The New School Guts Faculty and Staff as Higher Ed Intensifies Austerity

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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