December 2024 - Future U

Monthly Archive: December 2024

NEWS BRIEFS: Public Confidence in Higher Ed is Trending Down as College Degree ROI Remains Up

"The benefits extend far beyond just a bigger paycheck, creating positive effects that can last throughout your career and life."

by Future U/ December 29, 2024/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Winning Back Public Trust in Higher Education

"We have to change the opportunity structures for citizens, wherever they live or whether their parents went to school."

by Future U/ December 27, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: It’s Not Just What Trump Says About Higher Education, It’s What He Will Do

"Trump has indicated that eliminating the Education Department may be an urgent priority."

by Future U/ December 26, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

COMMENTARY by Ulises A. Mejias: The Core of Gen-AI is Incompatible with Academic Integrity

By encouraging GenAI, we are directly undermining the principles we have been trying to instill in our students.

by Ulises A. Mejias/ December 24, 2024/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: “Thoughtful Restraint,” Michigan State U’s Position on Issuing Institutional Statements About Controversial Public Matters

"Using the institution’s voice for any but the most critical purposes risks undermining academic freedom, chilling free expression, and silencing …

by Future U/ December 23, 2024/ MSU, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: In National Collegiate Survey, Over 9 of 10 Students Say “My Campus Should Create Program(s) to Promote Civil Dialogue”

In the faculty survey: Most popular option was offering optional faculty training on facilitating conversations in the classroom."

by Future U/ December 22, 2024/ Higher Ed, News Briefs/

NEWS BRIEFS: Idaho Education Board Bans DEI Units at Idaho’s Public Universities

U of I President: “We are disappointed, but not surprised, given what has happened in other states.”

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

COMMENTARY by Jennifer Ruth: Please Sign an Open Letter to the NYU Administration

FROM ACADEME BLOG: “On December 12, the NYU administration invited the NYPD to arrest two faculty members supporting students in …

by Future U/ December 20, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Petition/

NEWS BRIEFS: We’ve Seen This Before … Despite External Audit Results to the Contrary, a University Cuts Faculty Positions

(last October) "94 non-tenure track faculty were notified their jobs were on the chopping block."

by Future U/ December 18, 2024/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed/

PERSPECTIVES: Undergraduate Student Writes, “I’ve been Terrified by the Meekness of (College) Administrators Since the Election”

"I hope they can chart a path toward principled leadership rather than fearful obedience and blind enforcement."

by Future U/ December 17, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

PERSPECTIVES: College Enrollments Decline, as Admissions Pressure Eases

“Colleges wnt to cultivate this idea that they’re prestigious and selective...and like the idea of being a sought-after good.”

by Future U/ December 16, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Dialogue and Discourse, Hallmarks of the Collegium? (Not in Today’s Hypercharged Political Environment)

“Academic freedom technically exists, but many faculty lack faith that it will be there to protect them."

by Future U/ December 15, 2024/ Public Higher Ed/

NEWS BRIEFS: Walberg Succeeds Fox as Chair, U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce

Before serving in Congress, Walberg was a pastor and managed a division at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago.

by Future U/ December 13, 2024/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: More Colleges Close This Year Than Last, Upward Tick Predicted to Continue

Candi Clouse, Implan: "We see a decline in national birthrates, rising cost of education, and rising cost of operations,"

by Future U/ December 12, 2024/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Public Battle Continues Between FIRE and AAUP

AAUP: "increasingly partisan critics of freedom of speech/First Amendment, and taking positions that threaten academic freedom."

by Future U/ December 11, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/

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