This has been popping up like mad the past 10 days on all my feeds. In a nut-shell:

"Right wing think tank argues against activism in academia ..."

Rethinking the Plight of Conservatives in Higher Education https://www.aaup.org/article/rethinking-plight-conservatives...

Culture wars are raging on US campuses. Will they affect research? https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00393-1

Special Issue: The Participatory University Between Policy and Activism: The conceit of activism in the illiberal university https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/147821032110034...