Citizens Quote by Henry Giroux

The demise of higher education as a public good is also evident in light of the election of a number of right-wing politicians who…

— Henry Giroux

The current siege on higher education, whether through defunding education, eliminating tenure, tying research to military needs, or imposing business models of efficiency and…

— Henry Giroux

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

— Stanley Fish

Public universities are the lifeblood of modern democracies.

— Sanjaya Baru

While the universities are increasingly corporatized and militarized, their governing structures are becoming more authoritarian, faculty are being devalued as public intellectuals, students are…

— Henry Giroux

Universities are some of the few places left where a struggle for the commons, for public life, if not democracy itself, can be made…

— Henry Giroux

No institutions in modern society are better equipped to catalyze the necessary transition to a sustainable world than colleges and universities. They have access…

— David W. Orr

Many faculty retreated into academic specializations and an arcane language that made them irrelevant to the task of defending the university as a public…

— Henry Giroux

“The collective benefits of higher education will not be asserted unless the public can be engaged in defining them. A student’s future returns on…

— Ellen Condliffe Lagemann

Universities are less constrained by authority and rigid doctrine in the United States than in most other societies, to my knowledge.

— Noam Chomsky

The era of appeasement must come to an end. The political and social demands that dissidents are making of the universities do not flow…

— Spiro T. Agnew