December 2023 - Future U

COMMENTARY: Academic Management Primer II: All BIS Are Equal, But Some Are More Equal Than Others

Notes from the front line of art-science crossover education and a follow-up to Academic Management Primer I.

by Adrian Lenardic and Anthony Covington/ December 31, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

"New law requires public universities to end DEI work, including offering training or requiring diversity wording in job postings."

by Future U/ December 30, 2023/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

Yoni Kurtz, Columbia student: “There’s administrative distrust from almost any student no matter their political beliefs."

by Future U/ December 29, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

UNCG prof Mark Elliott: “The rubric changed six times in the first day; we kept on seeing it change.”

by Future U/ December 28, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/

"Donor activism should be seen as a form of engaged citizenship."

by Future U/ December 27, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

A major donor at one university is pressing for changes to instruction, faculty requirements and campus speech."

by Future U/ December 26, 2023/ Public Higher Ed/

"'The Autocratic Academy' disabuses faculty members of self-delusions that they have power in the existing arrangements."

by Future U/ December 25, 2023/ Book Review, Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/

"Despite the criticism, most FAU trustees have largely stood by the search process, which identified three finalists."

by Future U/ December 24, 2023/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed/

Financial issues abound, including being evicted from its rented campus location.

by Future U/ December 23, 2023/ Higher Ed, News Briefs/

"9 of 15 state schools enrolled more frosh in 2022. Over the past decade, undergrad enrollment is +19% at UM, …

by Future U/ December 22, 2023/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

"Universities can choose not to give law enforcement license to use criminals statute to punish campus speech."

by Future U/ December 21, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

"The widening of the gender gap in college enrollment is most apparent among White high school graduates."

by Future U/ December 20, 2023/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

No stranger to campus protests, then and now, the Berkeley experience is instructive nationally. Carol Christ offers perspective in this …

by Future U/ December 19, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

Prof Jiménez, UC Irvine: “Feds erased more debt (in '23) than has ever been erased," (but) "there's more to do.”

by Future U/ December 18, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

Change in stance coincides with hiring a new university president.

by Future U/ December 17, 2023/ Higher Ed, MSU, News Briefs, Society/