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NEWS BRIEFS: Keith Mumphrey, Michigan State’s ‘Other Survivor’

Was football player Keith Mumphrey a victim of his own school’s overreach? Some say yes, others aren’t sure. What we …

by Future U/ June 1, 2019/ Higher Ed, MSU, Perspectives/

PERSPECTIVES: Calibrating College Majors By ROI?

If Senator Alexander’s proposal to revise The Higher Ed Act goes into effect, then “colleges will need to give much …

by Future U/ May 31, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: SAT’s ‘Adversity Score’–Good Move or Not?

The LA Times Editorial Board says not. “It is a blunt instrument that won’t give colleges accurate information about individual …

by Future U/ May 30, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Books in University Libraries Aren’t Being Checked Out As They Once Were

Among Yale undergraduates, there has been a nearly 65% decline in library checkouts over the past ten years. “University libraries …

by Future U/ May 28, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Odds of College Graduation Linked To Family Wealth and Type/Selectivity of College Attended

Fed researchers followed U.S. 9th Graders from 2009 forward. Read more from Inside Higher Education.

by Future U/ May 27, 2019/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: More College-Going Students Are From Lower-Income Familes, But Many Are At Less-Selective Schools

Pew Research did the research. Read more here.

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

PERSPECTIVES: Focus on Admissions Only? What About Retention & Graduation Rates?

The New York Times investigated. Here’s what it found: “America has a dropout problem.” Read specifics here (including an analysis …

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

NEWS BRIEFS: It’s Time To Punish Schools That Lie

And U.S. News and World Report is doing just that. For two decades, the University of Oklahoma gave USNWP inflated …

by Future U/ May 23, 2019/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Misguided Applause for Morehouse College Gift

“A new generation of plutocrats has amassed great fortunes, in part because the federal government has minimized the burden of …

by Future U/ May 22, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Another Deadly Frat Story, This Time at Central Michigan U.

Jack Stripling of The Chronicle of Higher Education shares the story. Read more here.

by Future U/ May 20, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: That Bloat You Feel? It’s the Growing Size of Higher Ed’s Administrative Class

It’s a bad storyline for American higher education. Over a 12-year period … significant increase in the size of the …

by Future U/ May 17, 2019/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Higher Ed Donors Should Link Contributions to Exercise of Free Speech (op-ed)

“American colleges and universities raised $47 billion in the fiscal year that ended June 30. By making those gifts contingent …

by Future U/ May 15, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: With WPI’s Promotion Protocol, Other Universities Have a Chance to “Get It Right’

Laurie Leshin, Worcester Polytechnic Institute president, said that the new promotion and tenure criteria “bring our reward system much more …

by Future U/ May 14, 2019/ Higher Ed, News Briefs/

PERSPECTIVES: Athletics and Campus Sustainability Aren’t Well Connected. Pacific-12 Conference Schools Want to Change That.

“All Pac-12 athletic departments have committed to measuring their environmental performance, developing strategies and goals to reduce their impact, monitoring …

by Future U/ May 13, 2019/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: What’s the Long-Term Impact of Going to a Top University?

By one measure (earning power), data show that those at both the low and high ends of the income spectrum …

by Future U/ May 11, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/