PERSPECTIVES: When Speaking Out for Justice Incurs Professional Penalty
"Universities and professional associations are ignoring their ethical codes to fall in line with government dictates."
Society Archive
PERSPECTIVES: Being a Professor These Days … “One Clumsy Sentence and You’re a Trending Target”
"The safest classroom is the quietest one. But safety is a coffin; silence is death. The only way forward is …
October 5, 2025/
Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/
PERSPECTIVES: “Our Institutions Must Reclaim Higher Education for the Common Good”
Maria Ressa, Nobel Peace Prize laureate: "If you do not hold the line, you will only get weaker over time."
October 4, 2025/
Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/
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."
October 3, 2025/
Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/
COMMENTARY by Roger Barbee: “Orwell: 2+2=5” Has Grabbed America’s Attention
"Watching should be secondary to reading for intellectual gain, but in today's America, entertainment trumps acumen."
October 2, 2025/
Perspectives, 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."
October 1, 2025/
Fascist Neoliberalism, News Briefs, Society/
PERSPECTIVES: Trump’s Executive Order Seeks to Disable Dissent
"It augurs the worst crackdown on political dissent in generations, targeting dissent & the groups that enable dissent."
September 28, 2025/
Fascist Neoliberalism, Perspectives, 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."
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."
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."
September 23, 2025/
Fascist Neoliberalism, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/
PERSPECTIVES: “When the State Chooses Whom to Grieve, It Teaches Whose Humanity is Recognized”
"His words were not harmless. They were a politics of dehumanization, amplified daily through platforms that rewarded outrage."
September 22, 2025/
Perspectives, Society/
PERSPECTIVES: “Rolling Back the Clock to an Idealized Time”
"If there is an African American studies department, they (Conservatives) want to see a conservative studies department, too."
September 21, 2025/
Higher Ed, Public Higher Ed, Society/
PERSPECTIVES: “Critics Argue Kirk Thrived on Outrage and Intimidation Rather than Debate”
Among Kirk's claims: "2020 voter fraud, public health measures as government control, and political opponents as dangerous."
September 20, 2025/
Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/
PERSPECTIVES: “Kirk Reveled in Open Bigotry”
"Height of delusion to see him as a model. He was an opportunistic bigot who served plutocratic sponsors."
September 19, 2025/
Fascist Neoliberalism, Perspectives, 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."
September 18, 2025/
Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/