Colleges Created the AI Cheating Problem

Last week, UNC-Chapel Hill became the most recent university in the country to settle with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) over allegations of antisemitism and racial preferences. It also…

My wife, daughter, and I walk through our neighborhood every day. I’ve been monitoring the situation at one house for the last few years—the yard is usually clogged with old…

Note: NC State football coach Dave Doeren was fired right before this report’s publication.  College sports aren’t all fun and games. They come at a real cost to students and taxpayers,…

Once upon a time, an American president declared, “It is perfectly apparent that the needs of education were never greater than they are at the present time.” But it was…

In many ways, the modern university’s two decisive constituencies are the trustees and the faculty. The trustees are the university’s ultimate executive authority; the faculty carry out the university’s core…

Hardly anybody thinks better of themselves than journalists—their foremost competition being, perhaps, academics. The cacophony of self-congratulation reaches a peak in state-funded journalism; the fact of the venture’s unprofitability seems…

The University of Delaware has recently discovered that charging full tuition is sometimes easier than getting cute with discounts.  On October 1, the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit…

Dear Higher Ed, For as long as I’ve worked in education, whether in teaching, policy, or now higher education journalism, there has been a long distance between what employers want…