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."
Higher Ed 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/
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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/
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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: 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/
PERSPECTIVES: “Rolling Back the Clock to an Idealized Time”
"If there is an African American studies department, they (Conservatives) want to see a conservative studies department, too."
September 21, 2025/
Higher Ed, Public Higher Ed, Society/
PERSPECTIVES: “Critics Argue Kirk Thrived on Outrage and Intimidation Rather than Debate”
Among Kirk's claims: "2020 voter fraud, public health measures as government control, and political opponents as dangerous."
September 20, 2025/
Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/
NEWS BRIEFS: Trump Administration’s Continuing Effort to Weaken Higher Education
"Those projects are losing funding midway through their grant periods, and join grant recipients that have aleady lost Fed funding."
September 18, 2025/
Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/
NEWS BRIEFS: Trump Administration Fires Another Salvo at Higher Ed, This Time at Prospective Students
David Baime, American Assoc of Community Colleges: "Community colleges receive half of all TRIO grants."
September 15, 2025/
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