October 8, 2026
AND STILL SINKING, I’D SAY: A New Low
BIG TIME. It’s ten times worse than you think: The public substantially underestimates the ideological imbalance of the professoriate. When people learn how lopsided it really is, confidence declines. Reality turns out to be lousy PR.
THE COMING COLLAPSE? $400K for AI Cheaters Luxury Camp: How many colleges will survive?
“I just don’t see a world in which parents continue to indefinitely fork up nearly half a million to send their kids to AI Cheating Young Adult Luxury Camp,” tweets Tyler Austin Harper, a professor turned Atlantic writer. “Some will, but how many? Enough to sustain most colleges?”
He envisions a “black-swan-esque event where significant chunks of higher ed collapse suddenly.” Colleges are playing chicken with parents, he tweets. “The wager seems to be that college is so entrenched as the default that parents will continue to pay for it even as the value proposition and quality collapse due to AI. I think that bluff gets called.”
The Syracuse University is in trouble, reports Douglas Belkin and Roshan Fernandez in the Wall Street Journal. Total cost of attendance at the private university increased to $98,544 this year. Enrollment fell short.
Syracuse borrowed “nearly half a billion in debt to build desperately needed new dorms,” they write. To fill the dorms, the university may need to lower admissions standards, risking its prestige and reducing its appeal to students whose parents can pay tuition.
WHERE WE ARE:
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Texas pushes three-year bachelor’s degrees to cut college costs.
October 7, 2026
BUT SHE CAN’T ADMIT IT: Nikole Hannah-Jones Fails the Test
THE DAM IS ABOUT TO BURST:
WHERE THERE’S ONE . . . : U. Missouri suspends staffer who told undercover reporter DEI continues.
THE ENEMY WITHIN: Higher Ed’s Secret Foreign Funding.
UNIVERSITIES SHOULD NOT EXIST IF THIS IS THEIR MODEL OF “EXCELLENCE: The equity excellence trade-off: A study of EDI in the Canada Research Chairs Program. The analysis reveals that EDI has actively weakened Canadian research and reduced overall academic performance at Canadian universities.
TRUE, BUT THEY ALSO HAVE TOO MANY ADMINISTRATORS: Most universities have ‘too many academic programs,’ chief business officers say.
FIXING FAILING U.S. SCHOOLS In addition to failing to address the teacher-union issue, The New York Times panel also neglected the state of the nation’s schools of education, which renowned economics professor Walter Williams called “the academic slums of most any college.” A paper in the journal Education Policy Analysis Archives supports Williams’ assertion, finding that education majors face considerably lower grading standards than other college students.
Some leading education authorities overlook key points for improving America’s failing schools.
On Sept. 28, The New York Times published a story titled 30 Ideas for Fixing U.S. Schools, Ranked by Experts. The subhead read, “Math and reading scores are in a decade-long slump. We asked three dozen experts: What could turn things around?”
October 6, 2026
BUT SHE CAN’T ADMIT IT: Nikole Hannah-Jones Fails the Test
THE DAM IS ABOUT TO BURST:
WHERE THERE’S ONE . . . : U. Missouri suspends staffer who told undercover reporter DEI continues.
THE ENEMY WITHIN: Higher Ed’s Secret Foreign Funding.
UNIVERSITIES SHOULD NOT EXIST IF THIS IS THEIR MODEL OF “EXCELLENCE: The equity excellence trade-off: A study of EDI in the Canada Research Chairs Program. The analysis reveals that EDI has actively weakened Canadian research and reduced overall academic performance at Canadian universities.
TRUE, BUT THEY ALSO HAVE TOO MANY ADMINISTRATORS: Most universities have ‘too many academic programs,’ chief business officers say.
FIXING FAILING U.S. SCHOOLS In addition to failing to address the teacher-union issue, The New York Times panel also neglected the state of the nation’s schools of education, which renowned economics professor Walter Williams called “the academic slums of most any college.” A paper in the journal Education Policy Analysis Archives supports Williams’ assertion, finding that education majors face considerably lower grading standards than other college students.
Some leading education authorities overlook key points for improving America’s failing schools.
On Sept. 28, The New York Times published a story titled 30 Ideas for Fixing U.S. Schools, Ranked by Experts. The subhead read, “Math and reading scores are in a decade-long slump. We asked three dozen experts: What could turn things around?”
October 5, 2026
THE IVY LEAGUE WAS ALWAYS OVERRATED: “Tech companies launching their own programs to train grads because they ‘can’t rely’ on Ivy Leagues”
IT’S COME TO THIS: WATCH 4th-grader ask school board for protection from potential ‘trans’ teacher
SERIOUSLY, WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE? ‘Footage of him setting it’: High-school principal jailed for allegedly placing hidden cameras in girls’ locker rooms
INSTEAD, WHAT THEY GET IS THE EVILS OF CAPITALISM: Every State Needs To Follow Florida In Teaching Kids About Communism’s Terrors.
