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Did last year fly by or what? It's a safe bet that 2014 will also be a whirlwind for higher education. So Inside Higher Ed's reporters, editors and bloggers decided to pause and reflect on what went down in 2013 as well as what to expect for next year.

Below is our second annual in and out list. Please let us know what we got wrong (or right) in the comments section. Happy New Year.

 
2013
2014
 
 
TV ads for DeVry and ITT
 
 
Futurists
Historians
 
 
Martha Kanter
 
 
Convening
Conference funded by Gates
 
Senator Harkin
 
Ed-tech incubators
 
 
Competency
Proficiency
 
 
Employment outcomes
 
Jill Biden at NOVA
Chelsea Clinton at NYU
 
Imminent bursting of higher-ed bubble
Imminent bursting of higher-ed bubble
 
 
Hiring
Onboarding
 
Barack Obama
 
Value proposition
Customer satisfaction
 
Brazil
Chile
 
Big data
 
 
Hating on the Bowl Championship Series
Hating on the College Football Championship
 
Boycotting Israeli universities
Boycotting academic groups that boycott Israeli universities
 
Department of Education
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
 
 
Monitoring athletes on social media
Monitoring faculty on social media
 
 
Over-enrolling
Undermatching
 
 
Taxing university endowments
 
K-pop influences accountability movement
 
 
 
Online education as conceived by Sebastian Thrun
Online education as critiqued by Aaron Bady
 
 
Colleges deny health care for adjuncts
Colleges push students to sign up for health care
 
Scarlet and gray bowties

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