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NEWS BRIEFS: VA Governor/University Boards Nix Diversity-Themed Coursework Requirement at GMU and VCU

FROM INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION: “Years-long efforts to create and mandate diversity-themed coursework at George Mason and Virginia Commonwealth fizzled after …

by Future U/ May 13, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: U Wisconsin Madison Athletics-Related Deal Raises Questions

"College sports' history does not suggest it has good self-corrective mechanisms at the top.'

by Future U/ May 9, 2024/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: “Fake News” Follows Media Coverage of Campus Protests

Darren Linvill, Clemson University: "I’ve definitely seen fake accounts. Bad actors are trying to exacerbate this issue."

by Future U/ May 6, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: SUNY Binghamton Students Camp Out for Peace, Receive Faculty Support

From SUNY at Binghampton faculty letter to students: "We are proud of the young people you are and are becoming."

by Future U/ May 5, 2024/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Administrative Reactions to Campus Protests Have Eerie Similarity to Holocaust

"...on a path to becoming coperpetrators of a crime against humanity. Historians will ask, 'How could this have happened again?'"

by Future U/ May 4, 2024/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

COMMENTARY: J.W. Traphagan, “Why I Retired from a Tenured Professorship”

Ending the neoliberal dismantling of higher education is possible. But for that to happen, academic leaders must be willing to …

by Future U/ May 3, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: “Colleges Should Extend May 1 Decision Deadline Amid FAFSA Delays, Higher Ed Groups Say”

"The FAFSA delays this cycle have abbreviated colleges’ timeline for making financial aid offers."

by Future U/ May 1, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Students Share Experiences Regarding How Universities Have Restricted the Right to Protest

Neha Kohli, Rice Univ.: "Our goal is peace, an end to ongoing violence.. But to achieve peace, first our voices …

by Future U/ April 30, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Iowa Exceeds Other States with New DEI Restrictions

Forbids “any effort to promote” (such as) "antiracism, social justice, systemic oppression, gender theory"...or related formulations."

by Future U/ April 29, 2024/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Colleges as Communities

Fareed Zakaria on CNN: "Colleges are not the communities they once were."

by Future U/ April 28, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society, Video/

PERSPECTIVES: Conservatives, Who Once Surrendered Higher Ed to “The Radical Left,” Have Reversed Course

"Colleges and universities have become hotbeds of left-wing activism."

by Future U/ April 26, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Campus Protests, Politicizing the “Why” Question

Students organizing for change and calling out America's policies is nothing new or troubling ... unless your politics says so. …

by Future U/ April 24, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Student Protests Reframed to Fit Antisemitic Narrative?

(In answers at the Congressional hearing, Columbia U President Shafik,...acceded to their cynical weaponization of antisemitism."

by Future U/ April 23, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Student Protests on America’s Campuses

"Administrators seek to balance free speech rights and the fears that demonstrations have veered into antisemitism."

by Future U/ April 22, 2024/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Higher Calling Needed in Today’s Higher Education

"Higher education must reclaim its higher purpose, to develop and equip people of value and virtue."

by Future U/ April 21, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/