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VIDEO: J.D. Vance, “We Have to Honestly and Aggressively Attack the Universities in This Country”

"Nixon said fifty-five years ago that professors are the enemy." (audience applauds)
by Future U/ March 22, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: New Academic Book Sheds Light on Trump’s Political Underpinnings and Approach

Rauch, in "The Atlantic": "Corruption is patrimonialism’s Achilles’ heel because the public understands it and doesn’t like it."
by Future U/ March 21, 2025/ Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: UC San Diego Provost, Strong Supporter of DEI, is VP Vance’s Mother-In-Law

VP Vance: "I don't like DEI, and I'm proud of what our administration has done on that front."
by Future U/ March 19, 2025/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: “It Is An Attack on the Conditions that Allow Free Thought to Exist”

Christopher Rufo on strategy: Use financial pressure to force schools to dismantle programs, and reshape hiring and curriculums."
by Future U/ March 19, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: “Universities Should Not Be Intimidated by the Claim that Public Opinion is Turning Against Them”

"If the Trump Administration declares you an enemy, it will come after you; and it will test limits of legality."
by Future U/ March 18, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Feds Deliver Profoundly Troubling “If, Then” Proposition to Columbia U

Jean Howard, executive committee, CU chapter, AAUP: "We are in a state of shock and disbelief."
by Future U/ March 17, 2025/ Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Trump Says Oust Departmental Academic Leadership at Columbia U, Wants a Say in the Curriculum

Joan Scott, AAUP: “It’s an escalation unheard of. Even during the McCarthy era, this was not done.”
by Future U/ March 16, 2025/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Trump Administration Investigating 50+ Universities for Presumed DEI Violations

"The group being investigated includes Arizona St. Ohio St and Rutgers, along with Yale, Cornell, Duke, and MIT."
by Future U/ March 15, 2025/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: USDA Pauses Funding at University of Maine

"As a land-grant institution, U Maine and seven other institutions in the system are heavily dependent on USDA funding."
by Future U/ March 13, 2025/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Cornell Investigated for Handling of Gaza Protests

"A task force will determine “how/when Cornell should speak institutionally on politics, ideology, current affairs, and world events.”
by Future U/ March 12, 2025/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

COMMENTARY: “Academic Freedom and the Duty to Resist”

"How to (function) with executive orders banning banning discussions of structural racism, unconscious bias, and gender?"
by Future U/ March 11, 2025/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Florida State, Once a Women’s College, Removes References to ‘Women’ on University Website

"Scrubbing keywords includes the terms women, diverse, systemic, and cultural relevance.”
by Future U/ March 8, 2025/ Higher Ed, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Feds Punish Columbia University for “Continued Inaction” Regarding Harassment of Jewish Students

Columbia recently received a D grade from YNetNews.com.
by Future U/ March 7, 2025/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

COMMENTARY by Aaron Delgaty: On Degrees of “Value”

The real measure of a degree’s worth lies not just in the job it leads to but in broader perspectives …
by Aaron Delgaty/ March 6, 2025/ Education, Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Protest? Trump Threatens to Pull Fed College Funding and Expel “Student Agitators”

Foundation for Individual Rights & Expression: “Higher ed strength derives from exchange of views, even unpopular/dissenting."
by Future U/ March 4, 2025/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/
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