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PERSPECTIVES: It’s a War “To Unravel Public Faith in the Pillars of American Society”

Claudine Gay: Higher education..."where courage and reason unite to advance truth, no matter what forces set against them."
by Future U/ January 5, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: New College, One Year Later

Beginning in January 2023, Gov. Ron DeSantis launched a hostile takeover of New College of Florida.
by Future U/ January 4, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Harvard Prof, “Plagiarism a Pretext to Oust Harvard’s Gay”

Professor Muhammad: Gay's ouster is associated with "the larger right-wing war on higher education."
by Future U/ January 2, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: On January 1, It Will Be Illegal in Texas for Public Universities to Operate DEI Offices/Programs

"New law requires public universities to end DEI work, including offering training or requiring diversity wording in job postings."
by Future U/ December 30, 2023/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Unlike Penn and Harvard, Columbia U Stayed Out of the News Cycle, But Not Controversy, About Israel-Hamas War

Yoni Kurtz, Columbia student: “There’s administrative distrust from almost any student no matter their political beliefs."
by Future U/ December 29, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Columbia’s Drezner: “Not Donor Control, It’s Donor Activism”

"Donor activism should be seen as a form of engaged citizenship."
by Future U/ December 27, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Stats Show Enrollment Turnaround at Michigan’s Public Universities

"9 of 15 state schools enrolled more frosh in 2022. Over the past decade, undergrad enrollment is +19% at UM, …
by Future U/ December 22, 2023/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: New McCarthyism on Campus?

"Universities can choose not to give law enforcement license to use criminals statute to punish campus speech."
by Future U/ December 21, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: College Enrollment Down with Male Declines Leading the Way

"The widening of the gender gap in college enrollment is most apparent among White high school graduates."
by Future U/ December 20, 2023/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: UC Berkeley Chancellor, “Our Job is to Create a Sense of Belonging for All Students”

No stranger to campus protests, then and now, the Berkeley experience is instructive nationally. Carol Christ offers perspective in this …
by Future U/ December 19, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Broad-Based Federal-Level Student Debt Relief? Situation is Iffy

Prof Jiménez, UC Irvine: “Feds erased more debt (in '23) than has ever been erased," (but) "there's more to do.”
by Future U/ December 18, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: MSU Trustees Flip the Call — Will Release Nassar Documents to Michigan’s Attorney General

Change in stance coincides with hiring a new university president.
by Future U/ December 17, 2023/ Higher Ed, MSU, News Briefs, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Is Scholar-Activism Contributing to Campus Anti-Semitism?

'Nowhere are the dangers of scholar activism more clearly on display than in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."
by Future U/ December 14, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Bradley University Preserves, Eliminates, and Reconfigures Multiple Academic Offerings

University official: “Bradley University will exercise compassion and support throughout this process.”
by Future U/ December 12, 2023/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Two Statements Published in ACADEME BLOG Speak Truth to the Situation at the University of Pennsylvania

"Scholarly inquiry is precisely what is needed to serve the public good in a democratic society."
by Future U/ December 11, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society, Video/
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