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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/

PERSPECTIVES: R. Barbara Gitenstein, “Promising Honorifics in a President’s Employment Contract (rather than in an exit agreement), Doesn’t Represent Best Practice”

Benefits often do not align with "the upheaval they (former university presidents/chancellors) leave behind."
by Future U/ January 31, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

NEWS BRIEFS: More Professional Schools Drop Out of U.S. and News Report Collegiate Rankings

"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/

PERSPECTIVES: When an Industry Compresses

Multiple factors are contributing to collegiate enrollment declines nationally.
by Future U/ January 28, 2023/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Legislative Incursion in North Dakota Public Higher Education

"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/

PERSPECTIVES: The Battle Against A.I. Chatbots

"Some professors are redesigning their courses, including handwritten assessments instead of typed ones."
by Future U/ January 20, 2023/ Education, Higher Ed, Perspectives/

PERSPECTIVES: Recent Books Underscore the Impact of Professor-Student Engagement

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/

PERSPECTIVES: Seven Trends Challenging Higher Education

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/

NEWS BRIEFS: Higher Ed Enrollment is Trending Down

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/

PERSPECTIVES: “From Esteem to Resentment,” Researchers Contend, Tied to Higher Education’s Cost

"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/

PERSPECTIVES: Antisemitism Must Become a DEI Priority

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/

PERSPECTIVES: “Erasing History, Leaving Out Inconvenient Facts”

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/

PERSPECTIVES: It’s Time to Include Students on College Boards of Trustees

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/

PERSPECTIVES: Speak Out? The “Politics of Politics” is Dicey

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/

PERSPECTIVES: Institutional Self-Evaluation in Higher Education? Spotty at Best

"How can a system run by liberals be so conservative?"
by Future U/ October 3, 2022/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives/
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