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1 month ago | 
d3playbook.com | Robert Kelchen |Steve Ulrich
MARCH 4, 2025 | composed by STEVE ULRICH What administrators, coaches and fans are reading. #whyD3 Send tips to and/or via DM 🫡 Hello Tuesday. What a day. Where to begin. Headlines😵💫 Signs of Financial Stress at Your School🏈 Atlantic East Launches Flag Football🏀 Basketball Brackets Are Out🤼♂️ Wrestling Qualifiers Are In 🎶 Your Morning Starter. Nowhere to Run, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas. (helps to add a link, doesn’t it) 📰 Help Support Our Work.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
d3playbook.com | Robert Kelchen |Steve Ulrich
JANUARY 8, 2025 | composed by STEVE ULRICH News and notes on the largest and best Division in the NCAA. #whyD3 Send tips to and/or via DM 🐫 It’s Wednesday! Thanks for supporting D3PlaybookHeadlines💸 Which Colleges Always Lose Money? 👑 Patberg Named CUNYAC Commissioner🤼♀️ Three Teams Seeded in NWCA Women’s National Duals🤼♂️ Wartburg Tops Pre-National Duals Rankings 📆 What’s Happening This Week. The meets today and Wednesday.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
robertkelchen.com | Robert Kelchen
College closures are getting quite a bit of attention right now—and for good reason. When a college closes suddenly, students are much less likely to complete their studies and employees have a difficult time finding comparable jobs. And the uptick in the number of college closures in the last year or two has been obvious to nearly everyone in higher education. But how many colleges really close each year?
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Aug 25, 2024 | 
washingtonmonthly.com | Robert Kelchen
So-called elite colleges and universities have been under the microscope for the last few years, and that has only intensified since campus protests at the onset of the war between Israel and Hamas garnered national attention. These institutions have been the subject of congressional hearings and constant media coverage, and they are unlikely to escape public scrutiny anytime soon.
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Jun 23, 2024 | 
washingtonmonthly.com | Jamaal Abdul-Alim |Wesley Clark |Robert Kelchen |Marc Novicoff
Don’t let doomsayers like Donald Trump fool you. On every meaningful metric of national strength, the United States under Joe Biden is a rising power—and we have the economic means and necessary alliances to meet our gravest challenges.
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May 24, 2024 | 
washingtonmonthly.com | Robert Kelchen |Marc Novicoff
Student protesters at college campuses nationwide, united by their outrage at Israel’s actions in Gaza, can rightly be described as diverse. Despite the masks, it’s clear that they come from different racial backgrounds, and their views range from the belief that Israel should give up on its war effort to the conviction that Israel should be destroyed entirely. But one thing is not especially diverse about the protests: the campuses on which they’ve been happening.
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
robertkelchen.com | Robert Kelchen
I write this piece with the sounds of excavators and dump trucks in the background, as we are getting the 30-year-old pool at our house replaced this month. Pools should last a lot longer than that, but the original owner of the house decided to save money by installing the pool on top of a pile of logs and stumps left over from clearing the land. As those logs settled and decayed, the pool began to leak and we are left with a sizable bill to dig everything out and do things right.
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
chronicle.com | Robert Kelchen
It has now been 10 years since the late Harvard professor Clayton Christensen made his first famous public prediction that at least a quarter — if not half — of all colleges would close within the next 10 to 15 years. It has certainly been a rough decade for higher education, which has seen a sizable decline in enrollment and a global pandemic that I opined at that time would result in a spike in closures.
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Oct 2, 2023 | 
washingtonmonthly.com | Robert Kelchen
With public confidence in the value of higher education declining and outstanding student debt exceeding $1.5 trillion, policy makers have spent much of the last two decades trying to tackle issues of affordability and accountability.
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Sep 4, 2023 | 
robertkelchen.com | Robert Kelchen
I have been around higher education long enough that relatively few things would jolt me fully awake at 4:45 in the morning, which is typically when I read the news before getting out of bed for my daily workout. The news in last Friday’s Inside Higher Ed about the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities approving applications from two colleges to offer bachelor’s degree programs of between 90 and 94 credits instead of the typical 120 is exactly that.
