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PERSPECTIVES: “Our Institutions Must Reclaim Higher Education for the Common Good”

Maria Ressa, Nobel Peace Prize laureate: "If you do not hold the line, you will only get weaker over time."

by Future U/ October 4, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

Prof Brian Heuser, Vanderbilt: (The request is) "a dangerous departure from the core values that should underpin our institutions."

by Future U/ October 3, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

"Watching should be secondary to reading for intellectual gain, but in today's America, entertainment trumps acumen."

by Roger Barbee/ October 2, 2025/ Perspectives, Society/

(Book bans) "are symptoms of a much larger disease: the dismantling of public education and a backsliding democracy."

by Roger Barbee/ October 1, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, News Briefs, Society/

"Civility sets a higher bar."

by Future U/ September 29, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Teaching/

"It augurs the worst crackdown on political dissent in generations, targeting dissent & the groups that enable dissent."

by Future U/ September 28, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

"Universities are facing crucial, even existential, questions."

by Future U/ September 27, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/

"47% of respondents had a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher education."

by Future U/ September 26, 2025/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

FROM NPR: “President Trump has a long list of grievances against many U.S. colleges and universities. He’s complained about antisemitism …

by Future U/ September 25, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Public Higher Ed, Video/

"Trump administration’s attempt to create an Orwellian “truth ministry” and omit the more troubling aspects of the nation’s past."

by Future U/ September 24, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

"The far-right groups advance Trump’s whitewashing American history, including exclusionary depictions to aid his political movement."

by Future U/ September 23, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

"His words were not harmless. They were a politics of dehumanization, amplified daily through platforms that rewarded outrage."

by Future U/ September 22, 2025/ Perspectives, Society/

"If there is an African American studies department, they (Conservatives) want to see a conservative studies department, too."

by Future U/ September 21, 2025/ Higher Ed, Public Higher Ed, Society/

Among Kirk's claims: "2020 voter fraud, public health measures as government control, and political opponents as dangerous."

by Future U/ September 20, 2025/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

"Height of delusion to see him as a model. He was an opportunistic bigot who served plutocratic sponsors."

by Future U/ September 19, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/