I just clicked on the hashtag and there two of us using it!

#negreg Several times already the dept's negotiator and lawyer have mentioned that the language in the draft regs was not what they would have chosen, suggesting that it was not generated in-house....

Any others hearing something similar?

thank you to the negotiators who are pushing back on it 🫡

throwing my #highered #negreg comments into the void makes me miss circa 2019 Twitter

I get the sentiment and the instinct and love to engage in philosophical debate on the subject, but it’s frustrating when people make statements like they are God-given fact when they are in fact up for debate!

“higher ed is first and foremost a business”
the audible NOPE I just gasped makes me glad I opted to watch the stream rather than attend neg-reg in person this morning

My press conference denying the existence of the Streisand Effect has people asking a lot of questions about the Streisand Effect

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

same Overton Window-shattering tactic he’s always used: Even if worst doesn’t happen tonight - rhetorically he’s opened up possibility of the unimaginable, making lesser (but still horrible) actions seem moderate by comparison… all increasing likelihood that one day the worst really will happen

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” -Trump
Article III
The following acts shall be punishable:
(a) Genocide;
(b) Conspiracy to commit genocide;
(c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide;
(d) Attempt to commit genocide;
(e) Complicity in genocide.

they zip tied children for landlords

some bell hooks and some hell books

Someone sent me this.

That I'm getting my US government news from Menswear Guy is perhaps the *least* surprising thing in 2026.

EXTENDED DEADLINE: More students are counting on Pell than ever. Now it’s on Congress to fully fund it. Help us make the case by sharing your story. Submit your testimonial by April 10. bit.ly/4bJZAZH

David Lynch "FIX YOUR HEARTS OR DIE!"

Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

Maybe in the future my little consumer protection wish list won't be so controversial?

Watching this admin push their ideological & thus far illegal wants onto higher ed via accreditation and program participation agreements after trying to use the same levers to protect students' time and tuition for so many years
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
h/t @michaelhgavin.bsky.social

ED Removes NACIQI Member Who Voted Against Chair A McMahon appointee was quietly removed from the committee after casting a dissenting vote for a fellow ED pick for chair. Some members viewed the matter as brazenly partisan.

"...who questioned whether a reference to closing racial gaps in completion rates ran afoul of civil rights law"

I hate it here!

www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

mom can you pick me up at the strait of hormuz, my friends are laughing at me and wont help

what was that about Iran being a theocracy?

A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council

"Make people dependent enough, and then make it shitty"

Still giggling at this hilarious video from the Norwegian Consumer Council "A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator" which seems a perfect embodiment of Silicon Valley and tech generally these days

www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

my tax dollars attacking with missiles more missiles that are somehow also my tax dollars

funding USAID (an agency which Trump and Musk illegally destroyed) cost each individual American taxpayer about $64 annually while saving millions of lives around the world.

instead, we've got:

Even Orwell didn't think of this shit.

Exploring Factors Influencing Administrative Spending in Higher Education Despite increasing financial challenges facing much of higher education, relatively little is known about how institutions allocate resources to different activities, particularly in areas other than ...

New working paper: I use detailed spending data from HelioCampus to look at universities' non-academic spending. Institutional budget models and centralization appear to influence administrative spending, and there are some strategic decisions made during tough budget years. (1/)

Students say NC State cybersecurity course left them in debt and without prospects NC State offers an online cybersecurity bootcamp powered by a third-party company. Some students say it made false promises.

Etcetera etcetera we are all LowerEd

www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...

hate congress, love sara jacobs

Uh, I was just on a panel at the ACE conference in which I asked a co-panelist, “will we see immigration action on campus?” [I knew the answer was yes]

*problems! (they're plural!)

I'm not anti-new-accreditor but I am having a hard time trusting the motives of people who think the problem with accreditation in recent years have had anything to do with partisan ideology, rather than the 10,000 actual things they are bad at.