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PERSPECTIVES: Mounting Faculty Concerns About Fall Semester 2020

At Purdue, “a recent survey completed by more than 7,000 Purdue faculty and staff members and graduate students, for example, …

by Future U/ June 30, 2020/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Professor Wolff, “Why the Neoliberal Agenda Is a Failure at Fighting Coronavirus”

NEWS BRIEFS: National Survey Says Americans Value Higher Ed, But Believe It Needs to Change

From New America’s 4th annual survey of how Americans evaluate higher ed: “While Americans believe in the value proposition of …

by Future U/ June 28, 2020/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Sports Agent Says “College Players Have a Chance to Realize Their Power”

Donald Yee in The Atlantic: “The players? To put it bluntly, the players are getting screwed. In exchange for their …

by Future U/ June 27, 2020/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Analyzing Institutional Racist Past — Homework for Colleges Across America

Adrianna Kezar, Sharon Fries-Britt, and Lorelle Espinosa: “Too many colleges and universities have not meaningfully addressed their own histories of exclusion, which has deepened …

by Future U/ June 26, 2020/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Fewer Low-Income Students Reserving Spots at Michigan’s Private Colleges

From The Bridge: “Public universities typically don’t release enrollment data until after the fall semester begins, but several private colleges …

by Future U/ June 25, 2020/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Too Much “Merit Aid” Is Going to College Applicants from High-Income Families in Bidding War for Affluent Students

Kurzweil and Wyner: “More than half of the 339 public universities sampled in a paper published by New America at …

by Future U/ June 24, 2020/ Public Higher Ed/

NEWS BRIEFS: Deep Faculty Layoffs at U-Michigan Flint

The university has laid off nearly half of its 400 lecturers. Read more from the Detroit Free Press.

by Future U/ June 23, 2020/ Higher Ed, News Briefs/

NEWS BRIEFS: UCLA Football Players Organize, Submit Demands to the University’s Administration

Last Thursday, UCLA football players united in support behind a document they believe will protect them in their upcoming return …

by Future U/ June 21, 2020/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed/

NEWS BRIEFS: MSU VP Hsu Resigns, President Explains

MSU’s Stanley: “I believe this is what is best for our university…. When senior administrators at MSU choose to speak …

by Future U/ June 20, 2020/ Higher Ed, MSU, News Briefs/

NEWS BRIEFS: MSU Students Get Active To Support “Equity Over Equality”

Lesly Morales: “They always say ‘Yeah, we’re here for you, we support you,’” Morales said, “Then there are listening circles, …

by Future U/ June 19, 2020/ Perspectives/

PERSPECTIVES: “Even at Elite Universities, I Was Exposed to the Disease that has Endangered Black Lives for So Long”

Johns Hopkins professor Chris Lebron: “Every day you feel like you’re living with a knee on your neck. It’s a …

by Future U/ June 18, 2020/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: International Students, Once an Enrollment X-Factor, Are Now in Limbo.

“Ke uttered a Chinese saying: ‘When falling on an individual’s head, a grain of ash from an era can feel …

by Future U/ June 17, 2020/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

PERSPECTIVES: John Jackson on the Ethical Responsibilities of Scientists

Read John Jackson’s commentary, a response to Stephen Hsu’s June 12 blog post.

by Future U/ June 16, 2020/ Public Higher Ed/

NEWS BRIEFS: Letters Call for Removing Stephen Hsu as MSU’s Senior VP of Research and Innovation

“Supporters of his removal (signatories of two letters) continue to express that this is not an issue of academic freedom, …

by Future U/ June 15, 2020/ MSU, News Briefs/