Universities tighten belts while AI optimism keeps humming in the background
Students want certainty, higher education offers complexity
May Day, Mayday: Signals from a system under strain
Bad baselines, bad models, and bad decisions
Going online has not fixed their enrollment challenges
An infrastructure story rather than a partnership story
Mo' money, mo' problems
It's becoming more clear that we viable pathways to employment are becoming more important than access, or completion, or accountability.
Why earnings reflect systems—not institutions—and why that matters for accountability policy
Why misalignment can be a real drag on outcomes
AI is changing how work gets done—we’re responding to everything else
When the evidence is not what it seems
Demography, evidence, and administrative bloat
Shifting signals
Money, mood, and the shape of AI in higher ed
Reality Bites - Microcredentials, Marketing Funnels, and Online Skepticism
Three ways the higher education environment is changing
No easy solutions
Where learning happens, how learning happens and who controls it
Looking for the deeper message
An IPEDS-based look at how fully online and mixed-modality models are diverging, not converging
The employability crisis is a skills problem, and higher ed needs to get beyond its instincts and move faster
Reality check
Prisoners of the plumbing
Markets move, but learning is difficult
