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NEWS BRIEFS: College Basketball Star Uses ESPN to Communicate Activist Position

Wisconsin star, Nigel Hayes, used ESPN’s College GameDay program to call out financial choices of the Big Ten and NCAA. Read …

by Future U/ October 17, 2016/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Kresge Foundation Aids Lower-Income Students Seeking College Aid

Over 90% of lower-income students who apply receive Pell Grants (financial aid, not a loan). The problem: many students don’t apply. Kresge …

by Future U/ October 16, 2016/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: So, Just How Liberal Are Faculty Members In U.S. Universities?

Read Ana Swanson’s analysis, published recently in The Washington Post.

by Future U/ October 15, 2016/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: “The Professor Wore a Hijab in Solidarity — Then Lost Her Job”

Ruth Graham, Wheaton College alumna, writes expressively about Larycia Hawkins, the first black woman to receive tenure at Wheaton. Hawkins left …

by Future U/ October 14, 2016/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Churn Continues at Baylor, In Football And Beyond

Baylor is back in the national spotlight with more distressing news. Read more here.

by Future U/ October 12, 2016/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Dining Hall Workers Strike At Harvard

“All the money they have, and they still want to squeeze every bit out of us,” Anabela A. Pappas, a …

by Future U/ October 11, 2016/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Rescuing Academic Departments In Distress

Robert Weisbuch offers sage advice on a challenging situation. Read more from Inside Higher Education.

by Future U/ October 10, 2016/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Government Reach In Higher Ed, Just How Much?

The question is being debated in Great Britain. Read more below. Higher Ed Great Britain

by Future U/ October 8, 2016/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Does Corporate Culture Have A Place in Academia?

“No” is the answer from a commentary published recently in Nature. Read more below. Academic corporate culture

by Future U/ October 6, 2016/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: These College Students Are Hungry … for Food

“Food insecurity is a problem even for students who are employed, have a meal plan, and are receiving financial aid,” said …

by Future U/ October 5, 2016/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: New Book On The College Experience Is Revealing, Disturbing

Paying the Price by Sara Goldrick-Rab of Temple University.

by Future U/ October 2, 2016/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: A Case For ‘Disrupting’ Higher Education

Steven Salaita is author of Uncivil Rights: “Those who condemn neoliberalism become uncivil goblins, impenitent radicals, sloppy polemicists, immature agitators, scourges …

by Future U/ October 1, 2016/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

PERSPECTIVES: Young Researchers Often Thrive Outside Academia

The Nature Editorial Board addresses an important issue in science today: the overproduction of Ph.D.’s in relation to availability of tenure-track jobs available.

by Future U/ September 30, 2016/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Higher Education As Agent Of Progressive Change

Cristina Escrigas writes: “Higher education institutions…mainstays of the prevailing economic system must become agents of progressive social change. This requires rethinking …

by Future U/ September 29, 2016/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Let’s Shift The Paradigm–Higher Education For The Common Good

For the most part, a college education is designed for individual gain. Marcus Peter Ford’s vision is different: Education for the Common …

by Future U/ September 29, 2016/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/