Neoliberalism In Higher Education
@neoliberalhe.bsky.social
Declarative about the pernicious impacts of Neoliberalism (and its variants) on higher education, including Progressive Neoliberalism and Neoliberal Fascism. Website https://futureu.education/
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PERSPECTIVES: Behind the Curtain of Congressional Action in 2025, Will 2026 Be More of the Same or Different? futureu.education/fascist-neol...
PERSPECTIVES: Behind the Curtain of Congressional Action in 2025, Will 2026 Be More of the Same or Different? - Future U
"Two priorities for Congressional Republicans include college cost and accreditation reform."
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January 5, 2026 at 4:37 PM
PERSPECTIVES: Behind the Curtain of Congressional Action in 2025, Will 2026 Be More of the Same or Different? futureu.education/fascist-neol...
PERSPECTIVES: Univ of Minnesota Board/University Actions, Examples of “The Enemy Within Higher Education” futureu.education/higher-ed/pe...
PERSPECTIVES: Univ of Minnesota Board/University Actions, Examples of "The Enemy Within Higher Education" - Future U
"No way that the university can thrive, perhaps survive, if the broader democratic culture of society is under threat."
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January 4, 2026 at 2:34 PM
PERSPECTIVES: Univ of Minnesota Board/University Actions, Examples of “The Enemy Within Higher Education” futureu.education/higher-ed/pe...
PERSPECTIVES: 2025 Retrospective on Trump’s Alarmingly Fast Assault on Higher Ed futureu.education/fascist-neol...
PERSPECTIVES: 2025 Retrospective on Trump's Alarmingly Fast Assault on Higher Ed - Future U
"The ‘War on Woke’ is a threat to educational futures everywhere."
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January 3, 2026 at 3:48 PM
PERSPECTIVES: 2025 Retrospective on Trump’s Alarmingly Fast Assault on Higher Ed futureu.education/fascist-neol...
PERSPECTIVES: Trump’s Authoritarian Script Follows Familiar Routine–Target the Press, Courts, and Higher Ed futureu.education/uncategorize...
January 2, 2026 at 7:35 PM
PERSPECTIVES: Trump’s Authoritarian Script Follows Familiar Routine–Target the Press, Courts, and Higher Ed futureu.education/uncategorize...
PERSPECTIVES: Use of Executive Search Firms and the Corporatization of Higher Education futureu.education/neoliberalis...
PERSPECTIVES: Use of Executive Search Firms and the Corporatization of Higher Education - Future U
"Presidential searches should be faculty-led or, at the least, faculty-driven, with transparency and based on institutional values."
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January 2, 2026 at 7:34 PM
PERSPECTIVES: Use of Executive Search Firms and the Corporatization of Higher Education futureu.education/neoliberalis...
NEWS BRIEFS: Univ of Alabama Faculty/Students Don’t Want State Law Barring DEI Programs/Offices futureu.education/higher-ed/ne...
NEWS BRIEFS: Univ of Alabama Faculty/Students Don't Want State Law Barring DEI Programs/Offices - Future U
From HigherEd Dive: “A group of faculty and students at Alabama public colleges on Monday appealed a ruling keeping in place the state’s law barring public colleges and K-12 schools from sponsoring di...
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January 2, 2026 at 7:33 PM
NEWS BRIEFS: Univ of Alabama Faculty/Students Don’t Want State Law Barring DEI Programs/Offices futureu.education/higher-ed/ne...
NEWS BRIEFS: “Strong Step” (U.S. Rep. Walberg) or “Wrong, Plain and Simple” (U.S. Sen. Padilla) futureu.education/news-briefs/...
NEWS BRIEFS: "Strong Step" (U.S. Rep. Walberg) or "Wrong, Plain and Simple" (U.S. Sen. Padilla) - Future U
U.S. Ed Sec McMahon: "Another concrete step from the Trump Administration to put a stop to DEI in government."
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December 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
NEWS BRIEFS: “Strong Step” (U.S. Rep. Walberg) or “Wrong, Plain and Simple” (U.S. Sen. Padilla) futureu.education/news-briefs/...
PERSPECTIVES: NFL Doubles Down on DEI as Higher Education Capitulates futureu.education/perspectives...
PERSPECTIVES: NFL Doubles Down on DEI as Higher Education Capitulates - Future U
"The NFL reinforces the importance of sustained, authentic engagement in diversity and inclusion."
