Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

[Editor's note: This essay, written for elite university presidents, is intended as a rhetorical device rather than a statement of facts. Elite universities, long considered the pinnacle of higher education, have become increasingly entwined in a broader conversation about privilege, access, and power.

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HESA

APRIL 6, 2023

Institutionally, there has been furious controversy as the government has tried to reduce institutional autonomy and control institutions directly through political means. Universities – and their students – have as a result become one of the government’s biggest institutional barriers to one-party absolutism.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Duke University scrapped the name of industrialist and outspoken white supremacist Julian Carr from an academic building in 2018. Woodrow Wilson’s name was removed from Princeton University’s public policy school in 2020. “I think it’s really important to have a process. Denaming Processes.

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University Business

APRIL 23, 2024

Columbia University President Minouche Shafik’s testimony on Capitol Hill last week , followed by the arrest and suspension of over 100 pro-Palestine student demonstrators, has ignited a new wave of fiery campus protests across some of the country’s most reputable schools, including Yale, MIT and NYU.

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