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NEWS BRIEFS: University of Mississippi Students Seek Change

Student leaders at the University of Mississippi have organized in opposition to flying the state flag on campus. The opposition …

by Future U/ October 22, 2015/ News Briefs/

The British publication Times Higher Education reports that Education Minister Hakuban Shimomura recently sent a letter to all 86 of …

by msuspartan/ September 16, 2015/ News Briefs/

Do universities have football teams or do football teams have unversities? Washington Post reviewer Carlos Lozada argues that even diehard …

by msuspartan/ August 22, 2015/ News Briefs/

Victor Fleischer, a professor of law at the University of San Diego, questions why universities do not use the proceeds …

by msuspartan/ August 20, 2015/ News Briefs/

On her show on National Public Radio, Diane Rehm tackled the issue of college debt and what the presidential candidates …

by msuspartan/ August 17, 2015/ News Briefs/

The subtitle to William Deresiewicz’ August cover story is “how college sold its soul to the market.” (Click here to …

by msuspartan/ August 17, 2015/ News Briefs/

Professor Rosalind Gill of Kings College London explores how the pressures of the neoliberal university often leave faculty dealing with …

by msuspartan/ August 10, 2015/ News Briefs/

In the New York Review of Books, Andrew Delbanco argues that the historical story of expanding opportunities through higher education …

by msuspartan/ August 10, 2015/ News Briefs/

Hunter Rawlings, president of the Association of American Universities and a former president of Cornell University and the University of …

by msuspartan/ July 20, 2015/ News Briefs/