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NEWS BRIEFS: Expert Testimony Carries Cost for This Professor

Prof put on an "alternate assignment" as school investigates his work testifying in toxic pollution cases.
by Future U/ February 24, 2023/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, News Briefs, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: UNC Trustees Exercise Political Lean With New Civic Life Center

Prof Kleinman: By reducing what faculty offer to 'views,' the Trustees cheapen the core process that makes universities places of …
by Future U/ February 23, 2023/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Kicking Ass, Taking Names in West Virginia

Prof Amanda Matoushek: "Publishing our names campuswide, threatening to fire us in his blog."
by Future U/ February 22, 2023/ Higher Ed, News Briefs/

NEWS BRIEFS: An Angry Parent Phoned the College President, and a Faculty Member’s Appointment Was Put On Hold

"My contract is pending a review of the material I use in my racial justice unit. The concern? I am …
by Future U/ February 21, 2023/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Years Ago I Experienced a Campus Shooting First-Hand, and It’s Frightening to Experience It Again

"We need the courage to tackle our addiction to weapons and build the trust to allow us all to live …
by Terry Link/ February 20, 2023/ Education, Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: When It Comes to Revisionist History, “Scrub-a-Dub-Dub, We’re Sitting in the Tub. Getting so Clean, Like a Washing Machine”

College Board capitulates to the political Right.
by Future U/ February 19, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: At What Cost? University Honors Bestowed, Then Withdrawn

A standard practice it is — honoring donors with names on buildings and others with honorary degrees. Earlier this week, …
by Future U/ February 18, 2023/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: When Collegiate Philanthropy Hits a Wall

The philanthropist's family wants UR to return $3.6 billion.
by Roger Barbee/ February 15, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: “Uniquely American Problem” Strikes Higher Education … Again

Headline quote courtesy of Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer
by Future U/ February 14, 2023/ Higher Ed, MSU, News Briefs, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Faculty Member as Brand in the Marketplace

In our neoliberal world, everything (including higher education and faculty work) is a marketplace full of products (faculty members and …
by Future U/ February 11, 2023/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism/

NEWS BRIEFS: Holy Temple! Retaliation for Protesting?

From Business Insider: “Temple University confirmed Wednesday that teaching and research assistants who take part in a strike over low …
by Future U/ February 9, 2023/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed/

PERSPECTIVES: When Paying College Athletes Goes Off The Rails

The nearly $14 million deal fell through, and the college recruit signed with another school.
by Future U/ February 5, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Florida Community College Presidents Capitulate to DeSantis

"Will not fund or support any institutional practice, policy, or academic requirement that compels belief in CRT or related concepts.”
by Future U/ February 3, 2023/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: R. Barbara Gitenstein, “Promising Honorifics in a President’s Employment Contract (rather than in an exit agreement), Doesn’t Represent Best Practice”

Benefits often do not align with "the upheaval they (former university presidents/chancellors) leave behind."
by Future U/ January 31, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

NEWS BRIEFS: More Professional Schools Drop Out of U.S. and News Report Collegiate Rankings

"The rankings measure more about the students who enter the school than about (those) who graduate or about the substance/ …
by Future U/ January 30, 2023/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/
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