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PERSPECTIVES: Researchers Find “Mission Sprawl” Major Problem in Higher Ed Today

College and universities need to focus on their core mission.

by Future U/ March 30, 2022/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Video/

PERSPECTIVES: Staff Morale an Issue in Higher Ed

"Instead of adapting and trying to find ways to provide workers with more flexibility and ideally higher wages, higher education …

by Future U/ March 29, 2022/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

PERSPECTIVES: Education “As an Emancipatory Force Central to Politics”

"Right-wing extremists have redefined the notion of freedom by detaching it from any sense of the common good and ethical …

by Future U/ March 28, 2022/ Education, Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

“Sometimes Contradictory, Sometimes Complementary” John S. Levin on the Interplay of Academic & Market Values in Contemporary Higher Ed

12:30p. Eastern time, Monday, March 28, 2022. FutureU is pleased to welcome Professor John S. Levin. Professor Levin’s work addresses …

by Future U/ March 23, 2022/

PERSPECTIVES: Trump-Era Title IX Rule “Swings Pendulum Too Far”

A number of Title IX administrators and academics plan to press the federal government to reconsider the rule.

by Future U/ March 7, 2022/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Unnoticed Provision Enables Mizzou President to Cut Faculty Salaries Significantly

University of Missouri system affirms the president's right to cut salaries up to 25%.

by Future U/ March 6, 2022/ Higher Ed, News Briefs/

NEWS BRIEFS: Amid Enrollment Pressure, Courts Mandate UC Berkeley to Reduce Admissions

Berkeley will be forced to admit about 3,000 fewer students than it planned for Fall 2022.

by Future U/ March 5, 2022/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed/

PERSPECTIVES: History Tells Us, Beware of the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex

"As more of physics research is funded by the military, it is important to learn the full history of our …

by Future U/ March 4, 2022/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Neoliberal Higher Ed? No Question. What About the Faculty?

"Neoliberalism and Neoliberal initiatives may be tied to faculty behaviors in subtle and covert ways." 

by Future U/ March 3, 2022/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives/

FUTUREU Forum: Boundary Issues in the Commercialization of Revenue-Generating College Sports

The sports are moving farther away from their amateur roots, tenuously connected with their higher education host. 

by Future U/ March 1, 2022/ Higher Ed, Public Higher Ed, Society, Video/

NEWS BRIEFS: University of Chicago Leads the Way, New Department Created

Faculty-led effort leads to the establishment of a new department, the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity.

by Future U/ February 24, 2022/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

THIS FRIDAY: FutureU Forum Explores “How Far is Too Far?” in Major College Revenue-Generating Sports

"What do we what college football to be, and how do we make sure it still fits inside a university …

by Future U/ February 21, 2022/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

PERSPECTIVES: We Filed a Lawsuit Against Princeton, Here’s Why

It's about the university's continued endowment nvestments in fossil fuel industries.

by Future U/ February 20, 2022/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: “Micro-Credentialing,” Higher Ed’s Shiny New Thing

Targeted, short-term training for the workplace.

by Future U/ February 19, 2022/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Student-Faculty Pushback at Brown, Concerns Raised about Koch Funding

Faculty vote for more time to study the proposal.

by Future U/ February 18, 2022/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/