PERSPECTIVES: Industry Scientists More Positive than Academic Scientists
FROM NATURE (an editorial): “If they (academic administrators) want current and future generations of academics to thrive, they need to …
NEWS BRIEFS: “High Debt, Limited Opportunities” Characterize Certain Professional Degree Programs (WSJ)
FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: “Professional degrees like dentistry and veterinary medicine are leaving many students with immense college debt, …
December 5, 2021/
Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/
PERSPECTIVES: Politically-Influenced Philanthropy “At It Again,” This Time to ‘Support’ Free Speech
What are money-starved schools supposed to do? Capitulate? Say, no thank you. Here’s the situation as reported by The Wall …
December 4, 2021/
Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/
Next FutureU Forum Focuses on “The Quantified Scholar”
Wednesday, December 8, 1:30-3p Eastern time, 10:30-Noon Pacific time.
November 30, 2021/
Higher Ed/
Here’s the Right Move for America’s Major Sports-Playing Universities
Major college football & basketball are exciting, but what they don't do is connect well to higher education's mission and …
November 28, 2021/
Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/
Oral History Explores a Program and Time When Major College Football Aligned with Higher Education’s Values and Mission
And They Lived Their Lives Accordingly: A Football Story chronicles the lives and experiences–then and since–of players and coaches associated with …
November 18, 2021/
Higher Ed, Perspectives, Video/
NEWS BRIEFS: Do the Right Thing, Michigan State
We support the MSU Faculty Senate resolution passed near-unanimously on November 16, 2021, calling on MSU to restore faculty retirement benefit …
November 17, 2021/
MSU, News Briefs/
NEWS BRIEFS: U Michigan Flu Outbreak is Troubling
"In Ann Arbor, more than 3 in 4 of those who were positive for flu were unvaccinated, according to the …
November 16, 2021/
Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/
Beyond Conventional Academic Settings, Creating New Spaces for Faculty Work
Audio and video feed of the FutureU Forum (11/12/21) with Professor Clyde W. Barrow and VP and Dean emeritus Fred …
November 14, 2021/
Audio, Higher Ed, Perspectives, Video/
Appreciation for a Fellow Teacher, Friend, and Mentor
Jim Osuna is an educator to whom I am both indebted to and grateful.
November 4, 2021/
Public Higher Ed/
PERSPECTIVES: When a Great Public University Takes a Left Turn
The headline for this Orlando Sentinal editorial says it plainly: "A Choice for the University of Florida: Academic Freedom or …
November 3, 2021/
Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/
PERSPECTIVES: Beyond the Job Description, In Praise of Collegiality
Ohio State's Michael S. Weisbach elaborates in this essay published recently in Inside Higher Education.
November 2, 2021/
Higher Ed, Perspectives/
NEWS BRIEFS: Is this Nuts or What? Terminating Major College Coaching Contracts Cost Half-Billion Nationally
If this is the cost of doing business, then the business needs to change.
November 1, 2021/
Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/
NEWS BRIEFS: MSU Students Push for Climate Change Action
Students for Cooperation, a Michigan State U. student organization, organized the “Climate 911 March.”
October 11, 2021/
Higher Ed, MSU, News Briefs, Society/
VIDEO: Reclaiming Education from Corporate Capture
Featuring Jasmine Banks, Exec Director, UnKoch My Campus, and Prof Sharon Kirsch, co-founder, Save our Schools AZ.
October 10, 2021/
Education, Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/