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In OPtimizing EDucation, by Mia Murphy August 28, 2025

With the federal government’s ongoing decisions to tear down years of carefully built data systems, it’s bleak out there for higher education policy folks. We can no longer count on having access to accurate and timely data about the areas we study or represent. That’s why the…

In OPtimizing EDucation, by Mia Murphy May 18, 2021

The last time I wrote about public university missions, it was to give the reader a sense of university history and founding purposes. As I pointed out in that last post, what universities do now is even today often conditional on what they were originally established to do.…

In Accountability, May 23, 2017

Nobody would trade in a working car to a dealer that only wanted to buy the engine, one headlight, and two doors. No utility would let a customer pick and choose which kilowatts of energy they felt like paying for. American politicians don’t get to hold votes in secret and hide…