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PERSPECTIVES: Capitulation and Appeasement Trump Higher Education’s Presumed Commitment to Dialogue and Change

"It appears that the last thing the university wants is for students to 'create change' and 'make a difference.'”

by Future U/ October 28, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

COMMENTARY by Adrian Lenardic: “In the Court of the Neo-U”

Overnight, the administration started referring to itself as Executive Leadership. The word ‘administration’ was struck from all messaging . Then, the …

by Adrian Lenardic/ October 25, 2024/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives/

PERSPECTIVES: SMU’s Malesic, “Students Who Don’t Read are Responding Rationally to the Vision of Professional Life Our Society Sells Them”

"Nationwide, college professors report steep declines in students’ willingness and ability to read on their own."

by Future U/ October 24, 2024/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society, Teaching/

COMMENTARY: It’s Time to Apply the Exclusionary Provision of the Kalven Report

"The academic enterprise demands we defend students, faculty, and the freedom that makes educational work possible."

by Future U/ October 23, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: On the State of Faculty Unions in America

Despite the upward trend, "faculty members in more than a third of states lack union representation."

by Future U/ October 19, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

PERSPECTIVES: Getting It Wrong About the University of Michigan’s DEI Efforts

"The New York Times denigrated the work of those committed to making a more just Michigan."

by Future U/ October 18, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Like Night is Different From Day So Are Trump and Harris When It Comes to Higher Education

"Trump has said in recent rallies that he wants to eliminate the Education Department and transfer responsibilities to the states." …

by Future U/ October 15, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Academics and Higher Education at Risk

"U.S, lawmakers have pushed legislation intended to limit teaching/research in race, diversity, equity, inclusion, and gender."

by Future U/ October 14, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: If Reading is Fundamental, Why Are Many College Students Flummoxed by Book Assignments?

"Daniel Shore, chair of Georgetown’s English department, told me that students have trouble staying focused on even a sonnet."

by Future U/ October 13, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: True or False … College Sororities Could Play an Outsized Role in the Presidential Election

"Kamala Harris is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., the oldest African American sorority, with 300,000 members,"

by Future U/ October 12, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Corporate Collusion? (Yeah, It Happens.) Price-Fixing in Higher Ed? (Got to Be Kidding!)

Filed by a Boston U student and a Cornell U alumn, the filing alleges rigging the system to raise tuition …

by Future U/ October 11, 2024/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Claiming “Institutional Neutrality” for the Right Reasons?

"Having the university itself stay silent encourages free faculty and student expression, debate and research."

by Future U/ October 10, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

COMMENTARY: Authoritarians Render Havoc Across Sectors, Including Higher Education

Anand Giridharadas: “America stares openly at an anti-democratic movement, flirts with fascism, and talks about dictatorship. Half of America says, …

by Frank Fear/ September 29, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society, Video/

PERSPECTIVES: Private Equity–Higher Ed Partner, Owner, or Both?

A long-time owner of for-profit higher ed, when will private equity become a major "partner" in public/private higher ed?

by Future U/ September 14, 2024/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Howes Lays Bare MSU’s Obstreperous Culture

"Institutions as dysfunctional as MSU don't get that way by accident. They get that way by choice."

by Future U/ September 13, 2024/ Higher Ed, MSU, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/