Future U

NEWS BRIEFS: Pittsburgh’s Point Park University Lends Hand to Ohio Students Hurt by OH Senate Bill 1

"PPU will expedite transfer credit evaluations, provide personalized transfer counselors, and assign academic success coaches."

by Future U/ November 11, 2025/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: When It Comes to College Affordability, Trump’s Compact Requirement is Spot On

"The Trump compact lays down a gauntlet. Not recognizing it as such is a grave political mistake."

by Future U/ November 10, 2025/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Friday Was First in Series of U.S. Campus Protests Against Trump and His Regime

“We have to become a new political force.”

by Future U/ November 9, 2025/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed/

NEWS BRIEFS: Cornell Shells Out $60 Million to Trump Adminstration

Cornell AAUP: 'Omits many of the worst provisions” (in other agreements),' but 'poses a threat to academic freedom and goes …

by Future U/ November 8, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, News Briefs/

NEWS BRIEFS: IU Reinstates Student Newspaper, Admits Mistakes

"The decision to censor the newspaper had been roundly condemned."

by Future U/ November 7, 2025/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed/

NEWS BRIEFS: Penn State President, “We Have Not Been Approached, and If We Were, We Would Not Sign It”

"Signatory universities would receive 'substantial and meaningful federal grants' and “increased overhead payments where feasible.'”

by Future U/ November 6, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed/

PERSPECTIVES: “The American University System is Regularly Denigrated by the U.S. Administration and Congressional Allies”

"Based on my five-plus decades of service in higher education this (ongoing criticism of higher education) makes no sense."

by Future U/ November 5, 2025/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Virginia is For … Constitutional Violations?

“By agreeing, UVA risks betraying the very principles you espouse: academic freedom, ideological diversity, and free expression.”

by Future U/ November 4, 2025/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Private Donors and State Governments are Pushing “Classic Studies” in Newly Created Centers, Institutes, and Programs

The new structures are part of the full-court press in Red States to align higher education with Conservative values/preferences.

by Future U/ November 3, 2025/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: New Volume of “Academic Freedom” Is Now Available

"Colleges and universities are more vulnerable—and susceptible to private donor influence—than ever."

by Future U/ November 2, 2025/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/

PERSPECTIVES: Two Compacts with Different Approaches and Intended Outcomes

"How (do we) fight back against assailants who are primarily interested in destruction."

by Future U/ November 1, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/

PERSPECTIVES: “Standing Together Is the Only Way to Form a Real Defense”

"Mutual defense compacts, mostly issued by faculty governance bodies, urges institutions to band together,"

by Future U/ October 31, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Public Higher Ed/

NEWS BRIEFS: For Authoritarians, “Higher Education is The Enemy” Until You Control It to Serve Your Regime, Then It’s “Your Friend”

“Authoritarian populists have grasped the crucial strategic importance of universities.”

by Future U/ October 30, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Ron DeSantis (AKA “Governor Culture Wars”) Issues Edict Regarding H-1B Visas

Florida Governore DeSantis "orders Board of Governors to ‘pull the plug’ on H1-B visas in universities."

by Future U/ October 29, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: New Survey Reveals that the American Public is Disinclined to Support Trump’s Treatment of Higher Education

"Most don’t want the federal government setting colleges’ policies, a new Quinnipiac poll reveals."

by Future U/ October 28, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/