As a public school kid all the way through and now a public university teacher, I am a bit resentful of how all the media attention for higher education focuses on the same elite institutions where al
Colleges and universities around the nation are using COVID-19 related budget crises to double down on their long existing attack on the humanities and social sciences. First, the University of Vermon
Rita Konaev has a great piece at the Washington Post on the Trump administration’s new policy for international students. If this policy had been enacted when I was an international student, it
Apropos the two post from yesterday on COVID-19 and education, three Georgetown professors – Shweta Bansal, Colin Carlson and John Kraemer – have a piece in the Washington Post arguing against bri
When McSweeney’s nails it, they really nail it. This bit titled “We Condemn All Institutional Racism But Our Own” pretty much sums up the actual response of higher education but real
Need to congratulate the Brown graduate students for winning a union contract. This is actually a big deal. Private schools have been harshly anti-union. While Democratic presidents have opened up col
There really isn’t any good reason for Democratic candidates to oppose the idea of free college tuition. But if they are going to do so, can’t they at least not be this clueless? I don’t
I know I’ve talked about how much I hate the textbook industry before, but this is just well over the line. The world’s largest education publisher has taken the first step towards phasing