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Yet another year has passed, according to a federal official who asked to remain anonymous. That means it's time for Inside Higher Ed's fourth annual in-and-out list. For further proof of our predictive analytic chops, click here to see previous editions.

Trigger warning: This article includes elements of satire and frivolity that may offend some readers, or at least fail to amuse them. Happy 2016.

 
2015
2016
 
 
Scaffolding
Mapping
 
 
For-profit chains
Public-benefit corporations
 
Arne Duncan
Margaret Spellings
 
Coddling
Cuddling
 
 
College athlete unions
College athlete boycotts
 
Campus protests
Protests and counterprotests
 
 
SXSWedu
SW Okla. State U
 
Corinthian Colleges
 
-isms
Petitions
 
 
Arms race in athletics spending
Mutually assured destruction in athletics spending
 
 
One Dupont
Twitterati
 
Brazil
Qatar
 
Problematic Halloween costumes
Problematic discussions about problematic costumes
 
 
Yik Yak
Human interaction
 
 
Colleges challenged by sexual assault victims
Colleges challenged by accused sexual assaulters
 
 
Boot camps
Welding schools
 
Sweet Briar College
Sweet Briar College
 
Campus shootings
Campus carry laws
 
Representative John Kline
Former Representative Marty Meehan
 
 
Student-led divestment votes
Faculty-led divestment votes
 
 
Lists of demands
Lists of concessions
 
 
Education Management Corporation
 
 
Lifelong learning
Just-in-time learning
 
Woodrow Wilson
Benjamin Franklin
 
Undermatching
Structured pathways
 
 
Federal data dumps
Data breaches
 
Jalapeño mac & cheese
Bánh mì thịt nguội
 
Trigger warnings for band formations
 
 
Complaining about the Common App
Complaining about portfolios
 
 
Congress rewrites NCLB
Congress rewrites HEA
 
 
Bowl games for every college football team
 
 
Free college
Accreditation-free college
 

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