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NEWS BRIEFS: National College Enrollment Rates Dropping for Lower-Income Students

In a disturbing trend, data show that college enrollment rates are dropping. Especially troubling is what’s happening to those who …

by Future U/ November 26, 2015/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

ARTICLES: Spending for Major College Sports Reaches All-Time High

In what may be the most comprehensive analysis to date, The Washington Post has published an important article about the …

by Future U/ November 23, 2015/ Articles, Society/

ARTICLES: Neoliberalism’s Onerous Impact on Latinos

Read this excellent article, written by Michigan State’s Andrea Silva, on the socio-dynamics of neoliberalism on America’s Latinos.

by Future U/ November 23, 2015/ Articles, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Faculty Across U.S. Voice Support for Mizzou Students

This essay was signed by a number of U.S. faculty. List comes at the end of the statement. Quote from …

by Future U/ November 21, 2015/ Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Black Studies Suffering on American Campuses

Black Studies programs are suffering across the country. Here’s a story about the decline.

by Future U/ November 21, 2015/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Another College Administrator Resigns — Racial/Ethnic Insensitivity

Students are protesting; administrators are resigning. Read a narrative from a CA college. Unbelievable email response yields a resignation.

by Future U/ November 15, 2015/ News Briefs, Society/

ARTICLE: “The Fall of Neoliberalism”

Provocative article. Read it here.

by Future U/ November 13, 2015/ Articles, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Outgoing Education Secretary Sees Challenges for Higher Ed

Arne Duncan comments in a recent article, published in The New York Times.

by Future U/ November 12, 2015/ Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Dialogue About Race at Yale

At Yale the national conversation about race has become a campus wide topic of discussion.

by Future U/ November 9, 2015/ News Briefs, Society/

PERSPECTIVE: It’s Time for Serious Discussion about Football and Higher Education

Here’s a provocative and timely article–from Trustee Magazine, published by the Association of Governing Boards–about the higher ed-football connection. The author …

by Future U/ November 8, 2015/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Racial Challenges and Student Organizing at Missouri-Columbia

African-American football players have stepped up in response to a series of racially-related incidents on campus. They are asking the …

by Future U/ November 8, 2015/ Articles, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: “The Powell Memo” (1971), Primary Building Block in Neoliberalism as We Know it Today

Read The Powell Memo here. Background (The text here is drawn from Frank Fear’s essay in LA Progressive, March 24, 2016) …

by Future U/ November 2, 2015/ Perspectives, Society/

LITERATURE: The “Managerial Organization,” Implications and Applications to the Health Professions

Read a new article by Paul A Komesaroff, Ian H Kerridge, David Isaacs and Peter M Brooks. The co-authors focus on …

by Future U/ October 31, 2015/ Articles, Society/

LITERATURE: Can Corporations and Democracy Co-Exist?

MSU Professor Emeritus, David Dwyer, calls it “Corporate Parasitology 101,” in a provocative new essay. Dwyer concludes that “to restore the …

by Future U/ October 31, 2015/ Articles, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Neoliberalism and Higher Education

Teresa Córdova is Director, Great Cities Institute, University of Illinois Chicago. Read her Director’s Blog on neoliberalism in higher ed.

by Future U/ October 26, 2015/ Public Higher Ed, Society/