Jun 12, 2025

Are Gen Z’s Degrees a “Waste”?

Developments in skills-based hiring and AI may have been oversold, but not by much.

For decades, the attainment of a four-year degree has been considered an essential aspect of the American experience. Every year, mere months after completing high school, millions of young graduates…

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Jun 11, 2025

Why Does American Higher Education Work So Poorly?

After enjoying many decades of high public support, higher education in the U.S. is in serious decline. Polls show that a sizeable percentage of the populace now doubts that college…

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Jun 9, 2025

Foreign Funding’s Questionable Odor

“Money doesn’t stink.” This proverb—pecunia non olet in the original Latin—is associated with the Roman emperor Vespasian, in justification of his decision to use public toilets to generate revenue. When…

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Jun 6, 2025

Defund “Minority Serving Institutions”

Established by the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 and two Obama-era executive orders, the Minority Serving Institutions (MSI) program is a federally funded initiative that awards higher-education institutions grants…

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Jun 5, 2025

The Case Against Online AP Testing

This May, Advanced Placement tests for 28 of 36 AP subjects were held entirely online.  Going forward, College Board will administer most exams through Bluebook, the central testing platform that…

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Jun 4, 2025

A Year at New College

It takes me about eight minutes to walk across the campus of the New College of Florida, where I just concluded a year as a visiting professor. There are rare…

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Jun 2, 2025

Duke University Press Stays Woke

I recently came across an alarming 2014 article on academic freedom in the Harvard Crimson. “Let’s give up on academic freedom in favor of justice” was the subtitle. The author…

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May 30, 2025

Approaching Academic Armageddon

Over a mere two days recently (May 14-15), the major daily news outlets serving higher education, Inside Higher Ed and the Chronicle of Higher Education, reported the following: Data collected…

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May 29, 2025

Getting the Most From AI

Ever since that fateful day in November 2022 when OpenAI released ChatGPT, hardly a week has gone by in which AI hasn’t been in the news. Much of this coverage…

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