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REMEMBRANCE: We are Educators, and Why We Are … Well, Read On ….

I taught him years ago. Years later, Jim opened the door and walked into my life again.
by Roger Barbee/ June 19, 2026/ Education, Perspectives, Society/

Contrasting Perspectives on the Michigan State Situation

Here are two Op Ed's published on different public platforms on consecutive days.
by Future U/ June 4, 2026/ Higher Ed, MSU, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/

COMMENTARY by B.M. Ryan: Where Things Fit: Rethinking Sartre in a Modern World

"Modern social systems are reflexive: people adjust their behavior in response to how they are interpreted."
by B.M. Ryan/ May 31, 2026/ Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Trump Targeting of Higher Education, “A Fight That Often Seems Personal”

The Trump Administration has leveraged government authority in unprecidented ways.
by Future U/ May 23, 2026/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: MSU Trustee, “The Culture That Produced Larry Nassar Was Built Through Exactly the Mechanisms Ratified in This Document (New Board Member Policy)”

MSU's Board is revisiting a time when "it treated loyalty as the highest virtue and accountability as an inconvenience.”
by Future U/ May 21, 2026/ MSU, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/

PERSPECTIVES: Meddling in MSU Affairs? “We Strongly Disagree” and Here’s Why

"The athletic department of MSU is not a stand-alone entity, and neither are Spartan Ventures and Spartan Media Ventures."
by Future U/ May 19, 2026/ Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Trump Has Abandoned His Legal Appeal re DEI, Michigan State Should Reinstate and Expand What It Had Eliminated

"This moment demands more than restoration. It demands transformation."
by Future U/ May 18, 2026/ Fascist Neoliberalism, MSU, Perspectives/

PERSPECTIVES: Professor Harry Keyishian, Profile in Academic Freedom

"As a Queens College student, he had observed faculty who lost their jobs for refusing to answer questions."
by Future U/ May 12, 2026/ Fascist Neoliberalism, News Briefs, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/

COMMENTARY BY Roger Barbee: Today, Yet Another Time for Athlete Activism

"It’s about politics, you say, not about athletics. Think again."
by Future U/ May 11, 2026/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Ideologically Shewed Image of History Promulgated in University “Civic Centers”

AAUP: "Conservative 'civic centers' are being embedded in public universities to normalize a right-wing version of American history."
by Future U/ May 8, 2026/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

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/

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/

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/
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