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PERSPECTIVES: Troubling Choice Making At Columbia and Yale

Nelson Lichtensteinm, Distinguished Professor of History at UC Santa Barbara, analyzes longstanding efforts at two universities to resist graduate employees’ efforts …

by Future U/ June 16, 2017/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Combatting Neoliberalism In The Age Of Trump

Read Naomi Klein’s powerful essay, published this week in The Nation.

by Future U/ June 15, 2017/ Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Chomsky On Neoliberalism And Democracy

It’s from an interview published in The Nation.

by Future U/ June 6, 2017/ Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Trump-DeVos Education Platform Takes “Public” Out Of Public Education

The draft platform–if enacted as national policy–will change the landscape of K-16 public education. Read details at The Washington Post.

by Future U/ May 20, 2017/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Why Are Yale Grad Assistants On A Hunger Strike?

“Yale relies on graduate students and other low-paid contingent faculty to teach. Contingent faculty make up about 70% of teachers …

by Future U/ May 10, 2017/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, News Briefs, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Right-Wing Group Finances Conservative Candidates In Student-Government Campaigns

Read about Turning Point USA in this investigative report from The Chronicle of Higher Education.

by Future U/ May 9, 2017/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Adjuncts At Risk If Republican Health Bill Becomes Law

In higher education it will hurt the most at-risk faculty group. Read more from The Chronicle of Higher Education.

by Future U/ May 7, 2017/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: ‘Idiots’ Believe That Growth Is Always Good–Get Big, Then Bigger

Read Chris Hedges’ provocative essay on what happens “when idiots are in charge.” It’s from TruthDig.

by Future U/ May 6, 2017/ Neoliberalism, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Roundtable On The Future of Neoliberalism

It’s from The Nation. Read more here.

by Future U/ May 5, 2017/ Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: What Corporations Want From Higher Education

“Public higher education embodies the idea that people have a right to an affordable post-secondary education. Entitlement is a danger for the …

by Future U/ May 3, 2017/ Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Treatise On ‘American Authoritarianism”

Read Henry A. Giroux’s essay, published recently in TruthDig and reprinted in LA Progressive.

by Future U/ April 30, 2017/ Articles, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Why ‘Thinking Dangerously’ Is Fundamental To Democracy

In 1947 Hannah Arendt wrote: “People who can no longer believe anything…are deprived not only of the capacity to act, …

by Future U/ April 28, 2017/ Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Is Humanism In Jeopardy?

Achille Mbembe says yes. Read his provocative essay, published recently in The Mail and Guardian.

by Future U/ April 26, 2017/ Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Militarism and Higher Education

Presentation made by Terry Link, faculty emeritus, Michigan State University.

by Future U/ April 25, 2017/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/

PERSPECTIVES: Neoliberalism In African Higher Education

Presentation by Dr. Amy Jamison, Michigan State University

by Future U/ April 24, 2017/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/