October 2, 2026
STANFORD IS GOOD IN STEM FIELDS BUT THAT’S IT: Stanford takes top spot in TIME’s new national college rankings, with four California schools in top 10
SECOND-TIER ADMINISTRATORS ARE RUNNING THE SHOW: George Washington U. skirted race ban with essays to favor black applicants, DOJ finds.
A BETTER RULE WOULD BE: YOU CAN GO TO ANY COLLEGE YOU WANT BELOW THE MASON-DIXON LINE (EXLUDING DUKE, VANDERBILT, AND ANYTHING IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA): My kids can go to any college they want — but I won’t pay for Harvard or Columbia.
THIS IS SO EMBARRASSINGLY RETRO: University of Alaska Anchorage screens Master of Social Work applicants for ‘anti-racism’ commitment.
October 1, 2026
FIRST RULE OF ACADEMIC FIGHT CLUB: YOU’RE ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO SAY THE QUIET PART OUT LOUD! El-Sayed’s Sister Said The Quiet Part Out Loud About Activist Profs Politically Proselytizing Students.
CORRUPTION ALERT! Stunner: Massive potential fraud in one city’s schools
IF YOU WANT TO SAVE THE UNIVERSITY FINANCIALLY, FIRE 50% OF THE ADMINISTRATORS. This plan has the added benefit of making the university more efficient and hospitable: Minnesota State Mankato set to lay off employees and raise tuition to combat deficit.
DO AMERICA’S SO-CALLED “ED” SCHOOLS BEAR SOME RESPONSIBILITY FOR THIS 30-YEAR EPIDEMIC OF FEMALE TEACHERS SEXUALLY ABUSING CHILDREN? Teacher accused of ‘Scream’ mask orgies with students finally gets divorced.
September 30, 2026
AI IN OUR SCHOOLS—ITS USE AND ABUSE To combat this disturbing trend, K-12 schools need to take in-person assessments more seriously. This could include administering more frequent tests and giving them greater weight in final grades. Students might still use AI to complete homework or other assignments, but such work should not count toward their final grades.
Artificial intelligence is here to stay. How can we best integrate it into education?
as I noted last week, students often use AI to cheat. A Fordham Institute paper, “High Tech, Low Standards: High School in the Age of Distraction,” reports that 48 percent of students use AI to solve math problems, 36 percent use it to summarize books or texts to avoid reading them, 29 percent use it to write the first drafts of their essays or reports, and 26 percent use it for help during quizzes and tests.
HOW WILL THE SCHOOL REACT?: Gender Studies Program at U. Wisconsin-Whitewater Enrolls Six Students
THE LEFT HATES THIS: Nikole Hannah-Jones Accidentally Gave us a Vital Lesson on School Choice
September 28, 2026
PENN STATE PROFESSOR WRITES AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Penn professor writes book arguing ‘sex isn’t real,’ but previously taught course on ‘studying sex.’
THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: I studied in Jason Arday’s department at Cambridge. Here’s the crap I was taught
WAKE UP HIGHER EDUCATION, It turns out that you’re not well liked or respected: Nuke Academia From Orbit. It Is the Only Way to Be Sure. “Our prestigious institutions are fundamentally corrupted, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the dominant ideology has become race Marxism in the guise of DEI. They no longer have any allegiance to the truth, facts, or rational discourse. They are fundamentally hostile to the values that gave rise to them. . . . Academia is now riddled with the cancer of postmodernism, and the STEM fields are now infected. And because medicine is a hybrid discipline, incorporating harder and softer sciences, the cancer now runs deep.”
SUNLIGHT IS THE BEST DISINFECTANT—OBVIOUSLY!!!: Florida State U. removes ‘correct language’ threat after College Fix inquiry.
September 27, 2026
IT’S JUST SO PATHETIC, AND YOU CAN’T HAVE ENOUGH CONTEMPT FOR DEI ADMINISTRATORS: Hofstra professor facing possible termination over discrimination claim for saying ‘word salad.’
THE LONG MARCH THROUGH THE INSTITUTIONS: Watchdog exposes hidden academic pipeline behind left-wing election litigation
YES, IT’S A THING: Stanford’s Fake Disability Crisis Is America’s Future.
A PARENT SACRIFICES HER OWN CHILD TO MAKE A POLITICAL POINT: NYT’s Nikole Hannah-Jones Regrets Sending Her Daughter to Failing Public School
September 26, 2026
IT’S JUST SO PATHETIC, AND YOU CAN’T HAVE ENOUGH CONTEMPT FOR DEI ADMINISTRATORS: Hofstra professor facing possible termination over discrimination claim for saying ‘word salad.’
THE LONG MARCH THROUGH THE INSTITUTIONS: Watchdog exposes hidden academic pipeline behind left-wing election litigation
YES, IT’S A THING: Stanford’s Fake Disability Crisis Is America’s Future.
A PARENT SACRIFICES HER OWN CHILD TO MAKE A POLITICAL POINT: NYT’s Nikole Hannah-Jones Regrets Sending Her Daughter to Failing Public School