2022

• Loan Cancellation or Pension Bailout? A Conundrum for the Pundits December 9, 2022
• Background Data on Student Debt in America August 31, 2022
• The Problem(s) with Biden’s Student Loan Debt Relief Plan August 24, 2022
• College Access, Equity, and the Tower of Babel May 26, 2022

2021

• College Rankings, Big Business, and Fraud November 30, 2021
• A Reconsideration of the Three-Year Degree November 9, 2021
• Bloodsport: Recruiting for Public Universities May 17, 2021
• The Constitution: Shackles to Progress? May 12, 2021
• Does Money Trump Academics? No. May 10, 2021
• Equating an Education with the Cost of an Automobile May 6, 2021
• What to do about COVID? April 27, 2021
• A Brief Primer on College Success Programs—Challenges and Successes January 12, 2021

2020

• Blow It Up? September 8, 2020
• Is the Past Prologue? What 2016 Means for the 2020 Presidential Election September 3, 2020
• Being Invisible September 2, 2020
• The Utter Ignorance of Higher Education August 19, 2020
• Skills Versus Degrees: The Administration Got This One Right June 29, 2020
• Why are COVID-19 Data so Inconsistent? June 5, 2020
• Should Colleges Reduce Tuition Charges Due to COVID-19? May 27, 2020
• Dropping the SAT and ACT? Good Luck with That May 18, 2020
• Lawrence E. Gladieux May 11, 2020
• School Takes a Vacation — But Can Learning Increase? April 30, 2020
• Vote NO for Eliminating All Student Debt April 13, 2020
• The Post COVID-19 Higher Education Landscape April 9, 2020
• Lock Him Up March 30, 2020
• COVID-19: Are the Kids Alright? March 24, 2020
• Is This the Time to Right-Size Higher Education? March 23, 2020
• Telling the Truth About Returns to Education March 18, 2020
• What will be the Ripple Effect of COVID-19 on Higher Education? March 11, 2020
• The Demographic Challenge of Higher Education February 13, 2020
• So, You Want to Increase Student Retention? February 7, 2020

2019

• Yelp for Higher Ed? Please No… December 27, 2019
• What I Want for Christmas December 17, 2019
• What if Public Higher Education was Nationalized? July 22, 2019
• There He Goes Again: Student Loan Forgiveness and Senator Sanders June 25, 2019
• Improving Student Success is Simple. Really. May 31, 2019
• A Lot of Talk About a $40 Million Tuition Gift May 21, 2019
• Does it Matter if You Attend a Top-Ranked Institution? May 10, 2019
• A Story of Excellence and Advantage — The Story of Esther Wojcicki April 30, 2019
• The Problem with Loan Forgiveness April 26, 2019
• Predictive Modeling for Student Success: A Cautionary Tale March 27, 2019
• An Admissions Crisis in Hollywood March 13, 2019
• You Can’t Handle the Truth! When High Profile TV-Types Get the Story Wrong on Education and the Workforce March 5, 2019
• The Lever Principle for Student Success March 1, 2019
• Defining Student Success January 29, 2019
• The Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. January 21, 2019
• Institutional Change and Student Success Planning January 2, 2019

2018

• You Can Pay Me Now, or Pay Me Later. December 18, 2018
• Robin Hood, Michael Bloomberg, and College Affordability November 21, 2018
• Educational Opportunity: The Interview at Tarrytown November 14, 2018
• The Over-Under on Underemployment October 31, 2018
• Double Lighting October 9, 2018
• The Only Thing We Have to Fear… September 14, 2018
• Gaining Faculty Buy-In for Student Retention & Success September 7, 2018
• Learning When to Take a Knee August 8, 2018
• Improving College Access and Success August 2, 2018
• A New Plan for Student Debt? July 25, 2018
• The Higher Education Machine July 10, 2018
• The Complex “Question” of Gender Identity June 20, 2018
• In Need of Institutional Grit June 15, 2018
• College Admissions, Selectivity, and Grit June 8, 2018
• Beware the Rhetoric About the Over Importance of a BA June 5, 2018
• New World Reputation Rankings Unleashed May 30, 2018
• The New Dropout Crisis? Not so New May 25, 2018
• Declining Enrollments? Not Such a Big Deal May 24, 2018
• Cliff Notes May 7, 2018
• The Nexus of Tuition Discounting and Federal Funding of Higher Education April 30, 2018
• The Texas College Dilemma: How Big? How Much? April 18, 2018
• The Hardest Decision for Student Success: Hiring the Right President March 16, 2018
• I’ll take US Higher Education for $400, Alex March 13, 2018
• Sixteen Years of Writing March 9, 2018
• 15 to Finish More Complicated Than it Sounds March 5, 2018
• Matching Skills, Credentials, and Jobs January 16, 2018
• Debating How Much Education Society Really Needs January 9, 2018

