Society Archive

PERSPECTIVES: ‘Mo’ Money’: Women Alums Of Elite Colleges Earnings Advantage

Andrew Van Dam tells why in this report from The Washington Post.

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

NEWS BRIEFS: Nassar Victims To MSU: ‘Restart Healing Assistance Fund’

Pleas were made at Friday’s meeting of the MSU Board of Trustees. Read more from The Lansing State Journal.

by Future U/ December 15, 2018/ MSU, News Briefs, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Temple Trustees Condemn Prof. Hill’s Remarks

“The trustees expressed their ‘disappointment, displeasure, and disagreement with’ Hill’s (U.N.) remarks” regarding Israel and the Palestinians. Read more from …

by Future U/ December 12, 2018/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: ‘You’ve Got Mail!’ For A University President, That’s Not Always Good News

Ohio State president, Michael Drake, received salvos from both sides of the controversy regarding whether he should suspend the head …

by Future U/ December 11, 2018/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Michigan’s Strategy For Increasing Enrollment Of Higher-Performing, Lower-Income Students

And what a simple strategy it is…once a university makes the financial commitment….

by Future U/ December 10, 2018/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: When Fundraising And Scandal Collide In Higher Education

Inside Higher Education reports on what it has been like at institutions that are experiencing the interface. Read more here.

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

PERSPECTIVES: MSU’s ‘Healing Assistance Fund’–What It Is, Why It Was Terminated

Read about it in ESPNW.

by Future U/ December 8, 2018/ MSU, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: MSU’s Bait-And-Switch Move

“At a time when MSU needs to rebuild trust and heal its shattered reputation, breaking a promise to survivors of …

by Future U/ December 7, 2018/ MSU, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: CNN Fires Marc Lamont Hill, Temple U. Prof, For Comments At U.N. About “Freeing Palestine”

Here is the story (from The Washington Post) with commentaries by professors Juan Cole and Cornel West.

by Future U/ December 2, 2018/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: It’s Time To Invest In Campus Security Through Access Control Technology

From 2020 Vision Technology: Dangers lurk for students who live on-campus and in off-campus accommodations. Safeguards are needed.

by Future U/ November 29, 2018/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: New Book Explores Mission Drift Among Land Grant Universities

“Evidence of this skewed way of thinking about our reasons for existence as a land-grant university is on full display when …

by Future U/ November 28, 2018/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: History, The Vanishing Major

Inside Higher Education’s Colleen Flaherty offers numbers and commentary. Read more here.

by Future U/ November 27, 2018/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Taking Your Scholarship Public

Iowa’s Brady Krien comments in Inside Higher Education.

by Future U/ November 25, 2018/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Have Public Universities Become Public-Private Hybrid Institutions?

In the Pennsylvania Public Higher Education system, almost 75% of operating funds come outside of state budget allocations–even though 90% …

by Future U/ November 24, 2018/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Chris Hedges On Neoliberalism

“The great thing about freedom of the market is it appears to be egalitarian, but there is nothing more unequal …

by Future U/ November 23, 2018/ Articles, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/