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FUTUREU VIDEO: A Well-Funded, Coordinated Attack from the Right is Corrupting Higher Education. Here’s How.

With Professors Isaac Kamola of Trinity College and Bethany Letiecq of George Mason University (July 13, 2021) YouTube video below. …

by Future U/ July 15, 2021/ Audio, Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society, Video/

MSU’s Cantwell: “Identifying/Rectifying Racism and Other Injustices on Campus Ultimately Rests with Executives who Lead Colleges”

Brendan Cantwell writing in The Chronicle of Higher Education: “Leaders who shrink from the moment won’t spare their campuses cultural strife …

by Future U/ July 14, 2021/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: There’s More to the Hannah-Jones Story. It Has to Do with Her New Home, Howard U.

It’s about how the University treats non-tenure-track faculty. HU Prof Imani Light writes: “Three years ago, the full-time faculty who …

by Future U/ July 13, 2021/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

PERSPECTIVES: Did MSU President Flip Flop on Requiring Vaccinations?

From the CITY PULSE: “Stanley’s refusal to mandate vaccines also appears to contradict a 2015 blog he wrote for Huffington Post that …

by Future U/ July 10, 2021/ MSU, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: In Higher Ed PR, “The Language of Hype Violates the Language of Truth”

“The deeper problem…is not illogic but tawdriness and lack of character.” Read more from The Chronicle of Higher Education in …

by Future U/ July 9, 2021/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: What Can Universities Do To Protect Free Speech?

Watch this leadership video on YouTube produced by the University of Tennessee System and featuring guest speaker, Prof. Isaac Kamola.

by Future U/ July 8, 2021/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society, Video/

PERSPECTIVES: How Koch Network Money Infiltrates American Colleges and Universities

Catherine Read talks with Professor Bethany Letiecq about the undue influence of the Koch Brothers on certain universities with George …

by Future U/ July 7, 2021/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society, Video/

PERSPECTIVES: FIRE, AAUP Clash on Free Speech at U. Oklahoma

Groups take opposing stands in response to the approach taken during an in-service education program for faculty. Read how and …

by Future U/ July 4, 2021/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

PERSPECTIVES: “If You Could Design a College/University From Scratch, What Would It Look Like?”

Tyler Cowen answers his own question. No tenure, he replies. Read his full account as published in Bloomberg Opinion.

by Future U/ July 3, 2021/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

PERSPECTIVES: College and University Rankings, Fetishized: Malcolm Gladwell’s Podcast

Gladwell calls it, ‘The Lord of the Rankings,” and it propelled U.S. News & World Report from ‘just another’ national …

by Future U/ July 1, 2021/ Audio, Higher Ed, Perspectives, Podcast/

Reminder: College Coaches Are Educators

Failures have consequences and that was on display last week in Omaha at baseball’s College World Series.

by Roger Barbee/ June 27, 2021/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Of Course, Academic Freedom Needs Protecting. But How?

Chicago’s Tom Ginsburg asserts: “Colleges must institutionalize the protection of academic freedom by devoting resources to training, establishing standards, and …

by Future U/ June 26, 2021/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

NEW BOOK: “Racial Healing in This Nation Can Only Occur Through a True Examination of America’s History”

In her new book, A Time for Change: How While Supremacy Ideology Harms All Americans, Dr. Martha R. Bireda “provides an …

by Future U/ June 20, 2021/ Education, Perspectives, Podcast, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: ‘Divisive Concepts’ and the Problem of Racism

Addressing systemic racism requires going beyond group-centric interests and focusing on transforming existing structures and processes into equitable and inclusive practices. On September …

by Ruben Martinez/ June 19, 2021/ Education, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Free Speech and the Warren Court

Professor Jérôme Viala-Gaudefroy’s commentary on free speech in America was published earlier this year in The Conversation. Professor Henry Kalven’s …

by Future U/ June 16, 2021/ Perspectives, Society/