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COMMENTARY by B.M. Ryan: Intersection of DEI, Free Speech, and Advocacy: How Academia Lost Its Way  

"Academic inquiry is supposed to operate under the Baconian notion of falsification."

by B.M. Ryan/ April 7, 2025/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

NEWS BRIEFS: Scientists Send Collective Letter to Trump, Urging Continuing Public Support of Science

"We are sending this SOS to sound a clear warning: The nation's scientific enterprise is being decimated."

by Future U/ April 6, 2025/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Rutgers Faculty Leadership Stance: Establish Big Ten Firewall Against Trump Administration Incursion of Higher Education

Prof Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, Univ of Minnesota: "This seems like a very positive big step in the right direction."

by Future U/ April 5, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, News Briefs/

PODCAST: “Professors are the Enemy,” Trump’s War on Higher Education

Richard Nixon (on tape): "The establishment is the enemy. The press is the enemy. The professors are the enemy."

by Future U/ April 4, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Podcast, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: It’s a Good Time to Refresh Our Memories, “The Woodward Report”

Do “everything possible to ensure the fullest degree of intellectual freedom.”

by Future U/ April 3, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: With Higher Ed, Museums, and Libraries Under Siege, Is Public Broadcasting Next?

From NPR: "At NPR, diversity is not a program or initiative. It is an inextricable part of our mission to …

by Future U/ April 2, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

COMMENTARY: “Trump’s Academic Purge Will Make America Stupid and Provincial Again”

"The current Republican embrace of xenophobic anti-intellectualism is bad for America."

by Future U/ April 1, 2025/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Question Posed at East Lansing Rally, “Will Michigan State Administration Follow U Michigan’s Lead?”

"Participants shouted “We fight fascism!” as the rally concluded."

by Future U/ March 31, 2025/ MSU, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed/

Perspectives: We are Witnessing the Breakup of the University as We Knew It

Through "political organizing & solidarity building we may build the university as something new, not just recovery of the old."

by Future U/ March 30, 2025/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

NEWS BRIEFS: University of Michigan, Long-time Champion, Closes Its Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Rebekah Modrak, chair Faculty Senate: ""Univ of Michigan leaders seem determined to comply/collaborate in our destruction."

by Future U/ March 29, 2025/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed/

COMMENTARY by B.M. Ryan: A Battle We Can’t Lose

I"t is a battle for the academy’s soul; if universities lose, the consequences will stretch far beyond campus walls." 

by B.M. Ryan/ March 28, 2025/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

COMMENTARY: “When Academic Freedom is Lost, We Lose the Foundation of Higher Education as a Space for Critical Inquiry and Moral Courage”

"We take up this struggle with clear eyes about the forces aligned against us."

by Future U/ March 27, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Columbia Faculty & Students Vow to Fight Against Authoritarian Influence in Higher Ed

Professor Faye: "We've allowed our critics to define us by not countering their misleading narratives. We must do so now.”

by Future U/ March 26, 2025/ Higher Ed, News Briefs/

COMMENTARY by B.M. Ryan: The War on Free Speech: From College Campuses to the PGA Tour

"University administrators, protected by the doctrine of qualified immunity, can silence dissent without consequence."

by B.M. Ryan/ March 24, 2025/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

COMMENTARY: Trump Administration, a “Neoliberal Antisocial State, Downsizing its Redistributive Functions”

"Patrimonialism teaches subordinates that their only hope of security lies in the patronage of the boss or the landlord."

by Future U/ March 23, 2025/ Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/