April 2023 - Future U

PERSPECTIVES: Navigating the Professional World Without a College Degree

"The real power of education...looking up my educational background and wondering what right I had to be there."

by Future U/ April 30, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

The confusing and problematic message makes sense. (Spoiler alert: Consider the messenger.)

by Roger Barbee/ April 29, 2023/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

Nearly half of U.S. states have either barred or are seeking to bar investing state-run investment in ESG-related funds.

by Future U/ April 28, 2023/ Perspectives, Society/

Brown said, “What we’ve done is we’ve made diversity the mission. Wrong mission."

by Future U/ April 27, 2023/ Education, Public Higher Ed, Video/

“Bypassing faculty-of-record and hiring third-party graders is infringing on faculty freedom.”

by Future U/ April 26, 2023/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Teaching/

Cornell's president & provost: "We cannot accept this resolution, the actions are at odds with the goals of a Cornell …

by Future U/ April 25, 2023/ Public Higher Ed/

Rubrics exemplify the idea that everything must be reduced to numbers to measure performance objectively. This makes no sense when …

by John Traphagan/ April 24, 2023/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/

"Rx Kids is a collaboration among Michigan State Univ., Univ. of Michigan, and the Flint-based Charles Stewart Mott Foundation."

by Future U/ April 23, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

Some teachers find it easier to keep the status quo as many politicians do. After all, the status quo puts …

by Roger Barbee/ April 18, 2023/ Education, Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

"Tenure allows the university to be an independent voice for truth." (...if you value independence and truth).

by Future U/ April 17, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

Irene Mulvey, AAUP president: "The fields...enrich academia, civilization, and are being dragged into the culture wars."

by Future U/ April 16, 2023/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

"We can move toward the self-realization that we are the system. If we rage, we rage against ourselves, against our …

by Adrian Lenardic/ April 15, 2023/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

"More scientists and engineers will be encouraged to conduct military-related research rather than work in more peaceable fields."

by Future U/ April 14, 2023/ Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

It's damned if you do, damned if you don't.

by Future U/ April 12, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

"Washtenaw County Judge Carol Kuhnke declined to issue a temporary restraining order or a preliminary injunction."

by Future U/ April 11, 2023/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Teaching/