October 2024 - Future U

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PERSPECTIVES: Remaking Florida’s New College into “Hillsdale of the South”

Chris Rufo: “New College doesn't have to succumb to left-wing ideological capture."

by Future U/ October 31, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: A Call for Action in Higher Education, Embrace Activism

Mia McIver, Chair, Higher Ed Labor United (HELU): "We need politically engaged leaders and organizations to fight for higher ed.”

by Future U/ October 30, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

PERSPECTIVES: Academic Freedom and Free Speech, Are They the Same?

Administrators: "Try modeling the collegiate mission of not just producing knowledge but subjecting it to civic/moral scrutiny."

by Future U/ October 29, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Capitulation and Appeasement Trump Higher Education’s Presumed Commitment to Dialogue and Change

"It appears that the last thing the university wants is for students to 'create change' and 'make a difference.'”

by Future U/ October 28, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

NEWS BRIEFS: Harvard Sanctions Faculty Following Peaceful Sit-In

"'Reasoned dissent plays a particularly vital part in existence,'” quoting Harvard’s statement on rights and responsibilities."

by Future U/ October 27, 2024/ Higher Ed, News Briefs/

NEWS BRIEFS: First-Year College Admissions Drop, Interest Rises in Skill Trades

"Public & private nonprofit 4-year institutions had the largest decreases in frosh enrollment (-8.5% and -6.5%, respectively)."

by Future U/ October 26, 2024/ Higher Ed, Society/

COMMENTARY by Adrian Lenardic: “In the Court of the Neo-U”

Overnight, the administration started referring to itself as Executive Leadership. The word ‘administration’ was struck from all messaging . Then, the …

by Adrian Lenardic/ October 25, 2024/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives/

PERSPECTIVES: SMU’s Malesic, “Students Who Don’t Read are Responding Rationally to the Vision of Professional Life Our Society Sells Them”

"Nationwide, college professors report steep declines in students’ willingness and ability to read on their own."

by Future U/ October 24, 2024/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society, Teaching/

COMMENTARY: It’s Time to Apply the Exclusionary Provision of the Kalven Report

"The academic enterprise demands we defend students, faculty, and the freedom that makes educational work possible."

by Future U/ October 23, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Activists in Two States Express Concerns After Students Receive Voting Misinformation

A Franklin & Marshall College official reported that a local election official gave students inaccurate voting information.

by Future U/ October 22, 2024/ Public Higher Ed/

NEWS BRIEFS: One Way for Schools to Conceal Information? Exorbitant FOIA Charges

The student's mother: “I feel like we’re fighting the school that’s fighting us ... and it’s just not fair,”

by Future U/ October 21, 2024/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: In An Otherwise Close Presidential Race, College Students Favor One Candidate by an Overwhelming Margin

"Two-thirds of the Democrats and 16% of Republicans indicated they planned to donate to a candidate, party or group."

by Future U/ October 20, 2024/ Higher Ed, News Briefs/

PERSPECTIVES: On the State of Faculty Unions in America

Despite the upward trend, "faculty members in more than a third of states lack union representation."

by Future U/ October 19, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

PERSPECTIVES: Getting It Wrong About the University of Michigan’s DEI Efforts

"The New York Times denigrated the work of those committed to making a more just Michigan."

by Future U/ October 18, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Administrative Choices at Portland State? Faculty Positions Tagged for Eliminationliminated

And yet.... "Howard Bunsis, a forensic accountant at Eastern Michigan U found Portland State to be in a 'solid financial …

by Future U/ October 17, 2024/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed/