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PERSPECTIVES: Surprised? Shouldn’t Be. Trump Administration Moves Against Higher Education Are Familiar

"Michigan State Prof Brendan Cantwell said the influence of Project 2025 and the other outlines is undeniable."

by Future U/ April 21, 2025/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

COMMENTARY: “Trump Administration is Trafficking a Grand (and False) Narrative About American Intellectuals”

"If present history is to change, then the stories have to change."

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

PERSPECTIVES: Trump’s War on Higher Education “Threatens the Long-Standing Partnership Between Federal Government and Higher Education”

"(funding) cuts don’t follow typical investigative process, and sometimes lack clear explanations and legal justifications."

by Future U/ April 18, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Panel of Experts? Focus on Antisemitism? No Chance with Trump’s Antisemitism Task Force, It’s a Tool in Trump’s War on Higher Ed

"The task force doesn’t plan to take its foot off the gas any time soon, recent public statements suggest."

by Future U/ April 16, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Public Higher Ed, Society/

VIDEO: Harvard Says No to Trump, “Unquestionable Violation of First Amendment Rights”

"This is what authoritarianism looks like."

by Future U/ April 15, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society, Video/

PERSPECTIVES: Trump’s “Prestige University/Blue State” Extortion Strategy

"Trump railed against institutions of higher education on the campaign trailas “woke” and vowing a crack down."

by Future U/ April 11, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Student Visas Are Being Revoked Nationwide

Elora Mukherjee, Columbia Law School: “Immigration policy is driven by xenophobia, white nationalism, and racism.”

by Future U/ April 10, 2025/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

COMMENTARY: “Capitulating to the Assault on Higher Education Will Only Bring More Attacks”

"Remember what Martin Luther King Jr. taught us about being complacent when civil rights are on the line."

by Future U/ April 9, 2025/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

COMMENTARY by Ulises A. Mejias: “Trump is Pushing a New Artificial Intelligence-Driven Bureaucracy to Gut Public Services and Use Our Data to Exploit Us”

"ABI systems designed in the name of efficiency, calculability, predictability and control are anti-democratic and inhumane."

by Ulises A. Mejias/ April 8, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Scientists Send Collective Letter to Trump, Urging Continuing Public Support of Science

"We are sending this SOS to sound a clear warning: The nation's scientific enterprise is being decimated."

by Future U/ April 6, 2025/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PODCAST: “Professors are the Enemy,” Trump’s War on Higher Education

Richard Nixon (on tape): "The establishment is the enemy. The press is the enemy. The professors are the enemy."

by Future U/ April 4, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Podcast, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: It’s a Good Time to Refresh Our Memories, “The Woodward Report”

Do “everything possible to ensure the fullest degree of intellectual freedom.”

by Future U/ April 3, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: With Higher Ed, Museums, and Libraries Under Siege, Is Public Broadcasting Next?

From NPR: "At NPR, diversity is not a program or initiative. It is an inextricable part of our mission to …

by Future U/ April 2, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

COMMENTARY: “Trump’s Academic Purge Will Make America Stupid and Provincial Again”

"The current Republican embrace of xenophobic anti-intellectualism is bad for America."

by Future U/ April 1, 2025/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

COMMENTARY by B.M. Ryan: A Battle We Can’t Lose

I"t is a battle for the academy’s soul; if universities lose, the consequences will stretch far beyond campus walls."

by B.M. Ryan/ March 28, 2025/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

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