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NEWS BRIEFS: Athlete-Turned-Activist Seeks To Reform College Sports

In 1997, Ramogi Huma and UCLA defensive back Ryan Roques founded a student group to advocate for athletes. Huma has …

by Future U/ September 26, 2019/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Pew Finds Link Between Political Affiliation and Views of Higher Ed

When asked about the connection between higher education and the direction of the U.S., 67% of Democrats and Democrat-leaning Independents …

by Future U/ September 25, 2019/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: How ‘Degree Inflation’ Is Fueling the Student Debt Crisis

You’ve no doubt heard it before, “a college degree today is like what a high school used to be.” That’s …

by Future U/ September 24, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Good Teaching and Good Public Leadership, The Connection

USC’s Prof. Viet Thanh Nguyen offers insightful connections. Read it at the New York Times.

by Future U/ September 23, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Going Back to College Is a Trend (well, sort of)

It’s going back to school … as in living on campus in retirement. Alma mater wants you back! New York …

by Future U/ September 22, 2019/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: UCLA Had Evidence in 2014 That Singer Was Up To Something

LA Times: “The first indication of trouble came in a phone call to the school on May 13, 2014. The …

by Future U/ September 21, 2019/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: An Alternative View to Michigan’s Public Ed’s Funding Plight

James Hohman, fiscal policy director, Mackinac Center for Public Policy writes: “Stop pleading poverty, Michigan colleges. Taxpayers are plenty generous.” …

by Future U/ September 18, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

PERSPECTIVES: When Privilege Affects the Public Policy Debate

As the struggle continues to find public policy solutions to the neo-plantation, neo-sweatshop nature of revenue-producing college sports, Tim Tebow …

by Future U/ September 16, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/