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COMMENTARY by Frank Fear: What a Children’s Book Tells Us About Higher Education

Samuel H. Johnson aims to educate and inspire today's generation of young people.

by Future U/ September 8, 2023/ Higher Ed, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: WVU Faculty Vote No Confidence in President, While Board Doubles-Down on Supporting Him

"The faculty resolution targeted the administration's poor planning, faulty decision making, and financial mismanagement."

by Future U/ September 7, 2023/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Analyst on the State of Revenue-Generating College Athletics, “This Has Become a Soulless Enterprise”

Michael LeRoy, Univ. of Illinois professor, "There is no moral compass. There is no brotherhood."

by Future U/ September 5, 2023/ Education, Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Farm Bill May Hold Answer to HBCU Underfunding

"Per-student research expenditures at 1890 colleges (HBCUs) are less than 1/3 of 1862 (initial) land-grant institutions."

by Future U/ September 1, 2023/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Message to Morgantown, “Standing Carries Obligations, Foresake Obligations, Foresake Standing”

"When asked about the program cuts, (president) Gee told the student newspaper, “I actually hope it helps enrollment."

by Future U/ August 31, 2023/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: New Report Reveals Striking Inability of Americans to Pay College Costs

"Policies, such as doubling the Pell Grant, are critical to ensuring that lower-income students can access, afford, and succeed."

by Future U/ August 24, 2023/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Yet Another Intrusion On Florida Public Higher Education

Barbara Petersen, FL Center for Govt Accountability: “Looks like overkill...overbroad public-records/meeting exemptions."

by Future U/ August 23, 2023/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: National Commentary on the Extraordinary Circumstance at West Virginia University

The Chronicle of Higher Education: "What sort of education must a public flagship provide?"

by Future U/ August 22, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Alumna Says WVU Financial Crisis, Result of “Mismanagement, Lack of Transparency, and Failure to Recognize the Power of Higher Ed in Transforming Lives”

"People outside the state need to realize the degree to which the WVU administration played an active role."

by Future U/ August 18, 2023/ Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

COMMENTARY: Public Universities Need to Stop Creating Spectacular Campuses and Focus on Education

"The agenda is sales, and I can think of few things more contrary to the purpose and mission of a …

by John Traphagan/ August 16, 2023/ Education, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: WVU’s Faculty/Program Cuts Are Wide and Deep

"These cuts go beyond what’s reasonable and straight into territory of absurdity.”

by Future U/ August 14, 2023/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society, Teaching/

PERSPECTIVES: WSJ’s Analysis of Major State Universities, “On an Unfettered Spending Spree”

James V. Koch: "Public trustees nationally approved 98% of the cost-increase proposals. Few say, 'No, we can’t do that.'”

by Future U/ August 13, 2023/ Neoliberalism, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: From College to University for Marketplace Reasons?

UCLA professor Ozan Jaquette: "The death rates were certainly lower for colleges that changed their names to ‘university,’”

by Future U/ August 10, 2023/ Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Attacks on Higher Education Are Attacks on Democracy

"Public universities are bellwethers for the health of our democracy. To see them eroded is to see American democracy eroded."

by Future U/ August 7, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Scramble for Bigger Media Payouts is Unsettling Major College Athletics

"The latest phase of greedy mayhem left the Pac-12 dangling, jeopardizing the identity of football on the West Coast."

by Future U/ August 2, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/

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