Jane Van Galen

A shocking number of people seem not to understand this joke. I’d encourage them to 86 themselves from my replies!

On what planet? "the pendulum has swung and access to college is not the obstacle it was for students of limited means,”

How Trump’s Proposed TRIO Cuts Could Hamper College Access The Trump administration wants to eliminate the federally funded student support program. That could be devastating for low-income students and the institutions that serve them.

"In a preliminary budget released last week, the White House proposed billions of dollars in cuts to education funding, including eliminating all federal support for TRIO programs." www.insidehighered.com/news/student...

A treasure trove of education reports and studies is under threat Funding for the Education Department’s online library, ERIC, is slated to end this week

Massive cuts to the ERIC data base staff already, and possibly even more this week. I contacted my congressional delegation urging them to demand congressional appropriations for ERIC be spent. hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

Where Students Have Had Their Visas Revoked The Trump administration has quietly revoked hundreds of student visas across the country, wreaking havoc on the system.

As of this morning, we've tracked over 600 student visa revocations at more than 100 colleges.

That's double yesterday morning's count. Send updates to me or @amowreader.com and follow @insidehighered.com interactive visa map here: www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

My College Isn't Newsworthy. Is Yours? There will hopefully be a good amount of attention on education policy in this U.S. election season. The question is, which colleges are deemed newsworthy in that coverage? Last year James S. Murphy ...

Institutions as in campuses? James Murphy did some analysis. I wrote about it here (with links to his piece): ghost.edandclass.com/my-college-i...

Structural Economic Barriers: Internet Access When I taught elementary school in southern Appalachia early in my career, none of the very low-income children in my classes had telephones at home. In the time of landlines, telecom companies had no...

I read this week that one thing we can do now is to talk to our own public squares. So I wrote a thing about 16,000,000 kids in the US still being without reliable home internet, and the FCC now dismantling regs to fix this because we can no longer do equity.
ghost.edandclass.com/structural-e...

I just saw this thread on specific USAID projects

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I worked with the Reclaim people to set up Ghost on their servers. They have great documentation and also -- as always -- great support when I got in the weeds.

One more: Mobilize is a hub for various advocacy groups/campaigns/ meet ups (locally and nationally) and there are always letter writing/ phone banking/ textbanking/ postcards-to-voters/rallies here for when you feel the need to DO SOMETHING. www.mobilize.us

I use it as therapy after too much doom scrolling.

I've been textbanking get out voter registration info ahead of primaries in swing states: We're targeting unregistered/leaning-left people. Big teams of volunteers, reaching thousands of people and from what I understand, getting a decent "open" rate. www.fieldteam6.org