issues in higher education Archives - Page 23 of 28

PERSPECTIVES: Many College Students Experience This Draconian Bargain

What is it? It’s accumulating student debt without earning a degree. According to The National Student Clearinghouse, 25% of students …

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

By Zach Kaiser, MSU assistant professor

by Zach Kaiser/ August 15, 2019/ MSU, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed/

Financial model and lack of academic integrity are issues that need to be addressed. Read more in Frank Fear’s article …

by Future U/ August 5, 2019/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

Anybody who has been through the tenure process and has mentored junior faculty knows that this article is spot on. …

by Future U/ August 1, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

Student-athletes sometimes spend more than 50 hours a week on athletic activities and graduate at significantly lower rates than non-athletes. …

by Future U/ July 25, 2019/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

Headline: “Some college athletes play like adults, read like 5th-graders” CNN’s Sarah Ganim investigates. Read more here.

by Future U/ July 9, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

“Presidential searches constitute a moment in the life of an institution in which confidence is at a premium… And true …

by Future U/ July 8, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

“Despite more universities placing an emphasis on attempting to diversify their faculty ranks, a new study shows very little progress, …

by Future U/ July 4, 2019/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

Much is to be gained if colleges and universities worked more extensively with K-12 and private, public, and nonprofit organizational …

by Future U/ July 3, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

Molly Worthen writes: “The proliferation of programs…will push mainstream universities to recover the moral component of their mission, and to …

by Future U/ June 26, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

Professor Lawrence Wittner comments. Read more from LA Progressive.

by Future U/ June 13, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

$109k loan to matriculate toward an MSW at Southern Cal…$176 in loans to pay for a film master’s degree at …

by Future U/ June 4, 2019/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

Among Yale undergraduates, there has been a nearly 65% decline in library checkouts over the past ten years. “University libraries …

by Future U/ May 28, 2019/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

Fed researchers followed U.S. 9th Graders from 2009 forward. Read more from Inside Higher Education.

by Future U/ May 27, 2019/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

It’s a bad storyline for American higher education. Over a 12-year period … significant increase in the size of the …

by Future U/ May 17, 2019/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/