In early 2025, we will slowly begin to see what US higher education looks like with less oversight and accountability, something that many business leaders and administrators secretly hope for. At the same time, we can imagine higher education and its media wary of talking out of turn.
In the past, the Higher Education Inquirer (HEI) focused on exposing bad actors in a few areas of the higher education business: online program managers, large robocolleges, student loan servicers, lead generators, SLAB makers, and university endowments.
We followed the plight of student loan debtors and their families, working-class adjuncts, and striking academic labor. Together, they represented tens of millions of Americans. And we covered funding cuts, layoffs, and universities in financial peril.
We promoted people, in higher education and the higher education business, who fight for more transparency and accountability--those who provided value to consumers.
And HEI highlighted the work of important scholars who discussed the role of higher education in larger matters of politics and economics, climate change and global conflicts.
Despite all of this work, we believe there will be a need to expand our focus over the next four years. We expect fraud and corruption to widen across the higher ed sector and for media coverage of this malfeasance to be minimal--maybe even less than the past.
While higher ed may be unbridled, the higher ed media may be muzzled. We hope to do the opposite despite the costs.
Please support the Higher Education Inquirer by consistently reading and sharing our work with allies, and by letting us know what you all see. Your comments are always welcome and your participation does matter. Let's work and struggle together--in solidarity.
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