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PERSPECTIVES: How to Address the Surplus of Ph.D.’s

Here are two interesting articles–one more about the state of affairs and, the other, what to do about it. …

by Future U/ December 7, 2015/ Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: What Has Happened to Academe’s “Public Intellectual”?

Read an update from the author of a 1987 book, The Last Intellectual. Back then, Russell Jacoby wrote that, unlike …

by Future U/ December 7, 2015/ Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Why Care About Tenure?

Caroline Levine, English chair at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, answers the question. Read her eloquent response here.

by Future U/ December 3, 2015/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/

PERSPECTIVES: How to Run a Public University

Mark Funkhouser, former KC mayor, offers interesting (and provocative) observations. He make this point: “The lands granted by the federal Morrill …

by Future U/ December 3, 2015/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/

PERSPECTIVES: AAUP Presidential Address on the Corporatization of Higher Education

Well worth the read: what higher ed has become, why it’s a problem, and what we can do to respond.

by Future U/ November 30, 2015/ Articles, Perspectives/

PERSPECTIVES: Campus Protests and Free Speech, The Balance

The situation at Amherst is worth following.

by Future U/ November 30, 2015/ Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Really Big Money in Politics, Implications for Higher Education

The political realities can’t be viewed as irrelevant for higher education. What higher education is and does cannot be seen apart from the resources required. …

by Future U/ November 30, 2015/ Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Ruben Martinez on the Meaning of “Freedom”

PERSPECTIVES: Future U? Findings from a National Poll

What might the faculty look like in 2050? That question was explored by Adrianna Kezar and Elizabeth Holcombe in a …

by Future U/ November 26, 2015/ Articles, Perspectives/

PERSPECTIVES: Comprehensive View of the Plight of Adjuncts Nationally

Justin Miller of The American Prospect does an excellent job of describing how contingent faculty are managing a life situation defined …

by Future U/ November 23, 2015/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/

PERSPECTIVES: Concerns Expressed at Michigan State Regarding Stagnation of Black Studies

Read the article here. Quote from the article: “MSU had 122 black faculty members in the fall of 1994. In …

by Future U/ November 22, 2015/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/

PERSPECTIVES: Faculty Across U.S. Voice Support for Mizzou Students

This essay was signed by a number of U.S. faculty. List comes at the end of the statement. Quote from …

by Future U/ November 21, 2015/ Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Black Studies Suffering on American Campuses

Black Studies programs are suffering across the country. Here’s a story about the decline.

by Future U/ November 21, 2015/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Brian Matzke on the “Adjunctification” of Higher Ed

University of Michigan’s Brian Matzke wrote this blog after reflecting on the neoliberal conference experience at MSU.

by Future U/ November 20, 2015/ Perspectives/

PERSPECTIVES: Black Lives Matter on Campus

Here’s an excellent article written by Olivia Davis, an undergraduate student at Occidental College (Los Angeles).

by Future U/ November 16, 2015/ Perspectives/