Faculty Senate Events

Higher education in the United States is under siege. Politicians have turned some of our greatest institutions into political punching bags, and the public is losing confidence in the value of the education those institutions provide. Where do we go from here? How might the nature of higher education be reconceptualized? Should the classic four-year […]

According to a recent Pew Research Center report titled “Is a College Degree Worth It in 2024, “only one-in-four U.S. adults say it’s extremely or very important to have a four-year college degree in order to get a well-paying job in today’s economy.” In fact, for at least a decade Americans on both sides of […]

Over the past decade, both state and federal government actors have exerted increasing pressure and influence on higher education. They have threatened to withhold funding, and sometimes done so, to express their displeasure about some aspect of university operation—raising the possibility of cutting off federal funding to major research universities alleged to have violated Title […]