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PERSPECTIVES: “Let Me Count the Ways” AKA Trump’s Crackdown on Higher Education

"Republicans accuse academics of indoctrinating youth (while) Trump claims campuses have been 'infested with radicalism.'"
by Future U/ October 13, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: MIT Rejects Trump Administration Extortion Attempt

AAUP's Todd Wolfson: 'We applaud MIT for standing up for rejecting Trump’s ‘loyalty oath’ compact.”
by Future U/ October 12, 2025/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Rutgers Professor Has Life Threatened, Initially Blocked From Leaving U.S.

"In one threatening (and verified) email, the sender said he would kill him (Prof Bray) in front of his students."
by Future U/ October 10, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: “Extralegal Activity to Crack Down on Independent Thought”

“The space for academic freedom has shrunk at an accelerating pace over the past decade.”
by Future U/ October 6, 2025/ Public Higher Ed/

NEWS BRIEFS: Trump’s Mafia Tactics, “Sign, Higher Education, or Else….”

Prof Brian Heuser, Vanderbilt: (The request is) "a dangerous departure from the core values that should underpin our institutions."
by Future U/ October 3, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Reflexive Learning and Application, A Recipe for Higher Ed Response in These Tumultuous Times

"Universities are facing crucial, even existential, questions."
by Future U/ September 27, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/

VIDEO: NPR’s “The Sunday Story,” “Trump’s War on Higher Education”

FROM NPR: “President Trump has a long list of grievances against many U.S. colleges and universities. He’s complained about antisemitism …
by Future U/ September 25, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Public Higher Ed, Video/

NEWS BRIEFS: “History is the Best Way to Inspire an Informed Patriotism and Love of Country”

"Trump administration’s attempt to create an Orwellian “truth ministry” and omit the more troubling aspects of the nation’s past."
by Future U/ September 24, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Trump Administration’s Continuing Effort to Weaken Higher Education

"Those projects are losing funding midway through their grant periods, and join grant recipients that have aleady lost Fed funding."
by Future U/ September 18, 2025/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Penn State to Shutter Its PBS and NPR Outlets

"WPSU-TV reaches 515,000 households in 24 counties while WPSU-FM serves more than 450,000 listeners."
by Future U/ September 16, 2025/ Public Higher Ed/

NEWS BRIEFS: Trump Administration Fires Another Salvo at Higher Ed, This Time at Prospective Students

David Baime, American Assoc of Community Colleges: "Community colleges receive half of all TRIO grants."
by Future U/ September 15, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Trump’s Incursion of Higher Ed (Let Me Find the Ways to Hurt You) Includes Restricting International Student Enrollment

Rachel Banks: “It raises serious concerns about the ability for (American schools) to remain the top universities in the world.” …
by Future U/ September 5, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Texas Tech, Prime Example of Conservative Capture of Higher Ed

Andrew Martin, TTU's AAUP chapter: "Our chapter has actively opposed some of the legislation that Sen. Creighton has authored.”
by Future U/ September 4, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Complicity in Higher Education AKA Insiders as Enablers

Benjamin Robinson, Indiana University: "The disaster that we fear is happening to us."
by Future U/ September 3, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/

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/
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