TOP STORIES VOL. 8, NO. 3 SUMMER 2023
“Snowflakes” beware.... Embracing AI.... Cheating is easy.... Pac 12 down to 2.... Dramatic fall for Stanford president... After affirmative action decision, loopholes emerge.... Higher ed leadership trends.... Whoa to DEI programs.... and more...
TOP STORIES VOL. 8, NO. 2 SPRING 2023
Responding to ChatGPT.... What about ChatGPT cheating?....Humanities back on the cliff....Tenure as a free speech pass.... Heckler’s veto for federal judge at Stanford...The new mental health crisis on campus....The DeSantis watch... and more...
TOP STORIES VOL. 8, NO. 1 WINTER 2023
Spying apps and cheating chat bots.... Everyone has an opinion about the purpose of higher ed....Law schools revolt over rankings....Stanford investigates its president.... More colleges doing a “tuition reset.”...Preparing for SCOTUS affirmative action decision....Can colleges cancel “cancel culture”?...Student loan payment pause.... and more...
TOP STORIES VOL. 7, NO. 4 FALL 2022
Professors fight back.... Breaches of Fiduciary Duties... Debt relief hot potato is scorching.... Abortion restrictions and free speech collide.... Affirmative action in front of SCOTUS again.... “Structurally racist” search lists.... Enrollment freefall decelerates.... Columbia plummets to #18.... and more...
TOP STORIES VOL. 7, NO. 3 SUMMER 2022
Blame students—or campus leaders—for intellectual conformity?.... Campus leaders in the news.... Battle lines over paying college athletes.... Abortion access on campus.... And monkeypox.... A surge in ransomware.... Biden takes on student debt.... and more....
TOP STORIES VOL. 7, NO. 2 SPRING 2022
UVA senior speaks out on self-censorship... Orange is the new Blues.... Calls to end legacy admissions.... Mental health counseling goes virtual.... Fight over anti-racism instruction continues.... Tenure under siege.... Harvard’s $100 million mea culpa.... and more....
TOP STORIES VOL. 7, NO. 1 WINTER 2022
Bring back the Great Books... How about accelerated bachelor's degrees?.... Michigan president fired.... Enrollment keeps tumbling.... Even with fake students.... Supreme Court to take up affirmative action.... Ending transcript ransom.... and more....
TOP STORIES VOL. 6, NO. 4 FALL 2021
“Terminal decline” for classics.... Trigger warnings may be harmful to your health.... Harvard finally gives up fossil fuels.... Enrollments still falling.... Where have all the men gone?.... and more....
TOP STORIES VOL. 6, NO. 3 Summer 2021
A “slam dunk case” for tenure goes awry.... SCOTUS takes on Harvard’s affirmative action.... Test blindness increases.... Meritocracy and academic freedom on the ropes.... A master's degree scam.... The Delta variant attacks.... Mask mandates.... and more.
TOP STORIES VOL. 6, NO. 2 Spring 2021
Woke and Critical Race Theory.... Curriculum fights rage on.... Post-pandemic Zoom fatigue.... More “transcript ransom”.... Goodbye, Columbus (again).... Debt cancellation and free tuition proposals are spreading.... and more.
TOP STORIES VOL. 6, NO. 1 winter 2021
Monuments of hate.... Combating censorship.... A new March Madness....A fencing scandal at Harvard....Not using SATs increases applications....Bye-bye spring break—or not....Biden fast out of the box... and more.
TOP STORIES VOL. 5, NO. 4 FALL 2020
Black studies only at UChicago.... Budget belt tightening.... Sen. Feinstein’s husband....Undergrad enrollment plummets....Princeton admits to racism....Affirmative action loses in California....What the next president means for higher ed... and more.
TOP STORIES VOL. 5, NO. 3 Summer 2020
MOOCs are back.... Jerry Falwell Jr. out at Liberty.... A fall without football.... A humpty-dumpty new school year.... Yale on the admissions hot seat.... An epidemic of cancel culture.... Princeton says goodbye to Woodrow Wilson... New sex assault rules upheld.... and more.
TOP STORIES VOL. 5, NO. 2 SPRING 2020
Bye-bye, bricks and mortar.... History down, cannabis up.... Campus leaders prepare for worst-case scenarios.... Foreign studies from the comfort of home.... and more.
TOP STORIES VOL. 5, NO. 1 WINTER 2020
Gateway course reform.... “Adulting” classes.... Dirty money.... Seven-figure salaries.... Hate crimes shake Syracuse.... SAT and ACT still under the gun.... Supreme Court takes on DACA.... The $100,000 tuition..... and more.
TOP STORIES VOL. 4, NO. 4 FALL 2019
Humanities/STEM pay gap closes.... Digital literacy for the AI future.... Harvard wins affirmative-action case.... Admissions scandal still roils.... Napolitano to step down at U of California.... Pay to play is now legal.... And so is sports betting.... and more.
