The In-and-Out List

Last year was fairly eventful, and higher education news was no exception. To reflect on 2016's passing and what may come next, Inside Higher Ed presents its fifth annual in-and-out list. Happy 2017.

 

2016

2017

 

 

Trigger

Snowflake

 

 

Personalized learning

Curated content

 

Baylor U

Liberty U

 

CFPB

CECU

 

Student debt crisis

Fancy dorm rooms

 

Gifts for scholarships

Gifts for jumbotrons

 

 

Semester in Turkey

Semester in Cuba

 

 

Publishing in JAMA

Subtweeting

 

Safe spaces

Safe flags

 

Free college

Dual enrollment

 

 

Bias response teams

Professor watch lists

 

 

OCR

ISA

 

Taking gen-ed courses

Selling T-shirts

 

Johnson Amendment

Electioneering colleges

 

 

Grad students cheering the NLRB

Private university administrators cheering the NLRB

 

 

Identity liberalism

Identity liberalism

 

 

ACICS

ACCJC

 

College

Postsecondary job training

 

Yik Yak

Social media presence of men's athletics teams

 

 

Normalize

Gaslight

 

 

New student enrollment

Student retention

 

Nancy Zimpher

Eloy Ortiz Oakley

 

@antipcnyuprof

@studentactivism

 

 

Marco Rubio for president

Marco Rubio on accreditation

 

 

Wellesley alumnae admitting they admired Bernie

Wharton alumni admitting they admire Trump

 

Football team boycotts

National Funding Holiday Bowl

 

Dear Colleague letters

Breitbart News Network

 

 

Undermatching

Early decision

 

 

Gates & The Hechinger Report

DeVos & The 74

 

Creepy clowns

Puppy rooms

 

Higher education wage premium

Automation

 

 

Monitoring professors on social media

Secretly filming professors teaching in class

 

 

Chalking

Hacking

 

SGR

AEI

 

Spanish

Russian

 

 

Complaints about 2016

Nostalgia about 2016

 

 

U.S. Department of Education

U.S. Department of Labor

 

7 Habits

The Art of the Deal