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NEWS BRIEFS: Candidate Sanders Urges CUNY Faculty Salary Increase

From The New York Times: “Roughly 25,000 CUNY faculty and professional staff members have been without a contract since 2010, …

by Future U/ December 17, 2015/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed/

PERSPECTIVES: Many Colleges Aren’t as Diverse As They Seem

Why? At many schools students have an affinity to gather with like-students. Read an Op Ed about the issue here.

by Future U/ December 15, 2015/ Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: New Analysis of Underemployment of College Graduates

The Fed analysis reveals interesting findings about the percentage of college grads who are working in jobs outside their major …

by Future U/ December 11, 2015/ News Briefs, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Justice Scalia Offers Black and White Perspective on Affirmative Action In Higher Education

From THE NEW YORK TIMES: “In an awkward exchange in Wednesday’s potentially game-changing Supreme Court arguments on affirmative action, Justice …

by Future U/ December 11, 2015/ News Briefs, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Article on the Presidential Appointment at the University of Iowa (from AAUP)

EVERY faculty member in America should read this analysis. Sobering….

by Future U/ December 10, 2015/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed/

NEWS BRIEFS: Text Analysis Of Student Protest Demands

“If you want to know what students protesters at universities want, you have to actually read what they write,” writes …

by Future U/ December 10, 2015/ Articles, News Briefs, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Wanna’ Make a Half-Mil A Year? Become a Private College President

No need to be president at a ‘name’ school, like Columbia U. The president of High Point College made a …

by Future U/ December 8, 2015/ News Briefs, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: In College … Homeless, Hungry

Read SARA GOLDRICK-RAB and KATHARINE M. BROTON’s NYTs Op Ed about a terrible issue that needs to be addressed: no …

by Future U/ December 8, 2015/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: One Way to Reduce Inequality in America’s Higher Ed … Eliminate the Ivy League

Well, not really. It’s about making changes in how Ivy schools operate and what America’s tax laws enable. Read the details …

by Future U/ December 7, 2015/ Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: The Rich And Others at Duke, Possible Connections

Tuition at Duke is $10k more per year than the median income of Durham, NC, where the school is located. …

by Future U/ December 7, 2015/ Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Study Finds Wealthy Americans To Be Conservative, With Highest Earners Even More Conservative

Big surprise? No. Read about the details.  

by Future U/ December 7, 2015/ Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: How to Address the Surplus of Ph.D.’s

Here are two interesting articles–one more about the state of affairs and, the other, what to do about it.   …

by Future U/ December 7, 2015/ Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: What Has Happened to Academe’s “Public Intellectual”?

Read an update from the author of a 1987 book, The Last Intellectual. Back then, Russell Jacoby wrote that, unlike …

by Future U/ December 7, 2015/ Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Why Care About Tenure?

Caroline Levine, English chair at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, answers the question. Read her eloquent response here.

by Future U/ December 3, 2015/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/

PERSPECTIVES: How to Run a Public University

Mark Funkhouser, former KC mayor, offers interesting (and provocative) observations. He make this point: “The lands granted by the federal Morrill …

by Future U/ December 3, 2015/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/