Higher Education Inquirer

The Fall 2025 semester begins under intensifying pressure in U.S. higher education. Institutions are responding to long-term changes in enro...

In 2006, Washington state adjunct advocate Keith Hoeller described a higher education labor system already in deep trouble—adjuncts were und...

 “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” —Upton Sinclair Purpose This...

July 2025 was not simply a busy month for the U.S. Department of Education—it was a deliberate and coordinated effort to reshape higher educ...

In recent weeks, several prominent institutions of higher education—including Stanford University, the University of Oregon, Michigan State ...

Southern New Hampshire University isn’t the only institution quietly unraveling. Across the U.S. higher education landscape, millions of stu...

In the midst of economic uncertainty, demographic decline, and ballooning student debt, the U.S. Senate has introduced a 940-page spending ...

Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU), long hailed as a leader in online education and a symbol of institutional reinvention, laid off ap...

Harvard and Yale—titans of American higher education and longtime bellwethers of endowment strategy—are quietly offloading billions in priva...

 [Editor's note: This article first appeared in the Brooklyn Rail.   We thank the Brooklyn Rail for allowing us to repost this.] For de...