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NEWS BRIEFS: MSU AD Haller Wants Michigan Law Changed to Enable Alcohol Sales at Spartan Stadium

Athletic Alan Haller has already signed a contract with Three Olive Vodka, naming it “The Official Vodka of Spartan Athletics.” …

by Future U/ June 20, 2022/ MSU, News Briefs/

NEWS BRIEFS: Three MSU Students Charged in Hazing-Related Death

Phat Nguyen was found dead in the basement of the Pi Alpha Phi fraternity house.

by Future U/ June 14, 2022/ Public Higher Ed/

NEWS BRIEFS: GVSU’s Scholarship Offers to 8th Graders Said to Be “Among First in the Nation”

Scholarships offered to all 8th Grade graduates of Detroit Achievement Academy. Three more schools to follow.

by Future U/ June 11, 2022/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Biden’s Student Debt Reduction Plan Expected Later this Summer

"Biden is considering forgiving around $10k in student debt per borrower for all borrowers earning less than $150k a year."

by Future U/ June 8, 2022/ Public Higher Ed/

USA Today Investigation: Title IX, Some Schools are “Rigging the Numbers”

"Despite tremendous gains during the past five decades, many colleges and universities fall short, leaving women struggling for equal footing.."

by Future U/ June 7, 2022/ Public Higher Ed/

PERSPECTIVES: In Academe as in Broader Society “The Currency is Attention”

"Higher education is being gamed by its business model."

by Future U/ June 6, 2022/ Audio, Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Society/

Interview with Mike Balow, Candidate, MSU Board of Trustees

  FROM THE STATE NEWS: “I have been a keen observer of Michigan State’s administration and politics for the last …

by Future U/ June 4, 2022/

NEWS BRIEFS: At University of Kansas, It’s Not Whether to Cut Academic Programs, But How Many Will Be Cut

KU faculty want to save 14 of the 42 proposed program cuts.

by Future U/ June 4, 2022/ Public Higher Ed/

PERSPECTIVES: One Way Right-Wing Money is Infiltrating Higher Education

"They do not support education as an end in itself, but as a means to an end that they should …

by Future U/ June 2, 2022/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Numbers Show How Michigan Universities Handled Vaccine Mandates

MSU + UM: 500+ employees were terminated/2500+ students were suspended or placed on academic hold.

by Future U/ June 1, 2022/ Higher Ed, MSU, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: “It’s Meant to Get Students Dreaming about High Academics”

Nineteen Michigan high schools sent 70%+ of their 2021 graduates to college despite having a student population that was 40%+ …

by Future U/ May 31, 2022/ Public Higher Ed/

PERSPECTIVES: A Higher Education Story, An Olympics Story, and Much More: Spotlight on Stanford & 2012 Olympian, Cassidy Krug

Cassidy sat down with Frank Fear for this 30-minute interview. (Published in collaboration with The Sports Column https://www.thesportscol.com/).

by Frank Fear/ May 29, 2022/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society, Video/

PERSPECTIVES: Florida’s “Stop WOKE Act” Misconstrues Higher Education

"Indeed, if the social sciences can be stifled for political reasons, so can any discipline deemed troublesome."

by Future U/ May 28, 2022/ Public Higher Ed/

PERSPECTIVES: (On the Elimination of MSU’s Men’s & Women’s Swimming and Diving) “I’m told I need to move on, find another hobby and leave the sport that has molded my identity since I was 4 years old.”

"I will continue to “beat the broken drum” and just keep swimming until it’s impossible for the administration to ignore …

by Future U/ May 24, 2022/ MSU, Perspectives/

NEWS BRIEFS: WI Republicans Slam UW-Madison Chancellor Appointment

Mnookin was criticized "for her support for CRT and vaccine mandates and meeting with President Biden’s son Hunter Biden."

by Future U/ May 20, 2022/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/