February 2021 - Future U

NEWS BRIEFS: Pandemic Is Sparking Campus Unionization Efforts

“Around 260,100 university employees (14.6 percent of the total workforce) have lost their jobs since February 2020. Staff also make up most …

by Frank Fear/ February 16, 2021/ Public Higher Ed/

FROM THE BRIDGE: “Materials professor Jaroslaw Drelich, who called the resolution “the most hateful and divisive document that was ever …

by Future U/ February 10, 2021/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

FROM THE BRIDGE: “The Grand Valley Pledge offers four years of tuition-free college for students in families earning under $50,000 a …

by Future U/ February 8, 2021/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

Here’s how the discussion went this week at the University of California system. Details reported in the LA Times.

by Future U/ February 5, 2021/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

One may criticize truth, beauty, and virtue as dated. But I believe they are timeless.

by Roger Barbee/ February 4, 2021/ Public Higher Ed/

FROM THE BRIDGE: “The program’s been a resounding success — more than 60,000 people signed up in the first two …

by Future U/ February 2, 2021/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

Since the 1980s, higher education–along with all other institutions–has felt the impact of a phenomenon known broadly as neoliberalism.

by Future U/ / Welcome To FutureU/

Most recent state-level data here, courtesy of The Bridge. Here’s what’s happening at the U of Michigan and Michigan State …

by Future U/ February 1, 2021/ MSU, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/