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NEWS BRIEFS: Groups File Suit Regarding Trump Administration’s $100K H-1B Visa Fee

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/

NEWS BRIEFS: Rutgers Professor Has Life Threatened, Initially Blocked From Leaving U.S.

"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/

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

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

NEWS BRIEFS: Nearly 23,000 Books Have Been Banned in U.S. Since 2021

(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/

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

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

NEWS BRIEFS: Trump Administration Taps Far-Right Groups to Prepare “Civics” Material for USA’s 250th Celebration

"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/

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

NEWS BRIEFS: Public Continues to Sour on the Value of a College Degree

Gallup: Public perception of a college education hits a 15-year low.
by Future U/ September 14, 2025/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Diversity at Risk (Again), This Time Leading to Multiple HBCU Lockdowns

Rev. Al Sharpton: "Colleges should be a place of free expression that’s respectful, engaging. What we have seen is anything …
by Future U/ September 12, 2025/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed/

NEWS BRIEFS: Trump Administration Intends to Nix Already Approved Allocation to Minority-Serving Higher Ed

David Mendez, Hispanic Assoc of Colleges & Universities: “This isn't just a budget cut; it is an attack on equity …
by Future U/ September 10, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: “I Directed the Provost to Remove the Dean and Department Head, Effective Immediately”

"Last week, the Texas Tribune shared results of a study showing that many professors want to leave the state because …
by Future U/ September 8, 2025/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society, Teaching/

NEWS BRIEFS: Northwestern President, Under Political Pressure from the Rightwing, Resigns Post

Trump Administration: "We hope (NU) will seize this opportunity (presidential change) to Make Northwestern Great Again.”
by Future U/ September 7, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, News Briefs/
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