PERSPECTIVES: What’s Contributing to College Costs? Harvard economics professor, N. Gregory Mankiw, comments. by Future U/ December 19, 2015/ Perspectives, Society/
PERSPECTIVES: Did Academic Freedom Cross a Line? A case at Florida Atlantic U. raises questions about if and when the right to inquiry conflicts with “common decency.” by Future U/ December 18, 2015/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/
PERSPECTIVES: Life, Liberty, and The Right to Pack a Gun At Liberty University a “call to arms” refers to higher ed & guns. by Future U/ December 18, 2015/ Perspectives, Society/
PERSPECTIVES: Missouri Bill Seeks to Restrict Free Speech, Compromise Democracy Two Missouri legislators introduced a bill in response to athletes’ activism at the University of Missouri. Read Kevin Blackistone’s commentary here. by Future U/ December 17, 2015/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/
PERSPECTIVES: Many Colleges Aren’t as Diverse As They Seem Why? At many schools students have an affinity to gather with like-students. Read an Op Ed about the issue here. by Future U/ December 15, 2015/ Perspectives, Society/
PERSPECTIVES: In College … Homeless, Hungry Read SARA GOLDRICK-RAB and KATHARINE M. BROTON’s NYTs Op Ed about a terrible issue that needs to be addressed: no … by Future U/ December 8, 2015/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/
PERSPECTIVES: One Way to Reduce Inequality in America’s Higher Ed … Eliminate the Ivy League Well, not really. It’s about making changes in how Ivy schools operate and what America’s tax laws enable. Read the details … by Future U/ December 7, 2015/ Perspectives, Society/
PERSPECTIVES: The Rich And Others at Duke, Possible Connections Tuition at Duke is $10k more per year than the median income of Durham, NC, where the school is located. … by Future U/ December 7, 2015/ Perspectives, Society/
NEWS BRIEFS: Study Finds Wealthy Americans To Be Conservative, With Highest Earners Even More Conservative Big surprise? No. Read about the details. by Future U/ December 7, 2015/ Perspectives, Society/
PERSPECTIVES: How to Address the Surplus of Ph.D.’s Here are two interesting articles–one more about the state of affairs and, the other, what to do about it. … by Future U/ December 7, 2015/ Perspectives, Society/
PERSPECTIVES: What Has Happened to Academe’s “Public Intellectual”? Read an update from the author of a 1987 book, The Last Intellectual. Back then, Russell Jacoby wrote that, unlike … by Future U/ December 7, 2015/ Perspectives, Society/
PERSPECTIVES: Why Care About Tenure? Caroline Levine, English chair at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, answers the question. Read her eloquent response here. by Future U/ December 3, 2015/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/
PERSPECTIVES: How to Run a Public University Mark Funkhouser, former KC mayor, offers interesting (and provocative) observations. He make this point: “The lands granted by the federal Morrill … by Future U/ December 3, 2015/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/
PERSPECTIVES: AAUP Presidential Address on the Corporatization of Higher Education Well worth the read: what higher ed has become, why it’s a problem, and what we can do to respond. by Future U/ November 30, 2015/ Articles, Perspectives/
PERSPECTIVES: Campus Protests and Free Speech, The Balance The situation at Amherst is worth following. by Future U/ November 30, 2015/ Perspectives, Society/