Alex Lester

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Labouré is hiring an Assistant Director of #LibraryServices in Milton, Mass (just outside of #Boston). #academicsky

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Your container garden is really nice! What are we growing?

YouTube video by Bloomberg Podcasts US Bans Harvard From Enrolling Foreign Students

100% Unhinged

Shafik put us on this path, and they just keep doubling down. I know this is who “we” are now, but it is still heartbreaking and unbelievable.

As a TC alumni, we don’t get emails like this (yet). Bailey seems like a solid guy. At my convocation, he subtly threw shade at the admin, but now that grants have been cut, I know it’s a matter of time.

I keep thinking Bollinger would never have let it get this bad!

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Guidance on how to pushback on the Republican reconciliation be making a phone call to your representative

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I am so sorry for your loss!

#StudentLoans #PSLF #HigherEd #Gratitude #MOHELA

Ps. For clarity, as some folks may be interested, the Ed. D., which I start/transfer into this fall, doesn't require me to take out any student loans.

Here's to staying the course—one payment and recertification at a time. June 2032 can't come fast enough!

But yesterday, for the first time in five years, I finally spoke with someone who could actually help. Huge shout-out to Ms. Priscilla, the first truly competent and genuinely kind person I've encountered at MOHELA. You got my loans back on track in 24 hours, and I'm incredibly grateful.

Due to poor management on their end, when my loans were refinanced the first time under the IDR recount, I lost eight months of PSLF credit and had to file a formal complaint. Another round of refinancing followed that, just to try and set things right.

This entire process has been a massive headache. It took over a year and a half to get MOHELA to fix my account.

I went into this debt fully intending to use PSLF to subsidize the cost of my degrees, which I use in service of work that helps change the lives of underrepresented and underserved students as they get certified to work in the healthcare field.

My student loan payments officially start back up next month, and I have exactly seven years left until my student loan debt will be forgiven.

For the most part, this is only because of planned obsolescence. Yes, part of the problem is that technology changes, but if we had the right to repair it, we could upgrade components so we can keep them going as they age/die.

Mohsen Mahdawi, Released From ICE Custody, Graduates From Columbia

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You know you’re winning when you post “We are NOT the Gestapo!”

They also seemed to start carrying Strawberry Banana protein-infused Nesquik, which I am pretty sure no one in their right mind asked for!

Let me get this straight, as a professor at a public university I can't accept a gift from a student worth $50 or more, yet the president can accept a $400 million jet from a foreign leader.

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Please watch and then start reading his work—it is so good!
Thanks, @tarabrabazon.bsky.social, for creating this video! #academicsky #philosophy #philosophyofeducation #education #edusky #edtech

Columbia Will Pay Survivors of Abusive Doctor $750 Million After ProPublica Revealed University’s Failures The sweeping deal means the Ivy League school’s settlements will total more than $1 billion for over 1,000 claims of sexual abuse by former patients of OB-GYN Robert Hadden, who worked at the universi...

NEW: Columbia University has agreed to a $750M settlement with nearly 600 patients of Robert Hadden, a former doctor who sexually abused them while working at the school.

A 2023 ProPublica investigation revealed how the school shielded the OB-GYN for decades.

100% I only worry we are headed to some 1930s shit.