issues in higher education Archives

PERSPECTIVES: Is DeSantis Winning the Culture War Battle With Public Higher Education?

"My guess is, this is going to end up as a historic victory for those pushing back against woke."

by Future U/ February 2, 2023/ Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

Benefits often do not align with "the upheaval they (former university presidents/chancellors) leave behind."

by Future U/ January 31, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

"The rankings measure more about the students who enter the school than about (those) who graduate or about the substance/ …

by Future U/ January 30, 2023/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

Multiple factors are contributing to collegiate enrollment declines nationally.

by Future U/ January 28, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

"It makes tenured professors accountable, just like anyone else. You take the private sector—you’re accountable to a boss.”

by Future U/ January 26, 2023/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed/

"Some professors are redesigning their courses, including handwritten assessments instead of typed ones."

by Future U/ January 20, 2023/ Education, Higher Ed, Perspectives/

Steve Mintz reviews Relationship-Rich Education and The Cost of Inclusion: How Student Conformity Leads to Inequality on College Campuses.

by Future U/ January 3, 2023/ Book Review, Higher Ed, Perspectives/

Mark J. Drozdowski: “Colleges have created an unstable financial model, and dozens have closed in recent years. Faculty are burned …

by Future U/ January 2, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

Karin Fischer, writing in The Chronicle of Higher Education: “Nearly 1.3 million students have disappeared from American colleges during the …

by Future U/ January 1, 2023/ Higher Ed, News Briefs/

"Since 1980, the burden of the production cost of higher education has shifted from taxpayers to the individual student."

by Future U/ December 30, 2022/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

Naomi Greenspan, writing in Insider Higher Education: “To create a truly inclusive campus environment, it must be a space where …

by Future U/ December 15, 2022/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

Lev Golinkin, writing in The New York Times: “The institutions that whitewash the Nazi past of men whose names grace …

by Future U/ December 13, 2022/ Higher Ed, Society/

UConn alumna Sena Wazer writes in The Nation about how student activists on that campus have organized to influence BOT …

by Future U/ December 12, 2022/ Higher Ed, Society/

Commenting on “external matters” (language from the University of Illinois) tells you all you need to do about what can …

by Future U/ December 11, 2022/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

"How can a system run by liberals be so conservative?"

by Future U/ October 3, 2022/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives/