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PERSPECTIVES: Teaching With And Against Technology

By Steven Weiland, Department of Educational Administration, Michigan State University

by Future U/ March 15, 2016/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Wisconsin Regents Approve New Policies Over Faculty Objections

Run higher education like a business! That’s a neoliberal clarion call. What happens? Wisconsin public higher ed is a primary example. Read …

by Future U/ March 13, 2016/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Wisconsin Scholar-Activist Leaves Madison, Cites Toxic Environment for Academics

Sara Goldrick-Rabb: “It is no longer possible for critical scholars working in public higher education to flourish without tenure protections.” Read …

by Future U/ March 11, 2016/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed/

NEWS BRIEFS: New Film Documents Impact of Neoliberalism on Public Higher Education

Starving the Beast examines how political and market-oriented forces are reframing public higher education.

by Future U/ March 10, 2016/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Universities, Overinvested in Hedge Funds, Aren’t Practicing What They Preach

For what universities stand and what hedge funds do…a glaring disconnect. Read more in a new article from The Nation.

by Future U/ March 10, 2016/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Strategies for Disrupting the Marketization of Higher Education

Richard Fouchaux offers insights into how to counter the marketization of education. Read more here.

by Future U/ March 7, 2016/ Public Higher Ed/

PERSPECTIVES: How Right-Wing Conservatives Are Infiltrating Higher Education

Big surprise? No surprise. It’s part of “the agenda.” Read more from The Chronicle of Higher Education.

by Future U/ March 4, 2016/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: 2016 Rankings of America’s Public Universities

Top 25 dominated by Big Ten & CA-based schools. See methodology here. Another ranking system here.

by Future U/ March 2, 2016/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed/

NEWS BRIEFS: Campus Protests Yield Limited Results

Too little, quite limited…. That’s the outcome of a USA Today analysis of what has happened at nearly 20 schools in …

by Future U/ February 29, 2016/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Neoliberalism in Action — Education as Supply Chain Management

A tenet of neoliberalism is running everything like a business irrespective of the business you’re in. The Chamber of Commerce applies SCM to …

by Future U/ February 26, 2016/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: The ‘Free College’ Myth

In a highly critiqued essay, Jeffrey Silingo, former editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education, says the idea isn’t worth pursuing.

by Future U/ February 24, 2016/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: “There’ll Be More Incentives to Electrical Engineers Than French Literature Majors. There Just Will.”

Will states moderate the flow of student funding based on college major? That’s the plan in some states. Read more.

by Future U/ February 22, 2016/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Why Campus Racism Persists

In this important essay, Robert Bruce Slater, editor of The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, outlines reasons why campus racism persists and …

by Future U/ February 22, 2016/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Improving College Access Isn’t Enough

With so many students leaving college before they graduate let’s make college completion a priority. How? Read more here.

by Future U/ February 22, 2016/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Rocky Road of Prosecuting Campus Sexual Assaults

Read this account of one case. It’s one chapter (of many chapters) associated with college football and campus sexual assault.

by Future U/ February 21, 2016/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/