Any discussion about declining "public trust" in higher ed needs to start with acknowledging that the default stance in media coverage of higher ed looks like this: bsky.app/profile/ashe...

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University leaders seem to forget that "the public" includes students, faculty, and staff who study and work at the institutions they lead. The "public" is not some external, amorphous thing to the university. If you can't treat the people on your campus with decency, then yeah, they won't trust you

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How quickly we've forgotten how many of these university leaders sent the police to beat up peaceful student, faculty, and staff protestors! Start there if you want to talk about "trust."

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Higher ed leaders are worried about the "decline of public trust"; what are they doing about the fact that faculty, students, and staff at their own institutions do not trust them to lead effectively, defend academic freedom, and meet the challenges of the moment?

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Higher ed leaders are doing "decline of public trust" discourse in order to avoid talking about all the things they've done to undermine their institutions, including exploiting contingent faculty labor, attacking student protest, and underfunding the humanities

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