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December 25, 2025 at 3:50 PM
PERSPECTIVES: NFL Doubles Down on DEI as Higher Education Capitulates futureu.education/perspectives...
PERSPECTIVES: OU Is Failing, and Here Are Four Reasons Why futureu.education/uncategorize...
PERSPECTIVES: OU Is Failing, and Here Are Four Reasons Why - Future U
"We must demand and expect better from our universities."
futureu.education
December 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
PERSPECTIVES: OU Is Failing, and Here Are Four Reasons Why futureu.education/uncategorize...
PERSPECTIVES: When a University Decides to Cash In Its Status as an Institution of Higher Learning futureu.education/higher-ed/pe...
PERSPECTIVES: When a University Decides to Cash In Its Status as an Institution of Higher Learning - Future U
If applied as stated, OU's self-described proclamation about the right thing to do would have been to reinstate the instructor.
futureu.education
December 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
PERSPECTIVES: When a University Decides to Cash In Its Status as an Institution of Higher Learning futureu.education/higher-ed/pe...
COMMENTARY by Roger Barbee: Racism in America, “Hardly in Our Past” futureu.education/uncategorize...
December 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM
COMMENTARY by Roger Barbee: Racism in America, “Hardly in Our Past” futureu.education/uncategorize...
NEWS BRIEFS: UNC’s Self-Described “Thoughtful Approach” Yields Elimination of Area Study Centers futureu.education/uncategorize...
NEWS BRIEFS: UNC's Self-Described "Thoughtful Approach" Yields Elimination of Area Study Centers - Future U
"European, African, Asia, Middle East/Islamic, the Americas, and Slavic, Eurasian, East European centers will close."
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December 20, 2025 at 3:16 PM
NEWS BRIEFS: UNC’s Self-Described “Thoughtful Approach” Yields Elimination of Area Study Centers futureu.education/uncategorize...
NEWS BRIEFS: New Study Finds Most Prospective College Students Don’t Support the Culture War on DEI futureu.education/uncategorize...
NEWS BRIEFS: New Study Finds Most Prospective College Students Don't Support the Culture War on DEI - Future U
"61% 'strongly' wanted to attend an institution where students of all races/ethnicities are supported."
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December 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
NEWS BRIEFS: New Study Finds Most Prospective College Students Don’t Support the Culture War on DEI futureu.education/uncategorize...
PERSPECTIVES: “Money in College Athletics Points to a Greater Question Around the Integrity of College Athletics” futureu.education/higher-ed/pe...
PERSPECTIVES: "Money in College Athletics Points to a Greater Question Around the Integrity of College Athletics" - Future U
"Gambling is now an integral part of college athletics, and NIL/revenue-sharing make college sports more transactional than ever."
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December 19, 2025 at 2:57 PM
PERSPECTIVES: “Money in College Athletics Points to a Greater Question Around the Integrity of College Athletics” futureu.education/higher-ed/pe...
NEWS BRIEFS: Mutual Academic Defense Compact Efforts Now Include Liberal Arts Colleges futureu.education/fascist-neol...
NEWS BRIEFS: Mutual Academic Defense Compact Efforts Now Include Liberal Arts Colleges - Future U
"It is all the more urgent now to work in solidarity to safeguard higher education in this country."
futureu.education
December 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
NEWS BRIEFS: Mutual Academic Defense Compact Efforts Now Include Liberal Arts Colleges futureu.education/fascist-neol...
NEWS BRIEFS: How Trump Administration Used Mafia Tactics to Get UCLA To Pay Up futureu.education/fascist-neol...
NEWS BRIEFS: How Trump Administration Used Mafia Tactics to Get UCLA To Pay Up - Future U
Erwin Chemerinsky, UC Berkeley law dean: "What was done was so blatantly illegal and unconstitutional.”
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December 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
NEWS BRIEFS: How Trump Administration Used Mafia Tactics to Get UCLA To Pay Up futureu.education/fascist-neol...
PERSPECTIVES: The New DEI Needs to be DEI for All futureu.education/higher-ed/pe...
PERSPECTIVES: The New DEI Needs to be DEI for All - Future U
"Campus leaders need to state explicitly that cultural centers and programs are open to all, and then to train everyone on campus."
futureu.education
December 15, 2025 at 3:17 PM
PERSPECTIVES: The New DEI Needs to be DEI for All futureu.education/higher-ed/pe...
