"For those of us who teach, work and learn on a university campus, fatigue and burnout are taking their toll. The past year has seen an onslaught of executive orders aimed at universities: changes to policies on immigration, student visas, transgender rights, student-loan forgiveness, admissions practices, free speech and academic freedom. Every aspect of my professional life - from research and teaching to mentoring and outreach - has been affected."
"For people like me - the first in a family to attend university - higher education provides the ladder to a well-paying job, to which our parents had no access. I had hoped that the incoming administration would help low-income students to find debt-free paths through university. But the executive orders focused on higher education, along with policy changes in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that lower federal aid for students and staff lay-offs at the US Department of Education, will instead widen inequities."
University campuses are experiencing fatigue and burnout as executive orders and policy changes reshape immigration, student visas, transgender rights, loan forgiveness, admissions, free speech and academic freedom. Researchers and instructors are censoring topics related to reproduction and reproductive technologies that could benefit sexual and gender minorities. For many first-generation and low-income students, higher education provides the ladder to well-paying jobs, but recent executive orders, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act reductions and Department of Education staff layoffs lower federal aid and will widen inequities by making university less affordable. Potential exists to reimagine higher education to serve the public good and broaden access to research.
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