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PERSPECTIVES: Yale President’s Response to “Trust in Higher Education” Committee Report, “We Have Fallen Short and Must Take Responsibility”

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

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

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/

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: 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/

NEWS BRIEFS: Michigan Regent With History of Confrontation, Disruption, and Partisanship Loses Re-Election Quest

"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/

COMMENTARY: Diversity and Meritocracy Can (and Should) Go Hand-in-Hand

"We can find ways to do both in a way that works for more people than you think."

by Future U/ April 19, 2026/ Education, Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/

NEWS BRIEFS: Feds Want Application Data from Stanford Medical, “Cardinal Courage” Says No

"Stanford should not comply voluntarily with a request that threatens student privacy and undermines institutional independence."

by Future U/ April 16, 2026/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Texas Tech Defines What Constitutes the Human Sexes and Then Culls Academic Offerings Accordingly

"Before Texas Tech, Creighton was a legislator. He sponsored the Texas’ 2023 law barring DEI across the state’s public colleges."

by Future U/ April 14, 2026/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Fed Budget? Thumbs Up for War, Thumbs Down for Everything Else

AAAS's Sudip Parikh: "Funding should be driven by scientific opportunity and possibility, not politics.”

by Future U/ April 9, 2026/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

COMMENTARY: The State of Florida Hates Sociology

"Sociology is radical and woke. We want our students to return to the basics."

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