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Tiffany MacLennan

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Higher education consultant & data nerd at Higher Education Strategy Associates | Producer: World of Higher Education Podcast | Balcony gardener and coffee shop dweller | M.Ed. Harvard '24 πŸŽ™οΈ: https://worlded.transistor.fm

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ernie from sesame street is wearing a striped shirt and orange gloves ALT: ernie from sesame street is wearing a striped shirt and orange gloves
28.02.2026 15:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It is completely reasonable to email your dean and/or Provost to ask what is being done at your university to stop this from happening to your students

26.02.2026 20:52 β€” πŸ‘ 608    πŸ” 202    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

I, personally, would like to see Doug Ford make a basket

17.02.2026 21:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Competency-based education comes to Wisconsin (hi future) - Marginal REVOLUTION From The Chronicle: Later this year Wisconsin’s extension system will start a competency-based learning program, called the Flexible Option, in which students with professional experience and training...

Wisconsin flex initiative?

Technically a shift to CBE, in the 35M range. Gauging by their website and reddits, didn’t seem to get much traction. Couldn’t find any enrolment figures though πŸ€·πŸΌβ€β™€οΈ

marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...

11.02.2026 06:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

There's one really good pinball bar there, too!

07.02.2026 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

On top of the massive data pulls the NS Gov asked institutions for prior that... to my best knowledge... was also not used or read.

05.02.2026 19:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

NS government hired a US company (Huron) to help do a review of university programs. Cost 400K.

It did not bother to check whether Huron's methodology was compatible with local data collection practices (it wasn't).

Now Huron is trying to get unis to pay them to improve their data collection.

05.02.2026 18:03 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

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21.01.2026 02:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The World of Higher Education | Funding, Free Riding, and the Future of Canadian Science Join Alex Usher in the latest episode of the World of Higher Education Podcast as he talks with Rob Annan, President and CEO of Genome Canada. They explore the intertwined relationship of science a...

On the podcast today: my chat with Genome Canada CEO Rob Annan on Science and Science funding (both in Canada and globally). I really enjoyed this one, hope you will too.

27.11.2025 22:44 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Here's the biggest PSE story you haven't heard yet: the Canada Student Grant for low-income students is being cut from $4200/year to $3000/year as of next August. It's implicit in the budget tables but the government is too chickenshit to actually say so directly.

04.11.2025 23:40 β€” πŸ‘ 93    πŸ” 58    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 11
Blue Jays Clement Sliding home with some pizazz.

Blue Jays Clement Sliding home with some pizazz.

A raccoon showing some pizazz.

A raccoon showing some pizazz.

Givin’g β€˜em the ol’ razzle dazzle.

02.11.2025 02:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2649    πŸ” 507    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 22

Audible damn gasp

24.10.2025 23:36 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Can't wait to read the research papers done on this in 5-10 years time

21.10.2025 22:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Clicked in to see what people were saying on UK HE reform stuff that came out today only to be met by photos of Donald trump tearing down pieces of the White House

....nope

21.10.2025 00:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Spent the day at a conference and I left with a burning question: how do men choose their dress socks for their outfits?

16.10.2025 00:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Well now this is a heck of a graph

25.09.2025 00:21 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

Again, the escalator and teleprompter errors were the result of Trump's people screwing up, so this is a great example of how the right works

24.09.2025 00:42 β€” πŸ‘ 202    πŸ” 60    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 3

Somewhere between 3-5 pm EST, I gained an irrational(?) fear of economic collapse and my full day has been much worse ever since

23.09.2025 23:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeaaaaaaaah, I'd be willing to bet TWO full coffee that we aren't seeing science research funding directly.

18.09.2025 16:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Can't say I disagree with this suggestion

18.09.2025 12:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I personally just read this in an east coast accent

15.09.2025 21:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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JUST IN: US judge blocks Trump from cutting migrants off from Head Start, other programs reut.rs/46hkgV4

10.09.2025 20:15 β€” πŸ‘ 196    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 5

Is the StatsCan website always crashed or do I crash the StatsCan website????????????????????????

05.09.2025 19:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Prime Minister Carney launches new measures to protect, build, and transform Canadian strategic industries Canadian workers have felt the impact of U.S. tariffs most acutely.

fwiw, it's not easy engagement bait like assessing who's speaking at the cabinet retreat, but people who care about Canadian economic policy should be paying more attention to this: www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/back...

05.09.2025 19:03 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Girls gone mild

Craftelorette (bachelorette but crafting)

Craft #1

31.08.2025 01:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I did indeed just find out where the phrase β€œdrinking the kool-aid” comes from and wow folks, that is grim, why do we say that????

27.08.2025 00:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Lol that was good

26.08.2025 22:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Happy Friday

15.08.2025 22:43 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0