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With another year down, it's time for Inside Higher Ed to take a momentary break from news reporting to do a little trend spotting. The result is our third annual in-and-out list.

We've proved our perspicacity in previous editions of the list. And we used predictive analytics and complex algorithms to identify the below entries. But nobody's perfect. So feel free to correct the record in the comments section. Happy New Year.

 
2014
2015
 
 
Crosswalking
Scaffolding
 
 
The Princeton Review
 
Saban's millions
Harbaugh's millions
edX
Liberty University Online
 
Adjunct instructors
Master teachers
 
 
Collegiality
Civility
 
Sen. Elizabeth Warren
Sen. Rand Paul
 
Paper classes
Academic Progress Rate
 
 
NCAA
ESPN
 
 
Apprenticeships
Post-college bootcamps
 
Virtual conference tables
 
Corinthian Colleges
Zenith Education Group
 
 
Income-Based Repayment
Pay As You Earn
 
 
UAB football
UAB's balanced budget
 
 
Onboarding
Rightsizing
 
Barack Obama
Bob Morse
 
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Charles Koch Foundation
 
Creating nap rooms in libraries
Replacing stacks with nap rooms
 
 
8-year Ph.D.s
5-year Ph.D.s
 
Janet Napolitano
Santa Ono
 
Liberal groups target Sallie Mae
Liberal groups target Navient
 
 
 
 
Higher education
Lifelong learning
 
 
Pedagogy
Learning ecosystem
 
 
Trigger warnings about books
Trigger warnings about professors
 
 
Rolling Stone
The Washington Post
 
White House innovation summits
ASU + GSV summit
 
Boasting about out-of-state enrollments
Masking out-of-state enrollments
 
 
Disruptive innovators
Thought leaders
 
Teresa Sullivan
Teresa Sullivan
 
Permadocs
Term-limited, advanced research trainees
 
 
Affirmative consent for student sex
Affirmative consent for student loan interest
 
 
FAFSA on a postcard
Uber for FAFSA
 

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