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PERSPECTIVES: Does Higher Education Need A New Business Model?

Read an analysis, published recently in The Huffington Post.

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

NEWS BRIEFS: College Readiness of Low-Income Students Stagnates

Read details in a new report from Inside Higher Education.

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

NEWS BRIEFS: Situation at Mount St. Mary’s Turns Collegiate Governance On Its Head

Outrageous in substance and frightening in scope, this president is firing faculty for being disloyal. Read details from Insider Higher Education.

by Future U/ February 10, 2016/ News Briefs, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: With Enrollments and Profits Down, U. of Phoenix Becomes Privately Held Company

In the world of for-profit education “Caveat Emptor” has multiple meanings. Read more here.

by Future U/ February 9, 2016/ News Briefs, Society/

PERSPECTIVE: When Only 25% of Pre-Teens & Teens Believe Serving Others is Important…

…there’s renewed interest in including “meaningful” community service as a college admissions criterion. Read more here about the pros and cons.

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

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/