Wednesday, February 23, 2022

The Power of Recognizing Higher Ed Faculty as Working-Class (Helena Worthen)

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Just over 20 years ago, Michael Zweig published The Working Class Majority: America’s Best Kept Secret. At that year’s How Class Works con...
Sunday, February 20, 2022

College Meltdown 2.0

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College Meltdown 2.0 is distinctly different than the College Meltdown that started in 2010.  The first wave of the College Meltdown (2010-2...
Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Terri Givens and “Radical Empathy: Finding a Path to Bridge Racial Divides”

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[This article is part of the Transparency-Accountability-Value series.] Terri E. Givens is a seasoned (and storied) political science profe...
Tuesday, February 8, 2022

One Fascism or Two?: The Reemergence of "Fascism(s)" in US Higher Education

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The Higher Education Inquirer is conducting an extensive investigation of the reemergence of fascism in US higher education.  The examinat...
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Thursday, February 3, 2022

"20-20": Many US States Have Seen Enrollment Drops of More Than 20 Percent (Glen McGhee and Dahn Shaulis)

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In 2013, Futurist Bryan Alexander  aptly talked about peak college enrollment in the United States.  And over the last decade or so, highe...
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Sunday, January 30, 2022

How University of Phoenix Failed. It's a Long Story. But It's Important for the Future of Higher Education.

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The failure of University of Phoenix (UoPX) is more than a dark moment in higher education history.  It should act as a lesson learned in ...
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Sunday, January 23, 2022

Maximus, Student Loan Debt, and the Poverty Industrial Complex

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The Higher Education Inquirer is taking a close look at who's invested in Maximus , the enormous social welfare profiteer . Maximus has...
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Monday, November 15, 2021

More Transparency About the Student Debt Portfolio Is Needed: Student Debt By Institution

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It's commonly known that US student loan debt is now about $1.7 trillion and that more than 44 million Americans are laden with this deb...
Monday, September 6, 2021

The Tragedy of Human Capital Theory in Higher Education (Glen McGhee*)

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Related article:  The College Dream is Over (Gary Roth) Related article: When College Choice is a Fraud Related article: The Higher Educatio...
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Wednesday, July 21, 2021

SLABS: The Soylent Green of US Higher Education

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Michael Bright of the Structured Finance Association defends the role of NRSRO's at the House Financial Services subcommittee on NRSROs,...
Friday, July 9, 2021

Academic Capitalism and the next phase of the College Meltdown (updated January 26, 2022)

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I t appears we have entered a new phase of Academic Capitalism and the College Meltdown. The previous phase involved  College Mania! and the...
Thursday, July 1, 2021

The Growth of "RoboColleges" and "Robostudents"

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In a previous Higher Education Inquirer article, I presented frightening full-time faculty numbers  at some large online universities which ...
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