“The Dreaded ‘P’ Word” is the title of a recent paper put out the Lumina’s Delta Cost project. The P is for “productivity.” That may indeed be a topic that higher-ed leaders dread to talk about, but I don’t see that the study does much to shed light on where productivity is high, where it’s low, and how to go about improving it. That’s the subject of a piece the Pope Center has just released.