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When they borrow money to invest it looks like a bubble to me.

Interesting paper.

Mike Nellis (@mikenellis) This is the best messaging I’ve seen from any Democrats on the shutdown. Kudos to AOC, Bernie, and their teams for putting this out there.

substack.com/@mikenellis/...

Advising The Girl In good conscience, I can’t recommend she pursue a career teaching literature, at which she would excel.

Suppose you have a kid about to graduate college. She would make a fantastic English professor if the field were still hiring, but it isn't, and likely won't be. What would you advise her to do? www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

More Essential Than Ever: A Review A follow-up to the “user’s manual” for community college reform adds to the conversation.

www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

A good review of a new important book on the CC

Added mine

A white paper with the middle torn out revealing a yellow background and the words "confessions of a community college dean" in black.

Opinion | When Majors Matter

I’d much rather see a student who loves literature study that than force herself to slog through an HVAC program, hating every moment of it. https://bit.ly/4lSS5RT

#HigherEd #AcademicSky #EDUSky

I can’t tell from this if it applies to CCs or not

Glad you are back. I learn from you.

How Trump’s War on Higher Education Is Hitting Community Colleges

Since NYT spends 99% of the time talking about elite colleges, its worth highlighting when they put out a great piece on community colleges.

CCs are already under resourced, and the trump cuts to higher ed will limit opportunities for social mobility thru these institutions

My granddaughter is in UK for her BA . Big difference is all courses in major. Left out are most of what we would call gen education credits. Do we want this? Seems to be mostly a problem with science majors and preprof. Seems like 3 year degree easier in humanities?

Colleges, Accreditors and States Embrace 3-Year Degrees Colleges from Utah to Indiana and Maine are on track to offer three-year degrees in the near future. But the hesitations that have long plagued the movement haven’t disappeared.

A growing number of colleges now offer 90-credit bachelor's degrees instead of the traditional 120 credits after accreditors started giving the green light. It's unclear how employers and grad schools will view these degrees, or if labor market outcomes differ. Keep an eye on this.

Long but stimulating

I hope this statement by Gore Vidal is not true.
“Once a country is habituated to liars, it takes generations to bring the truth back.”

It’s great at Cornell

My much smaller town in upstate NY, not a high income
area, lost 1.3M . Went on an emergency funding drive and took in 400K in one day. You
Should be able to do better

Thanks for doing this Josh

Gave the AI assistant called Claude, developed by Anthropic, something creative that I wrote (a poem). Really impressed with its analysis of my work. It did not rewrite it but judged it. Has anyone used this?

A few moments of peace along the Dorothy Stewart trail. Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Life-Cycle Impacts of Graduating in a Recession

Life-Cycle Impacts of Graduating in a Recession www.nber.org/reporter/202...

From Krugmans post today. Important for today’s graduates having trouble finding jobs.

A very insightful Stone Centre public lecture and Q&A on the effects of higher education on #inequality. Huge thanks to Susan @dynarski.bsky.social , @gavin-kelly.bsky.social, Bethan Staton and all involved. Stay tuned for a link to the full video.

Loved this one

Community Colleges and the Culture Wars: Liberal Indoctrination at the People’s Colleges? Published in Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning (Vol. 57, No. 3, 2025)

My article, with Carrie Kisker, on CCs and culture wars. Free download first 50 copies

Link to full article: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ZUG2N...

Should colleges help students pay down their debt? - Community College Daily With student loan debt approaching the $2 trillion level and default rates rising, Republicans in Congress have advanced legislation that would require colleges to repay a portion of its students’ unp...

New article by me on risk sharing. Should colleges help students pay down their debt? - Community College Daily

www.ccdaily.com/2025/06/shou...

Community Colleges and the Culture Wars: Liberal Indoctrination at the People’s Colleges? Published in Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning (Vol. 57, No. 3, 2025)

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
New article by me and CKisker in Change . —CCs and the culture wars. — On average CCs are more conservative organizations than 4 yr. Survey data shows that faculty are more liberal than general public but less than 4 yr faculty.

My favorite poster of all time, so far.

True, but I look at the formula if higher costs are put in, colleges may owe more b/c incomes will need to be higher to cover higher costs. Am l wrong?

@urbaninstitute.bsky.social
Been looking at the risk sharing proposal just passed by house. Some have complained that costs of programs based only on tuition+ when major costs like rent are more important.

@sunyufspresident.bsky.social
Is the new free college SUNY scholarship for older students a first $ or a last $ award?

Some of these students would have gone to the CCs who will now be left with a riskier student body, cuts in budgets and poorer outcomes. So enrollments not only impacted by business cycles but also political cycles. Will performance funding recognize this. No