6+ day, 10+ hour ago   (190+ words) Throughout history, autocrats have gone after higher ed finances to control institutions’ culture. By Dominique J. Baker Illustration by Justin Morrison / Inside Higher Ed The ultimate danger remains that, when institutions comply with authoritarian wishes, the government will just ask…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (287+ words) How much are we to blame for the lack of public trust in higher education? This is all to say, when the Vandy/Wash U report came out, I hoped it might kick off a much-needed conversation about the lasting…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (422+ words) It’s not just the federal government that’s telling grad students their work doesn’t matter. By Lauren Chambers and JP Flores Thousands gathered in Washington, D.C., in March 2025 to protest the Trump administration’s science policies. But here is what that…...

2+ week, 10+ hour ago   (124+ words) A recent Inside Higher Ed interview describes in unusually candid terms an increasingly popular—and problematic—view of the president’s role. Most important, they recognize that the measure of a presidency is not how thoroughly a president puts a personal…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (678+ words) At the retreat, the first thing the facilitator had participants—and me—do was a little box breathing, and then he asked each of us to say the word that came to mind as we began. My word was “curious....

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (580+ words) Jason Arday is dead at 41. Yet what did that discrepancy prove about the attribution of sentences in a doctoral thesis? Nothing directly. Several members of my own family are on the autism spectrum. I have sometimes wondered whether elements of…...