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Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Bar graph showing the percentage of students in low-earning programs by credential type. Undergrad certificates: 24%; associate's: 3.9%; bachelor's: 0.6%; grad certificates: 3.1%; master's: 2.9%; doctoral: 0.3; professional: 4.7%; total (with undergrad certificates): 3.7%; total (without undergrad certificates): 1.8%.

This is a terrific paper looking at which programs are likely to fail the new earnings threshold established by the OBBA

www.american.edu/spa/peer/upl...

University Administrations: Reject Trump's "Loyalty Oath" Compacts The Trump administration is trying to blackmail schools to let him and his unqualified bureaucrats run our schools. They want to dictate what schools teach, who they admit and hire, what researchers s...

Sign-on letter to oppose Trump's (extortion) "compact" for higher ed institutions. actionnetwork.org/petitions/un...

*Some Democrats* don't belong in office if they can't come up with better solutions than "forced medical care"

A New Raw Deal: The Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education The “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” turns a manifesto of conservative grievances into policy and violates the very principles it claims to protect.

Now published @newamerica.org: newamerica.org/education-po...

Literally just a few months ago Mike Johnson just spearheaded the largest Medicaid cuts in history, four times as large as the Reagan’s Medicaid cuts

Yes, New College is incredibly inefficient but it also dropped 60(!) spots on the US News & World Report rankings. Not easy!
Everytime Chris Rufo is introduced as an impt voice in higher ed, remember that the one time he had a hand in running an institution has been a disaster.
Competence matters.

costco connection has 10x the number of readers

“You’re liberal bashing!”

Actually people are being bashed in the head right now. Do you hear how you sound?

No, International Students Are Not Stealing Spots from American Undergraduates Trump's Compact and other statements have exaggerated concerns over international students at American universities.

Trump's new 'Compact' stipulates universities cannot have more than 15% international student undergrad enrollment. But my analysis shows most top universities are already well below this.

International students do not steal spots from American undergrads:
www.collegetowns.org/p/no-interna...

CFP: A Time of Monsters The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

“…the Trump administration is punishing the rest of the economy to the benefit of tech companies. Tariffs are making it more expensive to build or buy anything unrelated to computing, so consumers and businesses are effectively being incentivized into the AI ecosystem.”

The Tariff Exemption Behind the AI Boom Data Centers get Tariff-Free Imports. Why Shouldn't we All?

NEW from me:

In his 2nd term, Trump has pursued the largest trade war in modern US history—with 1 glaring omission. Computer imports are almost entirely exempt from tariffs

It's a special carveout that AI companies are now reliant on for their data center buildout🧵
www.apricitas.io/p/the-tariff...

A graph depicting contributions to US Real GDP growth by AI-related investment, AI-related net imports, and all other sectors

The tariff exemption for computers is now so large that it's shifting the entire makeup of the economy

AI industries contributed roughly 0.71% to the 3.8% pace of GDP growth in Q2, which is likely an underestimate given how official data struggles to capture investment in parts

Honest question in the outsourcing / third-party servicing space:
If a company has contracts with 10 different schools to market and recruit for nearly identical online degree programs, is there reason to worry about the company's impact or interference with competition between the programs?

Whether it's Joe Biden condemning the killing of Charlie Kirk in 2025 or Charlie Kirk calling for the killing of Joe Biden in 2024, both men have issued strong words about the other's killing.

a question I often find myself asking these days: "are these the moves of a movement that feels that it's winning or one desperately afraid that it's about to lose everything?"

So, what HBCU did Utah resident Tyler Robinson attend?

look i don't want to know what a g r o y p e r or whatever is, but i would like journalists writing for mainstream media to do their goddamn jobs and not shit themselves trying to get out the gate with the article equivalent of a "FIRST" comment

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It is quite simply dishonest to describe TPUSA as a “free speech” organization and not even mention the “Professor Watchlist,” as NPR just did. Reporting on a crime does not entail adopting the victim’s views.

When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.

Not so gentle reminder that “transgender ideology” isn’t a thing - it’s a way of negating the existence of trans people

BRAZIL SUPREME COURT PANEL SENTENCES FORMER PRESIDENT JAIR BOLSONARO TO 27 YEARS AND 3 MONTHS IN PRISON IN COUP PLOT TRIAL

WTF is "transgender" ideology?
That they should be allowed to exist?

doing a planned flyover downtown while the victims of Epstein do a presser is a choice

Silicon Valley’s Drive to Get AI Into America’s Schools Is Working Educators across the country are bringing chatbots into their lesson plans. Will it help kids learn or is it just another doomed ed-tech fad?

To gauge how it’s “working,” one would have to be clear on what the actual work is, which is not helping to educate children but rather to imbed these systems in a way that they cannot be removed, establish them as a source of truth, and destabilize labor.

It frankly boggles my mind that we have invented a computer that cannot do math.

www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

“Basically by signing that policy,” he said, “they are signing death warrants.”