Future U

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/

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/

"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/

"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/

"It is the greatest threat to American universities since the Red Scare of the 1950s. Every American should be concerned."

by Future U/ March 22, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

"Nixon said fifty-five years ago that professors are the enemy." (audience applauds)

by Future U/ March 22, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

Rauch, in "The Atlantic": "Corruption is patrimonialism’s Achilles’ heel because the public understands it and doesn’t like it."

by Future U/ March 21, 2025/ Perspectives, Society/

David Horsey, Seattle Times: "A garish show of petulance, vindictiveness, boorishness, and monumental narcissism."

by Future U/ March 20, 2025/ Public Higher Ed/

VP Vance: "I don't like DEI, and I'm proud of what our administration has done on that front."

by Future U/ March 19, 2025/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

Christopher Rufo on strategy: Use financial pressure to force schools to dismantle programs, and reshape hiring and curriculums."

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

"If the Trump Administration declares you an enemy, it will come after you; and it will test limits of legality."

by Future U/ March 18, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Society/

Jean Howard, executive committee, CU chapter, AAUP: "We are in a state of shock and disbelief."

by Future U/ March 17, 2025/ Perspectives, Society/

Joan Scott, AAUP: “It’s an escalation unheard of. Even during the McCarthy era, this was not done.”

by Future U/ March 16, 2025/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

"The group being investigated includes Arizona St. Ohio St and Rutgers, along with Yale, Cornell, Duke, and MIT."

by Future U/ March 15, 2025/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

"The best data, the most cogent arguments, and the best historical evidence tell us these things are true."

by Future U/ March 14, 2025/ Public Higher Ed/