Year in review: The most radical college professors and administrators of 2025

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Over the past year, Fox News Digital has extensively reported on controversies surrounding "radical" teachers and administrators at universities across the country pushing far-left agenda items and sparking outrage from parents’ rights groups about liberal indoctrination on college campuses. As the Trump administration’s ICE raids cracking down on illegal immigration made headlines in Chicago, Fox News Digital was first to report on University of Chicago associate professor Eman Abdelhadi, who was arrested for aggravated assault at an anti-ICE rally and unloaded on former Vice President Dick Cheney upon the news of his death. Universities across the country have faced scrutiny for continuing to push Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion curriculum despite the Trump administration’s crackdown on the practice, including in Florida where Fox News Digital first reported that Dr. Haywood Brown, associate vice president of Academic Affairs at the University of South Florida, touted in an unearthed recording how he has been avoiding DEI laws in Florida while attacking state and federal officials, including top White House official Stephen Miller. Brown resigned shortly after Fox News Digital’s reporting after pressure from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis who said in a statement, "our office has immediately ensured his relationship with our university system has ended." CLICK HERE FOR MORE CAMPUS RADICALS COAST TO COAST "I love breaking rules," UNC Asheville Dean of Students Megan Pugh said in an undercover video produced by Accuracy in Media and first reported by Fox News Digital in June as the administrator described how DEI is still alive and well at the school but, "you gotta keep it quiet." A spokesperson later told Fox News Digital that Pugh is no longer employed by the university. Stacey Patton, a professor of journalism at Howard University, called on White political allies to emulate vigilante mass murderer John Brown in a controversial blog post, Fox News Digital reported i…