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PERSPECTIVES: Higher Education Needs to Become A Social Leveler … Again

“3% of students at the most selective schools come from the bottom economic quartile. The top economic quartile supplies 72%.” Read this NYTs …

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

PERSPECTIVES: How Much Cash Should Michigan Public Universities Pour Into Athletics?

Detroit Free Press article stimulated by HBO program (Real Sports) with spotlight on EMU. Read more here.

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

PERSPECTIVES: What’s In A Name? “Oh, My!” That’s The Answer at Geo Mason University

With Kock Brothers money already invested on campus, renaming the law school in honor of Justice Antonin Scalia is causing consternation. Read …

by Future U/ May 2, 2016/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVE: Idaho President Says Why School is Leaving Big-Time Sports

That decision, which is under fire from alums and other boosters, is explained in this article from Inside Higher Education. …

by Future U/ May 1, 2016/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Small Colleges Struggle Financially

In this story the spotlight is on Franklin Pierce College (NH). Read more here.

by Future U/ May 1, 2016/ News Briefs, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Subsidies Are Primary Means of Funding College Sports At Many Universities

Majority of public universities can’t balance athletic books without university allocations and student fees. Amount nationally? $2.6 billion dollars in ’14-15. …

by Future U/ April 28, 2016/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Neoliberalism and Its Insidious Impacts

The ideology that just about nobody has heard of is the ideology that permeates everyday life–and not for the better. …

by Future U/ April 28, 2016/ Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Enhancing Economic Diversity Through Greater Diversity in College Enrollments

Catherine Hill, president, Vassar College, writes about an avenue to increase diversity in America’s upper-income population.

by Future U/ April 26, 2016/ Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: High Percent of Labor Force Works Without a College Degree

Read a recent report — numbers and commentary — written by The Economic Policy Institute.  

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

PERSPECTIVES: Encouraging Campus Transparency When It Comes to Area Crime

Read The Lansing State Journal’s editorial position on why it’s important to let prospective students know about crime statistics–on campus …

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

PERSPECTIVES: ESPN Documentary Does Injustice to Social Issues Associated with Duke Lacrosse Scandal

Read Professor Lindsay Parks Pieper’s (Lynchburg College) incisive critique of ESPN’s “Fantastic Lies.”

by Future U/ April 21, 2016/ Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: How Agents Pursue International Students for American Universities

Read a New York Times analysis. Focus is on the relationship between Global Tree Overseas and Western KY University.

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

PERSPECTIVES: Tackling a Ph.D. Later in Life

Second careers and the doctorate. Sometimes the two go hand-in-hand. Read more in this New York Times analysis.

by Future U/ April 20, 2016/ Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Coherent Alternative Needed to Counter Neoliberalism

Read George Monbiot’s thoughtful essay on neoliberalsm and the need for an alternative. It’s reprinted here from Common Dreams.

by Future U/ April 20, 2016/ Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Don’t Like Your PR? Then “Brush Your Brand” Like UC Davis

UC Davis has taken “protect the brand” to a new level, hiring a company to recalibrate what’s being said about …

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