by Ashley Smith | Oct 31, 2025 | academic freedom, Charlie Kirk, far right, First Amendment, free speech, Higher Education, Interview, McCarthyism, Texas, Trump Administration, Turning Point USA
Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the Trump administration has intensified the bipartisan New McCarthyism, compelling willing government, corporate, and institutional bosses to censure, suspend, and fire workers for exercising their First Amendment rights across the country. In one of the worst instances, Texas State University fired tenured professor Tom Alter in September for the “crime” of…
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by Derek Seidman | Oct 22, 2025 | AIPAC, Antisemitism, education, Higher Education, Israel, labor, News, Palestine, palestine solidarity, Public Education, Tim Walberg, Unions
In late 2023, Rep. Virginia Foxx of North Carolina made headlines when she used her position as chair of the U.S. House Committee on Education and Workforce to stage something akin to a show trial. Committee members berated the presidents of Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Pennsylvania about their failures to confront alleged antisemitism on their campuses.
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by Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg | Oct 20, 2025 | Charlie Kirk, Higher Education, labor, News, Rutgers, Turning Point USA
The Rutgers teachers’ unions are standing in solidarity with History Professor Mark Bray, who has been targeted by Turning Point USA’s student chapter at Rutgers. The group has falsely claimed that Bray, the author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook is “a prominent leader of the antifa movement on campus,” and launched a campaign to have him fired. “Antifa,” which is short for antifascist…
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by Jessica Corbett | Oct 19, 2025 | education, Higher Education, MIT, News, Trump Administration, Universities
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Friday became the first university to reject President Donald Trump’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” which critics have called an “extortion” agreement for federal funding. MIT and eight other schools — the University of Arizona, Brown University, Dartmouth College, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Southern…
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