Surveying higher education across the country, a number of trends have emerged that point to both a contemporary crisis and a coming, radical transformation. Very soon, our institutions of higher education are going to look very different.
Higher Education
UT-Austin Puts the “Core” Back in Core Curriculum
For decades, the American university has been drifting away from its most important purpose: giving students a common education in the knowledge and principles they need to become educated citizens. The core curriculum was supposed to provide that common ground. Instead, it became a collection of distribution requirements—a little History here, a little PoliSci there,...
September 9, 2026