Higher Ed Archives - Page 19 of 139

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/

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/

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/

I"t is a battle for the academy’s soul; if universities lose, the consequences will stretch far beyond campus walls."

by B.M. Ryan/ March 28, 2025/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

"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/

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/

"University administrators, protected by the doctrine of qualified immunity, can silence dissent without consequence."

by B.M. Ryan/ March 24, 2025/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

"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/

"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/

VP Vance: "I don't like DEI, and I'm proud of what our administration has done on that front."

by Future U/ March 19, 2025/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

"If the Trump Administration declares you an enemy, it will come after you; and it will test limits of legality."

by Future U/ March 18, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Society/

Joan Scott, AAUP: “It’s an escalation unheard of. Even during the McCarthy era, this was not done.”

by Future U/ March 16, 2025/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

"The group being investigated includes Arizona St. Ohio St and Rutgers, along with Yale, Cornell, Duke, and MIT."

by Future U/ March 15, 2025/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

"A task force will determine “how/when Cornell should speak institutionally on politics, ideology, current affairs, and world events.”

by Future U/ March 12, 2025/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

"How to (function) with executive orders banning banning discussions of structural racism, unconscious bias, and gender?"

by Future U/ March 11, 2025/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/