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ENGAGING FLINT: Context and Connections for MSU Faculty Involvement

The Flint water crisis has exposed pervasive, systemic problems experienced by the people of Flint and other disenfranchised urban communities. …

by Future U/ March 11, 2016/

NEWS BRIEFS: New Film Documents Impact of Neoliberalism on Public Higher Education

Starving the Beast examines how political and market-oriented forces are reframing public higher education.

by Future U/ March 10, 2016/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Universities, Overinvested in Hedge Funds, Aren’t Practicing What They Preach

For what universities stand and what hedge funds do…a glaring disconnect. Read more in a new article from The Nation.

by Future U/ March 10, 2016/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Strategies for Disrupting the Marketization of Higher Education

Richard Fouchaux offers insights into how to counter the marketization of education. Read more here.

by Future U/ March 7, 2016/ Public Higher Ed/

PERSPECTIVES: How Right-Wing Conservatives Are Infiltrating Higher Education

Big surprise? No surprise. It’s part of “the agenda.” Read more from The Chronicle of Higher Education.

by Future U/ March 4, 2016/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: 2016 Rankings of America’s Public Universities

Top 25 dominated by Big Ten & CA-based schools. See methodology here. Another ranking system here.

by Future U/ March 2, 2016/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed/

PERSPECTIVES: Colleges Aren’t Corporations

“Universities need to be run with focus on the bottom line but, at their core, colleges are not corporations.”

by Future U/ March 1, 2016/ Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Higher Education Trends Reveal Neoliberal Emphasis

Many of the trends identified by The Chronicle of Higher Education are associated with neoliberal methods of leading and managing higher education. …

by Future U/ March 1, 2016/ Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: A Different Take On Philanthropic Largesse

An activist’s perspective about philanthropy for partisan intent. An interpretation of Eli Broad’s approach to development and change.

by Future U/ February 29, 2016/ Perspectives, Society/

FRIDAY FORUM: “Teaching With and Against Technology,” Steven Weiland, Professor, Educational Administration, MSU

     Doubts about the effectiveness of technology in teaching and learning shadow its increasing use at MSU and elsewhere, in …

by Future U/ February 29, 2016/

NEWS BRIEFS: Campus Protests Yield Limited Results

Too little, quite limited…. That’s the outcome of a USA Today analysis of what has happened at nearly 20 schools in …

by Future U/ February 29, 2016/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Colleges That Go The Extra Mile to Help Students in Financial Distress

The Washington Post provides insights about what colleges are doing financially to help students stay in school.

by Future U/ February 29, 2016/ Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Anti-Intellectual America?

From Psychology Today: “There’s a disturbing trend of anti-intellectualism in American culture, the dismissal of science, the arts, and humanities and replacement …

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

PERSPECTIVES: Academeblog.Org Features FutureU Site

Thank you, Martin Kich. editor of Academe Blog, the blog of Academe, published by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). Read more …

by Future U/ February 27, 2016/ Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Get a Degree, No Study, No Classes. Easy!

Don’t like the job you work at and you think about changing it for something better? – Is your lack …

by Future U/ February 27, 2016/ Perspectives, Society/