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FUTUREU YouTube: John S. Levin on Academic and Market Values in Higher Education

FutureU Forum recorded on March 28, 2022.

by Future U/ April 4, 2022/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Podcast, Video/

PERSPECTIVES: Central Michigan U, Among other Michigan Public Universities, in Throes of Significant Enrollment Decline

"The Mount Pleasant university, like many colleges, lost students during the COVID-19 pandemic. But CMU's 22% loss was the largest …

by Future U/ April 3, 2022/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/

PERSPECTIVES: Harvard Reports 3.2% Admission Rate Amid Enrollment Struggle at Many Other Schools

Fierce admission competition at competitive schools is not the reality elsewhere as "many community colleges and regional public and private …

by Future U/ April 2, 2022/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

PERSPECTIVES: Universities and Political Stands

"The more closely one examines the history of the American university, the more clearly one sees that it has never …

by Future U/ April 1, 2022/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Four Takeaways About Higher Ed’s Future Apply Broadly

The conversation took place at UNC Charlotte.

by Future U/ March 31, 2022/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

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/