Conservative incursion of higher education Archives

Conservative incursion of higher education Archive

COMMENTARY by Derek Hollingsworth on Indiana University’s Program Cuts: “Bachelor of Science in English Education. That’s My Degree.”

"Your voice matters."

by Derek Hollingsworth/ July 15, 2025/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

COMMENTARY by Frank Bruni: “The Corpus of College Lumbers On, But Some of Its Soul is Missing”

"Under Trump, blunt materialism reigns, and human rights, diplomacy and democracy are suspect, the preoccupation of idealistic chumps. Do anthropology, …

by Future U/ July 14, 2025/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: DOJ ‘Fear-Mongering’ Extends to Higher Ed

Peter McDonough, ACE: "Up until now I don’t have a sense that (DOJ) has been intentionally weaponized for political purposes.” …

by Future U/ July 13, 2025/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: On Trump and “The State of Exception”

"Trump is governing as if his election had doubled as a declaration of a national state of emergency."

by Future U/ July 10, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Perspectives/

PERSPECTIVES: Fear that More Is In Store Beyond UVA

"This administration (Trump's) will not stop with UVA."

by Future U/ July 9, 2025/ Higher Ed, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Trump-Related Think Tank Files Complaint Against Cornell U

Cornell University: The University is "deeply disturbed by personal attacks leveled against our faculty members.”

by Future U/ July 3, 2025/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Trump Accelerates Attack on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Jeremy Young, PEN America: “It launches investigations into universities for merely having a DEI office or promoting DEI."

by Future U/ July 2, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Indiana U Capitulates to Conservatives’ View of What College Is For

'The cuts also come after a new Board of Trustees majority, aligned with Indiana’s Republican Gov. Mike Braun."

by Future U/ July 1, 2025/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: UVA President Resigns, Says, “I Cannot Make a Unilateral Decision to Fight the Federal Government in Order to Save My Own Job.”

"Conservative UVA alumni groups & legal entities complained that Ryan didn't eliminate DEI from all corners of the campus."

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

PERSPECTIVES: State of Texas Intensives Efforts To Align Public Higher Ed with a Conservative Vision

"One new law will give governor-appointed university regents more control over curriculum and hiring."

by Future U/ June 19, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Claiming “Political Meddling,” Fulbright Board Quits En Masse

Board statement: "Injecting politics/ideological mandates into the Fulbright program violates the letter/spirit of the law that Congress so wisely established …

by Future U/ June 12, 2025/ Higher Ed, News Briefs/

TRINITY’S MICHAEL ROTH: “The Idea that We are to Supposed to Conform to the Ideologies in The White House is Bad for the Country”

Interview with Margaret Brennan on CBS, Face the Nation, June 1, 2025.

by Future U/ June 3, 2025/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society, Video/

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