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PERSPECTIVES: What Does Trump Budget Mean For Higher Ed?
Here’s an analysis from The Chronicle of Higher Education. It’s must-reading for higher educators.
March 19, 2017/
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NEWS BRIEFS: Mich State Faculty Sign Letter Saying They Won’t Aid Immigration Officials
The letter was signed by over 700 faculty and staff members. Read more here (from Michigan Radio).
March 18, 2017/
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PERSPECTIVES: With Public Funding In Jeopardy, Scientists Brace For Worst
Private funding isn’t enough. Read a feature article published in The Atlantic.
March 17, 2017/
Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/
PERSPECTIVES: I Was Injured During A Campus Protest
She disagreed with a controversial speaker, but agreed to moderate a campus forum. Allison Stanger writes about what happened next.
March 15, 2017/
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PERSPECTIVES: Trickle Down Economics, A Reality In Major College Athletics
You can make a ton in college coaching these days … tennis, that is. But in pro-like major college sports, …
March 14, 2017/
Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/
PERSPECTIVES: Impact of U.S. Travel Ban on Science
Published in Nature, here is one interpretation. nature.2017.21579 (1)
March 13, 2017/
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PERSPECTIVES: At Rutgers Big-Time Athletics Bring Big-Time Deficits
Rutgers is biding time until it gets a full share of Big Ten revenues. Until then its athletic deficit is …
March 12, 2017/
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PERSPECTIVES: The Disturbing Case of Baylor University
Does a rising athletic tide raise boats? Or can it sink ships? Read one sobering answer in this feature article …
March 11, 2017/
Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/
PERSPECTIVES: Housekeepers Organize With A University as Target
Fascinating story from Cambridge, MA. “Lean In” and read more from The Nation.
March 10, 2017/
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NEWS BRIEFS: Academic Freedom Questioned At Northwestern
Ad hoc committee of Faculty Senate: NU should “take steps to insulate its journals from academic interference.” Read more from …
March 7, 2017/
Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/
PERSPECTIVES: Students’ Interpretations Of Political Confrontation at Middlebury
The College provided an elevated platform for a controversial speaker. Students reacted. Read student accounts from The New York Times.
March 6, 2017/
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PERSPECTIVES: Betsy DeVos, Reductionist: “HBCU’s Are Examples of School Choice”
She doesn’t get it. Read more from The New York Times.
March 3, 2017/
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PERSPECTIVES: Do Campus Liberals Silence Their Conservative Peers?
Tom Ciccotta, a senior at Bucknell University, believes they do. Read his Op Ed in The New York Times.
March 2, 2017/
Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/
ANNOUNCEMENT: Academic Freedom Resources List From AAUP
All statements are available on the AAUP’s website and in the eleventh edition of the AAUP “Redbook,” formally titled Policy Documents and …
March 1, 2017/
Higher Ed, Perspectives/