Four things to understand about Trump's deals with Brown and Columbia.

And what they mean for the rest of higher ed.

Aug 14 • 

Brendan Cantwell

1

Data whiplash

How the Trump administration is leading on established data policy to pursue its new higher ed goals.

Aug 8 • 

Brendan Cantwell

1

July 2025

Governance by vibes and deals.

End of the rules-based order for US higher ed?

Jul 30 • 

Brendan Cantwell

2

The case for resistance

Why Larry Summers is right, but I still disagree with his conclusions

Jul 25 • 

Brendan Cantwell

4

Efforts to re-segregate the elite professions.

How outside groups and federal policy work to advance a white-nationalist agenda through higher education.

Jul 18 • 

Brendan Cantwell

1

July 2024

Higher Ed Policy Goals for a Second Trump Presidency

The specific ways people in Trumps orbit plan to remake US higher education.

Jul 11, 2024 • 

Brendan Cantwell

How the federal government could kill higher education.

We need to consider the risks.

Jul 3, 2024 • 

Brendan Cantwell

March 2024

November 2023

August 2023

Two things can be true at once.

Are public research universities broke or are they flush with cash and spending like drunken sailors? Both.

Aug 14, 2023 • 

Brendan Cantwell

2

July 2023

More graduate students than ever.

The notion that we are over-educating people is a normative idea, and the proposed solutions reflect a sort of policy arrogance.

Jul 15, 2023 • 

Brendan Cantwell

2

June 2023