PERSPECTIVES: The Cost of Turning Over the Future of Higher Education to Those with a Corporate Mind futureu.education/fascist-neol...
PERSPECTIVES: The Cost of Turning Over the Future of Higher Education to Those with a Corporate Mind - Future U
"We are turning research and evidence into liabilities. They are the rhetoric of a future world freed of rigorous inquiry."
futureu.education
December 15, 2025 at 3:16 PM
PERSPECTIVES: The Cost of Turning Over the Future of Higher Education to Those with a Corporate Mind futureu.education/fascist-neol...
PERSPECTIVES: Is the Trump Regime Engaging in “New McCarthyism?” No. It’s Worse futureu.education/fascist-neol...
PERSPECTIVES: Is the Trump Regime Engaging in "New McCarthyism?" No. It's Worse - Future U
"Kant defined the university as a place where the learned judge the learned. This principle is basic."
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December 13, 2025 at 3:42 PM
PERSPECTIVES: Is the Trump Regime Engaging in “New McCarthyism?” No. It’s Worse futureu.education/fascist-neol...
PERSPECTIVES: Reorganizing Fed Department of Education, Recipe for Creating Worldclass Chaos, Not Education futureu.education/education/pe...
PERSPECTIVES: Reorganizing Fed Department of Education, Recipe for Creating Worldclass Chaos, Not Education - Future U
"Trump and his allies never seem to do their homework, so why should we let them experiment on students?"
futureu.education
December 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
PERSPECTIVES: Reorganizing Fed Department of Education, Recipe for Creating Worldclass Chaos, Not Education futureu.education/education/pe...
PERSPECTIVES: Univ of Utah Athletics Private Equity Deal, “Brave New World” or “C’Mon This Goes Too Far!” futureu.education/neoliberalis...
PERSPECTIVES: Univ of Utah Athletics Private Equity Deal, "Brave New World" or "C'Mon This Goes Too Far!" - Future U
"Schools and conferences have been looking into outside money for a long time; Utah’s deal has been in the works for two years."
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December 11, 2025 at 7:11 PM
PERSPECTIVES: Univ of Utah Athletics Private Equity Deal, “Brave New World” or “C’Mon This Goes Too Far!” futureu.education/neoliberalis...
COMMENTARY by Roger Barbee: Is This An Essay About Bullying? futureu.education/uncategorize...
COMMENTARY by Roger Barbee: Is This An Essay About Bullying? - Future U
The evolving situation at the University of Oklahoma illustrates where we are as a society.
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December 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
COMMENTARY by Roger Barbee: Is This An Essay About Bullying? futureu.education/uncategorize...
NEWS BRIEFS: OU Suspends Second Instructor, Claiming “Viewpoint Discrimination” futureu.education/news-briefs/...
NEWS BRIEFS: OU Suspends Second Instructor, Claiming "Viewpoint Discrimination" - Future U
OU statement: “Instructors have an obligation to ensure that the classroom is never used to grant preferential treatment based on personal political beliefs, nor to pressure students to adopt particul...
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December 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
NEWS BRIEFS: OU Suspends Second Instructor, Claiming “Viewpoint Discrimination” futureu.education/news-briefs/...
NEWS BRIEFS: OU Protesters Urge University to Reinstate Suspended Instructor futureu.education/higher-ed/ne...
NEWS BRIEFS: OU Protesters Urge University to Reinstate Suspended Instructor - Future U
OU Graduate Student Senate passed a resolution: OU should formally apologize to the instructor."
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December 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
NEWS BRIEFS: OU Protesters Urge University to Reinstate Suspended Instructor futureu.education/higher-ed/ne...
PERSPECTIVES: Trump Administration Shakedown of Higher Ed Amounts to Government-Enacted Extortion futureu.education/fascist-neol...
PERSPECTIVES: Trump Administration Shakedown of Higher Ed Amounts to Government-Enacted Extortion - Future U
"Compliance resolutions are how the administration wants relationships to be—self-serving, one-sided, and fear-based."
futureu.education
December 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
PERSPECTIVES: Trump Administration Shakedown of Higher Ed Amounts to Government-Enacted Extortion futureu.education/fascist-neol...