"This business about DEI and Trumpism and all of that-that's warfare. It's about sloganeering and punishing the enemies who want what you don't want," he said in a recent episode of The Key, Inside Higher Ed 's news and analysis podcast. "That's not what higher ed is supposed to be about. It's supposed to be about purposeful experimentation."
"We know that that number is embarrassingly low," he said, citing his research that found more than 25 percent of students don't progress after their first year at a quarter of institutions. "The real sign out there is [that] the people we want are rejecting our product."
"You'll like the fun of playing with new stuff where all the answers aren't determined by people who were 50 years older than you," he advised educators. "This is your game friends. Try it-you'll like it."
Politicization in higher education functions as warfare driven by sloganeering and punishment rather than institutional experimentation. Purposeful experimentation should guide institutional change to meet student needs. Research shows more than 25 percent of students fail to progress after the first year at a quarter of institutions, indicating product rejection by the students institutions want to serve. Shorter, three-year degree programs can lower costs, improve retention, and deliver career-relevant skills. A College-in-3 Exchange community supports educators piloting the model. Recent regulatory approval in Massachusetts enables colleges to develop three-year degrees.
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