Authoritarian U
Florida as the Testing Ground for the Future of US Higher Education
Authoritarian U
Florida as the Testing Ground for the Future of US Higher Education
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This book is a collection of incisive essays and detailed case studies from faculty struggling against right-wing ideological impositions on research and teaching in Florida, offering valuable lessons for thinking-through, and acting against, the attack on universities in the US and internationally.
Florida leads the way as a testing ground for a broad program of right-wing interventions into higher education, interventions that threaten to push universities across the US towards authoritarianism. The contributions collected here offer historicization, theorization and practical strategies of immediate relevance to the movement to defend colleges and universities from the Trump administration.
With a preface from renowned theorist of education and public intellectual, Henry Giroux, Authoritarian U examines the current juncture from a diverse range of disciplinary perspectives and shows how faculty are opposing restrictive legislation in their capacity as teachers, researchers and union organizers. Areas of focus include the following issues: university takeovers by ideologically-motivated and politically appointed trustees, privatization, post-tenure review, DEI [Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion] funding, “intellectual diversity,” shielding, class recordings without consent, bans on intellectual partnerships with people from “countries of concern,” student protests and student organizational suspensions, secrecy in presidential searches, unions and collective bargaining, race, LGBTQIA+, “gender ideology,” climate science suppression, guns on campus, censorship of curriculum through course reviews and cuts in general education, self-censorship, department closings, keyword searches, identity politics, “cultural Marxism,” critical theory, critical race theory, and the distortion of historical truths.
If you want to understand the threat of authoritarianism to contemporary US higher education, this is an essential book to read.
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Table of Contents
Introduction – Robin Goodman and Jordan Scott
1 “Florida's Path to Muffling the Voices of Workers at Public Colleges and Universities” - Jordan Scott, Sociology, Florida State (FSU)
2 “Union Organizing in Crisis: Defending Academic Freedom and Democracy in the Face of Authoritarianism” - Adela Ghadimi, UFF Executive Director, Former President of FSU-GAU
3 “A 'Left Wing Activist' Discipline?: Responding to the Right's Attacks on Sociology” - Katie Rainwater, Global and Sociocultural Studies, Florida International (FIU)
4 “A Crisis of Representation: Struggles Over Culture and Common Sense in Florida Higher Education” - Chris Robé, Communications, Florida Atlantic (FAU)
5 “History as Culture Wars in Florida” - Robert Cassanello, Vice-President of UFF, History, University of Central Florida (UCF)
6 “What is the Current Relevance of this Music? Inviting Our Students to Freely Discuss (even censored) Topics” - Michael Buchler, Music, Florida State (FSU)
7 “Less than General Education: Florida's Illiberal Quest to Restrict Student Choice and Politicize the Great Books in the Name of Western Civilization” - Nova Myhill, English, New College (UCF) and Christopher Noble, Philosophy, New College (UCF)
8 “Authoritarianism and the Self: A Critical Interactionist Analysis of Identity Regulation in Florida” - Andre Ivey, PhD candidate, Sociology, Florida State (FSU)
9 “Florida's Complex Interpretation of DEI and Racial Pedagogy” - Sharon Wright Austin, Political Science, University of Florida
10 “'Don't Say Racism': Florida's Legislative Assault on Social Capital at HBCUs” - Bruce W. Strouble, Florida Agriculture & Mechanical (FAMU)
11 “History of Attacks on Academic Freedom in Florida” - Rich Templin, AFL-CIO of Florida
12 “Hegemony and the Authoritarian University” - Dan Saunder, Education Policy Studies, Florida International (FIU)
13 “Conflict on the Ground: The Case of New College of Florida” - Sarah Hernandez, Sociology, New College (NCF)
14 “The Fight to Keep 'Gender and Climate Change' at Florida Atlantic” - Nicole Morse, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Language Literacy and Culture (formerly FAU) with Daniella Orias, PhD Candidate, Comparative Studies, FAU
15 Hungary as the Model for Florida's HE reforms - Tessa Barber, Politics and International Affairs, PhD candidate, University of South Florida (USF)
16 “The application of law SB 266 in Florida's state universities: ignorance meets Christian nationalism” - Jean Muteba Rahier, FIU, Anthropology and African & African Diaspora Studies, Department of Global & Sociocultural Studies
17 “Challenges with Cuba Research Collaboration” - William A Messina, Jr. Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS), Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Florida (UF); Dr. Frederick S. Royce, Research Professor (retired), Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department, (IFAS) UF; Carmen Diana Deere, Professor Emerita of Agricultural Economics, IFAS, UF, and former Director of the UF Center for Latin American Studies
18 “Catch Phrases: Bad-Faith Semantics in the Regulation of Higher Education” - Will Hanley, History, Florida State (FSU)
19 “Let's Debate the Pros and Cons of Genocide: Silencing Palestinian Voices at the University of Florida” - Malini Schueller, English, University of Florida (UF)
20 “McCarthyism and the Modern Campus: Academic Freedom, Institutional Failure, and the Role of Unions” - Susan Hegeman, English, University of Florida (UF)
21 “The Memory Police: Educating After Auschwitz” - Robin Truth Goodman, Distinguished Research Professor of English, Florida State University (FSU)
Bibliography
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Product details
| Published | 09 Feb 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 256 |
| ISBN | 9781350599147 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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