Conservative incursion of higher education Archives - Page 5 of 7

Conservative incursion of higher education Archive

PERSPECTIVES: Battle for “Viewpoint Diversity” Intensifies

Letter to Harvard: "Federally approved external party to “audit the student body, faculty, staff, and leadership for viewpoint diversity.”

by Future U/ September 2, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Perspectives/

PERSPECTIVES: “It’s a Blunt-Force, Brutal Effort that is Really Harmful”

"Nearly 80 percent of the $5.7 billion the administration has frozen since March remains on hold."

by Future U/ August 28, 2025/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

NEWS BRIEFS: U of California Budget Challenges Compounded by Trump Administration Demands

"Is this 'the death knell" for America's top public university?"

by Future U/ August 22, 2025/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Understanding Threats to Higher Education as “State Terrorism”

"If you are in university leadership, you can lead with courage and moral clarity."

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

NEWS BRIEFS: Updates on Trump Administration Incursion on Higher Ed: Reducing Overhead Rate and Revoking Student Visas

Efforts to reduce overhead "have drawn lawsuits...arguing that it would harm the nation’s research."

by Future U/ August 19, 2025/ Higher Ed, Public Higher Ed/

NEWS BRIEFS: Judges Rule Against Trump Administration in Its War on Higher Education

"The lawsuits started almost immediately after Trump’s first day."

by Future U/ August 16, 2025/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed/

PERSPECTIVES: What’s the Trump Administration Doing to Higher Ed? It’s ‘State Terrorism”

What higher ed is experiencing "is an elaborate exercise in political theater designed to spread fear, isolation, and division."

by Future U/ August 6, 2025/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Alum Letter to Columbia U’s President, “Perhaps Unwittingly You Harmed Me”

"Jews are being used for somebody else’s agenda, manipulated, no matter our objections, and this is blatantly antisemitic."

by Future U/ August 2, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Perspectives/

NEWS BRIEFS: Fed DOJ Declares DEI Unlawful

Since President Trump took office, he has targeted DEI programs, practices and personnel via EO's and other efforts."

by Future U/ July 31, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Trump Administration Targets Higher Education, “Everything, Everywhere, All at Once”

“If you thought the current battles with your state legislature were bad, just wait for what’s to come in 2026.”

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

NEWS BRIEFS: Nearly Half of U.S. States Have Laws that Censor Higher Ed

PEN AMERICA: "Censorship of higher education, it seems, is highly contagious."

by Future U/ July 28, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Law Prof Says, “Getting Universities like Columbia to Make These Deals is Fundamentally Coercive”

Lynn Pasquerella, AACU: "Signals a rise in authoritarian populism in which higher education is positioned as the enemy."

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

NEWS BRIEFS: Preview of Monday’s Court Action re Harvard’s Argument that Its Fed Funding Cuts Are Illegal

$2.4 billion in fed award cuts for Harvard, which the U says has nothing to do with antisemitism claims.

by Future U/ July 21, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, News Briefs/

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/