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NEWS BRIEFS: Fed Judge Rules Against Biden Administration’s Proposed Regulations Prohibiting Discrimination Based on Gender Identity

A federal judge in Kentucky ruled that the proposal was unconstitutional. Read more from the New York Times regarding the …
by Future U/ January 10, 2025/ Education, Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Reimagining the Academic Contributions of Intercollegiate Athletics

"Higher education can (should it choose) position athletics as a vital, innovative, and equitable part of its academic mission."
by Future U/ January 8, 2025/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: We’ve Seen This Before … Despite External Audit Results to the Contrary, a University Cuts Faculty Positions

(last October) "94 non-tenure track faculty were notified their jobs were on the chopping block."
by Future U/ December 18, 2024/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed/

PERSPECTIVES: College Enrollments Decline, as Admissions Pressure Eases

“Colleges wnt to cultivate this idea that they’re prestigious and selective...and like the idea of being a sought-after good.”
by Future U/ December 16, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Dialogue and Discourse, Hallmarks of the Collegium? (Not in Today’s Hypercharged Political Environment)

“Academic freedom technically exists, but many faculty lack faith that it will be there to protect them."
by Future U/ December 15, 2024/ Public Higher Ed/

NEWS BRIEFS: More Colleges Close This Year Than Last, Upward Tick Predicted to Continue

Candi Clouse, Implan: "We see a decline in national birthrates, rising cost of education, and rising cost of operations,"
by Future U/ December 12, 2024/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: National Enrollment of First-Year Students Drops 5%

When large numbers of students do not attend, one consequence for them and America is "the loss of human potential."
by Future U/ December 5, 2024/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

COMMENTARY by Adrian Lenardic: A “Wrong ‘Em Boyo” Faculty Meeting Moment

We talk about resisting, but we wind up playing games.
by Adrian Lenardic/ November 19, 2024/ Public Higher Ed/

PERSPECTIVES: Academic Freedom and Free Speech, Are They the Same?

Administrators: "Try modeling the collegiate mission of not just producing knowledge but subjecting it to civic/moral scrutiny."
by Future U/ October 29, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: First-Year College Admissions Drop, Interest Rises in Skill Trades

"Public & private nonprofit 4-year institutions had the largest decreases in frosh enrollment (-8.5% and -6.5%, respectively)."
by Future U/ October 26, 2024/ Higher Ed, Society/

COMMENTARY: Authoritarians Render Havoc Across Sectors, Including Higher Education  

Anand Giridharadas: “America stares openly at an anti-democratic movement, flirts with fascism, and talks about dictatorship. Half of America says, …
by Frank Fear/ September 29, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society, Video/

PERSPECTIVES: Massive Austerity Move Has Continuing Consequences at West Virginia University

Solomon Clark, an undergrad in applied math, was considering staying for grad school, but math grad programs were dropped.
by Future U/ September 9, 2024/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Rally Set this Week for Union of Tenure System Faculty at MSU

Rally is set for Friday, Sept. 6, from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. at Brody East Lawn, on the Michigan …
by Future U/ September 5, 2024/ Higher Ed, MSU, News Briefs/

PERSPECTIVES: Don’t Be Deterred “By Loud Voices in the Political Sphere” Decrying Campus Protests

Michael S. Roth: "I’m a college president, and I hope my campus Is even more political this year."
by Future U/ September 4, 2024/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Faculty Strikes Loom at Oakland University and Western Michigan University

"Staff at both universities are seeking to offset sharp cost of living increases with significant pay increases."
by Future U/ September 2, 2024/ Higher Ed, News Briefs/
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