February 2019 - Page 2 of 2

PERSPECTIVES: Woe is Higher Ed! The Fight to Save Languages From the Curricular Ax

Fort Lewis College (CO), like so many other lower-tier schools, is eliminating languages in exchange for offering students ‘marketable skills.’ …

by Future U/ February 12, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

“The reason that students at Yale and places like it can “afford” to major in history is that they have …

by Future U/ February 11, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

Professors Wilde and Finkelstein authored this letter to RECLAIM MSU. In it, they share the results of their research work …

by Future U/ February 10, 2019/ MSU, Perspectives, Society/

Faculty voice exercised about the outrageous contract executed by the Engler administration and MSU Board: “MSU will pay former top …

by Future U/ February 9, 2019/ MSU, News Briefs/

Inger Bergom and Spencer Piston cite Grinnell College as a case in point. Read more from Inside Higher Education.

by Future U/ February 8, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

Read LSJ’s editorial opinion here.

by Future U/ February 7, 2019/ Higher Ed, MSU, Perspectives, Society/

Meaghan Wheat and Lauren Schandevel help launch a minor area of study on social class and inequality. Read more here …

by Future U/ February 6, 2019/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

Not a lot, but what we know is summarized by RJ Wolcott of the Lansing State Journal. Read more here,

by Future U/ February 5, 2019/ MSU, Perspectives, Society/

UCS presents a list of the ways the Trump Administration is attacking science, undermining scientists, and sidelining the use of …

by Future U/ February 4, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

“Graying of American debt,” The NY Fed Reserve calls it. Politico reports that “debt held by borrowers between the ages …

by Future U/ February 3, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

Noted author Jon Krakauer comments on the possible closing/merger of his alma mater. It’s from The New York Times.

by Future U/ February 2, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

“I had enough guts and balls to represent the university,” Joel Ferguson told The City Pulse. “Despite attacks, ‘I’m not …

by Future U/ February 1, 2019/ MSU, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/