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American higher education doesn’t merit the fit-of-spite punishments envisioned by J.D. Vance. Colleges and universities are like big, beautiful butterflies that shouldn’t be broken on a wheel.
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College admissions consultants are taking a human and social toll. They are developmentally detrimental, send the wrong messages to teens, and fuel inequality. Why do college admissions offices continue to put up with them?
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With recent Supreme Court decisions, the golden era of regulation appears to be at an end. But regulation’s demise has the potential to shift higher education and workforce policy and funding from the ideological to the practical.
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With all the AI attention on teaching and tutoring, with major budget challenges ahead, and with most of the spending outside the classroom, colleges need to embrace AI in order to shrink.
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The demise of University of the Arts demonstrates that current financial guardrails aren’t working. Colleges and universities at risk of not making payments or payroll should not be able to make up for that fundamental weakness with another financial metric.
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Outside of brand-name schools, failure to bake relevant work experience into postsecondary programs is a recipe for anachronism. It’s time for colleges to get serious about internships.
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Seafood towers are not only a good way to run up a restaurant bill, they’re also a good way to understand majors. If it doesn’t have at least two tiers, restaurants shouldn’t be selling it as a seafood tower. Likewise, if majors don’t have two tiers, colleges shouldn’t be offering them.
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Higher education’s go-along, get-along attitude to the Googlification of the classroom is yet another example of colleges doing the easy thing rather than the right thing for students.
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The FAFSA failure is a talent problem that sheds light on the higher education system FAFSA props up. Degrees shouldn’t be the only pathway to managing contractors for a federal agency or moving a 40- year-old COBOL form to the Cloud, and definitely not the only subsidized path.
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Small colleges are abusing varsity athletics to juice enrollment
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