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| Will the coronavirus crisis renew public trust in science? | As a global pandemic is declared, public health experts in universities have never been more visible. But do they think this episode will reshape perceptions of academia after the years of Trump and Brexit? [Note: Our two works on higher education, Outsourcing Student Success and Honors of Inequality, review the anti-scientific bent of numerous scholars of higher education (as a field of study) over the past 60 years. If coronavirus prompts a reflection on distrust in science, by all means, I say start with the scholars and academic discipline directly responsible for the study of higher education.]Continue Reading

| Op-Ed: Free Tuition at New Jersey Public Universities May Not Be a Good Idea | A broader policy approach should be explored under the new state strategic plan for higher education, prior to expanding the free college concept to universities from community colleges. The state should reexamine the complexity of shared responsibilities for paying for college, expected college outcomes, and how existing student financial aid programs can be improved to achieve access and affordability objectives. (Darryl G. Greer, PhD, served as Senior Fellow, Stockton University, 2012-2017, and was the founding CEO of the New Jersey Association of State Colleges and Universities, 1986-2011.) [Note: What does it mean when state college and university leaders seek to forestall or squelch support for state legislation designed to make public higher education tuition-free?]Continue Reading