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NEWS BRIEFS: New Survey Reveals that the American Public is Disinclined to Support Trump’s Treatment of Higher Education

"Most don’t want the federal government setting colleges’ policies, a new Quinnipiac poll reveals."

by Future U/ October 28, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

Claim: "Much of Higher Education is corrupting our youth & society with woke, socialist, and anti-American ideology."

by Future U/ October 27, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

Assoc Prof Brandon Manning: "This hasty move looks like an attempt to placate recent conservative criticism of the university,”

by Future U/ October 25, 2025/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

"Brown has affirmed that no amount of federal inducement is worth surrendering the freedom to question, explore, and dissent,"

by Future U/ October 16, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, News Briefs/

AAUP's Todd Wolfson: 'We applaud MIT for standing up for rejecting Trump’s ‘loyalty oath’ compact.”

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

Lawsuit contends "the policy rolled could cause 'catastrophic setbacks' to research in the U.S."

by Future U/ October 11, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

"In one threatening (and verified) email, the sender said he would kill him (Prof Bray) in front of his students."

by Future U/ October 10, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

USC's Ed Saxon: "History will not judge USC kindly if it agrees. Capitulation is the fastest route to ruin."

by Future U/ October 8, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, News Briefs/

Prof Brian Heuser, Vanderbilt: (The request is) "a dangerous departure from the core values that should underpin our institutions."

by Future U/ October 3, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

(Book bans) "are symptoms of a much larger disease: the dismantling of public education and a backsliding democracy."

by Roger Barbee/ October 1, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, News Briefs, Society/

"47% of respondents had a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher education."

by Future U/ September 26, 2025/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

"Trump administration’s attempt to create an Orwellian “truth ministry” and omit the more troubling aspects of the nation’s past."

by Future U/ September 24, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

"The far-right groups advance Trump’s whitewashing American history, including exclusionary depictions to aid his political movement."

by Future U/ September 23, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

"Those projects are losing funding midway through their grant periods, and join grant recipients that have aleady lost Fed funding."

by Future U/ September 18, 2025/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

David Baime, American Assoc of Community Colleges: "Community colleges receive half of all TRIO grants."

by Future U/ September 15, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/