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NEWS BRIEFS: New York State Proposes Tuition-Free College Plan

To be rolled out over 3 years, the plan offers free tuition at state colleges/universities for qualifying families. Read more …

by Future U/ January 4, 2017/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Columbia University Protests Grad Student Union Vote

“CU said that tactics, like voter coercion, may have tipped the balance. The National Labor Relations Board should invalidate the …

by Future U/ December 28, 2016/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: One Way To Jump-Start Saving for College

Read about a pilot program in NYC designed to stimulate college savings. The story is from The New York Times.

by Future U/ December 26, 2016/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: New Allegations Emerge in Nassar Case, Mich St. Sued

“A former Michigan State softball player sued the university and former MSU doctor Larry Nassar, alleging she was sexually abused …

by Future U/ December 22, 2016/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Rutgers, Like Georgetown, Confronts Its Slavery-Related Past

NEWS BRIEFS: Columbia U Grad Students Vote To Unionize

NEWS BRIEFS: Princeton Suspends Team’s Season for Circulating Misogynistic And Racist Materials

It’s the second Ivy League school (Harvard, the other) to take action against misguided athletes: men’s soccer at Harvard, men’s …

by Future U/ December 17, 2016/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

NEW BRIEFS: Public College Affordability in California … Things Have Changed

AS PUBLISHED IN THE NEW YORK TIMES on December 9, 2016 Since the lofty idealism of the 1960s, the goal …

by Future U/ December 12, 2016/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Trump Supporters Need Campus Safe Spaces, Too

NEWS BRIEFS: Wisconsin Regents Approve Tenure Policies Opposed By Faculty

There’s yet another feature associated with the neoliberal assault on higher education in Wisconsin. Read more from The Chronicle of Higher Education.

by Future U/ December 10, 2016/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Shifting Actions Toward US Flag At Hampshire College Yield Diverse Responses

Post-election, the flag on the main flagpole was lowered to half-staff, burned, and later removed altogether–with considerable response, on-campus and -off. …

by Future U/ December 3, 2016/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/