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NEWS BRIEFS: Michigan Prof’s Graduation Address Stirs Controversy

"Greatness of this university rests also on the courage/conviction of student activists who have pushed for justice."

by Future U/ May 4, 2026/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society, Video/

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/

COMMENTARY: Giroux on the “Myth of the Apolitical University”

"Will higher education question, remember, and resist, or be a training ground for conformity, amnesia, and obedience?"

by Future U/ May 1, 2026/ Higher Ed, 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/

NEWS BRIEFS: Ohio Gubernatorial Candidate Ramaswamy (R) Recommends Closing “Struggling” State Universities

"The value of a degree is going down," Ramaswamy said.

by Future U/ April 27, 2026/ Fascist Neoliberalism, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Income Standard Proposal by Trump Administration Asks Colleges/Universities to Pass Student Earning Test or Else

"Public comment will be open until May 20."

by Future U/ April 26, 2026/ Neoliberalism, News Briefs, 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/

PERSPECTIVES: Critique of KU’s National Ranking Decline Blends Neoliberal and Legacy Perspectives

David Awbrey: There is little interest "in teaching what Matthew Arnold called 'the best that has been known and thought.'”

by Future U/ April 24, 2026/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Republican Anti-Higher Ed Campaign Spreads to Michigan, Michigan and Michigan State Targeted

Bill supporters claim "indoctrinatation" and assert that a MSU program targeting pregnant mothers and infants is a 'scam.'"

by Future U/ April 23, 2026/ Fascist Neoliberalism, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Higher Ed Group Joins Suit Against Trump Administration, Claiming Discriminatory Practices in Federal Contracting

Prof Karin Rosemblatt: "We strenuously object to the administration’s efforts to erase the realities of racial/ethnic inequality and discrimination.”

by Future U/ April 22, 2026/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

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