August 2019 - Future U

PERSPECTIVES: An Alternative to ‘Free College for All”

William & Mary economist David H. Feldman offers his four-plank alternative in USAToday.

by Future U/ August 31, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

“Paying for college…has fundamentally changed the experience of being middle class in this country.” Read more in Caitlin Zaloom’s important …

by Future U/ August 30, 2019/ Public Higher Ed/

All finalists withdrew after many faculty members questioned their qualifications. UMass system president and the search committee chair both blame …

by Future U/ August 29, 2019/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed/

Reports of a bedbug infestation at the building that houses the New York Times prompted a professor to tweet about …

by Future U/ August 28, 2019/ Higher Ed, News Briefs/

“(MSU’s conciliatory) tone took a sharp turn Monday as the school’s legal team took a battering ram to 37 lawsuits, …

by Future U/ August 27, 2019/ MSU, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

“I’m very worried for students,” said Julie Margetta Morgan of the Roosevelt Institute. Read more from CNBC

by Future U/ August 26, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

“Nowhere else in the world is there a major college sports system like ours. There are definitely good things about …

by Future U/ August 25, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

Judith Wilde. presidential search scholar, George Mason University: “We see no reason to believe that this leads to better presidents. …

by Future U/ August 24, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

Why? The University of Kentucky’s John Thelin concludes it’s because universities prefer to be run like a business, embrace the …

by Future U/ August 23, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/