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PERSPECTIVES: Colleges/Universities at High Risk Without Vaccine/Mask Mandate

"Amid a surge in coronavirus cases fueled by the spread of the highly transmissible Delta variant, faculty and staff are …

by Future U/ August 12, 2021/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Davidson College to Offer Course on Impact of Police on Black, Brown, and Indigenous People

"The course will critically examine issues of race, criminalization, incarceration, police militarization, predictive policing, surveillance, and domestic security.”

by Future U/ August 11, 2021/ Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Over 40% of America’s College Faculty are Part-Time Contingent Faculty … They are Earning Near Poverty-Level Salaries

Faculty members so classified outnumber tenured and tenure-track faculty combined (total=37%).

by Future U/ August 10, 2021/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Impact of Engaged Scholarship is Focus of New Book on Industrial Agriculture

"We profile eight scholars who were both researchers and activists and who saw the two as inseparable."

by Future U/ August 9, 2021/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

Remembering Tom Edens

Friend and colleague Thomas Charles Edens, Michigan State University professor, left this world on March 15, 2020. Because of the …

by Frank Fear/ August 8, 2021/ Higher Ed, MSU, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Questionable Master’s Programs Indicative of Neoliberalism’s Hold on Higher Ed

The Chronicle of Higher Education: “The question is how long the proliferation of questionable master’s programs is going to last, …

by Future U/ August 7, 2021/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Cut College Sports Teams? Adding Teams (N=12) is Plan at Hobart and William Smith

In a press release, President Joyce P. Jacobsen said: “We are doubling down on our commitment to athletics and the experiences …

by Future U/ August 6, 2021/ Higher Ed, News Briefs/

PERSPECTIVES: Shared Governance Under More Stress During COVID Era

AAUP REPORT: “We found no evidence that AAUP-supported policies failed in any of the cases under investigation. Indeed, at most …

by Future U/ August 5, 2021/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

NEWS BRIEFS: More Michigan Universities Add Campus Restrictions in Face of Delta Variant

Wayne State and Central Michigan are the most recent schools to take precautionary action. Read more from The Bridge.

by Future U/ August 4, 2021/ Higher Ed, News Briefs/

NEWS BRIEFS: Time Out! Why Aren’t Fall Athletic Events Included in Campus Vaccination/Mask Mandates?

It’s a big question, too. Here’s what Dr. Michael Saag, a University of Alabama, Birmingham infectious disease expert had to …

by Future U/ August 3, 2021/ MSU, News Briefs, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: When Partisan Attacks Threaten Democracy

Ohio State’s Harvey J. Graff in Inside Higher Education: “A firm grounding in an accurate and complete American history is …

by Future U/ August 2, 2021/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: In Higher Ed, Pandemic Hits Women Academics Especially Hard

The Chronicle of Higher Education interviewed five academics: “A substantial body of social science evidence suggests that women, who were …

by Future U/ August 1, 2021/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

NEWS BRIEFS: Historic AAUP Study Finds Shared Governance Progress at Unit Level, Devolution at Institutional Level

AAUP Study, Shared Governance, 1971-2021; “At most institutions, faculty authority is consistent with AAUP-recommended governance standards in decision-making about programmatic, …

by Future U/ July 31, 2021/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed/

PERSPECTIVES: Published Critique of U Cal Policy Raises Eyebrows and Elicits Pushback

An article published by Caitlin Flanagan in The Atlantic with the headline, Why the University of California Is Lying to …

by Future U/ July 30, 2021/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: “Academentia” = What Higher Ed Has Become Is Not What Higher Ed Is Supposed to Be

Thomas Kilkauer and Meg Young: “The term “Academentia” combines “academia” (post-secondary education) with “dementia” (progressive impairments to memory, thinking, and …

by Future U/ July 29, 2021/ Public Higher Ed/