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PERSPECTIVES: Why Isn’t Higher Ed the ‘Diversity Lab of Ideas’ of Yesteryear?

Or is it still? In his Washington Post op-ed, Jay Mathews compares his college experience of the 1960s with today. …

by Future U/ December 30, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: The Emergence of ‘Survelliance U’

Colleges and universities are turning to surveillance tools to track students.’ Drew Harwell describes where, how, and when in an …

by Future U/ December 23, 2019/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: College Debt Quintuples in 15 Years, Nears $1.5 Trillion

24/7WallStreet has the details.

by Future U/ December 3, 2019/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: At America’s Most Selective Schools, Admission Pressure is at an All-Time High

Since 2000, the average number of applications at America’s most selective schools has risen from 10,000-25,000. Over the same time …

by Future U/ November 30, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Alice Dreger: “Democracy Depends on Having a Public Capable of Thinking”

“Democracy depends on a large public capable of at least occasionally being moved by principle and mind, not only tribe …

by Future U/ November 23, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Concerned about The Glass Ceiling? America is Also Plagued by ‘The Glass Floor’

Many children of the elite end up in privileged positions, not because they deserve that status, but because they are …

by Future U/ October 20, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Shakeout in Higher Education Continues, Colleges Close and Merge

Moody’s projects an average of 15 colleges/universities will close per annum, as smaller and financially strapped schools pursue survival strategies. …

by Future U/ October 17, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Higher Ed Needs a Reformation (commentary)

Erik Gilbert in Inside Higher Education: “If a movement comes along that poses a serious threat to the status quo in …

by Future U/ October 2, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

NEWS BRIEFS: NCAA Board Votes Against Punishing Schools for Academic Misconduct

“The governing board of the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Division I conferences will not adopt rules that would have allowed …

by Future U/ September 29, 2019/ Higher Ed, News Briefs/

PERSPECTIVES: Higher Ed and ‘The Meritocracy,” What’s the Connection?

The New Yorker’s Lewis Menand explores the question in this far-reaching commentary. Read more here.

by Future U/ September 27, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: When Privilege Affects the Public Policy Debate

As the struggle continues to find public policy solutions to the neo-plantation, neo-sweatshop nature of revenue-producing college sports, Tim Tebow …

by Future U/ September 16, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/