June 13, 2025

Janell Hobson and the Current War against U.S. Academia

In this interview we talk with Dr. Janell Hobson, the director of the undergraduate program in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Albany, about the escalating political attacks on academic institutions in the U.S., why they are happening, what the underlying goals of this are, and how to create a path forward.

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