Higher Education Inquirer

 (Updated September 14, 2023) The University of Phoenix (or at least its name) may soon enter the ash heap of US higher education history--...

Since 1984, more than 19,000 campus and learning sites have been reported as closed. Over the last generation, night schools and satellite c...

[Editor's Note: What we saw today at the US Supreme Court--with the end of affirmative action in college enrollment--is horrible but not...

In 2019, the Higher Education Inquirer began writing about the ruthless automation of academic work. We were looking for information on how ...

Despite more than a decade of enrollment losses , US higher education revenues were never higher than in 2021--the latest year for which the...

[Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the Kelchen on Education blog.] Within a couple of hours of posting my comments on the...

Editor's Note:  This article first appeared in Phil Hill's On EdTech Blog .  Wow. Just wow – the last twelve months have been someth...

[Editor's Note: This article first appeared in The Cheat Sheet , the free newsletter on academic integrity and cheating.] Yesterday, aca...

In order to streamline the Higher Education Inquirer, we have removed the HEI archive from the right panel of the blog; information that cou...

US higher education enrollment has been declining slowly and consistently since 2011 .  The downturn has been significant but small enough f...