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FUTUREU VIDEO: Michael Gavin on White Nationalism in Higher Education and Politics

Dr. Gavin is president of Delta College (MI).
by Future U/ June 1, 2025/ FutureU Forum, Higher Ed, Public Higher Ed, Society, Video/

PERSPECTIVES: Winning Back Public Trust in Higher Education

"We have to change the opportunity structures for citizens, wherever they live or whether their parents went to school."
by Future U/ December 27, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

COMMENTARY: What’s in Store for Higher Ed?

Candidate Harris: “Our nation has encouraged one path to success: a 4-year college degree, We need to recognize other paths.”
by Future U/ November 5, 2024/ Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: A Call for Action in Higher Education, Embrace Activism

Mia McIver, Chair, Higher Ed Labor United (HELU): "We need politically engaged leaders and organizations to fight for higher ed.”
by Future U/ October 30, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

PERSPECTIVES: Neoliberal Response Required to a Neoliberally-Stimulated Problem?

"Higher education can chart the course for greater levels of economic prosperity across the nation."
by Future U/ August 4, 2024/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives/

PERSPECTIVES: Republican National Convention a Wake-Up Call for Higher Education

"A concrete political strategy (is needed) to address the coming onslaught."
by Future U/ July 20, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: How to Recapture Higher Education’s Promise

"We need to reaffirm the value of an education that goes beyond career preparation."
by Future U/ July 27, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Public Confidence in Higher Education Reaches All-Time Low (Gallup)

"There is a growing divide between Republicans’ and Democrats’ confidence in higher education."
by Future U/ July 11, 2023/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Why America’s College and Universities Don’t Take Social Positions

"A century ago, universities were hotbeds of political reaction."
by Future U/ June 18, 2023/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

“I Used to Know What It Meant to Say, “College” and “University” (but) Today I Do Not”

The allure of longstanding concepts. The same words with expanded frames of reference.
by Frank Fear/ January 11, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Saga of “The Dangerous Educated Proletariat”

This story goes back to the 1970s.
by Future U/ September 1, 2022/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

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 …
by Frank Fear/ November 28, 2021/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

Netflix’s “The Chair” — Stick With It Until the End

Being an academic is not just something one does. It is very much who one is.
by Frank Fear/ August 22, 2021/ Film review, Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

FRIDAY FORUM: On Neoliberalism, Higher Education, and ‘The Sociological Imagination’ with Prof. Nathan Rousseau

The shift toward neoliberal principles is so pervasive that social scientists tend to think and speak in neoliberal terms. C. …
by Future U/ November 26, 2020/

PERSPECTIVES: “Disdain for the Less Educated Is the Last Acceptable Prejudice”

“In 2016, two-thirds of whites without a college degree voted for Mr. Trump, while Hillary Clinton won more than 70 …
by Future U/ September 3, 2020/ Perspectives, Society/
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