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Perspectives Archive

PERSPECTIVES: Federal Budget “Will Change Who Gets to Attend College and How They Pay for It”

Charles Welch, president, American Assoc of State Colleges and Univ: "Eliminate executive overreach."

by Future U/ July 4, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

COMMENTARY: Why Did Vance Call Higher Ed, “The Enemy of the People?” Here’s a Big Reason Why

"Athenians sentenced Socrates to death because he sought to question and doubt. But they couldn't keep his wisdom from spreading."

by Future U/ June 28, 2025/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society, Video/

PERSPECTIVES: University President, “I Think You’re Doing Their Work of Authoritarianism”

“The federal government is trying to undermine the legitimacy of higher ed, law, journalism, and (on deck) entertainment."

by Future U/ June 26, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Perspectives/

COMMENTARY by Roger Barbee: The Segregationist and the Historian

"How important it is to be recorded as being on the right side of historical events."

by Roger Barbee/ June 22, 2025/ Perspectives, Society/

COMMENTARY: “Failure to Fight Executive Orders Targeting Higher Ed Invites Our Collective Demise”

"Our colleges and universities are not fighting back. The question is, will we?"

by Future U/ June 20, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: “Appeasing Authoritarianism ‘Is Never Really Going to Work’”

The political attacks are based "on the false narrative that our campuses as bastions of liberal progressivism.”

by Future U/ June 17, 2025/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Hechinger Report Analyzes Trump Administration Impact on Public Higher Ed

Brian Diers, U Illinois emeritus: “We could potentially lose a generation who won’t go into science because there’s no funding."

by Future U/ June 16, 2025/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Making the Case for Government-Backed Scientific Publishing

"The current model rewards publishers far more than the public."

by Future U/ June 14, 2025/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

TRINITY’S MICHAEL ROTH: “The Idea that We are to Supposed to Conform to the Ideologies in The White House is Bad for the Country”

Interview with Margaret Brennan on CBS, Face the Nation, June 1, 2025.

by Future U/ June 3, 2025/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society, Video/

AUDIO From NPR: “Why Is The Trump Administration Throwing So Many Curveballs at Higher Ed?”

With Ari Shapiro as host.

by Future U/ June 2, 2025/ Audio, Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

COMMENTARY by Steven Pinker: “To Cripple Institutions that Acquire and Transmit Knowledge is a Tragic Blunder and a Crime Against Future Generations.”

"The appropriate treatment is to diagnose which parts needing remedies, not to cut its carotid and watch it bleed out."

by Future U/ May 27, 2025/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

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