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Since the 1980s, higher education–along with all other institutions–has felt the impact of a phenomenon known broadly as neoliberalism.
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PERSPECTIVES: Cancellation of March Madness Represents a Nearly $1 Billion Revenue Loss for NCAA, Has Implications for Universities
With income loss, NCAA will allocate far less money to universities this spring. How will universities respond? One way is …
March 29, 2020/
Public Higher Ed/
PERSPECTIVES: American Public, University Presidents Differ Significantly on ‘Free Tuition’
From Pew Research Center: “Among all U.S. adults, 63% favor making tuition at public colleges free, including 37% who strongly favor …
March 26, 2020/
Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/
PERSPECTIVES: How Higher Ed Can Lend a Hand to High School Seniors
Patrick O’Connor recommends a number of ways colleges and universities can help college-going high school seniors during this time of …
March 18, 2020/
Higher Ed, Perspectives/
NEWS BRIEFS: College Students Across the U.S. Form Mutual Aid Networks to Help Peers in Time of Need
At Wesleyan, a GoFundMe account raised over $45,000 in about a day. With a fundraising goal of $950,000, the intent …
March 17, 2020/
Higher Ed, News Briefs/
PERSPECTIVES: For This Collegiate Athletic Association, It’s Sports as Usual
The National Collegiate Wrestling Association needs to be called out for its callous disregard of public health. Roger Barbee has …
March 16, 2020/
Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/
PERSPECTIVES: Should Universities Divest From Fossil Fuels? Sachs Says Yes
Jeffrey Sachs: “Students have pushed university administrators to divest, while administrators have pushed back, lecturing students about the “real world” …
March 15, 2020/
Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/
PERSPECTIVES: ‘It’s All About Winning’ as Iona Hires Scandal-Plagued Rick Pitino as Head Basketball Coach
Pat Forde: “Pitino is a coaching genius. He is also a rules compliance disaster…. Iona will own every criticism out …
March 14, 2020/
Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/
PERSPECTIVES: Big Differences in Biden’s and Sanders’s Higher Ed Plans
Insider Higher Education does a comparison. Read more here.
March 9, 2020/
Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/
PERSPECTIVES: Naomi Klein on Neoliberalism and America’s Politics
“The Democratic Party needs to be either decisively wrested from pro-corporate neoliberals or it needs to be abandoned,” writes Klein …
March 8, 2020/
Perspectives, Society/
PERSPECTIVES: College Education, Pathway to Social Mobility?
“I lived in a public housing…because I could no longer afford rent…. I had just quit my $15-an-hour receptionist job …
March 5, 2020/
Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/
PERSPECTIVES: Where Hype Meets Higher Education: “Learning Communities”
Is Steve Minz a provocateur, a truth-teller or both? “Learning communities speak to our highest aspirations: to make higher education …
March 4, 2020/
Higher Ed, Perspectives/
NEWS BRIEFS: UC San Diego Faculty to School Administrators: “Let’s Practice What We Research”
Faculty Task Force urges the university to “slash 300,000 tons of carbon dioxide UCSD puts into the air each year. …
March 3, 2020/
Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/
NEWS BRIEFS: Amid Numerous Sexual Abuse Claims U.S. Department of Education Takes Action Against USC
“In finding that the University of Southern California violated the civil rights of students, the department levied a long list …
March 1, 2020/
Public Higher Ed/
NEWS BRIEFS: Univ of Oklahoma Students End Sit-in for Racial Justice
“Organized by the Black Emergency Response Team, known as BERT, ended Friday with the student group saying that progress had …
February 29, 2020/
Higher Ed, News Briefs/
NEWS BRIEFS: UC Santa Cruz Fires 54 Grad Teaching Assistants
The university said students engaged in a wildcat strike. “The students are striking for a $1,412-a-month cost-of-living adjustment, which they …
February 28, 2020/
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