculty adviser: the vetting process is “politburo oversight.”
May 30, 2025/
Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, News Briefs/
PERSPECTIVES: NSF Changes Threaten STEM Progress
Suzanne Ortega, Council of Grad Schools: "Distributing that money fairly & appropriately is going to be delayed if not impossible.” …
NEWS BRIEFS: Secretary Kennedy, “We’re Probably Going to Stop Publishing in the New England Journal of Medicine, Etc., (because) Those Journals Are All Corrupt”
Kennedy also claimed that several agencies under Health & Human Services, including FDA, are “sock puppets” of Big Pharma.
May 28, 2025/
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COMMENTARY by Steven Pinker: “To Cripple Institutions that Acquire and Transmit Knowledge is a Tragic Blunder and a Crime Against Future Generations.”
"The appropriate treatment is to diagnose which parts needing remedies, not to cut its carotid and watch it bleed out."
May 27, 2025/
Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/
NEWS BRIEFS: “You Will Not Be Missed,” Professor Parsons
Professor Graham Parsons: "In a matter of days, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point abandoned its core principles."
May 26, 2025/
Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/
PERSPECTIVES: Lyrics That Fit The Times
"Better save up your money, you’re not getting grants. Your DEI projects they don’t stand a chance."
May 25, 2025/
Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/
NEWS BRIEFS: When the Mafia Meets Neoliberalism, Higher Ed is Thrown Against the Ropes
What the Trump Administration is doing to Harvard, and how the Hong Kong Univ of Science & Technology is responding. …
May 23, 2025/
Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, News Briefs/
COMMENTARY: Making the Case for Democratic Governance of Higher Education
"The neoliberal attack with roots in the early 20th century may go back to the origins of the U.S. higher …
May 22, 2025/
Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Public Higher Ed/
NEWS BRIEFS: Higher Ed Braces For Another Round of DEI-Related Penalties
"False Claims Act" violations could include DEI programs that “assign benefits or burdens on race, ethnicity, or national origin.”
May 21, 2025/
Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, News Briefs/
NEWS BRIEFS: University of Utah Eliminates History and Philosophy Majors
"Eliminating this major will reduce opportunities for students while producing no savings whatsoever."
May 20, 2025/
Public Higher Ed/