Outside the Beltway

The administration’s war on higher ed has escalated.

Consider it a PSA.

A plea to the mass media and anyone else who is guilty.

These sweet, anxious, thoughtful, and genuinely loveable students know in their bones that their future is deeply uncertain and shaped by adults who appear to have no idea what they’re doing.

This time: Chinese students.

Clearly not the Trump administration.

The scholar-statesman best known for coining “soft power” has died at 88.

The targeting of international students.

America’s edge in innovation, built over a century, is being squandered in weeks.

The media, the academy, and the courts, are all in the crosshairs.

Elite American universities are surrending at an astonishing pace.

What makes a good school good?

He’s aggressively using relief for public service workers.

The New College of Florida invites a white supremacist to campus.

A modest proposal for Civil Service reform.

More data shows a more complicated picture.

It would be nice if it just happened without any help.

The predicted has happened.

Seven decades after de jure segregation was outlawed, de facto segregation is alive and well.

We need to put this nonsense to rest, stat.

And you might ask yourself: “how did we get here?”

Police have been brought at universities across the country.

Administrations are struggling to handle the biggest wave of student protests in generations.

On-campus classes have been suspended and Jewish students told to find safety.

It’s harder than I would have thought.

I know a fireable offense when I see it.

Repeated academic integrity violations led to her forced ouster.

The DeSantis crackdown on academic freedom is having its desired effect.

Pick a side. No nuance allowed.

The innumeracy hurts.

Helping the victims of degree mills.

The abaya is now banned as well.

There’s an inherent tension in public education.

West Virginia University may be the canary in the coal mine.

The oldest state institutions of higher education are spending money to make money.

His column in the Houston Chronicle fails to impress.

Sanity has prevailed.

The state has banned the teaching of science in science classes.

A tale from the DeSantis’ Woke Wars.

An appropriate step.

Don’t offend the Lt. Governor in Texas.

After other controls are applied, household income is still a huge advantage.

Doubling down on state standards on slavery.

On Florida’s updated standards regarding slavery.

He’s getting what he wants.

A massive expansion of the Pell Grant program for prisoners goes into effect next month.

Another entry into the ongoing performative politics of Ron DeSantis.

We’re seeing our lowest test scores in decades among a key cohort.

Should we reform the way we train a high-tech workforce?