HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Professors Union: It’s Bad Policy To Measure Whether Colleges Help Students. “As someone with an advanced degree in the mathematics of social science, I fully appreciate the difficulty in quantifying post-graduate outcomes. But, Fichtenbaum’s opposition isn’t to any specific metric; it’s to the very idea of evaluation– not educational, not civic, not financial– nothing. He wants a blank check, even as colleges fail to improve student outcomes by their own standards.”