TOP STORIES VOL. 4, NO. 3 SUMMER 2019
Desperate Housewives star going to jail.... U of Alaska almost goes under.... Oberlin socked with a defamation suit verdict of $44 million.... College Board gives up its “Adversity Score”.... and more suits and debts and debts and suits.... and free college.
TOP STORIES VOL. 4, NO. 2 SPRING 2019
Study humanities as if your life depends on it.... online education a mixed bag.... The scandal heard 'round the world, and 'University of Spoiled Children at the center of it.... Small colleges on the brink.... Chinese hackers pose security threat... Trump issues free-speech order.... 'Free College' the rage among presidential hopefuls.... Unions work... and more....
TOP STORIES VOL. 4, NO. 1 WINTER 2019
“Silent Sam” keeps on falling..... Liberal arts do coding.... Larry Nassar fallout keeps on spreading.... A new Animal House at Dartmouth.... Frats strike back.... Sweeping changes for Title IX.... Judge in Harvard case has Harvard connections.... Fourth and forty for Maryland.... and more....
TOP STORIES VOL. 3, NO. 3-4 SUMMER-FALL 2018
Steep decline in humanities.... Hard sciences go soft.... Harvard’s affirmative action in the crosshairs.... Beta Theta pshaw!... Chicago drops SAT and ACT.... Sex assault in the #MeToo era.... Overtime for the NCAA.... and more....
TOP STORIES VOL. 3, NO. 2 SPRING 2018
Professors fight back.... Confucian spies.... Gaps in spending shortchange minorities.... Corruption in college sports.... Steven Pinker is back.... Feds probe early-admit practices... and more...
TOP STORIES VOL. 3, NO.1 WINTER 2018
Travesty for Michigan State.... Identity politics takes some hits.... Who is Jordan Peterson?... The case against education.... Loan defaults on the rise.... Online education on a roll.... An endowment tax.... and more....
TOP STORIES VOL. 2, NO. 4 FALL 2017
New Derek Bok book.... Betting on ‘excellence with diversity’.... Not-so-free free speech.... MicroMasters and Microcolleges.... Former male former spy at Harvard.... DeVos breaks more Title IX china.... The future of higher ed—in Wisconsin.... Cornell 0utpost in the Big Apple.... Troubling trends with student debt... GOP tax plan lands with a splat... and more...
TOP STORIES VOL. 2, NO. 3 SUMMER 2017
Charlottesville murder... Double, double toil and trouble... Title IX takedown... No more volleyball... Google and “academic victimology”... Harvard and affirmative inaction... Why Republicans hate college..... Tim Cook (Apple) tells MIT grads that technology “doesn’t want to do great things”... and more...
TOP STORIES VOL. 2, NO. 2 SPRING 2017
Fear and loathing at Middlebury... The political correctness bacterium... Trump’s budget... A Title IX witch hunt... The high cost of free tuition... Tenure on the ropes... Fiscal challenges… FAFSA fails… And more…
TOP STORIES VOL. 2, NO. 1 WINTER 2017
Betsy wins by a Pence… The new civics… Reshaping education with e pluribus unum… Liberal arts: the new utilitarianism… Cracking down on “boys-will-be-boys” talk… Million-dollar presidents and other migraines for trustees… “Keep the Damned Women Out”: a history… And more…
TOP STORIES VOL. I, NO. 4 FALL 2016
How “financialization” is leading colleges to disaster… Boards should back teacher training… The Stone stops rolling at UVA… Victims of the war on for-profits... Self-censorship in academia… Student fees on the rise… And more….
TOP STORIES VOL. I, NO. 3 SUMMER 2016
MOOCs Plateau… Sex Assault Gets More Complicated… Musical Chairs for Administrators… a Civics teach-in… Is Student Activism Killing Free Speech?… More Guns on Campus… and much More
TOP STORIES VOL. I, NO. 2 SPRING 2016
Bathroom battles in North Carolina…. Just say No to Western Civ… Harvard nixes all-male “Finals Clubs”…. Name games… Does gender matter?... ACTA prez retires… High court punts Little Sisters… College scoreboardloses…. More guns on campus…. more Diversity ....and more.
TOP STORIES VOL. I, NO. 1 WINTER 2016
Catholics to the barricades.... Harvard going soft on admissions.... Yale still fretting over Halloween costumes.... Football not all it’s cracked up to be.... Who’s to blame for rising costs... The “College Premium” – explained...Using Title IX to fight sex assault.... and more.
TOP STORIES BETA VOL. I, NO. 3 NOVEMBER 2015
Misery at Mizzou—and at Yale, Princeton & Harvard.... An Oregon massacre.... Religious violence and meaning.... The big lie of social science research.... Diversity challenges... More student debt.... Culture wars are back.... a Yik Yak murder, a memo to Jimmy Carter, and more.
TOP STORIES BETA VOL. I, NO. 2 JUNE 2015
A bittersweet end for Sweet Briar... David Brooks on moral character.... Academics who make things up.... The end (sigh) to a bad year at UVA.... Elite schools on the hot seat.... Football follies.... Student debt.... Free speech.... Tenure.... and more....
