"The Institutions Most Affiliated with Knowledge and Learning Are Facing Crisis"

"Declining enrollments could also mean the decline of research faculty, increased workloads, and more rapid adjunctification. And given how colleges have treated adjunct faculty, Alexander says, 'it would be a humanitarian disaster'—one of higher education's own doing. 'We've done it to ourselves with open eyes since the 1990s. And we know about it, it's kind of an open secret,' he says. 'The Research I universities keep pumping out Ph.D.s, and they haven't slowed down at all. And they know exactly what that means, you know, that the majority of these Ph.D.s are either going to leave academia or end up with horrible labor conditions.'"

Adam Harris at The Atlantic discusses "peak higher education."