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PERSPECTIVES: MSU’s Bait-And-Switch Move

“At a time when MSU needs to rebuild trust and heal its shattered reputation, breaking a promise to survivors of …

by Future U/ December 7, 2018/ MSU, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: More Turmoil At Michigan State

Two current and two incoming board members oppose the president’s decision to close the university-initiated Healing Assistance Fund. Read more from The …

by Future U/ December 6, 2018/ MSU, News Briefs/

NEWS BRIEFS: Behind ‘The Surge’ In Undergraduate Enrollment At Michigan State

Last year’s record-breaking freshman enrollment was, in part, a result of increased acceptance rates (+12% from ’16). This year, frosh …

by Future U/ December 5, 2018/ MSU, News Briefs/

PERSPECTIVES: Advice To Public Universities–Teach Well, Serve Society, Focus On Affordability

Read more from The Conversation. (Then file it under, “Dah!”)

by Future U/ December 4, 2018/ Public Higher Ed/

PERSPECTIVES: ReclaimMSU’s Request For Support

ReclaimMSU’s critique of MSU is being interpreted in some quarters as ‘the problem’ at MSU. To counter that fallacious perception, please …

by Future U/ December 3, 2018/ MSU, Perspectives/

NEWS BRIEFS: CNN Fires Marc Lamont Hill, Temple U. Prof, For Comments At U.N. About “Freeing Palestine”

Here is the story (from The Washington Post) with commentaries by professors Juan Cole and Cornel West.

by Future U/ December 2, 2018/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVE: “Next MSU President Should Have An Academic Background”

Professor Raymond Brock shares his perspective in The Lansing State Journal.

by Future U/ December 1, 2018/ Higher Ed, MSU, Perspectives/

PERSPECTIVES: Faculty Member Writes, “I’m Firing Michigan State”

Professor Joy Lisi Rankin tells why in Medium. 

by Future U/ November 30, 2018/ Higher Ed, MSU, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/

PERSPECTIVES: It’s Time To Invest In Campus Security Through Access Control Technology

From 2020 Vision Technology: Dangers lurk for students who live on-campus and in off-campus accommodations. Safeguards are needed.  

by Future U/ November 29, 2018/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: New Book Explores Mission Drift Among Land Grant Universities

Land-Grant Universities for the Future. “Evidence of this skewed way of thinking about our reasons for existence as a land-grant …

by Future U/ November 28, 2018/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: History, The Vanishing Major

Inside Higher Education’s Colleen Flaherty offers numbers and commentary. Read more here.

by Future U/ November 27, 2018/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: MSU Ex-President Simon Arraigned Today

Read details from The Detroit News.

by Future U/ November 26, 2018/ MSU, News Briefs/

PERSPECTIVES: Taking Your Scholarship Public

Iowa’s Brady Krien comments in Inside Higher Education.

by Future U/ November 25, 2018/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Have Public Universities Become Public-Private Hybrid Institutions?

In the Pennsylvania Public Higher Education system, almost 75% of operating funds come outside of state budget allocations–even though 90% …

by Future U/ November 24, 2018/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Chris Hedges On Neoliberalism

“The great thing about freedom of the market is it appears to be egalitarian, but there is nothing more unequal …

by Future U/ November 23, 2018/ Articles, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/