student voice Archive

PERSPECTIVE: What’s Happening at Grinnell Gives Hope

The college president endorses the outcome of an election that expands an on-campus union to cover every student worker.

by Future U/ April 30, 2022/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

NEWS BRIEFS: Student-Faculty Pushback at Brown, Concerns Raised about Koch Funding

Faculty vote for more time to study the proposal.

by Future U/ February 18, 2022/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: University of Iowa Judges that Multiple Faculty Members Restrained a Student’s Right to Free Speech

Before class, a student shared his views with other students, saying that homosexuality was contrary to his religious beliefs,

by Future U/ February 3, 2022/ Public Higher Ed/

NEWS BRIEFS: MSU Students Launch Change.org Petition re MSU’s COVID Policies

Issues faced upon returning for Fall Semester prompts action.

by Future U/ September 23, 2021/ MSU, News Briefs/

PERSPECTIVES: Writing the Personal Statement for College Admission

High school senior Elijah Megginson writes about challenges facing applicants from ‘the hood.’ “Show college admissions officers what they’re missing out …

by Future U/ May 10, 2021/ Public Higher Ed/

NEWS BRIEFS: Condemning Racism Brings Emotional Response at Michigan Tech

FROM THE BRIDGE: “Materials professor Jaroslaw Drelich, who called the resolution “the most hateful and divisive document that was ever …

by Future U/ February 10, 2021/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Public Higher Ed, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: “Universities Keep Saying they Defend Free Speech, But….”

The eerie case of a student, an Australian university, and China. Read more from LA TImes.

by Future U/ December 21, 2020/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: University of Vermont Will Phase Out Programs in Arts & Letters College

Twelve of the College’s 56 programs will be discontinued. Low enrollment is the reason. “None of UVM’s faculty, students, or …

by Future U/ December 6, 2020/ News Briefs, Public Higher Ed/

PERSPECTIVES: “When Avoiding the Truth is Part of Your University’s Business Model”

Sierra Elise Hansen, columnist, Michigan Daily: “The business model the University uses is not unique from the traditional college and …

by Future U/ September 28, 2020/ Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Independent Voice of Student Newspapers in Jeopardy

Reorganization at the University of Vermont: “The biggest concern here is an illegal practice called “prior review,” which is the …

by Future U/ September 26, 2020/ Higher Ed, Perspectives/

NEWS BRIEFS: Protests Continue at University of Michigan

“Anger from faculty members, staff, and students toward the Michigan administration had been brewing for months, but in early September, …

by Future U/ September 16, 2020/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Faculty, Graduate Students, and Staff Speak Out For an Anti-Racist Cornell University

“Cornell remains a site of entrenched racial disparities, mirroring, in many ways, the larger failings of the nation as an …

by Future U/ September 11, 2020/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: Leadership Taken by UCLA’s Black Student Athlete Alliance

“If you have education without action or you have action without education, it’s not really bringing everything together,” said UCLA …

by Future U/ September 10, 2020/ Higher Ed, News Briefs, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: KU Students Protest School Opening, Plan Strike

“A group of University of Kansas students went on a strike from classes on Monday to protest the opening of …

by Future U/ September 8, 2020/ Higher Ed, News Briefs/

NEWS BRIEFS: University of Michigan Grad Instructors to Strike

“The University of Michigan Graduate Employee Organization will go on strike Tuesday as classes begin on campus, citing concerns over …

by Future U/ September 7, 2020/ Higher Ed, News Briefs/