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NEWSBRIEFS: No Settlement Reached in Second Wave Lawsuits Against MSU

“The cases are part of the 160-plus complaints filed as part of the second wave of lawsuits against MSU in …

by Future U/ April 23, 2019/ MSU, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Students and Alumni Reflect on Their HBCU Experiences

Read their commentaries from the Los Angeles Times.

by Future U/ April 22, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

NEWSBRIEFS: In Higher Ed, Administration Positions Pay Off … Unless You’re a Woman or Person-of-Color

“The share of women in all of the lowest-paid dean positions was 47 percent,” reports The Chronicle of Higher Education. …

by Future U/ April 21, 2019/ Higher Ed, News Briefs/

NEWSBRIEFS: Students and Faculty Protest Men-Only Slate of Presidential Finalists

“Twenty-eight student organizations and forty-six faculty members faculty signed an open letter that was read aloud during a Univ. of …

by Future U/ April 20, 2019/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWSBRIEFS: “I Can’t Do This Anymore,” a U-Colorado Trustee Said, Voting Against Football

“I don’t believe it can be played safely anymore. I want these young men to leave CU with minds that …

by Future U/ April 19, 2019/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: The ‘Death’ of Education

W.J. Astore writes: “Nowadays, education in America is about…learning for the sake of earning, i.e. developing so-called marketable skills that …

by Future U/ April 18, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: When a $75k+ Price Tag is Anything But

At Yale, “families with household incomes of less than $65,000 are not expected to contribute any funds to pay for …

by Future U/ April 17, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Engler Has Time For Many Things, But Not For MI’s Attorney General

“It’s a lot of game-playing that suggests the former governor doesn’t quite grasp the gravity of this situation, a posture …

by Future U/ April 16, 2019/ MSU, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/

PERSPECTIVES: UCLA Shouldn’t Point the Finger at Cross-Town Rival USC

“UCLA — USC’s less deeply implicated rival to the west — has a history itself of accepting students through its …

by Future U/ April 15, 2019/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Reframing the College Admission Scandal as Exploitation of Minority Athletes

“For black male student-athletes to be given special consideration in admissions processes at elite universities, they actually have to be …

by Future U/ April 14, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Public Higher Ed Funding–Fifth of States Still Struggle From Great Recession

Eric Kelderman has details in this feature article from The Chronicle of Higher Education. “The states where per-student spending still …

by Future U/ April 13, 2019/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVE: Journalist Analyzes Two New Books–One Written by a President Emeritus, the Other About Adjuncts In Higher Ed

“Childress (writing about adjunct status) realizes that…the horizon was illusory by design, moving according to someone else’s whims, continually drifting …

by Future U/ April 12, 2019/ Public Higher Ed/