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Monthly Archive: December 2025

PERSPECTIVES: When Do College Protests Go Too Far?

Is Bethune-Cookman an example? Read this commentary published recently in USAToday.
by Future U/ May 16, 2017/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: What New York Can Learn From Tennessee’s Tuition Assistance Program

Enrollment is up by 33% & Fed student loan debt is down in TN because of The Tennessee Promise, the …
by Future U/ May 15, 2017/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Tennessee Passes Campus Free Speech Bill

It’s the most comprehensive campus free speech legislation enacted by a state legislature. Read more from the Foundation for Individual …
by Future U/ May 14, 2017/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Impact Of Student Debt? More Millennials Are Moving Back Home

Read this review (video included)–supported by national data–published in USA Today.
by Future U/ May 13, 2017/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society, Video/

PERSPECTIVES: Combating Campus Racism

Suggestions from the Editorial Board of The Washington Post.
by Future U/ May 12, 2017/ Higher Ed, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Are Middle-Class Families Finding It Harder To Pay For College?

Data suggest yes. Why? Financial assistance targets lower-income families. Upper-income families don’t need help. Those in the middle are squeezed. …
by Future U/ May 11, 2017/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Why Are Yale Grad Assistants On A Hunger Strike?

“Yale relies on graduate students and other low­-paid contingent faculty to teach. Contingent faculty make up about 70% of teachers …
by Future U/ May 10, 2017/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, News Briefs, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Right-Wing Group Finances Conservative Candidates In Student-Government Campaigns

Read about Turning Point USA in this investigative report from The Chronicle of Higher Education.
by Future U/ May 9, 2017/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Administration’s Approach Is Wrong Way To Address Student Debt

Opinion is from a commentary by Susan Dynarski, Univ. of Michigan, published recently in The New York Times.
by Future U/ May 8, 2017/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Adjuncts At Risk If Republican Health Bill Becomes Law

In higher education it will hurt the most at-risk faculty group. Read more from The Chronicle of Higher Education.
by Future U/ May 7, 2017/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: ‘Idiots’ Believe That Growth Is Always Good–Get Big, Then Bigger

Read Chris Hedges’ provocative essay on what happens “when idiots are in charge.” It’s from TruthDig.
by Future U/ May 6, 2017/ Neoliberalism, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Roundtable On The Future of Neoliberalism

It’s from The Nation. Read more here.
by Future U/ May 5, 2017/ Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Michigan College Program Helps Those Battling Addiction

Michigan Supported Education, created by Univ. of Michigan’s Dr. Carol Mowbray, offers a six-month college prep program at local college …
by Future U/ May 4, 2017/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: What Corporations Want From Higher Education

“Public higher education embodies the idea that people have a right to an affordable post-secondary education. Entitlement is a danger for the …
by Future U/ May 3, 2017/ Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Politicization Of Science Is Here And Very Real

Today’s trumped up circumstance ratchets up politicization to an all-time high. What to make of it? What to do? Read …
by Future U/ May 2, 2017/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/
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