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PERSPECTIVES: Higher Ed and ‘The Meritocracy,” What’s the Connection?

The New Yorker’s Lewis Menand explores the question in this far-reaching commentary. Read more here.

by Future U/ September 27, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: How ‘Degree Inflation’ Is Fueling the Student Debt Crisis

You’ve no doubt heard it before, “a college degree today is like what a high school used to be.” That’s …

by Future U/ September 24, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Good Teaching and Good Public Leadership, The Connection

USC’s Prof. Viet Thanh Nguyen offers insightful connections. Read it at the New York Times.

by Future U/ September 23, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Students Strike for Action on Climate Change … and More

Jamie Margolin is a 17-year-old high school senior, founder of The Zero Hour. Her essay was published in The New York …

by Future U/ September 20, 2019/ Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Headline in the Chicago Tribune, ‘Sad Saga at MSU Won’t End’ (recent story, nah, it’s from 1994)

Twenty-five years later most of the principals are gone except for two who have figured prominently in the current era–Ferguson …

by Future U/ September 19, 2019/ MSU, Perspectives/

PERSPECTIVES: An Alternative View to Michigan’s Public Ed’s Funding Plight

James Hohman, fiscal policy director, Mackinac Center for Public Policy writes: “Stop pleading poverty, Michigan colleges. Taxpayers are plenty generous.” …

by Future U/ September 18, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

PERSPECTIVES: When Privilege Affects the Public Policy Debate

As the struggle continues to find public policy solutions to the neo-plantation, neo-sweatshop nature of revenue-producing college sports, Tim Tebow …

by Future U/ September 16, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Insiders Blow Whistle on President’s Self-Dealing at Liberty University

“In interviews over the past eight months, they depicted how Falwell and his wife, Becki, consolidated power at Liberty University …

by Future U/ September 10, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

PERSPECTIVES: Berkeley Dean Speaks Out re Bill Before California Legislature

If it becomes law, California SB 206 would enable a student-athlete to earn compensation as a result of the use …

by Future U/ September 7, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

PERSPECTIVES: In Public Higher Ed Funding, Michigan Ranks in the Bottom 10 Nationally

“Michigan ranks 44th nationally in per resident support for higher education at $195.52 compared to a national average of $280.60.” …

by Future U/ September 5, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

PERSPECTIVES: Beyond Tuition: College at What Cost?

Hua Hsu reviews Caitlin Zaloom’s new book, Indebted. Read more at The New Yorker.

by Future U/ September 2, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: New Book on Free Speech Shows How Far We Need To Go

Sarah Carr on Michael Roth’s, Safe Enough Spaces: Shining examples of campuses that balance inclusion with diverse ideas are few …

by Future U/ September 1, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: An Alternative to ‘Free College for All”

William & Mary economist David H. Feldman offers his four-plank alternative in USAToday.

by Future U/ August 31, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Are Income Sharing Agreements All That They Are Cracked Up To Be?

“I’m very worried for students,” said Julie Margetta Morgan of the Roosevelt Institute. Read more from CNBC

by Future U/ August 26, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Major Universities Would Never Operate This Way! (when it comes to football & men’s basketball, they do)

“Nowhere else in the world is there a major college sports system like ours. There are definitely good things about …

by Future U/ August 25, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/