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

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

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

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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

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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”

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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."
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