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NEWS BRIEFS: US Dept. of Ed Identifies High Value Schools for Low-Income Families

All but three schools on the list–GA Tech, Mich, and UVA–are high-profile private institutions. Read more here.

by Future U/ February 8, 2016/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

“One for-profit college charges $53k for a degree in dental hygiene that costs 1/6th as much at the state’s public colleges.” Read …

by Future U/ February 7, 2016/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

A market-oriented higher education views public goods as commodities. Stronger academic governance could offer a counterbalance. .

by Future U/ February 7, 2016/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

What’s the connection between Extension & the faculty reward system? The answer–at the root of a reform movement that began in …

by Future U/ February 5, 2016/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

Science conducted for the public good, as happened in Flint, is too often ignored. Read more here.

by Future U/ February 3, 2016/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

Big increases are documented in the percentage of out-of-state undergraduates. See which schools lead the way and which schools are bucking the …

by Future U/ February 1, 2016/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed/

Drinking chocolate milk…protective function for concussions? Doesn’t seem possible. And it might not be.

by Future U/ February 1, 2016/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

The athletic “have’s” need donors. The athletic “have not’s” need subsidies. Combined total last year: $4 billion+.

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

The case of Lake Superior State University is worth following. Read more here.

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

What happens in the classroom, stays in the…no…goes public. Read more.

by Future U/ January 25, 2016/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed/

Read different perspectives on a timely subject. From a Forum, The New York Times.

by Future U/ January 20, 2016/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

“The original campaign was inane and insulting,” Bill Harbaugh, economics prof & president-elect, U of O’s University Senate. Read more.

by Future U/ January 20, 2016/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed/

So says Gov. Cuomo in his just-unveiled state budget proposal. Read more here. “Shifting one-third of the cost of CUNY …

by Future U/ January 15, 2016/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed/

Criticized as “Attica U” the governor says “prisons weren’t designed to be warehouses.” Read more here.

by Future U/ January 11, 2016/ Public Higher Ed, Society/

It’s the culmination of a case reported earlier on this site. James Tracy was fired by Florida Atlantic Univ. Why? How? Read on.

by Future U/ January 8, 2016/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/