PERSPECTIVES: Misunderstood Higher Education
"Freedom of thought, critical reasoning, empathy for others and respectful disagreement are paramount for democratic society."
Future U Archive
PERSPECTIVES: The “New McCarthyism” and the Cost of Speaking Out
“There is a McCarthyite campaign to silence the Palestinian voice in all American universities, large and small."
May 19, 2024/
Higher Ed, Perspectives/
FUTUREU FORUM VIDEO with Vincent Lyon-Callo & Boone Shear
This FUTUREU Forum explores the challenges confronting educators and young people in education after four decades of neoliberal reform in …
May 18, 2024/
FutureU Forum, Higher Ed, Society, Video/
PERSPECTIVES: Academic Contributions of Black Scholars/Administrators Analyzed for Potential Plagiarism
"Alleging plagiarism has become a tool of choice...to discredit DEI initiatives throughout higher education."
May 17, 2024/
Higher Ed, Perspectives/
NEWS BRIEFS: This Commencement Speech Turned Heads and Garnered Applause
"Video virtually all graduates & spectators rising to a standing ovation, but student interviews showed a more mixed reaction."
May 16, 2024/
Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/
PERSPECTIVES: Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), Portland (OR), on Campus Protests
"Students demand that PSU disclose investments/divest when complicit in apartheid, violations of human rights, and genocide."
May 15, 2024/
Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/
NEXT FUTUREU FORUM, Tuesday, May 14, with Professors Lyon-Callo and Shear
“Neoliberalism, Subjectivities, and Transformations in Education,” May 14, 2024, Noon-1:30p, Eastern Time The discussion explores the challenges confronting educators and young people …
May 14, 2024/
FutureU Forum, Neoliberalism, Perspectives/
NEWS BRIEFS: VA Governor/University Boards Nix Diversity-Themed Coursework Requirement at GMU and VCU
FROM INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION: “Years-long efforts to create and mandate diversity-themed coursework at George Mason and Virginia Commonwealth fizzled after …
May 13, 2024/
Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/
PERSPECTIVES: U Wisconsin Madison Athletics-Related Deal Raises Questions
"College sports' history does not suggest it has good self-corrective mechanisms at the top.'
May 9, 2024/
Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/
PERSPECTIVES: Will Universities Accede to Student Demands to Divest?
Roderick A. Ferguson, Yale: “There is no good argument/standard of real leadership that eschews engagement with students."
May 7, 2024/
Public Higher Ed/
PERSPECTIVES: “Fake News” Follows Media Coverage of Campus Protests
Darren Linvill, Clemson University: "I’ve definitely seen fake accounts. Bad actors are trying to exacerbate this issue."
May 6, 2024/
Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/
NEWS BRIEFS: SUNY Binghamton Students Camp Out for Peace, Receive Faculty Support
From SUNY at Binghampton faculty letter to students: "We are proud of the young people you are and are becoming."
May 5, 2024/
Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/
PERSPECTIVES: Administrative Reactions to Campus Protests Have Eerie Similarity to Holocaust
"...on a path to becoming coperpetrators of a crime against humanity. Historians will ask, 'How could this have happened again?'"
May 4, 2024/
Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/
COMMENTARY: J.W. Traphagan, “Why I Retired from a Tenured Professorship”
Ending the neoliberal dismantling of higher education is possible. But for that to happen, academic leaders must be willing to …
May 3, 2024/
Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/
PERSPECTIVES: Isaac Kamola on the Banality of Current Discourses on Campus Free Speech
"The university is too valuable to be held hostage to an emaciated understanding of what it means to speak freely …
May 2, 2024/
Higher Ed, Perspectives/