Category: Wisdom
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The storm clouds over American higher education have been gathering. What once seemed unthinkable is now common: politically motivated threats to academic autonomy, the weaponization of federal funding, and coordinated campaigns to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. These attacks are part of a well-funded, ideologically driven effort to remake education in a narrow,…
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A New Era of Academic Solidarity A quiet revolution is taking place in higher education—but not in classrooms or laboratories. It’s happening in Faculty Senates, university councils, and academic governance bodies across the country. These groups are sounding the alarm and organizing in response to the escalating political incursions into academic life. From ideological censorship to…
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What does it mean when students and faculty disappear? When the very institutions charged with cultivating the next generation of global leaders—our colleges and universities—become sites of surveillance and exile, we are witnessing not only an educational crisis, but a moral one. Over the past few weeks, reports have surfaced from Harvard, the University of…
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In March 2025, I raised an alarm on Cloaking Inequity when tributes to Jackie Robinson—one of the most iconic figures in American history—were quietly removed from Department of Defense webpages. That post, The Erasure of Black History in the Name of an Assault on DEI, chronicled a disturbing moment: the U.S. government not only failed to honor a…
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In recent months, we’ve witnessed a barrage of executive orders—a deliberate and coordinated attempt to reverse decades of progress in public education and civil rights. So far, I estimate that at least 15 executive orders have been introduced or enacted that directly threaten the educational landscape, targeting everything from inclusive curriculum and gender identity policies to voting rights,…
Cloaking Inequity 