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.