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Florida Legislative Session Update (Metrics Made Worse and Attacking Health Care)

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Higher Education was at center stage this week in Senate interim committee meetings. The Legislature officially convenes the 2017 Legislative Session on Tuesday, March 7th. On Monday, February 6, the…

American Universities Must Take a Stand

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From The New York Times February 8,, 2017 Leo Botstein Not since the era of witch hunts and “red baiting” has the American university faced so great a threat from government.…

Killing Tenure

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from Inside Higher Ed By Colleen Flaherty Jan. 13, 2017 Lawmakers in two states this week introduced legislation that would eliminate tenure for public college and university professors. A bill in…

Universities, colleges paint depressing picture of dealing with 10 percent cuts

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[Preface: The War on Higher Education ignites the New Year: budget cuts announced in Florida along with pending anti-tenure legislation in the states of Missouri and Iowa. Legislators manufacture crises…

Nationwide, state budget cuts disproportionately hit low-income, minority college students

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from PBS Newshour BY JON MARCUS, THE HECHINGER REPORT January 3, 2017 at 1:29 PM EST States are disproportionately subsidizing schools whose students are wealthier and white, contributing to a widening…

The Unravelling of College Football Starts With All These Empty Stadiums

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from Bloomberg News By Eben Novy-Williams Jan. 3, 2017 The business model of college football, long a financial boon to universities, is breaking down. A weeklong look at the pressures of…

On Self-Inflicted Wounds: Precarious Faculty and Academic Freedom

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From Remaking the University (blog) By Christopher Newfield and Michael Meranze Since the election there has been much discussion of higher education’s self-inflicted wounds. Mark Lilla and Nicholas Kristof, have trotted out…

Editorial: Keep guns off college campuses

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[Preface: UFF President Jennifer Profitt has continuously led the charge against guns on campus and will continue to do so] from The Gainsville Sun By Nathan Crabbe College campuses are no…

Meaningless metrics mask troublesome trends in higher education

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from Florida Politics By Florence Snyder Florida changes higher education funding formulas nearly as often as Kardashians change clothes. At the Department of Making Things Incomprehensible, Metrics Mavens have their hands…

Holiday Party 2016

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Join us for the 2016 United Faculty of Florida – Florida Atlantic University Holiday Party! WHERE: Villagio Ristorante, 344 East Plaza Real (Mizner Park in Boca) WHEN: Friday, December 9th,…

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