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PERSPECTIVES: Altered Focus Permeates Today’s Undergraduate Education

"Let’s demand that our institutions take steps to raise the quality of an undergraduate education."

by Future U/ August 4, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

"The latest phase of greedy mayhem left the Pac-12 dangling, jeopardizing the identity of football on the West Coast."

by Future U/ August 2, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/

"Academic freedom is a core American value. We must defend it — unequivocally and without exception."

by Future U/ August 1, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

Ok for schools to discriminate in favor of white students but efforts to diversify the student body are not.

by Future U/ July 31, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

"We need to reaffirm the value of an education that goes beyond career preparation."

by Future U/ July 27, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

"Michigan college grads are moving to (places like) Atlanta, Denver, Houston, and Seattle for employment/lifestyle opportunities."

by Future U/ July 25, 2023/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

"SB 83 is just one of many bills targeting academia produced by statehouses in recent years."

by Future U/ July 24, 2023/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

"Republican leaders are putting forward pragmatic higher education reforms." (Really?)

by Future U/ July 16, 2023/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

Is bigger better?

by Future U/ July 15, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

"Enrollment declines are largely due to steep drops at regional public schools, which in many cases are -50% since 2010."

by Future U/ July 13, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/

"Hazing in football isn't first athletic scandal at Northwestern. University leaders did not deliver, and here we are again."

by Future U/ July 12, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

"Like any neoliberal marketplace, the only value that matters is accumulating currency with as little cost as possible."

by George Styles and J.W. Traphagan/ July 7, 2023/ Perspectives, Society/

"Also contributing to cost are administrative overhead and the student amenities arms race."

by Future U/ July 3, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

"Those who believe in historic values have propped up the edifice. They are under siege with too few to resist."

by Future U/ July 2, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

John Patrick Hunt, law professor, UC Davis: "Broad applications of executive power are vulnerable under this Supreme Court.”

by Future U/ July 1, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/