Monthly Archive: March 2022

NEWS BRIEFS: UNC Tenured Faculty to Students, “We Urge You to Stay Home”

“We need to stay safe from Covid-19 by staying at home – and we need you to stay home in …

by Future U/ July 31, 2020/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Business as Usual? Not in Lab Work

Rutgers’ doctoral student Ian Schlegel writes about how COVID-19 has affected his research efforts. His commentary was published at The …

by Future U/ July 30, 2020/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

NEWS BRIEFS: Distressing Black-White Graduation Rate Disparity Revealed in Michigan’s Public Higher Ed

“A Bridge analysis of national data reveals that Black college students at Michigan’s public universities graduated on average at a …

by Future U/ July 29, 2020/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: National Analysis Reveals Higher Ed Vulnerabilities

NYU prof Scott Galloway, et al. analyzed 436 universities included in US News and World Report’s Top National College Rankings. …

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

NEWS BRIEFS: U.S. Senators Say ‘NCAA Needs Reform,’ But Will It?

“Senators and athlete activists say the organization has not done enough for athletes, on and off the field, long before …

by Future U/ July 27, 2020/ Higher Ed, News Briefs/

PERSPECTIVES: College Bars As ‘Super Spreaders’ of COVID-19

A case example is Harper’s Restaurant and Brewpub in East Lansing. Read more at The Bridge.

by Future U/ July 26, 2020/ Public Higher Ed/

NEWS BRIEFS: New Report Draws Troubling Conclusions about Admission to America’s Top Public Universities

The Education Trust’s new report, entitled Segregation Forever? includes findings that run contrary to the belief that America’s top-end public …

by Future U/ July 25, 2020/ Public Higher Ed/

PERSPECTIVES: Neoliberal University Leadership at George Washington University

Dane Kennedy, the Elmer Louis Kayser Professor of History and International Affairs at GWU, writes in AAUP.

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

PERSPECTIVES: When It Comes to Collegiate Distance Ed, Where Does This Harvard Prof’s Approach Fit Into the Mix

A decade’s worth of experimentation made it possible for him to slide into a teaching environment that was shockingly new …

by Future U/ July 23, 2020/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Canisius College Cuts Faculty Positions, Protest Petition Launched

From CHANGE.ORG: “Canisius is slowly but surely turning into a monstrous creature of higher ed, combining the worst practices of …

by Future U/ July 22, 2020/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, News Briefs/

PERSPECTIVES: As Teaching Tool in the Face of a Pandemic, Here’s Something Old that Could Become New Again, ‘Sunrise Semester’

Decades ago, CBS and New York University teamed up to bring academic subjects to everyday people, every morning, for 25 …

by Roger Barbee/ July 21, 2020/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

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