COMMENTARY with VIDEO: What Makes Higher Education “Higher”?
"The short video is one example of what enables education to bear the audacious label, HIGHER."
Video Archive
NEWS BRIEFS: State Seeks to Dismiss Sexual Abuse Allegations at Ohio State
"Ohio AG claims 43 of the cases should be dismissed because the alleged abuse happened before Oct. 21, 1986."
May 14, 2026/
News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society, Video/
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."
May 4, 2026/
Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society, Video/
PERSPECTIVES: Let’s Face It, There Are Higher Education Administrators Who Are Using Trump as a Shield to Do the Nasty on Their Own Campuses
The enemy from within mirrors Washington's authoritarian behavior.
March 7, 2026/
Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Video/
PERSPECTIVES: NFL Doubles Down on DEI as Higher Education Capitulates
"The NFL reinforces the importance of sustained, authentic engagement in diversity and inclusion."
December 25, 2025/
Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society, Video/
FUTUREU VIDEO: 10th Anniversary Video on Neoliberalism and Higher Education
'Higher Education is under assault and we must defend it if the institution vital to democratic civil society is to …
October 24, 2025/
Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society, Video/
FUTUREU VIDEO: Rubén Martinez on “Silence is Not a Strategy!”
"All of us must step up"!
October 23, 2025/
Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society, Video/
FUTUREU VIDEO: Adrian Lenardic on “What Is a University For?”
'Neoliberalism opened the door to what we're experiencing now politically."
October 22, 2025/
Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society, Video/
VIDEO: NPR’s “The Sunday Story,” “Trump’s War on Higher Education”
FROM NPR: “President Trump has a long list of grievances against many U.S. colleges and universities. He’s complained about antisemitism …
September 25, 2025/
Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Public Higher Ed, Video/
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."
June 28, 2025/
Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society, Video/
TRINITY’S MICHAEL ROTH: “The Idea that We are to Supposed to Conform to the Ideologies in The White House is Bad for the Country”
Interview with Margaret Brennan on CBS, Face the Nation, June 1, 2025.
June 3, 2025/
Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society, Video/
FUTUREU VIDEO: Michael Gavin on White Nationalism in Higher Education and Politics
Dr. Gavin is president of Delta College (MI).
June 1, 2025/
FutureU Forum, Higher Ed, Public Higher Ed, Society, Video/
VIDEO: Chris Rufo Sharpens His Attack on Higher Education
From the May 1, 2025, edition of PBS NewsHour with host Amna Nawaz.
May 2, 2025/
Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society, Video/
VIDEO: Former Purdue President, “Cautious About Using Government to Reform Higher Ed”
From the April 28 edition of MSNBC's Squak Box.
April 29, 2025/
Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society, Video/
NEWS BRIEFS: AAUP’s Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom Virtual Forum, Tu, May 13, 6 PM: “The Antidemocratic Attack on Scholars and Why It Matters”
Prof Isaac Kamola, Trinity College (CT), directs AAUP’s Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom
April 27, 2025/
Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Video/