Elite higher ed has many problems, but the key factor driving down trust is political. Look at the graph - backlash against costs, admissions, etc. can't explain the changes we see. We should still reform our institutions and refocus on our core mission, but blindly blaming ourselves is abuser logic
They want to take us back to the medieval age.
... and I do love it for a half millennium track record of making wisdom something that can catch up to us despite our best efforts, in the West and beyond, to outrun it.
Academia is an attempt to build a meritocracy out of prejudiced, parochial, short-sighted, and nepotistic units. So it doesn't work very well. But being as large as it is, existing in the context it does, I'm not convinced it could possibly work better. ...
My biggest fear about the next post-Trump president, whenever we take it, is that, like Biden, they will squander the chance to repair our democracy’s basic foundations, and try to rack up the score instead.
“Bo knows this, and Bo knows that, but Bo don’t know jack, cause Bo can’t rap.”
"I declare a whole year of everything turned upside down"
Fateful words.
Marjorie Taylor Greene on Fox news as propaganda for the elderly
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
May all your students surpass you and may each occasion be a joyous one.
Whitman:
“He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.”
Thank you for those closing thoughts. Now please recommend a fast and convenient cookie recipe that uses arrowroot powder and shortening instead of butter, less sugar, more flavor.
The qualification is a PhD in any number of things, from agriculture or ecology to sociology or public health. The more impact-focused your dissertation, the better. Some agents are hired to specific programs but outside of Texas agents have freedom to decide on their contribution to their state.
The title is Extension Agent or Professor of Extension. Unlike other professors, your obligation is to the community, not the classroom, and they are assessed on their programs and outreach. You get a pickup and you drive around engaging with communities. The national association is www.nacdep.net
"Innovating community development" is a.k.a. "activism". It's a salary to be an activist.
More people should know that it's possible to do community organizing in a career that is stable, secure, and well paid.
Most public universities have an extension of the university in which the state pays the university to bring innovations in community economic development around the state.
For research covered as popular science, this rule will serve you 95% of the time.
Rule of thumb for when you should take a social science finding seriously:
* Trust findings that encourage you to be more careful and nuance, or less confident and certain.
* And be suspicious of findings that give clear actionable advice, especially when it's appealing or counterintuitive.
Excuse me for disagreeing with you on everything 😅. I see truth in what you say, but my perspective is exactly the opposite. Without rigor and formalism, everything is complexity, which makes it meaningless. In my tradition, we honor complexity by trying and failing to model it and pin it down.
As I see it, the biggest accomplishments of complexity theory have involved putting big question marks on those two concepts. But it's precisely for those provocations that prediction and control, remain for me as core to complexity theory as the concept of decentralization.
Thank you. For me there are clearly things that are decentralized that are not self-organized (balkanization) and things that are self-organized that aren't decentralized (a family). I see them as distinct, partially overlapping, and part of a family of related concepts that are also overlapping.
Something about parallel parking on a San Francisco grade on a manual transmission without breaking a sweat that makes me feel like a whole ass person.
A lot of bsky criticism focuses on toxicity or echo chambers that you get from only having excessive libs without excessive conservatives.
By my read, that means bsky has half of the toxicity and half of the echo chambers that twitter did: a huge improvement.
Moon missions do have relativistic effects. From their perspective the astronauts will arrive to an earth about 0.0000003 seconds in the future (300 microseconds) from ours.
Moon missions do have relativistic effects. From their perspective the astronauts will arrive to an earth about 0.0000003 seconds in the future (300 microseconds) from ours.
Israeli military following the same war-crime-forward strategy in Lebanon that has killed more journalists than have ever died in any conflict, more than both World Wars combined.
www.npr.org/2026/04/05/n...
By transitivity, it takes a viking to raze a child.
Their mission: "The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is working to keep Holocaust memory alive while inspiring citizens and leaders to confront hatred, prevent genocide, and promote human dignity in our constantly changing world."
Cowardice does not inspire citizens to confront hatred.
This is not what protecting and defending the constitution looks like.
"I was disappointed in the Supreme Court justices. The Constitution is not a [constitution]. Maybe their ruling will be on the law and Constitution, but you have to look at [our political aims] here."
I think this would land better with a MISSION ACCOMPLISHED banner behind him.