Outside the Beltway

A showdown over wages could upend the apprenticeship arrangement that has long characterized graduate education.

The Nebraska Republican got an offer he can’t refuse.

A complicated case out of NYU.

Some stories and passing comments.

How long can the unsustainable be sustained?

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

Another journalist has been fired for a cardinal sin.

Pointless change that will increase costs and create confusion.

Because they’re indoctrinating the youth with their biased agendas and liberal, unfactual diastribes.

The SAT is a poor measure of college aptitude but it’s better than most others.

Thomas gets the ball rolling, and I take off from there.

His attacks are, in fact, the best case for tenure.

A too-small step in the right direction.

Some stories of possible interest.

An interesting argument, albeit about a tiny and vastly over-discussed segment.

Academic freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.

Another effect of the pandemic.

A party invitation going terribly wrong.

On mandates and other miscellany.

Women are increasingly dominating American higher education.

Stories from the ongoing pandemic.

Mediocre legal education doesn’t pay.

The cost of raising a university’s profile.

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

Texas and Oklahoma have reopened Pandora’s Box.

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.