“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” ’Tis the season for top 10 lists, and I’d like to offer mine: the top 10 higher ed developments of 2023. It’s been quite a year. Colleges became flash points for protests over affirmative action, abortion rights, free speech and hate speech, affordability, equity, policing, sexual harassment and assault, unionization, and the Israel-Hamas war, provoking, arguably, the most divisive and contentious campus conflicts since Vietnam. Let me begin with a few higher ed news tidbits.