Showing posts with label climate change. Show all posts
Showing posts with label climate change. Show all posts
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Climate Denial and Conservative Amnesia: A Letter to Charlie Kirk and TPUSA

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Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA have built an empire of outrage—rallying young conservatives on college campuses, feeding them culture ...
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Thursday, August 28, 2025

Lee Zeldin as EPA Administrator: A Deregulatory Revolution and Its Risks

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Lee Michael Zeldin’s January 2025 confirmation as Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has triggered the most swe...
Friday, August 15, 2025

Alaska’s Colleges at the Meltdown’s Edge—Just as the Arctic Heats Up

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Alaska’s higher-ed story is a preview of the national “ College Meltdown ,” only starker. The University of Alaska (UA) system—Anchorage, F...
Friday, August 8, 2025

UF’s Climate Commitment Cancelled—Student Journalists Pick Up the Slack

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At the Higher Education Inquirer, we’ve long tracked the creeping politicization, corporatization, and hollowing-out of American higher educ...
Friday, July 25, 2025

Climate Change 101: This college campus may be literally underwater sooner than you think

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Stockton University’s Atlantic City campus may be treading water—literally and figuratively. Built in 2018 on a stretch of reclaimed land in...
Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Camp Mystic: A Century of Privilege, Exclusion, and Resilience Along the Guadalupe

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Nestled along the banks of the Guadalupe River in Kerr County, Texas, Camp Mystic has been a summer rite of passage for generations of elite...
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Monday, July 7, 2025

Science-Based Climate Change Denial: Manufacturing Doubt in the Age of Collapse

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Despite overwhelming scientific consensus that human activity—especially the burning of fossil fuels—is the primary driver of climate change...
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Sunday, July 6, 2025

The Real Sin Behind the Texas Floods

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Last week a catastrophic flood swept through Central Texas, killing at least 50 people, including at least two dozen girls at a Christian su...
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Sunday, February 9, 2025

Climate Change: When Will We Stop Moving to the Riskiest Regions? (PBS Terra)

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Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Viral Video Shows Franklin Fire Raging Outside Pepperdine University Library Doors (Weather Channel)

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Pepperdine University issued a shelter-in-place order just after 1 a.m. local time on Tuesday, Dec. 10, ordering those on campus to seek ...
Thursday, December 5, 2024

How might we do climate action in academia under a second Trump administration? (Bryan Alexander)

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With the reelection of Donald Trump, a candidate who has flaunted his desire for autocracy—aided and abetted by a Republican-controlled Cong...
Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Austerity and Disruption

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With a concerted effort now to reduce government spending , higher education leaders should expect reduced state and federal support in ...
Thursday, October 17, 2024

Universities on Fire wins AAC&U book award (Bryan Alexander)

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For the past several years I’d focused much of my research capacity on forecasting how the climate crisis might impact higher education...
Wednesday, October 9, 2024

Shall we all pretend we didn't see it coming, again?: higher education, climate change, climate refugees, and climate denial by elites

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Can US higher education do much to reduce climate change, either as a leader or as a teacher?  The answer so far is no. That's not to sa...