"The incentive structure of the modern American university encourages relatively unsuccessful scholars, those who fail to establish fruitful research programs early in their careers, to pursue administrative positions, where they wield authority over more successful colleagues, who actually generate educational value. As a result, the American university is disproportionately governed by relative academic failures."

If a customer demands instead of well-cellared Burgundy a shot of bleach, who are we to say no?

Capping university administrator salaries relative to faculty salaries is a must as well. We cannot continue incentivizing administrative careerism with obscene compensation packages while the people doing the teaching and research are treated as a cost center. Universities must reward scholarship, not bureaucracy.

Yes, although many fields have lowered scholarly standards to accommodate all manner of progressive political projects, this doesn’t mean conservatives are discriminated against bc there’s nothing stopping them from working on those progressive projects. They just choose not to.

NEW: We’re changing how we regulate the quality of higher education in England.

Yah, it is really funny how each of these schools has tried to save face — and just about every one has done it — by acting like they ran a great experiment, and only after analyzing the data did they find that, sad but true, standardized tests help to predict college success.

It’s okay to be an academic who’s disappointed by academia. It’s okay to be disappointed that some academics sold their souls to advance and were rewarded for it. It’s okay to be disappointed that you were not given space to thrive and be all that you could be in academia.

How are university-led reforms going? Universities have had decades to address grade inflation. When they adopt good solutions, they abandon them. And most never get past the talking stage How do you propose solving these incentive issues?

The crisis is real. We're getting better and better at producing credentialed people while failing to educate. And doing so at higher and higher prices.

This is a collective action problem. If all the professors assign lots of reading, the students will rise to it. If there's competition over the ease of the class, it will be a race to the bottom.

Tried out the UK government’s official new AI chatbot for jobseekers. Its advice: work in the US. Quick, which public service can we add AI to next

In September 2018, I started my undergraduate degree in English and Philosophy — a useful vocation, I know. My mother and I drove from London to Bristol in her green Mazda2, walked through the rain to my student digs, blu-tacked my Johnny Cash poster over the fist-shaped hole in the wall, embraced and then said goodbye. And so began my university experience. Three years of debauchery. Three years of dangly earrings, unwashed pants and forgetting to call my mother. Three years of pitta and chips, irritable bowel syndrome, mullets, £2 cider, sanctimonious student theatre, lecturer strikes, Covid Zoom calls and missed deadlines. ✍️ Zak Asgard Article | spectator.com/article/univer…