According to Prof., universities are “bearers of scientific integrity and completely speech,” and “liberal.”
An Arizona State University “teaching and teaching technology” doctor and professor is the most recent conservative rhetoric to come out of education.
Iveta Silova, a critic of President Trump’s efforts to combat antisemitism and DEI on American campuses, criticizes what she calls “many” universities as “widely regarded as beacons of scientific integrity and complimentary speech” in The Conversation.
According to Silova, a” sharper of comparative and global education,” the government’s policy of pressuring institutions has” a few traditional parallels,” which just happen to contain Nazi Germany and Stalin’s USSR.
In the past, Silova claims institutions “adapted” to the Nazis ‘ annexation of the state and that once Hitler had power, he “moved quickly to cleanse educational institutions of Immigrants and political competitors” using tools like the” Rules for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service.”
This statute mandated the dismissal of Jewish and “non-Aryan” professors.
According to Silova, “every decision – each erased name, each revised syllabus, each closed program and department – was framed as necessary, even patriotic.” A significant number of academics were “eager to comply” with the Führer’s demands.
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Similar events occurred under the Bolsheviks in Russia:
This control impacted the entire academic system in the Soviet Union beyond just symbolic gestures.
The Bolsheviks chose the latter after the Russian Revolution, remaking universities as tools for ideological education and technical training in a way that was closely related to Marxist-Leninist objectives.
Under Josef Stalin, academic survival was less dependent on academic merit than on conformity to official doctrine. Dissident scholars were exiled or purged, history was rewritten to glorify the Communist Party, and entire fields of study were reshaped to fit political orthodoxy, such as genetics.
Silova claims that Trump “echoing” these infamous authoritarians and that his actions “may mark the beginning of the end of]universities ‘] academic independence.”
According to her faculty page, Silova’s areas of expertise include” collective memory and meaning,”” colonial and post-colonial theory,” “decolonization,” and “postcolonial studies.” She also supervises PhD students studying “post-socialist transformations,” “nature-culture interactions in the anthropocene,” and “ecofeminism.”
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Iveta Silova photo for her” Planetizing Citizenship” lab, ASU Humanities Lab/X, IMAGE CAPTURE & CREDIT
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