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NEWS BRIEFS: Trump Accelerates Attack on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Jeremy Young, PEN America: “It launches investigations into universities for merely having a DEI office or promoting DEI."
by Future U/ July 2, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Indiana U Capitulates to Conservatives’ View of What College Is For

'The cuts also come after a new Board of Trustees majority, aligned with Indiana’s Republican Gov. Mike Braun."
by Future U/ July 1, 2025/ News Briefs, 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/

NEWS BRIEFS: DeSantis and Other Southern Governors Create New Higher Ed Body to Counter “Woke Accreditation”

Florida's DeSantis: "It will upend the monopoly of the woke accreditation cartels."
by Future U/ June 27, 2025/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: State of Florida Continues Culture War on Higher Ed, In One Week State Board Appoints Three Political Cronies As Presidents of Florida Public Universities

Search firm insider: Looks like “a governor who wants to be able to get his people into plum presidential jobs.”
by Future U/ June 23, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Public Higher Ed, Society/

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/

PERSPECTIVES: First, Adjustments Made to the House Budget Bill, Now Senate Republicans Want to Change This

Proposal is being advanced under the banner of "institutional accountability."
by Future U/ June 21, 2025/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Public Higher Ed, 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: State of Texas Intensives Efforts To Align Public Higher Ed with a Conservative Vision

"One new law will give governor-appointed university regents more control over curriculum and hiring."
by Future U/ June 19, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Vanderbilt University National Poll Reveals Public Sentiments Regarding American Higher Ed

“Notable differences among MAGA & traditional Republicans, make it critical to consider this distinction when assessing the public’s thinking."
by Future U/ June 18, 2025/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, 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/

NEWS BRIEFS: Claiming Academic Censorship, Tulane Professor Resigns Position

Kimberly Terrell: "I cannot remain silent as this university sacrifices academic integrity for political appeasement."
by Future U/ June 15, 2025/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, 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/

News Briefs: Political Shanaghans Abound in Higher Ed Funding Proposal Advanced by Michigan House of Representatives

"State Rep. Madodock (R-Milford) extolled the budget, making cuts to “woke” universities & giving money to “non-woke” universities."
by Future U/ June 13, 2025/ Public Higher Ed, Society/
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