What Would Calvin Coolidge Think of UNC?

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…

America’s medical schools do not train enough doctors, creating a growing shortage of quality physicians. This shortage is widely recognized and lamented, but the cause of the problem is often…

On May 13, 2026 Do No Harm, a healthcare education advocacy group, sent an open letter to the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), the national accrediting agency for social…

Several years ago, when I headed marketing at a major public university, a colleague suggested we needed our own “moonshot” to stem the tide of declining enrollment.   I took the…

Few high school students have ever looked at a Saturday morning SAT or ACT and thought, “This is exactly how I want to spend my weekend.” But while standardized tests…