January 2017 – Future U

PERSPECTIVES: AAUP on Targeted On-Line Faculty Harassment

Here’s AAUP’s position on targeted harassment from sites like Professor Watchlist, The College Fix, and Campus Reform.

by Future U/ January 30, 2017/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

From the 2017 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration in Columbia, MO. View video here.

by Future U/ January 27, 2017/ Perspectives, Society, Video/

Read how academic policy changes will have differential impacts on schools and players. It’s from Diverse Issues In Higher Education.

by Future U/ January 26, 2017/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

Serving as a pipeline to the corporate system makes higher education part of the problem. More and different is needed. …

by Future U/ January 25, 2017/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

The Washington Post’s Jeff Selingo takes on the age-old question: Should I attend an elite college? His answer makes for …

by Future U/ January 24, 2017/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

Jennifer H. Ruth: “How are we going to prevent…/our universities/…from being destroyed by illiberal democracy?”

by Future U/ January 23, 2017/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

All boxes checked…. Thomas J. LeBlanc’s appointment as Geo Washington U president shows what you need to do. Read more …

by Future U/ January 22, 2017/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

Dan Greenstein of The Gates Foundation poses fundamental questions about higher ed. It’s from Inside Higher Education.

by Future U/ January 21, 2017/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

Here’s a well-done profile published recently in The Sunday Review section of The New York Times.

by Future U/ January 20, 2017/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

Called “Poverty Solutions” the school’s efforts will link research with community work to address poverty.

by Future U/ January 19, 2017/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

How do schools stack up when their student bodies are disaggregated by family income? Read more from The New York …

by Future U/ January 18, 2017/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

Always maddening, sometimes relevant, here’s George Will’s most recent incursion on higher ed.

by Future U/ January 18, 2017/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

Nicolaus Mills is professor of American Studies at Sarah Lawrence College. Read more here.

by Future U/ January 17, 2017/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

Representative Bob Thorpe has introduced a bill in the Arizona legislature that would ban campus activities-programs associated with social justice …

by Future U/ January 16, 2017/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

The states are Missouri and Iowa. Read details from Inside Higher Education.

by Future U/ January 16, 2017/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/