PERSPECTIVES: Campus Protest Backlash Begs a Question: What Would You Do? "Open/free exchange is stifled when free speech is censored and academic freedom is curtailed through political interference." by Future U/ June 29, 2024/ Higher Ed, Society/
FUTUREU FORUM: FRIDAY, JUNE 21, “Faculty Perspectives on Campus Protests” with Professors Ruth, Letiecq, and McAfee Broadcast live on YouTube, 12-1:30 pm Eastern/9-10:30 am Pacific, Friday, June 21, 2024 (Link at bottom of post) by Future U/ June 17, 2024/ FutureU Forum/
NEWS BRIEFS: Cal State President on Student Protesters, “Trust We Had (in students) to Practice Non-Violence Has Been Violated” "It wasn’t clear what steps the university or protesters would take next to find a resolution." by Future U/ June 13, 2024/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/
PERSPECTIVES: Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), Portland (OR), on Campus Protests "Students demand that PSU disclose investments/divest when complicit in apartheid, violations of human rights, and genocide." by Future U/ May 15, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/
PERSPECTIVES: Will Universities Accede to Student Demands to Divest? Roderick A. Ferguson, Yale: “There is no good argument/standard of real leadership that eschews engagement with students." by Future U/ May 7, 2024/ Public Higher Ed/
NEWS BRIEFS: SUNY Binghamton Students Camp Out for Peace, Receive Faculty Support From SUNY at Binghampton faculty letter to students: "We are proud of the young people you are and are becoming." by Future U/ May 5, 2024/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/
PERSPECTIVES: Administrative Reactions to Campus Protests Have Eerie Similarity to Holocaust "...on a path to becoming coperpetrators of a crime against humanity. Historians will ask, 'How could this have happened again?'" by Future U/ May 4, 2024/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/
PERSPECTIVES: Students Share Experiences Regarding How Universities Have Restricted the Right to Protest Neha Kohli, Rice Univ.: "Our goal is peace, an end to ongoing violence.. But to achieve peace, first our voices … by Future U/ April 30, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/
PERSPECTIVES: Campus Protests, Politicizing the “Why” Question Students organizing for change and calling out America's policies is nothing new or troubling ... unless your politics says so. … by Future U/ April 24, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/
PERSPECTIVES: Student Protests Reframed to Fit Antisemitic Narrative? (In answers at the Congressional hearing, Columbia U President Shafik,...acceded to their cynical weaponization of antisemitism." by Future U/ April 23, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/
NEWS BRIEFS: Student Protests on America’s Campuses "Administrators seek to balance free speech rights and the fears that demonstrations have veered into antisemitism." by Future U/ April 22, 2024/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/
USC’S TABASSUM ON REVOKED COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS INVITATION: “I Am Not Advocating for Hate. I Am Advocating for Human Equality and for the Sanctity of Human Life” DEMOCRACY NOW! spoke to University of Southern California’s valedictorian Asna Tabassum, “whose commencement speech has been canceled for what the … by Future U/ April 19, 2024/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Perspectives, Society/
PERSPECTIVES: Unlike Penn and Harvard, Columbia U Stayed Out of the News Cycle, But Not Controversy, About Israel-Hamas War Yoni Kurtz, Columbia student: “There’s administrative distrust from almost any student no matter their political beliefs." by Future U/ December 29, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/
NEWS BRIEFS: U of Michigan Cancels Student Referendum on Middle East Situation UM administration canceled a student vote on conflicting referendums regarding the Israel-Hamas war. by Future U/ December 1, 2023/ Higher Ed, Public Higher Ed, Society/
PERSPECTIVES: Questions Raised About MSU’s Presidential Search "MSU's presidential search has largely been done in secret: Why that matters." by Future U/ November 5, 2023/ MSU, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/