2017

• Things Aren’t Always as They Seem December 19, 2017
• Legislation to Improve Graduation Rates Could Have the Opposite Effect September 27, 2017
• Blame Business September 19, 2017
• Pushing Tin September 15, 2017
• The Challenges of Grade Inflation July 21, 2017
• Moving Student Loans from the US Department of Education June 1, 2017
• What Impact do the Trump Tax Cuts Have on Education? April 27, 2017
• New York Takes the First Dive into Free Tuition April 10, 2017
• The Federal Government and Public Education (A Budget Analysis) April 7, 2017
• The Rubber Hits the Road March 19, 2017
• What Betsy DeVos Means as Secretary of Education February 6, 2017

2016

• “Put a Glock to Their Heads” December 12, 2016
• So How Much Does Student Departure Cost Your Institution? November 28, 2016
• When Money Trumps Education: A Story of Wealth and Educational Legacy November 22, 2016
• The Insatiable Desire for Fundraising in Education November 17, 2016
• One Heck of a Week November 14, 2016
• The Learning World: A Tribute to Alvin Toffler September 23, 2016
• Coaching for Student Success September 20, 2016
• A Toast to a Lower Drinking Age September 9, 2016
• The Age Old Question September 2, 2016
• Making the World Seem a Little Worse, Day by Day August 30, 2016
• Improving Minority Student Participation and Retention in Higher Education. July 29, 2016
• College Brand X, Inc. July 20, 2016
• The Fallout of Brexit: An Ominous Future for the UK June 24, 2016
• Monster: How Higher Education Continues to Reach New Lows May 13, 2016
• Searching for a Beacon of Light May 4, 2016
• Now That The SAT Has Been Revised… Let’s Revise How We Use The SAT March 7, 2016
• Musings on the 2016 Presidential Election and Ramifications for Education March 4, 2016
• A New Higher Education? Free Tuition? Again? Really? February 19, 2016

2015

• America’s Newest Scholarship Provider: PornHub December 18, 2015
• Watchdogs That Don’t Bite November 6, 2015
• The Broken Record of Student Debt October 12, 2015
• Early College: A Good Public Policy Option? September 3, 2015
• Revolution, Not Reformation August 19, 2015
• Trigger Warnings July 20, 2015
• An Open Letter to Senator Bernie Sanders: Your Free Tuition Policy is a Bad Idea May 18, 2015
• What Color is Your Dress? February 27, 2015
• What Could (Should?) the President Do Now? January 26, 2015
• Free College Tuition? Not So Quick, Mr. President January 13, 2015

2014

• The Nature of the Beast: College Tuition and Fee Charges for 2014-15 November 19, 2014
• Lest We Forget — The GI Bill and Educational Opportunity November 11, 2014
• Ch…ch…ch…Changes! October 31, 2014
• What Does Mike Rowe know about College? October 20, 2014
• Education Week: New Conversations about College Access and Success September 23, 2014
• 10 Considerations at Your Next Education Conference September 16, 2014
• Four Years Later: What Happens After College Graduation? August 18, 2014
• FM and IM—You Say Potato, I like Potahto: But We Can’t Call the Whole Thing Off August 12, 2014
• The College Core Curriculum: Enlightenment or Gatekeeper? August 4, 2014
• Do We Have it All Wrong? Where Access & Retention Collide July 28, 2014
• The Missing Link: College Aspirations & the Common Core July 21, 2014
• The Continuing Nightmare: Tuition and Fees will Double in Less than 20 Years June 20, 2014
• If You Want Change, Change the Rhetoric May 19, 2014
• The Song Remains the Same April 18, 2014
• Kicking the Common Core in the Teeth? Get a Life. April 14, 2014
• Seven Guiding Questions for Student Retention March 6, 2014
• The Return of “Huge” Data February 14, 2014
• An Olympic Challenge to Higher Education February 9, 2014
• Robert Reich and College Affordability January 30, 2014
• A White House Summit on College Opportunity January 16, 2014

2013

• Peace Corp II? Time to Reimagine our National Service Programs November 23, 2013
• Gone Viral—The Hidden Agenda of a High School Student’s YouTube Video November 19, 2013
• Really? Another Standardized Test for College Graduates? Really! November 8, 2013
• My College Orientation August 12, 2013
• College for Free? Not Really… July 27, 2013
• Addressing our Higher Education Woes June 21, 2013
• How Much Mathematics is Enough? May 9, 2013
• The Right of Passage: A Day in the Life of a College Graduate May 6, 2013
• Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place May 2, 2013
• Why We May Not be the Envy of the World April 19, 2013
• Because Higher Ed Teaching Matters April 16, 2013
• Destined to Fail? March 11, 2013
• Funding x Graduation Rates = ? February 13, 2013
• Guns, Guns, Guns January 16, 2013
• Eyes Wide Open: Pulling Back the Curtain on Jobs and Education January 7, 2013

2012

• Fly by Night (Or Day) University (or who needs variable tuition?) November 28, 2012
• Debating the Future of Higher Education November 16, 2012
• An Academic Question — Scapegoat or Sacrificial Lamb? November 2, 2012
• From the “You’ve Got to be Kidding Me” Category: Student Sues Vanderbilt? September 10, 2012
• Mitt Romney, College, and our Penchant for Ivy League Presidents August 31, 2012
• Do College Graduates Push High School Graduates out of the Economy? August 17, 2012
• College for All? Please…. June 1, 2012
• The Problem with Quebec May 16, 2012
• A Degree in Three Revisited May 4, 2012
• The Need for More STEM April 27, 2012
• Empowering Students and their “BigFuture” April 13, 2012
• The ROI on Higher Education April 1, 2012
• Way Too Much! March 26, 2012
• Indiana’s Higher Education Plan to Save the World March 14, 2012
• The “Not-So-Common” Common App February 17, 2012
• Free Tuition? Really? February 9, 2012
• Can We Trust Colleges and Universities? February 3, 2012
• Aiming High: The Keeping College Affordable Initiative January 27, 2012
• Higher Education for Free – Part II January 21, 2012
• Why are our College Graduates Unemployed? January 6, 2012

2011

• Higher Education for Free: What a Concept! December 23, 2011
• A Fly on the Wall December 2, 2011
• Measuring Learning November 18, 2011
• NCAA.com? November 15, 2011
• Doesn’t Anybody Get This? November 4, 2011
• The President and the Elephant (and college costs) October 28, 2011
• The Financial Woes of Higher Education October 14, 2011
• Why Steve Jobs Matters October 7, 2011
• Guns, Guns, Guns September 23, 2011
• A Post-Hoc Analysis of the 2006 Spellings Commission Report on Higher Education September 19, 2011
• Missing the Story on Student Debt September 9, 2011
• Differentiated Pricing in Higher Education August 12, 2011
• Gaming the College-Going System July 22, 2011
• Major League Baseball/Major League University July 15, 2011
• College 2.0 July 11, 2011
• Adding Important Transparency to Higher Education July 1, 2011
• The Implications of the New Gainful Employment Rule June 24, 2011
• How Honest Should we be to College Students? June 17, 2011
• Understanding Student Departure June 3, 2011
• The Postsecondary Drive to For-Profit Mentality May 27, 2011
• More on the College Bubble: Job Outcomes for College Graduates May 20, 2011
• The College Bubble May 13, 2011
• The NCAA: Missing the Point of a Higher Education May 6, 2011
• For Your Consideration: The College Access & Success Enterprise (CASE) April 11, 2011
• The Pell Grant and College Costs: An Impossible Scenario April 4, 2011
• Higher Education: A Right or a Privilege? March 17, 2011
• An Open Letter to All Organizations in Need of a Program Evaluator March 8, 2011
• Thank God for Charlie Sheen March 1, 2011
• What the President’s Budget Really Need(s/ed) To Do February 17, 2011
• Not Quite Achieving the Dream February 11, 2011
• The Passing of a Student Aid Giant: Remembering Lutz Berkner January 24, 2011

2010

• Merry Christmas: The Lasting Impact of the Economy and a Congress that Apparently Doesn’t Give a Damn December 23, 2010
• The Senator and the Schools December 17, 2010
• Postsecondary Persistence and Graduating Rates: A Little Insanity Can Go a Long, Long Way December 14, 2010
• Being Thankful November 24, 2010
• Taking it to the Streets: Student Protests and Higher Education Policy November 12, 2010
• Innovation, Exploitation, and Instigation (and it still isn’t enough!) November 6, 2010
• Where the Hell is Superman? October 22, 2010
• Learning to Give September 30, 2010
• The DREAM Act and the Party of “No” September 27, 2010
• Higher Education Rankings: Who Cares? September 16, 2010
• The Problem with Higher Education September 14, 2010
• Bounce! August 26, 2010
• Measuring Institutional Commitment to Serve Low-Income Families August 19, 2010
• The Worst-Paying College Degrees August 13, 2010
• The Fierce Urgency of Now July 29, 2010
• PRESSURE: Two Perspectives on Pressure in Higher Education July 22, 2010
• Myths on College Costs and Prices? I Don’t Think So… July 15, 2010
• Beware of Those Pointing Fingers July 12, 2010
• The Winning Attitude June 11, 2010
• Leading by (a Bad) Example May 21, 2010
• (What) to Be, or What not to Be May 7, 2010
• Nights in Columbus April 23, 2010
• Rethinking the Postsecondary Transition April 16, 2010
• Stand and Deliver April 2, 2010
• It isn’t NCLB’s Fault! March 26, 2010
• The Fight is on for Student Loans March 20, 2010
• Feeling Very Olympic February 12, 2010
• Major Survey Finding: University is Really Expensive January 22, 2010
• Weathering Education… January 15, 2010
• Robin Hood Gone Bad January 8, 2010
• Re-Tooling Student Aid September 19, 2008
• Calling Their Bluff June 13, 2008
• Living a Lie? January 18, 2008

2009

• The Political Dimension of Education June 1, 2010
• And So This is Christmas… December 18, 2009
• The Accountability Dilemma November 20, 2009
• Balancing State Budgets and Educational Priorities: Pass the Aspirin November 13, 2009
• The Higher Education Arms Race Escalates November 6, 2009
• My First College Fair October 30, 2009
• Teacher, Teacher, Can You Teach Me? October 23, 2009
• What the Nobel Peace Prize Means to America October 9, 2009
• When Politics and Education Run Afoul September 25, 2009
• Student Retention: Perspectives from Bogota September 19, 2009
• It’s Time: The National Education Council August 28, 2009
• The American Higher Education System: May it Rest in Peace August 7, 2009
• GEARing UP for Success July 24, 2009
• Drowning in Debt? July 10, 2009
• Nation Building and Higher Education June 19, 2009
• Meet Liz, Vince, and Marvalene June 5, 2009
• Retention as a Budget Saver May 22, 2009
• From Hydrocarbons to Higher Learning: The Arabian Peninsula’s Education Boom May 20, 2009
• Stimulus Crazy April 3, 2009
• Facing Global Challenges… A European University Perspective March 20, 2009
• Arrogance, Ignorance, and Evaluation February 20, 2009
• More Lipstick, More Pig February 6, 2009
• A Place Called Hope? January 23, 2009
• Farewell to a Giant — Senator Pell January 9, 2009

2008

• Time to Measure Up December 5, 2008
• Public or Private: What Should the Obamas Do? November 14, 2008
• The Election was Easy: Now the Hard Part November 7, 2008
• $17,000 a Year… Scary as Hell! October 31, 2008
• From Thought to Action on the Latino Front October 17, 2008
• Perspectives from Down Under October 3, 2008
• Re-Tooling Student Aid September 19, 2008
• And Education is… Forgotten September 5, 2008
• The Bell Curve Under a Different Cover August 22, 2008
• Another Conversation About Money August 1, 2008
• A Warped View of Leadership July 25, 2008
• Welcome to the New America July 11, 2008
• The Rise of The Millennials June 27, 2008
• Calling Their Bluff June 13, 2008
• School Reform and Money: Can the Former Work Without the Latter? May 30, 2008
• The Most Important Payback of Them All May 16, 2008
• Eurostudent III: Welcome to the Future of the EU May 2, 2008
• Nine Days in Riyadh April 24, 2008
• Developing Our Most Valuable Resource April 18, 2008
• I Faculty March 21, 2008
• Study Abroad: an Old Idea Taking on New Growth March 7, 2008
• Still Arguing About the Cost Issues February 22, 2008
• Living a Lie? January 18, 2008

2007

• International Comparison not Kind to the US December 14, 2007
• Foreign Affairs One School at a Time November 16, 2007
• Testing to Death October 19, 2007
• Hillary Taking Charge in Postsecondary Education October 12, 2007
• Stop the Insanity! Please! October 5, 2007
• Regional Development and the Role of the University September 21, 2007
• When Europe Comes Alive September 7, 2007
• Does Money Matter? August 24, 2007
• A Potpourri of News August 10, 2007
• Rankings, Rankings, and More Rankings July 27, 2007
• The Teaching Challenge July 13, 2007
• Does P-16 Work? June 29, 2007
• The Hill is Alive (Finally) June 15, 2007
• Outcomes from Retention 2007 June 8, 2007
• How do You Define Student Success? May 4, 2007
• A Slippery Slope April 27, 2007
• Answering the “Hard Questions” April 13, 2007
• Remembering the Alamo March 30, 2007
• Ensuring Diversity in Higher Education March 9, 2007
• Climbing the “College Ladder” March 2, 2007
• Getting What We Asked For… February 23, 2007
• The Problem with Pell February 9, 2007
• Counseling as a Reform Agent January 26, 2007
• The Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. January 12, 2007

2006

• Resolutions for 2007 December 29, 2006
• A Revolution in School Reform December 15, 2006
• In Search of Better Data December 1, 2006
• The Aftermath November 10, 2006
• Do We Know What to Do? November 3, 2006
• Cosby and the Engineering Kids October 20, 2006
• Increasing Student Success October 6, 2006
• An Early End to Early Admissions September 22, 2006
• Measuring Up 2006: What Experts Really Think September 8, 2006
• Solving the Remedial Education Puzzle September 1, 2006