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Here’s the Right Move for America’s Major Sports-Playing Universities

Major college football & basketball are exciting, but what they don't do is connect well to higher education's mission and …

by Frank Fear/ November 28, 2021/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

Oral History Explores a Program and Time When Major College Football Aligned with Higher Education’s Values and Mission

And They Lived Their Lives Accordingly: A Football Story chronicles the lives and experiences–then and since–of players and coaches associated with …

by Frank Fear/ November 18, 2021/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Video/

Beyond Conventional Academic Settings, Creating New Spaces for Faculty Work

Audio and video feed of the FutureU Forum (11/12/21) with Professor Clyde W. Barrow and VP and Dean emeritus Fred …

by Future U/ November 14, 2021/ Audio, Higher Ed, Perspectives, Video/

PERSPECTIVES: When a Great Public University Takes a Left Turn

The headline for this Orlando Sentinal editorial says it plainly: "A Choice for the University of Florida: Academic Freedom or …

by Future U/ November 3, 2021/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Beyond the Job Description, In Praise of Collegiality

Ohio State's Michael S. Weisbach elaborates in this essay published recently in Inside Higher Education.

by Future U/ November 2, 2021/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

VIDEO: Reclaiming Education from Corporate Capture

Featuring Jasmine Banks, Exec Director, UnKoch My Campus, and Prof Sharon Kirsch, co-founder, Save our Schools AZ.

by Future U/ October 10, 2021/ Education, Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

AUDIOCAST: Reclaiming Education from Corporate Capture

Featuring Jasmine Banks and Sharon Kirsch.

by Future U/ October 9, 2021/ Audio, Education, Higher Ed, Perspectives, Podcast, Society/

Sign the Petition: President Biden Promised $10k Student Debt Cancellation, But….

Sign the Change.org petition now!

by Future U/ October 7, 2021/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Neoliberalism’s Stealth-Like Character Revealed in this Academic Study

"Neoliberalism and neoliberal initiatives may be tied to faculty behaviors in a subtle and covert way."

by Future U/ October 1, 2021/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives/

PERSPECTIVES: Political Chatter Won’t Put a Good Roof Over on Our Public Schools

Useless noise manufactured to gain political advantage keeps us from addressing and solving major issues.

by Roger Barbee/ September 30, 2021/ Education, Perspectives, Society/

Next FutureU Forum: What UnKochMyCampus is Doing to Counter Politically Motivated Philanthropy

FutureU is pleased to welcome Jasmine Banks, executive director, and Professor Sharon J. Kirsch, Arizona State University.

by Future U/ September 29, 2021/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: “Universities Are Not Static Places; They Live and Breathe, Grow and Change, and Reinvent Themselves with New Energy and Approaches.”

Rebecca M. Blank, Chancellor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, responds to criticism written about her institution.

by Future U/ September 26, 2021/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/

PERSPECTIVES: “Mountain of Evidence that Both Students and Teachers Find Exposure to Critical History Enhances Teaching and Learning”

"If we care about effective historical teaching and learning, it is time that we made educational policy based on evidence …

by Future U/ September 25, 2021/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Elementary School to be Named Today After Former MSU Dean and Civil Rights Leader

Elaine Hardy in The State News: “Black people that lived in East Lansing and bought homes likely through white proxy-buyers, …

by Future U/ September 24, 2021/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

VIDEO: Discussion of New Book, “In the Struggle: Scholars and the Fight Against Industrial Agribusiness in California”

Watch co-authors Daniel J. O’Connell and Scott J. Peters discuss their new book, In the Struggle: Scholars and the Fight Against Industrial Agriculture …

by Future U/ September 21, 2021/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/