Why Haven’t Tech Advances Lowered Tuition?

By Jay Schalin January 6, 2016

Let’s say technology enabled you to cut your production costs. What would you do? For higher education, the answer to that positive dilemma has been to increase non-faculty staff and to ...

Higher Ed in 2015 in 10 Snapshots

By Jay Schalin December 30, 2015

The academic left got aggressive in 2015 (so what else is new?). They really pushed on a lot of issues: strengthening sexual harassment rules and reducing due process for students ...

Show Me the Money–I’ve Got a Ph.D.!

By Jay Schalin December 28, 2015

Pity the poor faculty of the University of North Carolina system, who have only gotten one across-the-board raise in the last four years, and whose average wages have not risen ...

College Sports Economic Benefits Thrown For a Loss

By Jay Schalin December 24, 2015

The myth that college sports pay for themselves was dispelled a long time ago.  A few schools do manage to pay for all of their athletics programs from the proceeds ...

Friends Don’t Let Friends Give Money to Academic Administrators

By Jay Schalin December 23, 2015

One of the most aggravating things about closely observing higher education is seeing all money flowing into higher education coffers through gifts that could be put to much better use. ...

A Case of Ideological Cleansing

By Jay Schalin December 18, 2015

It appears that the culture war is heating up on campus—and the casualties are starting to mount. One well-known casualty was the president of the University of Missouri system, Tim ...

A Truly Conservative Financial Aid Program

By Jay Schalin December 16, 2015

Every year, the good folks at St. Vincent College’s Center for Political and Economic Thought hold an essay contest offering scholarship money for prizes. This year’s January 8th submission deadline ...

Admiring the Emperor’s New Helmet and Shoulder Pads

By Jay Schalin December 14, 2015

College sports suffer from two major types of problems. One is athletes behaving badly, the other is their schools behaving badly. There’s not much one can do about the former ...

Lower Our Teaching Loads and Give Us More Money!

By Jay Schalin December 10, 2015

One issue that may be moving onto center stage in higher education is faculty workloads. State legislators are starting to wake up to the way research universities permit faculty to ...

Repeat After Me: Gender Is A Construct

By Jay Schalin December 7, 2015

Today, you expect gender indoctrination programs at many schools, particularly liberal arts colleges and state universities. But it doesn’t seem the sort of thing that would happen at community colleges, ...