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NEWS BRIEFS: Gloves Off in Virginia in Response to UVA’s DEI-related Presidential Ouster

VA state Sen. Louise Lucas: “We intend to stand up and fight, to make sure this never happens again.”
by Future U/ June 30, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed/

NEWS BRIEFS: UVA President Resigns, Says, “I Cannot Make a Unilateral Decision to Fight the Federal Government in Order to Save My Own Job.”

"Conservative UVA alumni groups & legal entities complained that Ryan didn't eliminate DEI from all corners of the campus."
by Future U/ June 29, 2025/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed/

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/

COMMENTARY: Students in College Come from K-16. What Did They Experience There?

"Knowledge of history and the workings of governments cultivates valuable citizens of the country and the world."
by Roger Barbee/ June 24, 2025/ Public Higher Ed/

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/

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/

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: 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/

COMMENTARY: Plea to UM Trustees, “Hire a President with Character”

David Brooks: "Embrace 'eulogy virtues' of honesty, compassion, courage over 'resumé virtues' of the marketplace."
by Future U/ June 10, 2025/ Higher Ed, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: What Does U Florida / Santa Ono Do Now?

FL U.S. Representative Jimmy Patronis on X: "We need a leader, not a DEI acolyte. Leave the Ann Arbor thinking …
by Future U/ June 7, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Neoliberalism, Public Higher Ed, Society/

COMMENTARY by A.J. Lenardic: When Bums-on-Seats Meets Misinformation

"Competition is the name of the game at the corporatized university. It’s the neoliberal dream: the market determines value."
by Adrian Lenardic/ June 6, 2025/ Public Higher Ed/

NEWS BRIEFS: CNN Reports Multiple Colleges/Universities Reaching Out to Trump Administration, Seeking to Avoid Becoming “The Next Harvard”

One university board member told CNN: “We do not have any interest in being their ‘model school’ or whatever.”
by Future U/ June 4, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Public Higher Ed/
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