Category: Higher Education Access
-
You’ve probably heard about the Supreme Court’s latest decision: being visibly Latino (and working at a car wash, speaking Spanish, etc.) can now count as a legally “relevant factors” for harassment from law enforcement. The right-wing majority on the Supreme Court LOVES to proclaim “colorblindness.” When it struck down race-conscious college admissions in Students for…
-
In a country that claims to value academic freedom and democratic discourse, the news that the U.S. Department of Justice has launched an investigation into George Mason University educators, for passing a nonbinding resolution of support for their president, should terrify all of us. But it should not surprise us. The facts are clear. On…
-
According to media reports and other sources circulating widely on the internet, a disturbing and deeply revealing incident has taken place at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. A student has allegedly submitted a final paper in a constitutional law class arguing that the U.S. Constitution applies only to white people and Jews—and…
-
Turkey, Hungary, China, Russia, Egypt—and Florida. The names of these places might evoke different geographies, languages, and histories, but in one crucial area they increasingly speak the same language: authoritarian control over universities. In each, political power has been used to reshape higher education into a compliant tool of state ideology. Once autonomous institutions—grounded in…
-
A faculty member recently shared a troubling story that highlights the growing assault on academic freedom in higher education. She recounted how a dean at a Southeastern Conference (SEC) College of Education called her into his office and told her she was “teaching too much diversity” in her teacher education course. This chilling directive—an overt…
Cloaking Inequity 