Outside the Beltway

Most aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on.

UNC’s loss is the nation’s most prestigious HBCU’s gain.

College athletes are now free to cash in on their fame.

Ron DeSantis and friends are afraid of higher education.

Or, you know, not.

The least controversial subject in school is suddenly controversial.

The President is about to roll out another massive spending plan.

Are we thinking about job training all wrong?

An interesting but uneven debate.

The politics and the science are in conflict.

Also some ironic positions on capitalism.

The loaners, the dreamers, and schemes.

Now, we’re just haggling over price.

A silly, sexist WSJ op-ed has generated plenty of attention.

Yet another twist in an ongoing saga.

Is shunning those without college degrees the last acceptable prejudice?

A nation that failed to control the pandemic is going to be without college sports this fall.

Free speech is not for everyone.

Harvard joins a growing list of universities who will not offer in-person classes this year.

My latest at War on the Rocks.

He’s doubling down on hypocrisy.

The policy choices before us are not a dichotomy between off and on.

A disgraced governor is signing a wave of progressive legislation

The update you were probably expecting.

She lost in both of her home states. She shouldn’t be embarrassed.

Is the left unwittingly fueling a reactionary moment?

Dozens of well-off students from the Chicago area are getting college subsidies.

After a series of line item vetoes, the University of Alaska is facing a 41% cut in state funding.

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

Senators Warren and Sanders have both proposed plans to forgive student loan debt and make public colleges tuition-free. That’s easier said than done.

The Democratic Socialist wants to absorb $1.6 trillion of student debt.

There isn’t a lot of legislating going on.

There are better ways to use surplus Pell funds.

Did I leave the Republican Party or did it leave me? Both.

It’s an interesting idea, although one fraught with moral hazard.

US higher education is made up of far more than just the Ivies and other elite schools.

Per-student investment in public colleges has not recovered from the Great Recession.

Despite the obvious connection with the university’s namesake, the word does have other connotations.

In 2016, a crowded Republican field yielded an unlikely nominee. Could history repeat itself in 2020?

In a two-hour rant before an adoring crowd of CPAC sycophants. President Trump displayed everything wrong with him and his Presidency.

Ku Klux Klan jokes, fake lynchings, and the like were routinely depicted even at places like Cornell.

Michael Cohen will invoke his rights under the Fifth Amendment in response to any questions asked in discovery in the civil suit filed against him by Stormy Daniels. That’s really the only option he has.

The Commission on College Basketball recommended an end to the one-and-done rule and other major reforms.

The Trump Administration has suffered another setback in its efforts to repeal DACA.

Cuba has a new President and he isn’t named Castro, but that doesn’t mean we’re going to see significant change in the near future.

The idea that individuals have different “learning styles” is apparently not borne out by the evidence, according to recent research.

Repeated studies have demonstrated their bias against women and minorities. Why do we use them to make employment decisions?

Wisconsin-Stevens Point is shuttering 13 majors, including English, history, political science and sociology while expanding more job-oriented programs.

Salary-based definitions distort the conversation. And lifestyle-based definitions are a moving target.