Etta T.

Bright multicolored images of students interact on a campus quad.

Where Is This Year’s Demographic Enrollment Data?

According to one researcher, far fewer selective colleges have posted the racial makeup of their incoming classes as compared to this time last year. https://bit.ly/4qndkPp

#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

Black enrollment is waning at many elite colleges after affirmative action ban, AP analysis finds An Associated Press analysis finds that the number of Black students enrolling at many elite colleges has dropped in the two years since the Supreme Court banned affirmative action in admissions.

An Associated Press analysis finds that the number of Black students enrolling at many elite colleges has dropped in the two years since the Supreme Court banned affirmative action in admissions.

Out of the loop rn because I need to work on my doctoral app academic writing sample(s) and CV.

See you on the other side!

Happy Black Poetry Day!

I’m sharing Afro-Indigenous poet @ddayehunter.bsky.social’s spoken poetry, which I really loved:

🚨 BREAKING NEWS | The University of Pennsylvania has refused to sign the Trump administration's Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education, making it the third of the nine initial institutions that were presented the deal to publicly turn it down. https://bit.ly/4oiFglC

YouTube video by Insider Hidden Meanings Behind Childish Gambino's 'This Is America' Video Explained

Finally got to teach a class on Childish Gambino’s “This Is America.” Very much felt like this the whole time. 👀

I found resources on this topic, in case anyone else is curious like me!

Exclusive: Trump administration targets college prep program Republicans defended, sources say President Donald Trump's administration fired almost all 60 staff at a college-preparation program for low-income students in a wave of shutdown layoffs, two people familiar with the cuts told Reuters, targeting a service Republican lawmakers defended earlier this year.

Trump's administration fired almost all 60 staff at a college-prep program for low-income students, including the TRiO programs that serve 900,000 students in programs like Upward Bound + Talent Search. These employees are part of the 4200 shutdown layoffs.

#AcademicSky #EducationNews

Okay, so it’s the kind of day where I forget my work laptop at home.

I’m waving the white flag, y’all. I’m out of the game!

A glowing computer sits in a hushed and darkened room, before the sun has even come up, because this too is a form of self-harm.

Goooood morning, #AcademicSky! What’s on the docket for us all today?

I have five reflections to write before I can tackle either my doctoral program academic writing sample or my Current Issues midterm.

If someone needs accommodations or adaptations, then they are disabled. Being disabled is a protected legal status. “Differently-abled” can often be used to strip legal protections away from us, by suggesting it is OUR duty to accommodate ourselves.

Brown University Rejects White House Deal for Special Treatment Brown was the second university to turn down the deal, which would have given a funding preference to universities that agreed to certain requirements.

Breaking News: Brown University became the second college to reject a White House deal offering preferential treatment for federal grants.

Actually, they wanted it three Fridays ago.

The front of the Providence Public Library.

Just finished up at the Providence Public Library, editing college admissions essays. The Class of 2030 is seriously bringing the heat this year! 🔥

I’m looking for it on Storygraph, to see what’s recommended, and can’t find it. What’s the challenge called/is it public?

Comics in the Native American Classroom
A university associate professor spent ten years collecting Native American-created comic books, then crafted a college course on Native American history that uses them as source material READ MORE: bit.ly/4nSvs24

The United States is currently in material breach of over five hundred legally binding treaties with Indigenous nations. We violated even the treaties we coerced at the point of a sword.

We cannot talk about restoring the rule of law until we acknowledge and repair this fundamental truth.

I highly recommend the “sequel” (different author, but picks up from BMHAWK events) called THE HEARTBEAT AT WOUNDED KNEE (David Truer, Riverhead Books, 2019).

Our history did not end with that massacre, and we are still fighting against colonialism in all its forms.

Rescue and recovery efforts underway as remnants of Typhoon Halong hit western Alaska | Alaska Beacon Rescue and recovery efforts began Sunday in western Alaska as a major storm caused by remnants of Typhoon Halong hit coastal communities with massive storm surge, flooding and hurricane-force winds up...

Hey, Alaska's been hit by a typhoon and no one is talking about it. Indigenous towns are in need of aid. People are missing and the gov't is still shut down.

If any creators here are in affected areas, please drop links for aid.

#mutualaid #crisis #alaska #typhoonhalong #helpourcountrymen

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

#LawSky — tell me if my lawyer friend + I are missing a key piece vis-a-vis the trust relationship of the U.S. + Native American tribal nations besides:

• Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831),
• U.S. v. Navajo Nation (2003), or
• Seminole Nation v. U.S. (1942)?

Spent a good portion of today trying to define the settlor/trustee/beneficiary relationship(s) between the U.S. and the tribal nations with one of my lawyer friends.

It looks like it has never actually been defined, although Justice Powell says the U.S. is not a settlor in U.S. v. Mitchell (1983).

Last chance to find something to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day 2025!

Princeton brings back standardized test requirement after five-year review | The College Fix School found students who submitted test scores performed better academically…

The College Board has run a massive campaign to disparage “grade inflation,” and it has won.

While GPAs have increased in parallel for PoC, SAT scores typically favor rich, white/Asian, men over black/Latino, low-income, first-gen women (Hur. & Lee, “Grade Inflation…,” 2018, Figs. 3.9 & 3.10).

The racist edict that allowed Columbus to colonize and slaughter Indigenous people is still the law in the U.S. today. What holiday we celebrate on the second Monday in October matters because it reflects the beliefs we hold about who we are and where we come from as a country.

After years of advocacy and growing awareness of Columbus’s human rights abuses, some states and cities switched to celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day. Now, we are witnessing the backlash to that modicum of change. Full post on my substack now:

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day! 💖

If you’re in the Boston area today, check out MFA Boston for me — free admission, basket weaving lessons, and dancing.

Many of these are the aims for education outlined in Project 2025.

Be aware.

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department. Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

A policy expert described Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s push in favor of private schools as a “great American heist,” funneling money from public schools: “It’s a strategic theft of the future of our country, our kids and our democracy.”

By @megomatz.bsky.social & @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

A copy of The Years That Matter Most by lamplight.

Started the day right with Paul Tough’s THE YEARS THAT MATTER MOST / THE INEQUALITY MACHINE.

#AcademicSky #BookSky

“Columbus Day” only became federally recognized in the early twentieth century to fix relations between the U.S. + Italy after lynch mobs killed Italian-Americans.

As a Cherokee-Italian American, I’m so tired of this argumentum ad antiquitatem. Celebrate Enrico Fermi instead. Hell, Sinatra.