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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/

NEWS BRIEFS: Univ of Wisconsin Regents Reject “Bribe” Brokered By UW Execs and State Legislators

Regent Angela Adams: The deal was "divisive, polarizing, and would have had negative effects for decades to come."

by Future U/ December 10, 2023/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Believing Anti-Semitism is Fostered on Campus, U.S. House Committee Calls University Presidents to Washington

Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC): “Today, you will have a chance to atone for vitriolic, hate-filled antisemitism on your campuses."

by Future U/ December 5, 2023/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Financial Threat to IU Real Even Though Some Faculty Believe Claims are “Exaggerated, Inaccurate”

Faculty Letter: “We are alarmed by the threatening tone, and the way in which it injects ideology into university governance."

by Future U/ December 4, 2023/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: U of California President Proposes “Viewpoint-Neutral” History Perspective, Faculty Push Back

Sherene Seikaly, UC Santa Barbara: It "undermines authority over teaching subjects and fails to acknowledge faculty expertise."

by Future U/ December 2, 2023/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: U of Michigan Cancels Student Referendum on Middle East Situation

UM administration canceled a student vote on conflicting referendums regarding the Israel-Hamas war.

by Future U/ December 1, 2023/ Higher Ed, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Say What?! “DEI is a Fraud and What We’re Seeing on Campuses is Proof of That”

Brandon Williams (NY-R), "If you permit or harbor antisemitism on your campus, you are my enemy,”

by Future U/ November 15, 2023/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: WVU Faculty Group Offers Alternative Budget Management Plan, Starting Where It Should WITH ADMINISTRATIVE CUTS

"We can meet the full $45M budget gap WITHOUT having to cut the 32 majors and layoff 200-400 mostly teaching …

by Future U/ November 12, 2023/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVE: Why the Humanities Are No Longer a Higher Education Centerpiece

"The humanities once mattered. Better to be the subject of political debate than to be marginalized or dismissed as irrelevant." …

by Future U/ November 8, 2023/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Academic Philanthropy Shouldn’t Include Pulling Strings, But Does It?

"Some megadonors are outraged over institutions’ responses to the Israel-Hamas war."

by Future U/ November 4, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: In Battle Over DEI Cuts, Wisconsin Legislature Seeks to Withhold Already Approved Faculty Salary Increases

"Allow raises only if the state university system gives the Legislature power to approve new university positions."

by Future U/ November 2, 2023/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: U.S. Education Department Levies Historic Fine, But Was It Justified?

Aaron Ament: "Deceptive for-profit graduate programs are a large and growing part of America’s higher education crisis."

by Future U/ November 1, 2023/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Why Universities Should Not Take Sides in War

"A university must 'sustain an extraordinary environment of freedom of inquiry' and a consistent 'independence from political fashions, passions, and …

by Future U/ October 31, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Censured For Not Taking the “Right” Position?

"To censure Rashida Tlaib would be to censure democracy itself."

by Future U/ October 30, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: “Following Market Trends is Not ‘Liberal’ in the Original Sense of the Word”

But following market trends is Neoliberalism--Neoliberalism in higher education.

by Future U/ October 25, 2023/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/