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===21st century=== In recent years, universities have been criticized for permitting or actively encouraging [[grade inflation]].<ref name="gunn" /><ref>{{Citation |last=Baker|first=Simon|date= 28 June 2018|title=Is grade inflation a worldwide trend?|website=The World University Rankings |publisher=Times Higher Education|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/grade-inflation-worldwide-trend |access-date= 23 June 2019|quote=Departments where enrollments were falling felt under pressure to relax their grading practices to make their courses more attractive, leading to an "arms race" in grade inflation.|archive-date=25 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191025154342/https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/grade-inflation-worldwide-trend |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Widening participation]] can increase the supply of graduates in individual fields of study over the demand for their skills, aggravating [[graduate unemployment]], [[underemployment]], [[overqualification]] and [[educational inflation]].<ref>{{Citation|last1=Coates|first1=Ken|last2=Morrison|first2=Bill|year=2016|title=Dream Factories: Why Universities Won't Solve the Youth Jobs Crisis|place=Toronto|publisher=Dundurn Books|pages=232|url=https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459733770-dream-factories |isbn=9781459733770|access-date=2021-09-21|archive-date=2021-09-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210921081833/https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459733770-dream-factories |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last1=Brown|first1=Phillip|last2=Lauder|first2=Hugh|last3=Ashton|first3=David|year=2012|title=The Global Auction: The Broken Promises of Education, Jobs, and Incomes|publisher=Oxford University Press|pages=208|url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-global-auction-9780199926442?cc=us&lang=en&|isbn=9780199926442|access-date=2020-12-11|archive-date=2021-03-10|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210310171126/https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-global-auction-9780199926442?cc=us&lang=en& |url-status=live}}</ref> Some commentators have suggested that the [[Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on education#Higher education|impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on education]] is rapidly making certain aspects of the traditional higher education system obsolete.<ref>{{cite book | last=Kaplan | first=Andreas | date=2021-04-06 | title=Higher education at the crossroads of disruption: The university of the 21st century | publisher=Emerald | isbn=978-1-80071-504-2 | doi= 10.1108/9781800715011 | s2cid=233594353 | url=https://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/Higher-Education-at-the-Crossroads-of-Disruption/?k=9781800715042}}</ref> The Israeli-funded [[Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy]] and some Israeli media have claimed that [[Qatari involvement in higher education in the United States|involvement and funding by Qatar in higher education in the US]] has resulted in what they regard as growing anti-Semitism on campuses, in particular in connection with [[Gaza war protests]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Follow the Money: Qatar Funding of Higher Education | url=https://isgap.org/follow-the-money/ |access-date= 2023-12-24 |website=Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy }}</ref>{{better source needed|date=April 2024 |reason=This is a web page which changes frequently. Cite one of their reports instead.}}<ref>{{cite magazine | last=Shulman | first= Sophie | date=30 October 2023 | title=Tuition of terror: Qatari money flowed into U.S. universities - and now it's fueling violence | magazine=CTech | publication-place=Rishon LeZion, Israel | publisher=Yedioth Ahronoth Group | url=https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/jwhsqhrat | access-date=30 April 2024}}</ref>
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