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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/

PERSPECTIVES: Legacy Admissions Seem On the Way Out, But Something Broader and Deeper Remains

Ok for schools to discriminate in favor of white students but efforts to diversify the student body are not.
by Future U/ July 31, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

Solution to Decline in Public Confidence? “Wake Up! The University is a Social Institution Serving the Public Good”

"Higher education is reaping what it has been sewing--neoliberal values and policies."
by John Traphagan/ July 30, 2023/ Public Higher Ed/

NEWS BRIEFS: New Study Says Regional Public Universities Often at Disadvantage in Chase for Students

"But first-generation students were more likely to identify regional public universities as their first choice."
by Future U/ July 28, 2023/ Public Higher Ed/

NEWS BRIEFS: “Affirmative Action for the 1%,” U.S. Education Department Probes Harvard’s Legacy Admission Practices

President Biden: Legacy admissions "expand privilege instead of opportunity."
by Future U/ July 26, 2023/ Public Higher Ed/

PERSPECTIVES: “Help Wanted” Detroit, and UM, Wayne State, and MSU are Ready to Assist

"Michigan college grads are moving to (places like) Atlanta, Denver, Houston, and Seattle for employment/lifestyle opportunities."
by Future U/ July 25, 2023/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: A Copycat Bill With Draconian Outcomes

"SB 83 is just one of many bills targeting academia produced by statehouses in recent years."
by Future U/ July 24, 2023/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/
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