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PERSPECTIVES: ‘Gap Year’ Has New Meaning for Many High School Seniors

COVID-19 and uneven approaches to collegiate re-opening are bringing renewed attention to the Gap Year option. Read more from the …

by Future U/ July 17, 2020/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

“Posting a list of requirements or expectations for student behavior, plastering the list around campus, and sending emails to parents …

by Roger Barbee/ July 16, 2020/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

“It is critically responsible for the administration to identify new risks, publicize those risks to all and, more importantly, allow …

by Future U/ July 15, 2020/ Higher Ed, MSU, Perspectives, Society/

In The New Yorker, author Masha Gessen asks: “Who knows what might happen if students were asked to take the …

by Future U/ July 14, 2020/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

In the face of the biggest financial crisis to ever hit college sports (caused by COVID-19), the NCAA has decided …

by Frank Fear/ July 13, 2020/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

“In the classic tutorial system, students do most of their learning in small sessions that include the professor (or an …

by Future U/ July 9, 2020/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

Marching through campus with placards, “Abandon the Plans!,” University of Mississippi students “are demanding that the project be halted after …

by Future U/ July 7, 2020/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

“Over the last month, a flurry of colleges has worked to align their recent statements against racial injustice with action …

by Future U/ July 6, 2020/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

Professor Johnathan Charles Flowers argues that what Sara Ahmed describes as “image work” (that is, language that portrays an institution as …

by Future U/ July 4, 2020/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

Armies of Enablers (to be published on Sept 1 by the American Bar Association) “focuses on cases of sexual assault …

by Future U/ July 3, 2020/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

“Students often have little help finding and applying for financial assistance, and miss out on opportunities for affordable higher education.” …

by Future U/ July 1, 2020/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

At Purdue, “a recent survey completed by more than 7,000 Purdue faculty and staff members and graduate students, for example, …

by Future U/ June 30, 2020/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

From New America’s 4th annual survey of how Americans evaluate higher ed: “While Americans believe in the value proposition of …

by Future U/ June 28, 2020/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

Donald Yee in The Atlantic: “The players? To put it bluntly, the players are getting screwed. In exchange for their …

by Future U/ June 27, 2020/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/