Gresham D. Collom

In their feature article, Drs. Zhai and Krajcik "bring together an array of empirical and conceptual work that critically engages AI’s applications in STEM education." Read Drs.
@itsjesst.bsky.social and @greshamcollom.bsky.social's review here: buff.ly/XiSfhfZ @universityofga.bsky.social

M STAMPS SCHOOL OF ART & DESIGN UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion will continue at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design Dear Colleagues, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) will continue at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design because our academic program and DEl initiatives are legally compliant, in alignment with our university values, and an extension of the mission of our school.

What I have offered informally and formally in the past two years remains: we are living through a historically difficult moment, perhaps unprecedented. Difficulty defines our era. And yet difficulty must be confronted. Difficulty is at the center of our methods as artists and designers, which seeks to materialize new knowledge, ideas, and interventions to heal ourselves, our society, and its relation to the land. The path ahead will continue to be difficult, regardless of presidential, national, or university politics. By continuing to commit to a space with the widest possible freedom of speech, we can ensure that all subjectivities, all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives can coexist and be debated through the most generative and healthy way possible, our work. Our work in the studios, our work in the community, our work together in supporting students, our work generating new knowledge and ways of being...our work is what will see us through. I call upon each of us to reaffirm our work, which includes a commitment to building healthier futures, which requires generating communities that are diverse, equitable, and inclusive.

Kickass statement from Dean of the UM Stamps School of Art & Design

Full text at link

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Looks like new BlueSky users are accelerating again with twitter going down.

If you are new, please stay, we are delightful.

And if you are looking at this, you probably have an interest in higher ed policy, so here is a starter pack for that.
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A screen shot of text from a Politico pro email. The text reads: “CUTS COULD BE COMING: House Republicans released a seven-month funding patch on Saturday that would add billions of dollars in spending for deportations, veterans’ health care and the military while cutting an even greater amount of funding for non-defense programs. — The plan appears to be calling for $202,344,000 cuts for the Education Department, and the money appears to be generally directed at local programs.”

Almost all of the “local programs” threatened with cuts here are workforce development programs aimed at training people in jobs and skills that are in demand.

Exactly the programs employers say they want.

Oh, and many of them are earmarks for senators and house members.
#EduSky

Trump to sign order limiting Public Service Loan Forgiveness Return to menu Danielle Douglas-Gabriel President Donald Trump is planning to sign an executive order to bar some student loan borrowers from being eligible for Public Service Loan Forgiveness.

I'm old enough to remember when unilateral presidential alteration of the terms of student loan programs was considered on the right to be the greatest threat to the constitutional order.

chewbacca says i have a very bad feeling about this in front of luke skywalker ALT: chewbacca says i have a very bad feeling about this in front of luke skywalker

They're going to try excluding university employees, aren't they?

There’s still time to submit an abstract! This is an open call for a special issue of Innovative Higher Education, examining the Value, Purpose, and Public Perception of Higher Education. Abstracts are due on March 17th —see the attached PDF for more information.

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UNC System schools ‘screening’ curriculum, ‘scrubbing’ websites to comply with DEI orders At least one school, East Carolina University, is scanning its curriculum for a list of keywords like “culture” in an effort to comply with anti-DEI orders.

It was always obvious that the right’s free-speech claims were pretext for censorship but rarely is it clearly spelled out. www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...

On the incoming executive order about the US Dept of Education:

First, it's important to state (and repeat again and again) the obvious: Constitutionally, the president can't abolish a Congressionally mandated agency.

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FAFSA and Student Loan Help Is no Place for AI The so-called Department of Government Efficiency has suggested AI could replace staff that answer thousands of FAFSA and student loan questions every day, this would be a disaster for students.

With so many crazy things happening, focusing on them all is impossible. So, I am trying to pay attention to the things I have expertise
The new admin floated handing over FAFSA and student loan repayment guidance to AI. Here is why that is a terrible idea
#EduSky
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The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame.

The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight.

It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

This is a very deep cut and one that won't get enough attention.

