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Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Shrouded in Silence: The Problem with Nondisclosure Agreements in Higher Education (DC Whistleblower)

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Nondisclosure agreements, or NDAs, are quietly undermining the values that higher education claims to uphold—truth, accountability, and the ...

GAZA, GENOCIDE, AND THE GLOBAL MEDICAL RESPONSE (Saint Cecilia Parish, Boston)

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 30 | 6:30PM | PARISH HALL (Boston) Join us for a special presentation by Dr. Kuemmerle, a neurologist at Children's Hosp...

The New York City Midtown Shooting, CTE, and the Cult of Football

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On Monday evening, violence erupted at 345 Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, a sleek tower that houses the offices of private equity giant B...

The Hiroshima Remake: Clayton Christensen, AI, and the Educational Apocalypse (Glen McGhee)

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In 2013, Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen made a dramatic prediction: “In 10 to 15 years, 50 percent of colleges and un...

Gini Index: Higher Education and the US Line of Inequality

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Over the past century, the United States has undergone enormous changes in how wealth and income are distributed. From the opulence of the R...
Monday, July 28, 2025

Forgetting Neil Postman

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[For my good friend, a higher education executive who has seen it all, and suggested that all of us pause, take a look back, and think.] Nei...

HELU's Wall-to-Wall and Coast-to-Coast Report – July 2025

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July 2025 HELU Chair’s Message From Levin Kim, HELU Chair and member of UAW 4121, student workers, researchers and postdocs at the Universit...

Who Really Rules Higher Education in Texas?

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Texas has long held a paradoxical position in American higher education—home to elite research universities like the University of Texas at ...

The Nation of Everything but Happiness

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“Love our families? We live in a nation of broken homes. Walk in nature? We live in a nation of the obese. Read the great works? We live in ...

A Broken Promise: Why the GI Bill Demands Major Reform

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The GI Bill was meant to be a pathway to economic opportunity for those who served. But behind the patriotic language and glossy marketing l...
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The Higher Education Inquirer (HEI) is edited by Dahn Shaulis and Glen McGhee. Since 2016, HEI has been a trusted source about the US higher education industry. Advocating for transparency, accountability, and value, our content informs and empowers workers and consumers navigating the higher ed system. Guest authors include Bryan Alexander (Future Trends Forum), Ann Bowers (Debt Collective), James Michael Brodie (Black and Gold Project Foundation), Randall Collins (UPenn), Garrett Fitzgerald (College Recon), Erica Gallagher (2U Whistleblower), Henry Giroux (McMaster University), David Halperin (Republic Report), Bill Harrington (Croatan Institute), Phil Hill (On EdTech), Robert Jensen (UT Austin),Hank Kalet (Rutgers), Neil Kraus (UWRF), LACCD Whistleblower, Wendy Lynne Lee (Bloomsburg University of PA), Annelise Orleck (Dartmouth), Robert Kelchen (University of Tennessee), Debbi Potts (whistleblower), Jack Metzger (Roosevelt University), Derek Newton (The Cheat Sheet), Gary Roth (Rutgers-Newark), Mark Salisbury (TuitionFit), Gary Stocker (College Viability), Harry Targ (Purdue), and Helena Worthen (Higher Ed Labor United).
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