Newsroom:
Liberal Education
Under Threat
“Academics specializing in issues related to higher education say they have never seen a scorched-earth assault on a college or university for apparently political reasons that remotely approaches what is facing New College today.”
-The Guardian
News
Overview
Jonathan Becker, “The Global Liberal Arts Challenge,” Ethics and International Affairs, Fall, 2022.
Michael Ignatieff, "Why the Populist Right Hates Universities," The Atlantic, August 6 2023
PEN America, “Champions of Higher Education Statement of Purpose”
Russia
Karem Fisher, “Russian Liberal Arts Program, founded with Bard, will End,” Chronicle of Higher Education: Latitudes, September 20, 2023.
Stephanie Saul, “Russia Bans Bard College, and Other Universities Ask What’s Next,” New York Times, August 5, 2021.
Myanmar
Kyaw Moe Tun, “We Need Authoritarian Proof Higher Education Models,” Times Higher, September 6, 2022.
BBC World News, “A New Term in Myanmar”
“Civically Engaged Higher Education: A Force of Resilience Under Military Rule in Myanmar”:
Hungary
Elizabeth Redden, “Central European University forced out of Hungary,” Inside Higher Ed, December 2, 2018.
"Hungary broke EU law by forcing out university, says European Court,” BBC News, October 6, 2020.
Nathan Greenfield, “Is DeSantis following Orban’s Playbook on Universities,” World University News, March 15, 2023.
Florida
PEN America, “Ending Gender Studies at Florida’s New College Is a “Repressive Act,” Echoing Hungary’s Viktor Orban,” August 10, 2023.
PEN America, “The Florida Effect: How the Sunshine State is Driving the Conservative Agenda on Free Expression,” November 28, 2023.
Josh Moody, “DeSantis Aims to Turn Public College Into ‘Hillsdale of the South,’” Inside Higher Ed, January 10, 2022.
Kathryn Joyce, “The Florida of Today Is the America of Tomorrow”: Ron DeSantis’s New College Takeover Is Just the Beginning of the Right’s Higher Ed Crusade,” Vanity Fair, February 10, 2023
Emma Pettit, “New College of Florida’s Board Starts to Dismantle Gender-Studies Program,” Chronicle of Higher Education, August 10, 2023.
Thomas B. Edsall, “The Death Knell for Higher Education in Florida,” New York Times, March 8, 2023.