Outside the Beltway

A true hodge-podge.

Enrollments are down.

Wherein I examine UATX specifically.

There’s much more to the story than meets the eye.

Pointless change that will increase costs and create confusion.

Some stories of possible interest.

Another effect of the pandemic.

And so general discussion of vaccine passports and requirements in the US.

Rural Americans are much less likely to go to college than their urban counterparts. Is there a solution?

DeVos plays to the CPAC crowd, but insults higher education.

Nick Brown spelled bullshit and managed to debunk an entire academic subfield.

Tuition goes up as state funding goes down.

Joe Paterno’s legacy is likely to take a lasting and damaging hit when a report on Penn State’s handling of the Sandusky mess is released.

A blog post lampooning black studies dissertations got a writer fired, setting off a controversy over the limits of free speech.

Copy specific phrases and buzzwords from the job posting into the résumé and build them into the bullet points.

A consultant for would-be academics, says she wouldn’t have a job if professors would do theirs.

We’re producing more PhDs and JDs than there are full time openings for professors and lawyers.