Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-1-2024
Rights
Abstract
Higher education is under assault in the United States. Tracking authoritarian movements across the globe, domestic attacks on individual professors and academic institutions buttress a broader campaign to undermine multiracial democracy and the institutions that sustain and safeguard it. Reflecting on the past academic year, this essay charts the increasingly brazen right-wing efforts in the U.S. Congress and the States to erode academic freedom and university independence— two pillars of our democratic republic. We also identify a bi-partisan source of higher education’s present precarity: the neoliberal policies that precipitated the privatization and corporatization of universities across the country.
Publication Title
UCLA Law Review Discourse
First Page
2
Last Page
36
Recommended Citation
Athena D. Mutua, Jonathan Feingold, Angela Harris, Emily M. Houh, Matthew P. Shaw & Francisco Valdes,
The War on Higher Education,
72
UCLA L. Rev. Discourse
2
(2024).
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.law.buffalo.edu/journal_articles/1243