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Call for abstracts! This is an open call for a special issue of Innovative Higher Education, examining the Value, Purpose, and Public Perception of Higher Education. Abstracts are due on March 17th, see the attached PDF for more information.
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Screenshot of the article that reads: The Institute of Education Sciences, the research arm of the U.S. Department of Education, appears to be the latest agency in the crosshairs of President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency office. Dozens of researchers and contractors received notices Feb. 10, directing them to immediately stop work on research projects and program evaluations financed by IES, a federal agency with a roughly $800 million budget, sources say. It was not immediately clear which—or how many—of IES’ hundreds of contracts are affected, though one source estimated roughly 170.

Here's why your education friends had a real rough one today. It's... it's the entire education data collection apparatus of the United States.

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The Impact of an NIH 15% Indirect Cost Rate On February 7, the NIH publisjed guidance setting a standard indirect cost rate of 15% for all grants, replacing separately negotiated rates. This change significantly reduces indirect costs, impac…

I also tried to explain what the cut means and why it's bad in this post. It also links to a Google sheet with the raw data I downloaded from NIH and what I did with it. There's links to the map and table too. bit.ly/4aOCXBn

The recent opening of a new site in Crystal by New Horizon Academy highlighted the impact of the 2023 actions the then-DFL-controlled Legislature and Gov. Tim Walz. They lifted the amount of state assistance that lower-income families receive to access child care centers and they created a compensation-support program for child care providers. “The combination of solving the staffing crisis, plus having more families be able to afford quality care, gave us confidence to open the school in Crystal again,” Chad Dunkley, chief executive of New Horizon, told me after a ribbon-cutting event Monday.

Child care investments working in MN.

We studied a similar, smaller 2014 lift in the amount of assistance lower income families recieved in. Results below.
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Looking for others in Higher Education & Student Affairs!
Please reply to this post if you want to be added!! #HESA
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Would love to be on the list!

Biden set to apologize to Native Americans for Indian boarding schools Joe Biden’s remarks would mark the first time a U.S. president formally apologized for the government’s role in separating Native children from their families.

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“If I Go, I’ll Probably End Up Dropping Out too”: College Enrollment Choices in a Free College Context In this qualitative study, we explored why students in a free community college environment in Tennessee chose not to enroll in college or dropped out of college shortly after enrolling. We conduct...

Excited to share a new publication examining college enrollment choices in Tennessee's free-college context. Grateful for my amazing co-authors, @mrac.bsky.social, Patrick Biddix, and Alexis Hartley. Feel free to reach out for a link to a free download if needed!
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Check out our second Financial Aid for Indigenous Students blog, focused on five Midwest states (WI, MI, MN, ND, and IN). Please share with folks who might benefit and reach out if you know of other opportunities! Anushiik (we are grateful). sstar.wisc.edu/snapshot-of-...

Indigenous Financial Aid Opportunities: Draft Data

Please reach out if you know of other financial aid opportunties for Indigenous students! A working draft of all opportunities can be found here. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

As part of our Financial Aid for Indigenous Students project, we started a monthly blog! Posts will provide details on the opportuntities we've found so far and highlight some exceptional programs. Check out the first post here: sstar.wisc.edu/snapshot-of-...

As I've been sharing for a few months, Minnesota has been doing really interesting things with higher ed policy that I think would be useful both in the short term and in a longer term shift to reorienting higher ed back to being a public good

😂😂 #GoPackGo

Different type of publication announcement - our Tribe's annual collection of creative work is available! This year includes a sci-fi short-story written by me, and plenty of other amazing work. All proceeds support the Mohican's Writers Circle non-profit.
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Pumped to attend AERA in-person for the first time! @drclluedke.bsky.social, @mrac.bsky.social, Misti Jeffers and I will be presenting our critical policy discourse analysis of promise programs. See ya'll in Philly (and here in MN next week for ASHE)!!

Here's the link for a read-only copy of the article: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

I should start posting here! Excited to have another New Directions for Community Colleges chapter published with a couple great co-authors. We conducted a national policy inventory of career and technical education focused promise programs. Check it out here! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...