Frank Fear reflects on his journey — from viewing higher education as a public good, to seeing it increasingly as a private good operating within a corporate architecture, to witnessing it in the throes of an authoritarian-inspired takeover.
FUTUREU VIDEO: Frank Fear on the Authoritarian Takeover of American Higher Education
October 21, 2025/
Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/ 1 Comment/
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Few of us saw it coming, Frank, but now we must fight it with all our power.