Extorted Compliance: What the Trump Pay-to-Play Model Means for Higher Ed

In the episode we discuss the AAUP report, “Extorted Compliance: A Threat to Institutional Autonomy, Academic Freedom, and Shared Governance,” which exposes how the Trump administration has extended its pay-to-play approach to governance into higher education. Our guests are: Henry Reichman, a member of the AAUP’s committee on College and University Governance, a former chair of Committee A and a former AAUP vice-president. He is  a professor emeritus of history at California State University, East Bay.   Robert Newton, a lecturer in Sustainability Science at Columbia University and a leader in  the Columbia AAUP. He was a research scientist at Columbia for 20 years. The episode is hosted by Mariah Quinn, AAUP's digital organizer.  Links: "Extorted Compliance: A Threat To Institutional Autonomy, Academic Freedom, and Shared Governance" Resources for the fightback against Trump's Compact 2.0, the administration’s attempt to impose a partisan litmus test over students’ right to learn and faculty’s freedom to teach and research.