Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Extending Gainful Employment to All Institutions—Without Diluting Its Urgent Purpose

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The debate over Gainful Employment (GE) regulations is once again heating up, and as usual, the loudest noise doesn’t come from the students...
Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Penn Graduate Students (GET-UP) Authorize Strike as Contract Talks Falter

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Graduate student workers at Penn have overwhelmingly authorized a strike — a decisive move in their fight for fair pay, stronger benefits, a...

Higher Education and Its Complicity in U.S. Empire

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For more than a century, U.S. higher education has been intertwined with American empire. Universities have served as ideological partners, ...
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The College Meltdown: Pruning in Chernobyl

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Since the fallout of Occupy Wall Street in 2011, a small but persistent movement has sought to expose the widening inequities and systemic f...
Monday, November 24, 2025

Join Robert Reich for a free live watchalong of The Last Class (Elliot Kirschner and Heather Lofthouse)

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  Forwarded this email?  Subscribe here  for more Join Robert Reich for a free live watchalong of The Last Class Coming Monday, December 8 E...

College Graduates Now Make Up a Record 25% of the Unemployed in the United States

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Americans with four-year college degrees now represent a record share of total U.S. unemployment, signaling a sharp slowdown in white-collar...
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ED FOIA regarding Thompson Coburn Law Firm (26-00709-F)

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The Higher Education Inquirer is requesting any and all email correspondence between the US Department of Education and the Thompson Coburn ...

“How to Survive, Not Thrive”: The Chronicle’s Misleading Advice to Adjuncts

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The Chronicle of Higher Education recently published Erik Ofgang’s piece, “How to Thrive as an Adjunct Professor.” The article is framed as...

The Mis-education of Global Elites

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For generations, global elites have been positioned—socially, politically, financially—as the people best equipped to shape a better world. ...
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Sunday, November 23, 2025

PXED Throws US Department of Education Under the Bus Regarding Enrollment Fraud

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[Editor's note: The Higher Education Inquirer has requested all Department of Education correspondence related to "unusual" or...

What America’s Declining Happiness Means — and How Higher Education Fits In

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A recent report has sounded an alarm: happiness in the United States is falling more sharply than in almost every other developed nation. Ac...