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PERSPECTIVES: Collegiate Dilemma, Maintaining Program Quality While Increasing Grad Rates

It’s more easily said than done, especially when state legislators are putting pressure on public schools to increase graduation rates. …

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

The draft platform–if enacted as national policy–will change the landscape of K-16 public education. Read details at The Washington Post.

by Future U/ May 20, 2017/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

Learn more about “the discount rate,” which is a really important matter for balancing the books at private colleges and …

by Future U/ May 19, 2017/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

Data show that many of the seemingly least attractive majors (from an immediate ROI perspective)–like social work and education–may pay …

by Future U/ May 18, 2017/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

Is Bethune-Cookman an example? Read this commentary published recently in USAToday.

by Future U/ May 16, 2017/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

Enrollment is up by 33% & Fed student loan debt is down in TN because of The Tennessee Promise, the …

by Future U/ May 15, 2017/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

Read this review (video included)–supported by national data–published in USA Today.

by Future U/ May 13, 2017/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society, Video/

Data suggest yes. Why? Financial assistance targets lower-income families. Upper-income families don’t need help. Those in the middle are squeezed. …

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

Opinion is from a commentary by Susan Dynarski, Univ. of Michigan, published recently in The New York Times.

by Future U/ May 8, 2017/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

It’s from The Nation. Read more here.

by Future U/ May 5, 2017/ Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

“Public higher education embodies the idea that people have a right to an affordable post-secondary education. Entitlement is a danger for the …

by Future U/ May 3, 2017/ Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

Today’s trumped up circumstance ratchets up politicization to an all-time high. What to make of it? What to do? Read …

by Future U/ May 2, 2017/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

“Impostor syndrome is often a factor in the relationship between discrimination & depression and anxiety.” Read more from USAToday.

by Future U/ May 1, 2017/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/

Read Henry A. Giroux’s essay, published recently in TruthDig and reprinted in LA Progressive.

by Future U/ April 30, 2017/ Articles, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

In 1947 Hannah Arendt wrote: “People who can no longer believe anything…are deprived not only of the capacity to act, …

by Future U/ April 28, 2017/ Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/