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PERSPECTIVES: Navigating the Professional World Without a College Degree

"The real power of education...looking up my educational background and wondering what right I had to be there."
by Future U/ April 30, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Amid Grad Instructors’ Strike, University of Michigan’s Administration Wants Surrogates To Submit Spring Semester Grades

“Bypassing faculty-of-record and hiring third-party graders is infringing on faculty freedom.”
by Future U/ April 26, 2023/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Teaching/

Reject the Rubric: Reject the Neoliberal Quantocracy in Higher Education

Rubrics exemplify the idea that everything must be reduced to numbers to measure performance objectively. This makes no sense when …
by John Traphagan/ April 24, 2023/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/

PERSPECTIVES: Community Engagement with Impact in a City (Flint, MI) That Needs It

"Rx Kids is a collaboration among Michigan State Univ., Univ. of Michigan, and the Flint-based Charles Stewart Mott Foundation."
by Future U/ April 23, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: We Need Educators Who Are Moral Leaders

Some teachers find it easier to keep the status quo as many politicians do. After all, the status quo puts …
by Roger Barbee/ April 18, 2023/ Education, Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVE: Why Attack Tenure? Here’s a Political Reason

"Tenure allows the university to be an independent voice for truth." (...if you value independence and truth).
by Future U/ April 17, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

COMMENTARY by Adrian Lenardic: Raging Against The Mythical Figure Who Keeps Us Down (Not)

"We can move toward the self-realization that we are the system. If we rage, we rage against ourselves, against our …
by Adrian Lenardic/ April 15, 2023/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

Higher Education, From Doing Its Thing Without Interference to Watched Like a Hawk and Blamed for Everything

It's damned if you do, damned if you don't.
by Future U/ April 12, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: To Date, Over Thirty DEI-Restriction Bills Have Been Introduced in Eighteen States

College and university Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion efforts are under attack nationally.
by Future U/ April 10, 2023/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Culture War Comes to Women’s College Basketball

It was about a hand gesture and a lot more.
by Future U/ April 8, 2023/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Perspectives, Society/

Point/Counterpoint: Firearms and University Endowment Investments

"ReclaimMSU would like to see MSU publicly commit to not make any direct/indirect investments in the firearms industry."
by Future U/ April 7, 2023/ Higher Ed, MSU, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Red and Blue Comes to Higher Ed

The political debates are raising major questions, 'What is the university for? What does it do?'”
by Future U/ April 4, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

FUTUREU AUDIO: Higher Education Under Siege

Listen to the audio via Spotify, Apple, and Google podcasts and at Overcast.
by Future U/ April 2, 2023/ Education, FutureU Forum, Higher Ed, Perspectives, Podcast, Public Higher Ed/

PERSPECTIVES: A Reporter’s Question Was Met With Silence … 40 Times Over

In Florida, "public college presidents are in a no-win scenario: silence equals compliance, speaking out carries risk."
by Future U/ April 1, 2023/ Higher Ed, Public Higher Ed/

FUTUREU FORUM, MARCH 29, Noon-1:30p: The Culture War Targets Higher Education

The Right is targeting Public Higher Education, and it is not hyperbolic to say, "I've never seen anything like it!" 
by Future U/ March 27, 2023/ Education, FutureU Forum, Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/
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