by Amy Goodman | Jun 12, 2026 | AAUP, Austerity, education, firings, Higher Education, Interview, labor, Layoffs, Mass Layoffs, tenure, The New School, Trump Administration
The Trump administration is continuing its assault on higher education, but in a departure from its earlier high-profile fights with individual institutions like Harvard, it is now rewriting the federal rules that govern all universities and colleges. Rules are being proposed by the Education Department and other agencies to impose the administration’s preferred policies on thousands of schools…
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by Marianne Dhenin | Mar 9, 2026 | AAUP, Dissent, education, free speech, Higher Education, Israel, News, Palestine, palestine solidarity, Protests, Repression, retaliation
It has been more than a year since the tents and banners of 2024’s pro-Palestine student encampments came down. But dozens of faculty members, staff, and students nationwide are still navigating the backlash that followed, fighting continued campus repression. “This is not a time to be timid; it’s not a time to be overly cautious,” Anna Feder told Truthout. Feder had been working for Emerson…
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