How do you spot a hot trend in higher education? Hint: Headlines in industry outlets simultaneously insist that everyone wants it, no one is sure what it is, and nobody … Continue reading “Are Microcredentials More Than the Next Higher-Ed Fad?”
Last week, following an executive order by Gov. Roy Cooper, North Carolina joined a growing movement to pull down unnecessary barriers to public employment. Bearing the modest title “Recognizing the … Continue reading “North Carolina Strikes a Blow Against Credentialism”
President Biden recently announced a controversial, half-trillion-dollar student-loan-forgiveness scheme in which his administration would use a minor provision of the post-9/11 HEROES Act to excuse student borrowers from repaying roughly … Continue reading “After Student-Loan Forgiveness, Mandatory Credentialing Has to Go”
In the past year, the North Carolina Community College system said goodbye to one president and gained another. After former president Peter Hans took up his new role as the … Continue reading “Stith: “The Best Community College System in the Country””
Scuba diving ought to be very dangerous. Recreational diving involves submerging to depths of up to 60 feet. If something goes wrong at that depth, a quick return to the … Continue reading “The Scuba Model of Higher Education”
Now that President Biden has been sworn in as the 46th president, he wants to hit the ground running and attend to urgent priorities. One of his first moves was … Continue reading “Biden Could Shake Up Higher Ed—If He Doesn’t Endorse the Status Quo”
Most college professors applaud what American higher education does and want to see it expand to include even more students. One dissenter of note, however, is Harvard philosophy professor Michael … Continue reading “The Harvard Professor Who Bemoans Higher Education”
Every so often, a leftist thinker breaks free from the orthodoxy to point out that policies favored by “progressives” can have adverse consequences. When that happens, it’s worth paying attention. … Continue reading “A Book with a Kernel of Truth—and a Grain Silo of Nonsense”
Credential inflation refers to an increase in the education credentials required for a job—for example, a job that used to be done by high school graduates but now requires new … Continue reading “Credential Inflation: What’s Causing It and What Can We Do About It?”
People like to tell a few stories about academic conservatives. Within the progressive left, one story is about the influence of corporate interests and “neoliberalism” on the university. In their … Continue reading “Credentials, But Not Community, for Conservatives in the Academy”