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NEWS BRIEFS: Responding to Campus Crises, Many Universities Rediscover the Importance of Race

What happened at Missouri, Yale, and other campuses is motivating many schools to elevate campus matters about race.

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

PERSPECTIVES: Virginia Tech Engineers Sounded Alarm in Flint

WVU engineers uncovered the VW diesel fraud. Virginia Tech engineers uncovered undrinkable water in Flint.

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

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/

PERSPECTIVE: The Internet and the Future of Higher Ed, An Interpretation

Here’s Michael Kinsley’s take on how the Internet will effect the future of higher education. Read more here.

by Future U/ February 8, 2016/ Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: History of Black Activism on American Campuses

“Black Lives Matter has found a place on campuses in the way the civil rights and black power movements once did.”                

by Future U/ February 7, 2016/ Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: The Fight to Clean Up For-Profit Higher Ed

“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/

NEWS BRIEFS: Reconfiguring College, Making It Short and Sweet

“College has a lot in common with your cable TV package, according to Michael Horn, a principal consultant at innovation agency Entangled Solutions…. Some students …

by Future U/ February 7, 2016/ News Briefs, Society/

PERSPECTIVE: Rise and Decline of Faculty Governance

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/

PERSPECTIVES: Collegiate Connection in the Black Lives Matter Movement

The economic gap in the African-American community is an important issue in Black Lives Matter. Read Henry Lewis Gates, Jr. here.

by Future U/ February 5, 2016/ Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: “Why I Left My Sorority”

Read this Washington Post commentary written by a college student.

by Future U/ February 5, 2016/ Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: When It Comes to Faculty Work and Extension, The More Things Change, The More They Remain the Same

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/

NEWS BRIEFS: Adjuncts in Homeless Shelters? Yes.

It’s time to have a national conversation about the plight of adjuncts. Why? Read here.

by Future U/ February 4, 2016/ News Briefs, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Profile of Student Debt By Field of Study

Read the results of a Washington Post study of debt carried by academic field of study.

by Future U/ February 3, 2016/ News Briefs, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Profiles of Student Activists From Around the U.S.

Who are they? Where are they? Here are profiles of notable student activists and work they’re doing on America’s campuses.

by Future U/ February 3, 2016/ Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Public Science Was Ignored, Rebuked In Flint

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/