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NEWS BRIEFS: Protest, You Ask? Yes, Say Many Incoming College Students

Results of a UCLA survey documents a rising level of student activism. Read more here.

by Future U/ February 13, 2016/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Are College Students Becoming More Liberally Intolerant?

A recently conducted survey of students says yes. Read more here.

by Future U/ February 13, 2016/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: How Much Is Too Much? Hedge Funds and Higher Education Endowments

Read more here. Close to our home: “Michigan State University, with its $2.3 billion endowment, said its hedge fund allocation …

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

NEW BRIEFS: UC Berkeley Faces Budget Deficit

Important choices and trade-offs are being made at one of California’s flagship university. Read more here.

by Future U/ February 11, 2016/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Athletics and Campus Sexual Assaults at Tennessee and Baylor

Accusations of “deliberate indifference” at Tennessee…and a candlelight protest at Baylor….

by Future U/ February 10, 2016/ News Briefs, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: College Readiness of Low-Income Students Stagnates

Read details in a new report from Inside Higher Education.

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

NEWS BRIEFS: Situation at Mount St. Mary’s Turns Collegiate Governance On Its Head

Outrageous in substance and frightening in scope, this president is firing faculty for being disloyal. Read details from Insider Higher Education.

by Future U/ February 10, 2016/ News Briefs, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: With Enrollments and Profits Down, U. of Phoenix Becomes Privately Held Company

In the world of for-profit education “Caveat Emptor” has multiple meanings. Read more here.

by Future U/ February 9, 2016/ News Briefs, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Responding to Campus Crises, Many Universities Rediscover the Importance of Race

What happened at Missouri, Yale, and other campuses is motivating many schools to elevate campus matters about race.

by Future U/ February 8, 2016/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: US Dept. of Ed Identifies High Value Schools for Low-Income Families

All but three schools on the list–GA Tech, Mich, and UVA–are high-profile private institutions. Read more here.

by Future U/ February 8, 2016/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: The Fight to Clean Up For-Profit Higher Ed

“One for-profit college charges $53k for a degree in dental hygiene that costs 1/6th as much at the state’s public colleges.” Read …

by Future U/ February 7, 2016/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Reconfiguring College, Making It Short and Sweet

“College has a lot in common with your cable TV package, according to Michael Horn, a principal consultant at innovation agency Entangled Solutions…. Some students …

by Future U/ February 7, 2016/ News Briefs, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: When It Comes to Faculty Work and Extension, The More Things Change, The More They Remain the Same

What’s the connection between Extension & the faculty reward system? The answer–at the root of a reform movement that began in …

by Future U/ February 5, 2016/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Adjuncts in Homeless Shelters? Yes.

It’s time to have a national conversation about the plight of adjuncts. Why? Read here.

by Future U/ February 4, 2016/ News Briefs, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Profile of Student Debt By Field of Study

Read the results of a Washington Post study of debt carried by academic field of study.

by Future U/ February 3, 2016/ News Briefs, Society/

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