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September 2019

September 18, 2019

Oh, heck, let’s criticize “free college” in detail

Bernie Sanders is making promises. Yes, sure, all the Democratic presidential candidates are chock full...

July 2019

July 30, 2019

The Great Guardianship/Financial Aid Scandal of 2019 (or not)

Here's a "scandal" reported by ProPublica Illinois yesterday: "Parents Are Giving Up Custody of Their...

February 2018

February 27, 2018

How much is a grad student worth?

The graduate students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are striking. Not the STEM...

November 2017

November 20, 2017

Affirmative-Action Rhodes Scholarships?

So this was a tweet from Nicholas Kristof, New York Times columnist: Which motivated me...

November 18, 2017

Grad student Chicken Littles — sort of right, sort of wrong

So last week I wrote a little blogpost expressing my irritation at the Chicken Little...

November 17, 2017

Update on college marketing

So we've finally made it past the college application process, coached my son through essays,...

November 08, 2017

No, the GOP tax bill will not destroy higher education

There are a number of articles out there about how the GOP is out to...

September 2017

September 20, 2017

Update on Academia: a Medieval Studies feud

From Inside Higher Ed: No one -- besides fellow racists, perhaps -- is pleased that...

July 2017

July 29, 2017

So stopping the tenure clock . . . backfired

This, from the New York Times, "A Family-Friendly Policy That’s Friendliest to Male Professors," which...

June 2017

June 20, 2017

What the [asterisk] is going on with Illinois’ public universities?

Here's a post that I started writing back in April. You see, back at the...

May 2017

May 22, 2017

Wishful thinking isn’t enough: the demise of tracking at Illinois high schools

Let me tell you about the course offerings at my son's high school: For math,...

May 05, 2017

You won’t believe what I have to say in this post

I am outraged, outraged, I tell you, at the fact that Donald Trump seemed to...

April 2017

April 07, 2017

“Everyone belongs to everyone else” and the American hook-up

The "hook-up," as practiced on American college campuses, has changed. That's what Lisa Wade reports...

April 06, 2017

is this a dirty little secret about universities and community colleges?

Something that I've learned in trying to find out more about merit scholarship opportunities: they're...

April 05, 2017

Mom’s list of 10 things to consider in college selection

As in, I'm Mom, and this is the list I started as a way of...

March 2017

March 03, 2017

College-financing advice wanted!

Here's the reality: my son is a junior in high school. He's got good grades,...

January 2017

January 17, 2017

And so it begins . . .

Yes, my son is a junior in high school, so I knew that the onslaught...

January 09, 2017

There are (apparently) no snowflakes in France

Here's something that showed up in my twitter feed this morning: "Erasmus tips: How to...

October 2016

October 03, 2016

From the library: Fail U.; The False Promise of Higher Education, by Charles J. Sykes

So here's a book of the genre that is, in the end, nothing new, but...

October 01, 2016

Who is “financial aid” for?

Here's an article from the AP which appeared in the Chicago Tribune the other day:...

September 2016

September 16, 2016

R.I.P., ITT Tech

For the longest time, I couldn't make sense of ITT Tech. After all, here in...

March 2016

March 11, 2016

QUIZ: comparative higher eduction spending levels

According to the OECD's Education at a Glance, the United States sits right in the...

March 30, 2015

The “Harper Promise”

In the local news is the newly-announced program at the local community college, the "Harper...

March 11, 2015

“Power of 15”: Higher Education Bubble sign or Reynolds’ Law?

Boy, that's a cryptic title, but something more descriptive would also be significantly wordier. "Power...

February 2015

February 26, 2015

Yesterday was National Adjunct Walkout Day. Did you notice?

A Facebook friend posted about this yesterday; at various colleges & community colleges across the...

January 2015

January 01, 2015

The “health of women in academia”

This is something I originally put on twitter as an image, nothing else: a questionnaire...

November 2014

November 03, 2014

October 2014

October 18, 2014

Thinking about a Core Curriculum

Today my son had a soccer game -- just the house league, and he's one...

October 10, 2014

Parking a link: University Life in Germany

Not much comment here, but Slate has a good article explaining how it is that...

September 2014

September 16, 2014

What about a liberal arts GMI?

So, look, yesterday I linked to a report quantifying the fact that employers are increasing...