Bryan Alexander

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Higher education futurist. Author of _Universities on Fire_ and _Academia Next_.
Blog and links to everything: https://bryanalexander.org/
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"Across all groups, after adjusting for inflation, higher ed employees are still earning less than they did before the COVID-19 pandemic..."

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty/career-development/2026/03/27/admin-raises-outpace-inflation-while-faculty-salaries#

Admin Raises Outpace Inflation While Faculty Salaries Lag

New data from CUPA-HR shows that all higher ed employees earn less than they did prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
"We ended up deciding to drive to our final destination, in rural Ontario, and as we sped off in our rental car—tired, hungry, hundreds of dollars poorer, staring down the barrel of a 500-mile drive with a screaming toddler—I felt something approaching euphoria, because at least I was finally leaving the Newark airport."
"On Yelp, where it has a lower rating than several nearby prisons, 1,100 one-star reviews refer to it with vocabulary such as chaotic, unacceptable, and hell on earth."
"All airports are depressing and scary; some go above and beyond."
I'm enjoying a fun, dark Atlantic article on US airports.
A sample:
"The major hubs are bad in all the predictable ways, but America’s smaller airports are each cursed and tragic in their own exquisite style."
Tonight's vanishing point corridor.

Trump: "the Iranians 'gave us a present, and the present arrived today.'"

Sometimes the president is, what, 8 years old?

Checking on American attitudes to the Iran war.
Here's a survey of surveys from Nate Silver.
This matches what I'm seeing.

https://www.natesilver.net/p/iran-war-polls-popularity-approval

The American government will now spend $1 billion to *not* have offshore wind power.

This is so stupid.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/trumps-latest-anti-wind-effort-pay-companies-to-abandon-offshore-leases/

US to pay TotalEnergies $1 billion to stop developing offshore wind in US

Payment reimburses the company for two leases, one for a massive 3 GW wind farm.

Ars Technica
From US State Dept: