Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Nonprofits and Nothingness: Follow the Money

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In the world of higher education and its orbiting industries—veteran-serving nonprofits, student-debt advocacy groups, educational charities...
Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Preston Cooper Is Wrong: Enrollment Is Only One of Higher Education’s Many Crises

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In a recent American Enterprise Institute article, Preston Cooper insists that the post-2010 collapse in college enrollment is “a correction...
Monday, December 8, 2025

The Prestige of Partnership — and the Problem of Unclear Payoff

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For more than a decade, 2U has presented itself as a premier intermediary between elite universities and the expanding global audience for o...

Higher Education and the Culture of Silence

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American higher education presents itself as a beacon of truth, courage, and critical inquiry. Yet behind the marketing gloss lies a pervasi...
Sunday, December 7, 2025

Kleptocracy, Militarism, Colonialism: A Counterrecruiting Call for Students and Families

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The United States has long framed itself as a beacon of democracy and upward mobility, yet students stepping onto college campuses in 2025 a...

Pete Hegseth, Authoritarian Drift, and the Shrinking Democratic World: What His Latest Rhetoric Means for Ukraine, Taiwan, Latin America—and for the Manufacturing of a New U.S. War

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Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s latest comments on US military strategy signal a willingness to concede strategic ground, democratic alignme...
Saturday, December 6, 2025

HEI 2025: Over 1.4 Million Annual Page Views From Readers Across the Globe

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Over 1.4 million page views from readers across the globe in 2025 reveal a simple but terrifying truth: the promise of a college degree is ...

The Higher Education Inquirer is requesting all emails from the US Department of Education regarding selling off the student loan portfolio.

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The Educated Underclass and the Enshittification of Job Platforms

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The Higher Education Inquirer has long examined how digital labor platforms shape the trajectories of college graduates. For years, Indeed, ...
Friday, December 5, 2025

Cybercrime, Hypocrisy, and the Geopolitics of Blame: Why Russia Isn’t Always the Enemy

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In the summer of 2025, the CLOP hacking group —operating from Russia—exploited weaknesses at the University of Phoenix , exposing sensitive ...

Slop School Is Here: The Right-Wing Takeover of K-12 Education (Second Thought Staging)

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University of Phoenix, Oracle, and the Russian Cybercrime Crisis That Should Never Have Been Allowed to Happen

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The University of Phoenix breach is more than another entry in the long list of attacks on higher education. It is the clearest evidence ye...

The Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity: Rethinking—and Challenging—America’s Economic Narrative

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In a political moment defined by economic confusion, precarity, and widening inequality, the Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity...
Thursday, December 4, 2025

Everyone is Cheating, Even the Professors (Jared Henderson)

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There's a lot of talk about how AI is making cheating easier than ever, and most people want to find a way to stop it. But the problem g...

Therapists Can’t Fix What Society Broke (Steven Mintz)

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[Editor's note:  This article first appeared at Steven Mintz's substack .] What the Classical Social Theorists Knew about the Price ...