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PERSPECTIVES: How to Handle Intolerant/Recalcitrant Professors?

"Incidents often trigger lengthy/opaque investigations that disrupt departments and turn students into witnesses."

by Future U/ June 25, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: More Chicanery in Florida as State Sues U.S. Dept of Education Over Accrediting Process

"DeSantis, who frequently criticizes the Biden administration, is now taking aim at higher ed accrediting agencies."

by Future U/ June 24, 2023/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

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by Future U/ June 23, 2023/

NEWS BRIEFS: What’s the Appropriate Balance Between Provost Oversight and Professorial Discretion?

"Students were asked to report to the provost those professors who acted without empathy."

by Future U/ June 23, 2023/ Higher Ed, MSU, News Briefs/

FUTUREU FORUM YOUTUBE: J.W. Traphagan on the Quantification of Quality in Higher Education

Taped on Tuesday, June 20, 2023, and hosted by Rubén Martinez with George Styles as discussant.

by Future U/ June 22, 2023/ FutureU Forum, Higher Ed, Society, Video/

FUTUREU FORUM AUDIO: J.W. Traphagan on the Quantification of Quality in Higher Education

Taped on Tuesday, June 20, 2023, hosted by Rubén Martinez with George Styles as discussant.

by Future U/ June 21, 2023/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Before the State Legislature Acted, This Major State University Disbanded Its DEI Office

The University of Arkansas is the first university in the country to do so without a state mandate for board …

by Future U/ June 21, 2023/ Public Higher Ed/

FUTUREU FORUM Tu, June 20, LIVE with Dr. John W. Traphagan, “Neoliberalism and the Quantification of Quality in Higher Ed”

Tuesday, June 20, 9a, Eastern Time, LIVE on YouTube.

by Future U/ June 20, 2023/ FutureU Forum, Neoliberalism, Perspectives/

COMMENTARY: So, You Want To Be a University Administrator?

"As long as the metrics line up, the optics will line up, and everything will be good in university land."

by John Traphagan/ June 19, 2023/ Public Higher Ed/

PERSPECTIVES: Why America’s College and Universities Don’t Take Social Positions

"A century ago, universities were hotbeds of political reaction."

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

FUTUREU FORUM with Dr. Kirsty Morrin, “Against Entrepreneurship”

Against Entrepreneurship: Educations, Nations, and Inequalities Thursday, August 10, 1:30p, Eastern Time

by Future U/ June 17, 2023/

PERSPECTIVES: Recomposition of the Faculty is an Anti-Tenure Move

"Administrators effectively eliminate tenure (when they) build faculties in which contingent positions are the majority,"

by Future U/ June 16, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/

PERSPECTIVES: Maureen Dowd’s NYT Commentary on the Humanities Caused a Stir

Maureen Dowd, writing in the New York Times: “Republicans have consecrated themselves to a war against qualities once cherished by …

by Future U/ June 15, 2023/ Public Higher Ed/

PERSPECTIVES: “Do You Have a Hill on Which You are Willing to Die? If so, Will You Show Up When the Time Comes?”

"The hills on which leaders were once willing to die are less defended now, and that is a serious problem." …

by Future U/ June 14, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

NEWS BRIEFS: With Churn Over College Rankings, US News & World Report Changes Methodology

"New rankings remove alumni giving, faculty with highest degrees, class size, and high school standing of entering students."

by Future U/ June 13, 2023/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/