June 5, 2020
DARIAH's Erzsébet Tóth-Czifra, [urging scholars to shun the VC-backed for-profit sites Academia.edu and ResearchGate](https://dariahopen.hypotheses.org/878): > What we need to realize is that ‘the “everybody” factor’ (as Kathleen Fitzpatrick calls it) that makes...
June 5, 2020
Claire Potter, in a [*Times* op-ed on rethinking U.S. higher ed for the post-pandemic era](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/05/opinion/sunday/free-college-tuition-coronavirus.html): > So what must change? To start, public colleges and universities should be truly...
June 4, 2020
Simon Torracinta, [writing for n+1 on the impending carnage in U.S. higher ed](https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/extinction-event/): > The tsunami wave of the pandemic—genuine threats to the life of staff and students, skittish financial markets, massive...
June 4, 2020
A [chilling, backstage read](https://agb.org/trusteeship-article/college-at-a-crossroads-closures-and-mergers/) from [*Trusteeship*](https://agb.org/trusteeship-magazine/), a magazine for university and college trustees: > Sometimes even when an institution is not in...
June 4, 2020
Heather Morrison, on the for-profit OA publishing group [Frontiers](https://www.frontiersin.org)' [mid-crisis price hikes](https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2020/06/03/frontiers-2020-a-third-of-journals-increase-prices-by-45-times-the-inflation-rate/): > A third...
