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PERSPECTIVES: Price of Textbooks, $$$, Yowza!

“The poverty line for a family of three is $20,780…. Assuming textbooks cost…$1,400 a year, that amount represents nearly 7% …

by Future U/ September 2, 2018/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

Rainesford Stauffer, a full-time graduate student, works over 40 hours per week. Read her commentary from The New York Times.

by Future U/ August 31, 2018/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

Here’s the proposal with responses from sexual assault survivors. It’s from the Detroit Free Press.

by Future U/ August 30, 2018/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

The intended issue of the alumni magazine became something quite different–Whitewashing By Design. Read more in a column by the Lansing …

by Future U/ August 28, 2018/ Higher Ed, MSU, Perspectives, Society/

“This is what happens when an administration stocks its agencies with people whose allegiances are to the industries they are …

by Future U/ August 27, 2018/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

“Now, each passing week, Engler is looking more and more like Donald Trump, trafficking in either lies or half-truths or …

by Future U/ August 26, 2018/ MSU, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

Extensive analysis is from The New York Times. Read more here.

by Future U/ August 25, 2018/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

Four frats want to operate independently. The WVU president says no. Read more from Inside Higher Education.

by Future U/ August 22, 2018/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

Are school newspapers free to critique what’s happening on campus? Liberty University said no. Read more from World Magazine.

by Future U/ August 20, 2018/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

It’s a bold move, amounting to about $55k per student. But students will still have to cover living expenses, estimated …

by Future U/ August 19, 2018/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

Facility for athletes is part of the Clemson football complex. Read and see more from Business Insider. (Note: South Carolina …

by Future U/ August 18, 2018/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

It’s called “Army of Survivors.” Read/listen about it at Michigan Radio.

by Future U/ August 17, 2018/ Higher Ed, MSU, News Briefs, Society/

Purdue’s Mitch Daniels tells us all we need to know about how this university president feels about oversight. Read more …

by Future U/ August 16, 2018/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

The Charlotte News & Observer has reported that UNC-Chapel Hill academic scandal (tied to athletics), which involved students taking bogus …

by Future U/ August 14, 2018/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

The football culture at College Park has been called “toxic.” Read more from ESPN.

by Future U/ August 12, 2018/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/