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NEWS BRIEFS: Provost Defends Faculty Member in Professor-Columnist Kerfuffle

Reports of a bedbug infestation at the building that houses the New York Times prompted a professor to tweet about …

by Future U/ August 28, 2019/ Higher Ed, News Briefs/

NEWS BRIEFS: Is MSU Singing the Same Song?

“(MSU’s conciliatory) tone took a sharp turn Monday as the school’s legal team took a battering ram to 37 lawsuits, …

by Future U/ August 27, 2019/ MSU, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Are Income Sharing Agreements All That They Are Cracked Up To Be?

“I’m very worried for students,” said Julie Margetta Morgan of the Roosevelt Institute. Read more from CNBC

by Future U/ August 26, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Major Universities Would Never Operate This Way! (when it comes to football & men’s basketball, they do)

“Nowhere else in the world is there a major college sports system like ours. There are definitely good things about …

by Future U/ August 25, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

PERSPECTIVES: Secret Searches: “Phenomenon of the Last 5-10 years, Influenced by Search Firms”

Judith Wilde. presidential search scholar, George Mason University: “We see no reason to believe that this leads to better presidents. …

by Future U/ August 24, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

PERSPECTIVES: U.S. Selects Presidential Candidates After Debates, Primaries, & Conventions. University Presidents are Often Selected in Private.

Why? The University of Kentucky’s John Thelin concludes it’s because universities prefer to be run like a business, embrace the …

by Future U/ August 23, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Public Higher Ed is ‘All-In’ on Out-of-State Students

There aren’t enough in-state students to go around, and that gives out-of-state students an advantage in the enrollment battle among …

by Future U/ August 22, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/

NEWS BRIEFS: Did Michigan State Athletics Violate Title IX Procedures?

On Wednesday, a federal judge denied a motion by MSU to reject a lawsuit filed by a then-MSU student that …

by Future U/ August 21, 2019/ MSU, News Briefs/

When It Comes to Money, College Sports is a Two-Tier System

It’s not a sports story. It’s a public policy problem. Here’s why. 

by Frank Fear/ August 20, 2019/ Public Higher Ed/

PERSPECTIVES: In ‘The Girls,’ Abigail Pesta Reveals New Info About Nassar’s Predation

Pesta’s book is available at bookstores and vendors nationally.  Here are two reviews–from the Washington Post and Vice.

by Future U/ August 19, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: How To Kill the Professoriate (commentary)

In this Chronicle essay, Herb Childress describes what he believes has already happened (and continues to happen) in and to …

by Future U/ August 18, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

PERSPECTIVES: When Higher Ed-Corporate Partnerships Go Too Far (commentary)

Stanford’s Geoffrey Cox asserts that “it will be difficult to claim that higher education is a public good if it …

by Future U/ August 17, 2019/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives/

PERSPECTIVES: Many College Students Experience This Draconian Bargain

What is it? It’s accumulating student debt without earning a degree. According to The National Student Clearinghouse, 25% of students …

by Future U/ August 16, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

Art, Critique, and Superfluousness: The Psychic Violence of the Optimized Academy

By Zach Kaiser, MSU assistant professor

by Zach Kaiser/ August 15, 2019/ MSU, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/

NEWS BRIEFS: Is Ethnic Studies in California’s Future at High School & College Levels?

Proposed for high schools students and students enrolled at Cal State universities, “at its core, supporters say, ethnic studies classes …

by Future U/ August 14, 2019/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/