The Trump administration appealed a judge’s ruling that it illegally froze more than $2 billion in research funding to punish Harvard University for refusing to comply with a host of demands from the federal government. US lawyers filed a notice... — read more 

Higher Education Inquirer : When Was Higher Education Truly a Public Good? (Glen McGhee) https://share.google/PIXN0IS46fsIbmcoF

Nearly a dozen positions that directly support students were among those eliminated in a sweeping round of layoffs at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences earlier this month, according to a document obtained by The Crimson. Roughly... — read more 

The Harvard Kennedy School of Government will lay off staff after federal funding cuts and endowment tax threats on Wednesday, according to an email from the dean of the school that was obtained by Fox News... — read more 

https://www.highereducationinquirer.org/2025/05/between-empire-and-enterprise-harvard.html

Can’t support yourself, too bad!

https://www.diverseeducation.com/opinion/article/15710806/poor-harvard-numbers-show-impact-of-scotus-affirmative-action-ruling

https://www.highereducationinquirer.org/2024/07/how-would-mass-deportations-affect-us.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/18/ivy-league-crackdown-house-republicans-plan-to-defund-top-universities.html https://www.vance.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Vance-Endowment-Tax.pdf

"Elite US universities have long been private equity trailblazers, plowing billions of dollars into the asset class. But a chorus of industry leaders has declared an end to the era of easy profit, and that’s pressuring schools to more delicately... — read more 

The Chevron case takes away lots of government oversight. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/28/us/supreme-court-chevron-ruling.html

https://www.highereducationinquirer.org/2024/06/dangerous-spaces-s-xual-as--ult-and.html

https://www.highereducationinquirer.org/2024/05/college-meltdown-30-could-start-earlier.html

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/2/23/climaco-harvard-edx-education-sold/

edX was losing millions, and Harvard sold it to a con man so he could keep the con going. Not very classy... — read more 

How deep do you want to go? ... — read more 

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/02/business/claudine-g-y-harvard-president-resigns/index.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmSTwI64RLw&t=9s

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/12/interesectionality-american-college/676350/

"Nearly 80% of Americans surveyed in a new U.S. News-Harris Poll survey say that higher education institutions are more worried about their endowment than creating leaders of tomorrow, and more than 60% believe they are prioritizing donors, press and... — read more 

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/09/penn-president-resigns-00130961

edX is a massive open online course provider (MOOC) created by Harvard and MIT that is now selling elite and brand name tech bootcamps. edX's website advertises coding and AI bootcamps from a number of name brands: Ohio State University, Columbia... — read more 

https://www.newsweek.com/harvard-faces-another-legal-fight-over-its-admissions-1810585

A People's History of US Higher Education is sorely needed, not as a purely academic work to gather dust on shelves, or as internet click bait, but as a way to assess how our nation moves forward as a democracy--or as something less. To make history... — read more 

https://www.theheagroup.com/blog/out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new-rating-higher-ed-by-economic-mobility

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/04/12/metro/donations-colleges-climb-divide-between-have-have-nots-widens/

"If your school misled you or engaged in other misconduct in violation of certain state laws, you may be eligible for “borrower defense to loan repayment,” sometimes shortened to “borrower defense.” This is the discharge of some or all of your... — read more 

https://badnews.substack.com/p/two-harvard-grads-went-to-africa

"Harvard Academic Workers–UAW is trying to organize about 6,000 such employees across Harvard's three main campuses, the prospective union said in a news release. It said workers will sign authorization cards in the coming... — read more 

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/10/20/klapper-social-mobility/ https://www.thirdway.org/report/out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new-rating-higher-ed-by-economic-mobility https://www.chronicle.com/article/against-social-mobility-rankings — read more 

https://www.highereducationinquirer.org/2022/11/university-of-california-academic.html https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-12-23/uc-grad-student-workers-ratify-labor-agreement-end-historic-strike-with-big-wage-gains

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/11/senior-fellow-penny-pritzker-shares-update-on-ongoing-search-for-new-president/

https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/21/rah-rah/#sis-bo-m-bah

https://www.thelayoff.com/ucb https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/11/03/university-california-academic-workers-overwhelmingly-vote-strike

It's easier to fish in murky waters.

Harvard was built by thieves, and little has changed.... https://aydelotte.swarthmore.edu/publications/a-conversation-with-charlie-eaton/

Just in case you didn't know, class matters... https://truthout.org/articles/chomsky-maintaining-class-inequality-at-any-cost-is-gops-guiding-mission/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/08/14/harvard-flunks-this-college-ranking/

US Civil War II: a battle between the Christian Right and the Neoliberals Republicans likely to win House and possibly Senate in November Christian Right using the Hungary (Orban) playbook Big Bank Biden perceived as weak-very weak for... — read more 

"The proceeds of the acquisition will be used by a nonprofit led by Harvard and MIT that will focus on closing the learning and opportunity gap through the development of new partnerships, digital tools, and strategies. The nonprofit will devote... — read more