NEWS BRIEFS: First-Year College Admissions Drop, Interest Rises in Skill Trades
"Public & private nonprofit 4-year institutions had the largest decreases in frosh enrollment (-8.5% and -6.5%, respectively)."
Society Archive
PERSPECTIVES: SMU’s Malesic, “Students Who Don’t Read are Responding Rationally to the Vision of Professional Life Our Society Sells Them”
"Nationwide, college professors report steep declines in students’ willingness and ability to read on their own."
October 24, 2024/
Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society, Teaching/
COMMENTARY: It’s Time to Apply the Exclusionary Provision of the Kalven Report
"The academic enterprise demands we defend students, faculty, and the freedom that makes educational work possible."
October 23, 2024/
Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/
NEWS BRIEFS: One Way for Schools to Conceal Information? Exorbitant FOIA Charges
The student's mother: “I feel like we’re fighting the school that’s fighting us ... and it’s just not fair,”
October 21, 2024/
Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/
PERSPECTIVES: Getting It Wrong About the University of Michigan’s DEI Efforts
"The New York Times denigrated the work of those committed to making a more just Michigan."
October 18, 2024/
Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/
NEWS BRIEFS: In Highly Politicized America, Is It Any Wonder that Politics Affect College Choices?
"One reason is that most college-bound students don’t see themselves as particularly partisan."
October 16, 2024/
Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/
PERSPECTIVES: Like Night is Different From Day So Are Trump and Harris When It Comes to Higher Education
"Trump has said in recent rallies that he wants to eliminate the Education Department and transfer responsibilities to the states." …
October 15, 2024/
Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/
PERSPECTIVES: Academics and Higher Education at Risk
"U.S, lawmakers have pushed legislation intended to limit teaching/research in race, diversity, equity, inclusion, and gender."
October 14, 2024/
Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/
PERSPECTIVES: If Reading is Fundamental, Why Are Many College Students Flummoxed by Book Assignments?
"Daniel Shore, chair of Georgetown’s English department, told me that students have trouble staying focused on even a sonnet."
October 13, 2024/
Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/
PERSPECTIVES: True or False … College Sororities Could Play an Outsized Role in the Presidential Election
"Kamala Harris is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., the oldest African American sorority, with 300,000 members,"
October 12, 2024/
Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/
NEWS BRIEFS: Corporate Collusion? (Yeah, It Happens.) Price-Fixing in Higher Ed? (Got to Be Kidding!)
Filed by a Boston U student and a Cornell U alumn, the filing alleges rigging the system to raise tuition …
October 11, 2024/
Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/
PERSPECTIVES: Claiming “Institutional Neutrality” for the Right Reasons?
"Having the university itself stay silent encourages free faculty and student expression, debate and research."
October 10, 2024/
Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/
COMMENTARY: Authoritarians Render Havoc Across Sectors, Including Higher Education
Anand Giridharadas: “America stares openly at an anti-democratic movement, flirts with fascism, and talks about dictatorship. Half of America says, …
September 29, 2024/
Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society, Video/
NEWS BRIEFS: Trump’s Allegation Has Impact in Springfield, OH, Local Colleges Included
"Some Trump/Vance supporters continue to propagate the lies, posting statements urging people to vote for Trump."
September 17, 2024/
Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/
NEWS BRIEFS: Evidence That MSU Didn’t Release Certain Material Associated with the Nassar Probe
"MSU had for years fought the release of the documents, including to the AG, and was successful in keeping them …
September 15, 2024/
Higher Ed, MSU, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/