Higher Ed Archives

COMMENTARY BY Roger Barbee: Today, Yet Another Time for Athlete Activism

"It’s about politics, you say, not about athletics. Think again."

by Future U/ May 11, 2026/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

AAUP: "Conservative 'civic centers' are being embedded in public universities to normalize a right-wing version of American history."

by Future U/ May 8, 2026/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

FIRE's Laura Beltz: "To apply institutional neutrality policies to restrict student/faculty speech totally subverts the policy's premise."

by Future U/ May 6, 2026/ Higher Ed, Public Higher Ed, Society, Teaching/

"The move is the latest by the Trump administration to limit transgender rights in the U.S."

by Future U/ May 5, 2026/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

"Greatness of this university rests also on the courage/conviction of student activists who have pushed for justice."

by Future U/ May 4, 2026/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society, Video/

"The Yale faculty report has been widely praised for its honest and precise take."

by Future U/ May 3, 2026/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

"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/

"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/

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

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

"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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

"Lewd messages linked to University of Michigan regent who led campaign against pro-Palestinian students."

by Future U/ April 20, 2026/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/