PRETTY SURE THIS IS NOT UNIQUE TO UNC:  Higher-Education Reform Is Under Threat at UNC Chapel Hill  Questionable course requirements and troubling new hires show that DEI and social-justice activism are alive and well in Tar Heel country.

SIMULTANEOUSLY TRUE AND PATHETIC. Why letting studying get in the way of your Club Med lifestyle? Education as an Afterthought

SURELY THE END IS NEAR: UMinn bias report: Someone said ‘mothers’ instead of ‘lactating individuals.’

AMERICA’S EDUCATION SYSTEM IS A NATIONAL DISGRACE: Don’t make us reteach middle-school math, say STEM profs at ‘test-free’ UC.

PATHETIC! The chickens are coming home to roost:  UC Faculty Warn Test-Optional Policies Are Failing STEM Students and Hurting Real ‘Equity’.

#DEFUND_PENN: UPenn ‘America 250’ courses largely ignore America’s founding, conservative analysts say.

OF COURSE IT DID!  Harvard Gives $90,000-a-Year Fellowships to Four Anti-Israel Activists.

GOOD: Justice Department takes UCLA to court over ‘hostile educational environment’ for Jewish students

MUST READING: New Book Encapsulates Higher Ed’s Problems

TO PRAY OR NOT TO PRAY, THAT IS THE QUESTION: HIGHER ED – IS DOOM NIGH?

AND THERE ARE CONSERVATIVE ACADEMICS AND PUNDITS WHO THINK THAT WE JUST HAVE TO TAKE IT AND DO NOTHING: University of Illinois medical school pushes ‘equitable assessments’ for professors.

I WISH SOMEONE REALLY SMART WOULD THINK THEIR WAY THROUGH THIS ISSUE FOR ME: Bipartisan College Sports Bill Proposes Salary Cap, Transfer Limit

PROBLEM: There’s a serious problem of ideological clustering inside institutions whose job is to test assumptions, not protect them.

HERE WE GO! University Professors Call For Return Of Standardized Tests As Students Struggle With Basic Math