Jeffrey Aaron Snyder

Mar 5, 2025 | chronicle.com | Jeffrey Aaron Snyder

President Trump’s unrelenting campaign against DEI is threatening one of our country’s most sacred rights, the freedom of association. Consider, for instance, the University of Iowa’s decision to shutter its Latinx, LGBTQ+, and “Young, Gifted, and Black” residential communities in the wake of Trump’s barrage of anti-DEI executive orders.

Nov 8, 2024 | chronicle.com | Amna Khalid |Jeffrey Aaron Snyder

Donald J. Trump will return to office having won the popular vote. Many institutions of higher education are in mourning. There is good reason to be alarmed by what a second Trump presidency might hold — not just for colleges, but for the nation and the world.

Jun 21, 2024 | educationnext.org | Frederick M. Hess |Amna Khalid |Jeffrey Aaron Snyder

“Campus Thuggery Is No Way to Cultivate Citizens.” Hear, hear! We couldn’t agree more with this statement from Rick Hess in a recent Education Next blog post. So we were surprised to see Hess describe an essay we wrote in the Chronicle of Higher Education as a “defense” of “campus disorder.” In our essay—written in part in response to a prior Hess piece—what we actually defended was the right of students to participate in peaceful protests.

Apr 2, 2024 | chronicle.com | Amna Khalid |Jeffrey Aaron Snyder

“What upsets me about all the protesting…It’s making it really hard for people to learn.” So said Georgetown professor Jacques Berlinerblau on a recent Inside Higher Ed podcast. Berlinerblau continued:What we do on a college campus [is] not quite free speech. It’s expert speech. That’s what presidents have to defend, right?

Feb 17, 2024 | news.yahoo.com | Amna Khalid |Jeffrey Aaron Snyder

“Recent events and incidents on campus have made Jewish students feel unsafe and unwelcome.” That’s how the President’s Office at American University justified sweeping changes to the university’s policies governing student organizations and campus protests for the spring semester.