My quote of the day

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

Maya Angelou

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States of Distrust: Science and Politics in America James Druckman presented the Center for Political Studies 2026 Miller-Converse Lecture At the University of Michigan’s most distinguished lecture series on American electoral politics, political scien...

"'If you can increase the diversity of the scientific workforce, there’s some evidence that you can increase the trust in scientists,' Druckman explained... [diversity] encompassing not just race and gender but also rurality, religiosity, and class background."

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Linkages between historical redlining and contemporary indicators of structural racism and discrimination across 5 North Carolina metropolitan areas Historical manifestations of structural racism and discrimination (SRD; e.g. 1930s redlining) have been linked to current adverse health outcomes, yet less is known about linkages to present-day ne...

Happy this paper at Journal of Urban Affairs is finally out :)

Planey AM, Taylor NL, Kumar AD, Cross RI, Neally S, Lewis JA, Luben TJ, Martin CL. "Linkages between historical redlining and contemporary indicators of structural racism and discrimination across 5 North Carolina metropolitan areas"

This is a really important piece. I have a thing coming out tomorrow making a similar argument: that our current ed-policy situation is analogous the period between Brown v. Board (1954) and Green v. New Kent (1968), and that this is really discombobulating for ed researchers generally.

‘the end of Leandro may mark not just the conclusion of a single case, but a turning point in the national struggle over educational equity from battles over what the Constitution requires, to battles over whether those requirements can be enforced at all.’

A little time to breathe after a turbulent week.

American higher education is a wonderful thing.

Data centers are a physical manifestation of AI infrastructure and they've become a flashpoint precisely because they're tractable. They exist in specific places, consume specific resources, can be seen and pointed to. I spoke with @lorenaoneil.com @rollingstone.com about our urgent AI reckoning.

The College Affordability Crisis is Real, but the Media is Looking at the Wrong Schools Sturges Hall (Photo by Keith Walters ’11) Opinion By Costas Solomou, Vice President, Enrollment Management Published by the Office of Enrollment Management When Yale University released its Committee ...

Skip the article about/from the employees of the Yale corporation and read this from SUNY Geneseo

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Who Gets a Guggenheim? This Professor Has An Answer Education and public policy professor Dominique Baker looked at 30,000 Guggenheim recipients to determine how influential institutional affiliation is in determining who gets one of the prestigious fe...

Cool interview about my latest work conducted with my "co-collaborator and husband, RTI International research analyst @chrisbennettedu.bsky.social." (never gets old)

We talked about why this work matters, some of potential solutions, and what's next. 1/

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The story is a bit better than the headline but it dances around the real conclusion: many of the problems Ohio State is experiencing are the direct and indirect result of the state government. Instead it tries pin the problems, unfairly, on a jock school that can’t do good.

It’s rich to read Gee say that higher ed has been arrogant & that’s why public trust is down, as if nothing else influencing public trust has been going on. Let me go find the receipts for his bow ties again…

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

News media coverage of gun violence: a scoping review - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - News media coverage of gun violence: a scoping review

In 1988, when I was 13, my school went on lockdown due to a mass shooting (Google “Laurie Dann”). To me, gun violence is personal. Here is my brand new work: a review paper on media coverage of gun violence. This research means great deal to me, and I hope it helps scholars and journalists.

‘No one deserves a tragedy.’
~Nikki Giovanni

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Harvard Asks Donors to Endow $10 Million Professorships for ‘Viewpoint Diversity’ Initiative | News | The Harvard Crimson Harvard is quietly asking donors for $10 million gifts to establish new endowed professorships in a sweeping bid to reshape its faculty under the banner of “viewpoint diversity,” according to two peop...

Got asked an ideology question during my talk at Chicago and shared that my first question is always "Which viewpoints are y'all looking for? Folks who say I'm not human because I'm Black?"

Say it with your whole chest.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

Alleged white supremacist pleads guilty in fire at social justice center that trained civil rights icons The Highlander Research and Education Center hosted figures like Rosa Parks, John Lewis and Martin Luther King Jr. Regan Prater set it ablaze in 2019, according to prosecutors.

A man linked to white supremacist movements pleaded guilty to burning the historic Highlander Center, where Rosa Parks attended a workshop on integration before her 1955 bus protest. In March 2019, the blaze destroyed decades of irreplaceable civil rights archives, artifacts, and history.

So about last night…it was an EF-1 that hit town.

Grateful to @scholars.org for the opportunity to write this brief on the urgent need to ban corporal punishment in US schools.

Children deserve bodily autonomy, safety, and care at school and in their communities.

Meaghan is such a wonderful scholar & I’m glad to see more people engaging with this important work!

Join us and @newamerica.org on 4/21 for a conversation about the role of higher ed as the fifth pillar of democracy and how building a durable defense for the sector requires embedding that principle in law, institutional culture, and the public imagination.

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The BetMGM/Fan Duel/Caesar’s mathematics curriculum complete with free app & $1000 to practice with.

Annotated Edition: "Why sex-ratios in majors might be more than just bias" Line-by-line notes on factual, logical, and rhetorical errors. Annotated by Chad M. Topaz.

Another professor wrote a campus paper piece arguing that the economics gender gap is mostly biology. This... did not survive close reading. So because I am this way, I made an interactive annotated edition cataloging the factual, logical, and rhetorical errors. Wheee... Enjoy! #EconSky #AcademicSky

Also the timing of this work by @bakerdphd.bsky.social & @chrisbennettedu.bsky.social was perfect for my final class discussion on faculty inequalities today & bridging to the work coming out of the science of science about faculty hiring networks & career inequalities.

University of Michigan's new president Kent Syverud has brain cancer Syracuse University President Kent Syverud has been diagnosed with brain cancer. He was set to take over as University of Michigan president in May.

University of Michigan's president-elect Kent Syverud has brain cancer, will not take up presidency freep.com/story/news/education/2026/04/15/u-ms-new-president-diagnosed-with-brain-cancer/89622673007/

People are waking up groggily today. Some of my colleagues have house damage. The survey for the City of Ann Arbor has already closed, but if you feel strongly that sirens save lives, and should even be expanded, please contact your city council member ASAP.

For the last day of class I would’ve preferred to wake-up at a normal time with coffee, not at 1:30 to tornado sirens. But, I’m glad we still have sirens in town to warn people.

College Closures As colleges and universities continue to face rising financial pressure, the topic of college closures has received increased attention from policymakers and the public. College closures are important...

I wrote a chapter for the @aefplivehandbook.bsky.social on college closures. It's a part of a great--and free--resource designed to support practitioners and policymakers in education.

“The attacks on science also created a new talent pool for Silicon Valley to exploit: newly displaced STEM researchers. “