Neoliberalism In Higher Education
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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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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."
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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.
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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?"
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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."
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December 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
PERSPECTIVES: Trump Administration Shakedown of Higher Ed Amounts to Government-Enacted Extortion futureu.education/fascist-neol...
NEWS BRIEFS: George Mason U Faculty Urge Administration “No” on Trump Deal futureu.education/fascist-neol...
NEWS BRIEFS: George Mason U Faculty Urge Administration "No" on Trump Deal - Future U
Charles Stimson, head of GMU's board, is a senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think tank."
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December 6, 2025 at 2:33 PM
NEWS BRIEFS: George Mason U Faculty Urge Administration “No” on Trump Deal futureu.education/fascist-neol...
PERSPECTIVES: “Northwestern has Abdicated its Duty to Uphold Principles Crucial for Higher Education” futureu.education/fascist-neol...
PERSPECTIVES: "Northwestern has Abdicated its Duty to Uphold Principles Crucial for Higher Education" - Future U
"Concerned alumni ... withhold from NU money to pay off Trump’s extortion and donate to the AAUP Foundation, which is successfully supporting litigation in defense of academic freedom."
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December 5, 2025 at 3:11 PM
PERSPECTIVES: “Northwestern has Abdicated its Duty to Uphold Principles Crucial for Higher Education” futureu.education/fascist-neol...
PERSPECTIVES: New College Becomes Model for Extending Conservative Reach in Higher Education futureu.education/higher-ed/pe...
PERSPECTIVES: New College Becomes Model for Extending Conservative Reach in Higher Education - Future U
Mimi Fuller, New College student: “It’s not promoting that free-thinking, free-speech environment that they brag about. It’s free speech when it comes to what (they) want."
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December 5, 2025 at 3:08 PM
PERSPECTIVES: New College Becomes Model for Extending Conservative Reach in Higher Education futureu.education/higher-ed/pe...
NEWS BRIEFS: U.S. House Republicans Claim Liberal Bias in Selecting Truman Scholars futureu.education/higher-ed/ne...
NEWS BRIEFS: U.S. House Republicans Claim Liberal Bias in Selecting Truman Scholars - Future U
Rep. Owen (R-Utah): "Truman is a pipeline for Democrats, and I don’t think it’s fixable.” He and others said Congress should end it.
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December 4, 2025 at 9:52 PM
NEWS BRIEFS: U.S. House Republicans Claim Liberal Bias in Selecting Truman Scholars futureu.education/higher-ed/ne...
NEWS BRIEFS: Univ. of Alabama Says Federal Regs Reason It is Shuttering Two Student Publications futureu.education/fascist-neol...
NEWS BRIEFS: Univ. of Alabama Says Federal Regs Reason It is Shuttering Two Student Publications - Future U
Petition: This is a testing ground to see how far the government and current administration can push us.
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December 4, 2025 at 9:51 PM
NEWS BRIEFS: Univ. of Alabama Says Federal Regs Reason It is Shuttering Two Student Publications futureu.education/fascist-neol...
NEWS BRIEFS: Texas Tech Joins Texas A&M in Restricting Race and Gender Content futureu.education/fascist-neol...
NEWS BRIEFS: Texas Tech Joins Texas A&M in Restricting Race and Gender Content - Future U
State law requires a curriculum review every five years and includes a state office to evaluate complaints received about higher ed."
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December 4, 2025 at 9:50 PM
NEWS BRIEFS: Texas Tech Joins Texas A&M in Restricting Race and Gender Content futureu.education/fascist-neol...