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NEWS BRIEFS: Student Activists Compel Change at the Univ. of California

From The Daily Nexus: UC sold ~$25 million of indirect investments after the Afrikan Black Coalition, encompassing UC’s nine Black Student Unions, made public …

by Future U/ December 19, 2015/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: What’s Contributing to College Costs?

Harvard economics professor, N. Gregory Mankiw, comments.

by Future U/ December 19, 2015/ Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Did Academic Freedom Cross a Line?

A case at Florida Atlantic U. raises questions about if and when the right to inquiry conflicts with “common decency.”

by Future U/ December 18, 2015/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Life, Liberty, and The Right to Pack a Gun

At Liberty University a “call to arms” refers to higher ed & guns.

by Future U/ December 18, 2015/ Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Faculty Voice, Institutional Preferences Sometimes Don’t Mix

What are the boundaries, limits when it comes to faculty expression? Read about the case of Wheaton College.

by Future U/ December 18, 2015/ News Briefs/

PERSPECTIVES: Missouri Bill Seeks to Restrict Free Speech, Compromise Democracy

Two Missouri legislators introduced a bill in response to athletes’ activism at the University of Missouri. Read Kevin Blackistone’s commentary here.

by Future U/ December 17, 2015/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Candidate Sanders Urges CUNY Faculty Salary Increase

From The New York Times: “Roughly 25,000 CUNY faculty and professional staff members have been without a contract since 2010, …

by Future U/ December 17, 2015/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed/

PERSPECTIVES: Many Colleges Aren’t as Diverse As They Seem

Why? At many schools students have an affinity to gather with like-students. Read an Op Ed about the issue here.

by Future U/ December 15, 2015/ Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: New Analysis of Underemployment of College Graduates

The Fed analysis reveals interesting findings about the percentage of college grads who are working in jobs outside their major …

by Future U/ December 11, 2015/ News Briefs, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Justice Scalia Offers Black and White Perspective on Affirmative Action In Higher Education

From THE NEW YORK TIMES: “In an awkward exchange in Wednesday’s potentially game-changing Supreme Court arguments on affirmative action, Justice …

by Future U/ December 11, 2015/ News Briefs, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Article on the Presidential Appointment at the University of Iowa (from AAUP)

EVERY faculty member in America should read this analysis. Sobering….

by Future U/ December 10, 2015/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed/

NEWS BRIEFS: Text Analysis Of Student Protest Demands

“If you want to know what students protesters at universities want, you have to actually read what they write,” writes …

by Future U/ December 10, 2015/ Articles, News Briefs, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Wanna’ Make a Half-Mil A Year? Become a Private College President

No need to be president at a ‘name’ school, like Columbia U. The president of High Point College made a …

by Future U/ December 8, 2015/ News Briefs, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: In College … Homeless, Hungry

Read SARA GOLDRICK-RAB and KATHARINE M. BROTON’s NYTs Op Ed about a terrible issue that needs to be addressed: no …

by Future U/ December 8, 2015/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: One Way to Reduce Inequality in America’s Higher Ed … Eliminate the Ivy League

Well, not really. It’s about making changes in how Ivy schools operate and what America’s tax laws enable. Read the details …

by Future U/ December 7, 2015/ Perspectives, Society/

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