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PERSPECTIVES: Trump Administration Shakedown of Higher Ed Amounts to Government-Enacted Extortion

"Compliance resolutions are how the administration wants relationships to be—self-serving, one-sided, and fear-based."

by Future U/ December 7, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: New College Becomes Model for Extending Conservative Reach in Higher Education

Mimi Fuller, New College student: “It’s not promoting that free-thinking, free-speech environment that they brag about. It’s free speech when …

by Future U/ November 30, 2025/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: AAUP on the Importance of Faculty Governance

What America needs is an "independent, intellectually rigorous, and incorruptible higher education."

by Future U/ November 24, 2025/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/

PERSPECTIVES: When It Comes to College Affordability, Trump’s Compact Requirement is Spot On

"The Trump compact lays down a gauntlet. Not recognizing it as such is a grave political mistake."

by Future U/ November 10, 2025/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: “The American University System is Regularly Denigrated by the U.S. Administration and Congressional Allies”

"Based on my five-plus decades of service in higher education this (ongoing criticism of higher education) makes no sense."

by Future U/ November 5, 2025/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Private Donors and State Governments are Pushing “Classic Studies” in Newly Created Centers, Institutes, and Programs

The new structures are part of the full-court press in Red States to align higher education with Conservative values/preferences.

by Future U/ November 3, 2025/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: New Volume of “Academic Freedom” Is Now Available

"Colleges and universities are more vulnerable—and susceptible to private donor influence—than ever."

by Future U/ November 2, 2025/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/

PERSPECTIVES: Two Compacts with Different Approaches and Intended Outcomes

"How (do we) fight back against assailants who are primarily interested in destruction."

by Future U/ November 1, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/

NEWS BRIEFS: For Authoritarians, “Higher Education is The Enemy” Until You Control It to Serve Your Regime, Then It’s “Your Friend”

“Authoritarian populists have grasped the crucial strategic importance of universities.”

by Future U/ October 30, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: “Dialogue, You Say?” Sure, If You Redefine What It Means … And That’s What Happened

(Kirk's approach) "was not what I would call a model for college-level discourse."

by Future U/ October 26, 2025/ Education, Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

FUTUREU VIDEO: 10th Anniversary Video on Neoliberalism and Higher Education

'Higher Education is under assault and we must defend it if the institution vital to democratic civil society is to …

by Future U/ October 24, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society, Video/

FUTUREU VIDEO: Rubén Martinez on “Silence is Not a Strategy!”

"All of us must step up"!

by Future U/ October 23, 2025/ Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society, Video/

FUTUREU VIDEO: Adrian Lenardic on “What Is a University For?”

'Neoliberalism opened the door to what we're experiencing now politically."

by Future U/ October 22, 2025/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society, Video/

FUTUREU VIDEO: Frank Fear on the Authoritarian Takeover of American Higher Education

"Higher education is in the throes of a government sponsored authoritarian-inspired takeover."

by Future U/ October 21, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Student Newspaper Debacle at Indiana University Speaks Volumes about the IU Administration

"Too many (schools) are abandoning higher education’s traditional commitment to free and independent journalistic voices."

by Future U/ October 17, 2025/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/

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