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PERSPECTIVES: Transparency? Ah, Just Let Me Do My Job!

Purdue’s Mitch Daniels tells us all we need to know about how this university president feels about oversight. Read more …

by Future U/ August 16, 2018/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

“My advisor argued that I needed to maybe begin toning it down because what I needed right now is science publications …

by Future U/ August 15, 2018/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

The football culture at College Park has been called “toxic.” Read more from ESPN.

by Future U/ August 12, 2018/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

Although personal responsibility is admirable and needed, Martin Lucaks says it can detract activists’ attention from what should be their …

by Future U/ August 10, 2018/ Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

Auden wrote Under Which Lyre in 1946, delivering it publicly at Harvard University. His poem has worn well over the years. …

by Future U/ August 9, 2018/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

“About 3 million students on campus this fall will be sexually assaulted during their college years.” Read more at USA …

by Future U/ August 8, 2018/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

UVA’s Daniel and Wellmon believe higher ed has run amok. “The university is what it is today, in part, because …

by Future U/ August 7, 2018/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

If OSU fires Urban Meyer it won’t be the first time that the university has terminated the contracts of championship-level …

by Future U/ August 4, 2018/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

When does use become overuse and, then, abuse? Here’s an investigative report from Denver’s FOX31 TV.

by Future U/ July 28, 2018/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

Higher ed presumably prepares students for engaging in civic life. But does it? Andrew J. Seligsohn and Thomas Erhlich think not but they say …

by Future U/ July 23, 2018/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

“In defending its policy allowing the concealed carry of handguns in classrooms, the Univ. of Texas has taken a surprising …

by Future U/ July 19, 2018/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

Even though America has an abundance of higher ed choices, there are “education deserts,” too (that is, no public college/university …

by Future U/ July 18, 2018/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

A watchdog group? A student group? It’s different…and more. Read an investigative report published by The Nation.

by Future U/ July 11, 2018/ Neoliberalism, News Briefs, Perspectives, Society/

Within days of ending her tenure as Harvard’s president, Drew Gilpin Faust was appointed to the Goldman Sachs board. Penn’s …

by Future U/ July 10, 2018/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/