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PERSPECTIVES: Undergraduate Student Writes, “I’ve been Terrified by the Meekness of (College) Administrators Since the Election”

"I hope they can chart a path toward principled leadership rather than fearful obedience and blind enforcement."

by Future U/ December 17, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

“Colleges wnt to cultivate this idea that they’re prestigious and selective...and like the idea of being a sought-after good.”

by Future U/ December 16, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

AAUP: "increasingly partisan critics of freedom of speech/First Amendment, and taking positions that threaten academic freedom."

by Future U/ December 11, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/

"University statements can have a chilling effect on discourse by encouraging silence from students and faculty."

by Future U/ December 7, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

"It is also abundantly clear character doesn’t matter anymore."

by Future U/ November 30, 2024/ Perspectives, Society/

VIDEO is from the November 27, 2024, PBS NewsHour.

by Future U/ November 29, 2024/ Education, Perspectives, Society, Video/

"Germany universities (then) failed to reveal the accumulated wisdom of civilization, but became centres of decivilization.”

by Future U/ November 27, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

"This is the time to use every lever of power to stop the worst of authoritarianism from taking over."

by Future U/ November 23, 2024/ Perspectives, Society, Video/

Report title is revealing: "Division, Extremism. Ideology: How the Biden-Harris NSF Politicized Science." (What a crock!)

by Future U/ November 22, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

"Rights are won through struggle, often in the face of entrenched power. The determination of people drives real change."

by Future U/ November 21, 2024/ Perspectives, Society/

Dr. Jeffrey Flier, prof and former dean, Harvard University: “Over the edge. Down the rabbit hole. Completely insane,”

by Future U/ November 18, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

David Brooks thinks so. Read why and how. From The Atlantic.

by Future U/ November 16, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

"The country’s really shifted in the last 50 or 60 years, mainly with the neoliberal assault."

by Future U/ November 15, 2024/ Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

"An iconoclast of epic proportions, Mencken delighted in holding a mirror to society."

by Frank Fear/ November 14, 2024/ Perspectives, Society/

"Donald Trump not only wants to roll back neoliberalism and woke liberalism, but is a major threat to classical liberalism …

by Future U/ November 7, 2024/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Neoliberalism, Perspectives/