Ben Selznick

The Real GenAI Threat To Colleges Isn’t Cheating; It’s Fewer Jobs This article examines the threat of generative AI (genAI) to higher education in terms of its impact on entry-level jobs. It also provides suggestions to colleges.

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Yep.

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

Spencer Foundation joins Kapor Foundation, the William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to launch a rapid response bridge funding program (up to $25,000) for education scholars impacted by the abrupt grant cancellations by the National Science Foundation (NSF)!

#AcademicSky

Currently reading this remarkable volume. If engaging in "relentless attempts to secure financial resources in a competitive, market-oriented environment" (p. 17) sounds more like a start-up then a century-old College, well, read on and think again. Enjoying this book immensely so far!

As we're seeing again and again (front page news today), money matters a whole lot in higher education and, ultimately, the students colleges can serve. This book sold out on Amazon (you read that right) because the conversation is that important. Check it out and share widely.

Capitalizing on College: How Higher Education Went from Mission Driven to Margin Obsessed Buy Capitalizing on College: How Higher Education Went from Mission Driven to Margin Obsessed: Read Kindle Store Reviews - Amazon.com

RELEASE DAY!!! I encourage everyone to check out (and review) this book! I'll be sharing more updates as I read it in the coming days but, wow, talk about timely and important! #academicsky

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Wow!

I just said something similar in class last night. How is this all going to work? Are individual students going to have to contact -- whom exactly? -- to have their financial aid directed to their college/university? Are bursars offices going to become, in essence, collection agencies for fed aid?

This is real, and really serious.

Love this!

States Are Once Again Taking Aim at Tenure. This Time Might Be Different. A wave of bills seek to crack down on tenure by effectively eliminating it, calling for a stricter system of post-tenure review, or some combination.

If I'm a public university president, I'm putting a post-tenure review process in place before the legislature does so to me. It's a good idea when done through shared governance.

I have decided to cancel my show at The Kennedy Center on May 11, 2025 and move it to The Anthem.

This is the correct answer.

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Elon Musk’s Team Decimates Education Department Arm That Tracks National School Performance The Trump administration canceled $900 million in contracts overseen by the Institute of Education Sciences, which partners with scientists and education companies to compile and make public data abou...

DOGE came for the research and statistics arm of the U.S. Department of Education today, declared "fraud" and "waste" and abruptly terminated about $900M in contracts. A lot of what we know about America's schools comes from the data this agency collects. New reporting with @jodiscohen.bsky.social

WHAT A LEGEND! The whole stadium....the. whole. stadium.

Virginia: In 2024, 4 schools received more than $10 million in grants for a total of $376 million. Of that, $236 went directly to research, and $140 million went to facilities and administration. The new rate would bring that to $35 million, a loss of $105 million.

National Institutes of Health radically cuts support to universities Sudden and drastic change will make it hard for researchers to keep the lights on.

"The indirect costs of doing research are real and substantial". They sure are. This is going to cause huge disruptions to Universities, research, and researchers.

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Good luck!

Ah, the millennial experience of “every time you get some measure of financial and career stability, the world decides to do something extraordinarily stupid again”

Absolutely true.