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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."

by Future U/ 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."

by Future U/ May 15, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/

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 …

by Future U/ May 13, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

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."

by Future U/ 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."

by Future U/ May 5, 2024/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, 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 …

by Future U/ 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 …

by Future U/ May 2, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

PERSPECTIVES: “Colleges Should Extend May 1 Decision Deadline Amid FAFSA Delays, Higher Ed Groups Say”

"The FAFSA delays this cycle have abbreviated colleges’ timeline for making financial aid offers."

by Future U/ May 1, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Students Share Experiences Regarding How Universities Have Restricted the Right to Protest

Neha Kohli, Rice Univ.: "Our goal is peace, an end to ongoing violence.. But to achieve peace, first our voices …

by Future U/ April 30, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Colleges as Communities

Fareed Zakaria on CNN: "Colleges are not the communities they once were."

by Future U/ April 28, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society, Video/

PERSPECTIVES: Conservatives, Who Once Surrendered Higher Ed to “The Radical Left,” Have Reversed Course

"Colleges and universities have become hotbeds of left-wing activism."

by Future U/ April 26, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: What We Learned from FOIA

It can be frustrating ... and sometimes funny.

by Future U/ April 25, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/

PERSPECTIVES: Campus Protests, Politicizing the “Why” Question

Students organizing for change and calling out America's policies is nothing new or troubling ... unless your politics says so. …

by Future U/ April 24, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Student Protests Reframed to Fit Antisemitic Narrative?

(In answers at the Congressional hearing, Columbia U President Shafik,...acceded to their cynical weaponization of antisemitism."

by Future U/ April 23, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Student Protests on America’s Campuses

"Administrators seek to balance free speech rights and the fears that demonstrations have veered into antisemitism."

by Future U/ April 22, 2024/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/