Abstract
This essay opens the roundtable “The Disinvitation to Knowledge: The Expanding Assault on (Higher) Education and the Humanities.” After analyzing texts and contexts of news stories and commentary from legacy media sources and social media platforms collected over a five-month period from June to October 2025, the author describes the Trump Administration’s authoritarian actions attacking and destabilizing the mission of colleges and universities – and the professors and administrators charged with implementing them. The author concludes that because of its ideological censorship and defunding efforts, the Trump administration presents a major threat to the educational institutions in the United States.
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Fallica, Salvatore J.
(2026)
"The Trump Administration's Assault on Higher Education,"
Proceedings of the New York State Communication Association: Vol. 2025, Article 15.
Available at:
https://docs.rwu.edu/nyscaproceedings/vol2025/iss1/15
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