Articles Archives

Articles Archive

PERSPECTIVES: Losing Our Grip on the Truth

"Americans are now witnessing firsthand how autocrats use disregard for the truth to claim excessive powers."

by Future U/ August 23, 2025/ Articles, Perspectives, Society/

“Well, (MSU Trustees) Here’s Another Fine Mess You’ve Gotten Us Into”

Chair resignation came 2 hours before special board meeting to discuss 63-page investigation into reported trustee impropriety.

by Future U/ March 5, 2024/ Articles, Higher Ed, MSU, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed/

PERSPECTIVES: Universities Signing Contracts with Sports Betting Companies, a Bad Idea Spreading

"Aggressive expansion includes advertising on scoreboards, on academic buildings, and in campus emails."

by Future U/ March 4, 2023/ Articles, Higher Ed, Society, Video/

PERSPECTIVE: From Corporate to a Truly Public University

"A public university is more akin to a socially engaged knowledge commons than to a corporation."

by Future U/ September 30, 2022/ Articles, Neoliberalism, Public Higher Ed/

PERSPECTIVES: Why Has Honest/Accurate History Been Kept from Our History Books?

Author and FutureU guest Martha Bireda answers in this commentary published in Wall Street International. Read more here. ************************* Martha …

by Martha Bireda/ July 27, 2021/ Articles, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: How Neoliberal “Privatization of Risk” Explains Decision to Re-Open Campuses

Michigan State University’s Zach Kaiser elaborates. Find his article here.

by Zach Kaiser/ December 26, 2020/ Articles, Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives/

PERSPECTIVES: Kent State and More … Never Ended

“MLK made a prediction: ‘If we do not act, we shall surely be dragged down the long, dark, and shameful …

by Future U/ April 26, 2020/ Articles, Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: And Now We Ban Books?

The road of removing, banning, or burning books is full of danger. To ban one book leads to banning more …

by Roger Barbee/ April 25, 2020/ Articles, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Meritocracy Under Seige? Then, Again, What’s Meritorious?

Who, exactly, are ‘the winners?’ And what is the price of getting ahead and achieving? If it’s accomplished “without reference …

by Future U/ June 25, 2019/ Articles, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS FLASH: Neoliberal College Presidents Hired For Neoliberal Purposes Fail Neoliberal Test

College presidents are hired as fundraisers. This new study finds that many presidents aren’t playing the game well, even presidents who …

by Future U/ January 4, 2019/ Articles, Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed/

PERSPECTIVES: Chris Hedges On Neoliberalism

“The great thing about freedom of the market is it appears to be egalitarian, but there is nothing more unequal …

by Future U/ November 23, 2018/ Articles, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Inteview With Henry Giroux About His New Book, “The Public In Peril”

The interview includes a discussion of the implications of neoliberalism for higher education. Read more at TruthDig.

by Future U/ December 23, 2017/ Articles, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: While Science Advances, The Humanities ….

“When the humanities desert their mission and ally themselves with progress, they become dangerous adjuncts to ideological agendas,” writes Dean …

by Future U/ August 1, 2017/ Articles, Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Iowa State Hopes To Ink Deal With Charles Kock Foundation

The beneficiary would be the ISU economics department. Controversy surrounds the matter. Read more from The Cedar Rapids Gazette.

by Future U/ July 29, 2017/ Articles, Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: New Research Shows Limitations Of Voc Ed Vis-a-Vis College Ed

“Early employment gains…may lead to later problems…as workers lack the ability to adjust to a changed economic environment.” Stanford prof, …

by Future U/ July 19, 2017/ Articles, Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/