RightÔÇÖs Greatest Threat to Universities Is Yet to Come

Higher education and research is under threat not just from nationalism under Donald Trump’s presidency but also from the character of the man in office and long-held conservative ideology, speakers concluded at the New Nationalism and Universities conference held at the University of California, Berkeley, or UC Berkeley, in the United States last month.

There was common agreement that while higher education seems embattled on many fronts, the biggest threat of all will come from the conservatives’ attempt to ‘starve the beast’ by offering large tax cuts now and thereby creating a need for massive cuts across the board later.

“Two years from now, with a huge deficit and inflation going up, that is what a lot of conservatives hope will happen,” said Robert Shireman, a senior fellow at the Century Foundation.

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