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PERSPECTIVES: Paying The Price For Campus Upheaval, University of Missouri, Columbia

Freshman enrollment is down significantly, especially among African Americans. Read more here.

by Future U/ July 11, 2017/ Articles, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Colleges “Embed” Staff To Address Student Issues

Does the potential outcome justify the practice? You decide. Read more here.

by Future U/ July 11, 2017/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Another Roll Back Proposed By Trump Administration — Sexual Assault Reporting

It’s never right to lo0k the other way. Especially now. Read more here.

by Future U/ July 7, 2017/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Chomsky On Philosophy And Social Change In The Era Of Trump

He doesn’t mince words. Read more here from The New York Times.

by Future U/ July 6, 2017/ Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Selingo, “Undergraduate Education Is Broken”

Jeff Selingo’s provocative piece was published recently in The Washington Post.

by Future U/ July 4, 2017/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Higher Education And “The Inequality Of Opportunity”

The conversation about income inequality needs to be supplanted by a conversation about the inequality of opportunity. Steven Pearlstein comments.

by Future U/ July 3, 2017/ Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Trinity Controversy Perculates Through Higher Education

PERSPECTIVES: How Might UMich’s Free Tuition Plan Affect Student Performance?

Speculation abounds about the impact of Michigan’s GoBlue Guarantee. Read more here (from The Detroit Free Press.) Readers’ Comments speak …

by Future U/ July 1, 2017/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Deans Comment On Higher Education’s Future

Jeff Selingo reports and analyzes the results. It’s from The Front Row.

by Future U/ June 30, 2017/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: University Of The Future Looks Like … ?

Forbes projects an answer. Read more here.

by Future U/ June 29, 2017/ Articles, Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Helping College Students Cope With Failure

Private colleges and universities invest significantly in undergrad students. Here’s one area of investment: helping highly successful students cope with …

by Future U/ June 26, 2017/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Schools Grapple With Diverse Viewpoints On Campus

“The best education we can provide…is for students to hear diverse points of view–even if they feel uncomfortable,” Provost David …

by Future U/ June 25, 2017/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Malcolm Gladwell Takes On Philanthropy That Swells Billion-Dollar University Endowments

Gladwell tweeted (6/15): “If billionaires don’t step up, Harvard will soon be down to its last $30 billion.” Gladwell elaborates in …

by Future U/ June 23, 2017/ Audio, Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/

PERSPECTIVES: Why Well-Endowed Private Universities Aren’t Private

Tax exemptions and tax deductions are the reason. Read more in this research report from Nexus Research and Policy Center.

by Future U/ June 22, 2017/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: On Truthiness, Post-Truth, And How We Get To Know

“Analytic evaluations are cognitive taxing…intuitive evaluations are less taxing,” Lynn Vavreck, UCLA. Beware of what’s called social consensus. Read more

by Future U/ June 21, 2017/ Perspectives, Society/