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Monthly Archive: December 2020

NEWS BRIEFS: Drake Group Endorses Actions Taken at Indiana U and UT San Antonio Re Athlete Violence

Indiana University announced recently what may be the first comprehensive university policy on athlete violence. UT San Antonio has adopted …
by Future U/ September 30, 2019/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed/

NEWS BRIEFS: NCAA Board Votes Against Punishing Schools for Academic Misconduct

“The governing board of the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Division I conferences will not adopt rules that would have allowed …
by Future U/ September 29, 2019/ Higher Ed, News Briefs/

PERSPECTIVES: Why Enter the Professoriate?

“What is the likelihood that they will enjoy the benefits that drew my generation to college and university teaching?” In …
by Future U/ September 28, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

PERSPECTIVES: Higher Ed and ‘The Meritocracy,” What’s the Connection?

The New Yorker’s Lewis Menand explores the question in this far-reaching commentary. Read more here.
by Future U/ September 27, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Athlete-Turned-Activist Seeks To Reform College Sports

In 1997, Ramogi Huma and UCLA defensive back Ryan Roques founded a student group to advocate for athletes. Huma has …
by Future U/ September 26, 2019/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Pew Finds Link Between Political Affiliation and Views of Higher Ed

When asked about the connection between higher education and the direction of the U.S., 67% of Democrats and Democrat-leaning Independents …
by Future U/ September 25, 2019/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: How ‘Degree Inflation’ Is Fueling the Student Debt Crisis

You’ve no doubt heard it before, “a college degree today is like what a high school used to be.” That’s …
by Future U/ September 24, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Good Teaching and Good Public Leadership, The Connection

USC’s Prof. Viet Thanh Nguyen offers insightful connections. Read it at the New York Times.
by Future U/ September 23, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Going Back to College Is a Trend (well, sort of)

It’s going back to school … as in living on campus in retirement. Alma mater wants you back! New York …
by Future U/ September 22, 2019/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: UCLA Had Evidence in 2014 That Singer Was Up To Something

LA Times: “The first indication of trouble came in a phone call to the school on May 13, 2014. The …
by Future U/ September 21, 2019/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Students Strike for Action on Climate Change … and More

Jamie Margolin is a 17-year-old high school senior, founder of The Zero Hour. Her essay was published in The New York …
by Future U/ September 20, 2019/ Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Headline in the Chicago Tribune, ‘Sad Saga at MSU Won’t End’ (recent story, nah, it’s from 1994)

Twenty-five years later most of the principals are gone except for two who have figured prominently in the current era–Ferguson …
by Future U/ September 19, 2019/ MSU, Perspectives/

PERSPECTIVES: An Alternative View to Michigan’s Public Ed’s Funding Plight

James Hohman, fiscal policy director, Mackinac Center for Public Policy writes: “Stop pleading poverty, Michigan colleges. Taxpayers are plenty generous.” …
by Future U/ September 18, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

PERSPECTIVES: COI in MSU Trustees’ Business Partnership?

Find the Board’s COI policy here (see Sections II and VIII). Read an article about the circumstance in question. Who …
by Future U/ September 17, 2019/ MSU, News Briefs/

PERSPECTIVES: When Privilege Affects the Public Policy Debate

As the struggle continues to find public policy solutions to the neo-plantation, neo-sweatshop nature of revenue-producing college sports, Tim Tebow …
by Future U/ September 16, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/
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