Quote by Jane Mayer

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

“If the 1970s had been the time of radical theories, then the 1980s were the time when politics began increasingly to replace professionalism in…

— David Horowitz

“the university system of becoming a “niche for radicals,” describing the public funding as “a boondoggle,” and demanding that the legislature “starve the beast.”…

— Jane Mayer

“As a 2015 report by one of the nonprofits connected to Art Pope explained, private academic centers within colleges and universities were ideal devices…

— Jane Mayer

“Private and corporate foundations, he said, must cease “the mindless subsidizing of colleges and universities whose departments of politics, economics and history are hostile…

— Jane Mayer

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 other component was to build cadres through political education. Republicans sought out wealthy donors to set up foundations and think tanks as safe…

— Mark Lilla

If the government were to invest that money in higher education and public services, these would be far better investments. But administrators and academics…

— Henry Giroux

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

Universities are seminaries to produce Leftists

— Dennis Prager

“What we have witnessed in our own time is the death of universities as centres of critique. Since Margaret Thatcher, the role of academia…

— Terry Eagleton

There is something fundamentally antidemocratic about relinquishing control of the public education policy agenda to private foundations run by society's wealthiest people; when the…

— Diane Ravitch