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…
At the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, computer science student Jaylen Carroll found an unexpected connection between artificial intelligence (AI) and horticulture. Drawing on his academic interests, he helped develop a…
Out of the great 19th-century liberal revolutions, there was the aspiration that society could forge a new path with the formation of neutral institutions. This was particularly salient in public…
Yeshiva University takes its name from a Jewish study hall, where dissenting views and passionate disagreements are encouraged. However, YU’s institutionalization of DEI—a profoundly rigid, intolerant ideology—flies in the face…