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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/