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A handful of cringeworthy moments this year are worth revisiting because they once triggered discussions and disdain among social media users.

  I’ve heard presidents and administrators talk about declining birth rates quite a bit. I haven’t heard faculty or legislators even mention it. Demographics are sort of like tectonic plates. They underlie much of what we do, but they’re invisible until they’re very much not. Declining birth rates aren’t necessarily a bad thing. They may be a side effect of greater economic equality for women. (To the extent that declines are sharpest among women under 17, that’s probably an overall good.) Declining birth rates are likely to have unwelcome effects on higher education over time, f...

As I imagine and hope is the case with many of the readers at Inside Higher Ed, I am still ruminating over last week's events at the Capitol. I had planned to write and publish a blog post about productivity last week, but I have to confess that my well-laid plans for the first week of 2021 were shot to hell when I spent several hours doom scrolling on Wednesday afternoon. After reading Matt Reed’s (aka Dean Dad’s) plea to “write it down,” in reference to the ongoing events that included last week’s attack on the Capitol, I decided to do just that.