Future U

PERSPECTIVES: Alumna Says WVU Financial Crisis, Result of “Mismanagement, Lack of Transparency, and Failure to Recognize the Power of Higher Ed in Transforming Lives”

"People outside the state need to realize the degree to which the WVU administration played an active role." 

by Future U/ August 18, 2023/ Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

FUTUREU FORUM: Friday, August 18, LIVE with Dr. Ellen Schrecker, “Will the University Survive? Austerity, Political Repression, and the Attack on Academic Freedom”

Friday, August 18, 11a Eastern Time.

by Future U/ August 17, 2023/ FutureU Forum, Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society, Video/

COMMENTARY: Public Universities Need to Stop Creating Spectacular Campuses and Focus on Education

"The agenda is sales, and I can think of few things more contrary to the purpose and mission of a …

by John Traphagan/ August 16, 2023/ Education, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

COMMENTARY: Intellectuals Have an Obligation to Speak Out

"It’s not just a good idea for intellectuals to speak out on issues—they have an obligation to do so."

by John Traphagan/ August 15, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: WVU’s Faculty/Program Cuts Are Wide and Deep

"These cuts go beyond what’s reasonable and straight into territory of absurdity.”

by Future U/ August 14, 2023/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society, Teaching/

PERSPECTIVES: WSJ’s Analysis of Major State Universities, “On an Unfettered Spending Spree”

James V. Koch: "Public trustees nationally approved 98% of the cost-increase proposals. Few say, 'No, we can’t do that.'”

by Future U/ August 13, 2023/ Neoliberalism, Public Higher Ed, Society/

FUTUREU FORUM YOUTUBE: Kirsty Morrin on Entrepreneurship

Video from August 10, 2023. 

by Future U/ August 12, 2023/ Education, Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: From College to University for Marketplace Reasons?

UCLA professor Ozan Jaquette: "The death rates were certainly lower for colleges that changed their names to ‘university,’”

by Future U/ August 10, 2023/ Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

FUTUREU FORUM, Thursday, August 10, LIVE with Dr. Kirsty Morrin, “Against Entrepreneurship”

Thursday, August 10, 1:30p, Eastern Time

by Future U/ August 9, 2023/ FutureU Forum, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Private Higher Education Faces An Obligation with Many Public Institutions Muzzled Regarding DEI

"Institutions that don’t fulfill this vision do their students a profound disservice."

by Future U/ August 8, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Attacks on Higher Education Are Attacks on Democracy

"Public universities are bellwethers for the health of our democracy. To see them eroded is to see American democracy eroded."

by Future U/ August 7, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

COMMENTARY: Shame on the College Football Industry

"Schools jumped conferences for one reason only--to get a bigger slice of the media money pie.

by Frank Fear/ August 6, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Altered Focus Permeates Today’s Undergraduate Education

"Let’s demand that our institutions take steps to raise the quality of an undergraduate education."

by Future U/ August 4, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: State Agency Ruling to Stop Granting Degrees Becomes Death Knell for Alderson Broaddus

Student: "One minute I’m doing my normal day, next minute I’m posting on Twitter, looking for a new home. It's …

by Future U/ August 3, 2023/ Higher Ed, News Briefs/

PERSPECTIVES: Scramble for Bigger Media Payouts is Unsettling Major College Athletics

"The latest phase of greedy mayhem left the Pac-12 dangling, jeopardizing the identity of football on the West Coast."

by Future U/ August 2, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/