Erin Doran

Orange box with the Spotlight on Community Colleges in the right-hand upper corner. In white letters reads the episode title "Dual Career Couples." In a purple dialogue box are the headshots of the guests, Dr. Corina Gonzalez-Stout and Dr. Brian Stout, both from Northwest Vista College.

We have a belated Valentine's Day present for everyone! Next Wednesday, our latest episode on dual-career community college faculty couples drops, featuring Drs. Corina Gonzalez-Stout and Brian Stout!

A milestone in my career.

Multi-day music festivals are a young person’s game. I am not young. Shout-out to Liquid IV for being the real MVP this whole weekend.

I finally broke my iPhone’s spirit today. I was legit typing out ducking, and it autocorrected to f…

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Inbox: “Account created”

Me:

Kevin Bazner and I contributed a piece to the latest issue of the American Historical Review on using digital archives to study the histories of HSIs. At a time when MSIs are losing hundreds of millions of $ in federal funds, looking to the past reminds me that history is never a straight line.

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New Report Details Community College Student Parents’ Struggles https://bit.ly/4mcr3oW

#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

Adventures of living with my parents: they’re watching Highest 2 Lowest in the other room, and I hear my mom go, “that’s A-S-A-P Rocky. Do you know who he is? He’s a big rapper.”

M’am, did you just spell out A$AP? 🤣

I’m now at my third university as a professional, and I say with my whole chest: it is a truth universally acknowledged that doctoral students will wait until the absolute last minute to register for classes. 😆

El Paso, Texas: the only place I know of where you go to a Chinese buffet and find hot and sour soup, egg drop soup, and menudo.

My mother got suckered to be on the planning committee for her 60th HS reunion. Today, I hear her say, “All my high school boyfriends have died. I have no one to look forward to seeing.” 😆

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Hey @siriusxm, can we just make the Siempre Selena channel permanent?

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Public shoutout to my homie and fellow troublemaker @drcriss-salinas.bsky.social and the incredible work he’s doing with the Journal of Hispanic Higher Education. I got a rejection this morning, but the feedback was really helpful and constructive! I appreciate his leadership in this venue!

Is literally fighting for her life a crash out?

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There’s something very comforting in knowing that if I was Julie Delpy in Before Sunrise, even now in my 40s, I still would choose to get off the train in Vienna with Jesse.

Had a zoom with @dreasmith.bsky.social scheduled for an hour to talk about one project turned into an over three hour meeting where we decided on a whole ass research agenda. The conversation only ended because my laptop died. 😂 I am PUMPED.

Commencement rehearsal at the Don Haskins Center today at UTEP. I’m so looking forward to serving as a faculty marshal and congratulating all our new graduates this weekend! 💙🧡💙🧡🤙🏼⛏️🎓

🫶🏼 I’ve adored the chance to work with you again!

Dear Ticketmaster,

bring back the print at home option for tickets. It’s a burden to use the phone sometimes.

Signed, a millennial with Boomer parents who want to go to a concert she’s not going with them to.

Last week, the university commemorated Bhutan week and had special events to celebrate the university’s long-standing relationship with the Kingdom.

ERIC is due to run out of money this Wednesday the 23rd. Librarians, educators, spread the word!

Last I heard this AM, the termination notice had a grant number that did not match the award number, so the PI was following up for clarification. No update since then.

Same issue with another LSAMP grant I’m connected to.

4/18/25.

A preview of this episode, available now! Link in bio.

My cat’s a whole mood today.

@drsaguilarsmith.bsky.social and I have a new pub out in AERA Open. We analyzed 400 abstracts of community colleges who received grants under the Title V Developing HSI program. This manuscript was so much fun to work on, and SAS is a dream thought partner. #HSIs #HigherEd #AcademicBluesky

Dropping tomorrow! Community colleges do the heavy lifting in providing access to postsecondary education for many minoritized and historically excluded groups. Yet these institutions are often left out of conversations of how national and state efforts to eliminate DEI programs and services.