Inside the Fog There is a particular kind of brain fog that comes with becoming a mother.

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BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

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Adult writing in the classroom at a desk

Remote LSAT Ending Due to Cheating Concerns https://bit.ly/4tEdV0U

From Stanford to Gallup, nearly every organization that produces good information about anything of importance is in one way or another beholden to federal contracts. They are also deeply connected to elite political and economic networks thorough interlocking directorates and affiliations.

UNC-Chapel Hill Sets New Policy on Recording Professors UNC-Chapel Hill aims to clarify guidelines after a secret recording controversy involving Larry Chavis and growing fear of surveillance.

“I don’t know of any faculty member at UNC that has any faith that the provost, human resources officer, or especially the university lawyers have the faculty interests anywhere in mind when they’re making these decisions.”

—Michael Palm, @unc-ch-aaup.bsky.social President

‘Dry Bones’ Documentary Sells Out Cleveland Screening Tara Conley, Ed.D., assistant professor in the School of Media and Journalism, is being recognized for her documentary “Dry Bones” in coverage from Ideastream and The Chronicle-Telegram after Karamu H...

“The sold-out screening highlights the deep partnerships and industry connections Kent State faculty maintain within the regional media landscape.” www.kent.edu/today/news/d...

In her feature article, Dr. @blancavnyc.bsky.social "examined perceptions of racial conflict across two types of postsecondary campuses to understand how race-related conflicts are perceived in higher education."

Read her full article here: bit.ly/3MPBliX

I’m hiring a predoctoral fellow for the 2026-2027 AY with possibility of a second year. This is a great position for someone interested in pursuing a Ph.D. or who wants more hands-on experience doing research. Please apply/share! Happy to answer questions!

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it tells you a lot about *the corrupt political system in GOP-led* Ohio today

A Texas State Technical College Student measures pipes in a lab.

Why Texas State Technical College Is Getting an Endowment

Texas voters approved an $850 million endowment for the technical college system. College leaders say it’ll offer a much-needed boost in filling the state’s workforce needs. https://bit.ly/4opOHPP

The presidential memo authorizing the Caribbean and East Pacific strikes shows an understanding that the strikes are illegal and contains a clause blocking prosecutions of the offenders. bsky.app/profile/greg...

Sources: LSU expected to hire Kiffin on Sunday Sources told ESPN late Saturday that the expectation is LSU, a day after its regular season ended, will hire Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin, 50, on Sunday as its new coach and that the deal will cover sev...

The tricky part with college football coach contracts is that teams can on average only win half of their conference games and only one team can win it all. That means that most coaches will be considered failures by their boards and boosters, getting payouts to go away.

Reminds me of the “post racial” era folks claimed was happening when President Obama won. I hope we dont make the same mistake again.

Mamdani Won, But Our Battle Against Islamophobia Isn’t Over The impact of the hate speech in this year’s mayoral campaign will linger.

“The center issued a report after studying 6,669 public social media posts about Mamdani in a 17-day window during the campaign and found that just under 2,000 of the, “frame Islam itself, not any policy detail, as a public threat.” Thank you @errollouis.bsky.social for writing this piece.

There it is. They don’t care and sadly this is happening in other outlets too.

Bishop William Barber: ICE Raids & Shredding of Safety Net Are Linked Protests have erupted in North Carolina after federal agents arrested 370 people in immigration raids. On Monday, Bishop William Barber and other religious leaders gathered in Charlotte to demand an e...

Social justice campaigner Bishop William Barber says ICE raids tearing families apart and the shredding of healthcare and food support are all part of the same "policy violence."

What happened to media training in specific subjects? Is this gone now? Similar stuff is happening regarding college costs vs price. Sheesh.

Murdoch Media Wrongly Pinned NJ High Electricity Costs on Clean Energy, Says Watchdog - Inside Climate News The op-eds and TV segments coincided with the gubernatorial campaign in the Garden State.

“Media Matters…flagged op-eds and coverage from Fox News, The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post from August to October this year as wrongfully ‘blaming high electricity bills in New Jersey’ on “green-energy mandates.”

I have done work using machine learning. It has required a lot of explanation to journalists about how this particular use case is different that what people think of as AI.

So i do think these conversations are important but we could argue among each other all we want. At the end of the day, parents everywhere are really hurting over this my family included. Lots of sacrifices that have to be made to help our children successfully graduate from college.

Then you have the folks who compare what happens here versus higher ed in other countries. In class we have time to explain where costs go but in families in private person to person conversations no one wants to hear that 80gs is a justified price for college.

Probably one of THE most controversial topics in families who have college going kids. I teach our finance course &it’s a hard topic for me to justify to my husband and other family members. It always comes down to what they are actually paying versus what they thought they were “supposed” to pay

Robert Eitel is the president of the Defense of Freedom Institute. He previously served as Deputy General Counsel at the Department in the George W. Bush Administration and served as a Senior Counselor at the Department in the first Trump Administration. Eitel also held the role of the Department’s regulatory reform officer and was involved in several efforts concerning Title IX and the Higher Education Act. Joshua Figueira is the Deputy General Counsel and Managing Director of the Office of Compliance, Risk, and Legal Affairs at Brigham Young University - Idaho. Previously, he clerked at the U.S. District Court for the district of Utah and was an associate at a Utah law firm, specifically working in the First Amendment and Religious Organizations Practice Group. Dr. Jay Greene is a Senior Research Fellow for the Center of Education Policy at the Heritage Foundation. His research focuses on the effects of education on character formation and civic values; he also has covered a wide range of topics, from private school choice programs to the effects field trips have on students. Before he came to Heritage, Dr. Greene founded, and served as the Chair of, the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas. Dr. Steven Taylor is a policy director and Senior Fellow in Economic Mobility at Stand Together Trust. There, he works to educate policymakers on reforms that empower individuals to develop and leverage their skills to pursue meaningful careers and contribute to society. Dr. Taylor previously worked at the American Council on Education and founded ED2WORK®. In 2024, Governor Youngkin appointed Taylor to a four-year term on the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, the Commonwealth’s coordinating agency for higher education. Emilee Reynolds is currently a student at Western Carolina University (WCU)...

The Secretary of Education just appointed five new members to the powerful National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQI)--the organization that approves accreditors. Expect NACIQI to play a major role over the next several years.

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DOGE failed. And DOGE is dead. So I guess government can be responsive after all.

Nearby ICE Raids Stoke Fear on North Carolina Campuses As federal immigration enforcement agents descend on North Carolina, campus leaders are rushing to advise fearful staff and students about how to respond.

As federal immigration enforcement agents descend on North Carolina, campus leaders are rushing to advise fearful staff and students about how to respond.

A Planned Shake-Up at Montclair State U. Raises a Question: What Is a Department for? The administration says its plan to reorganize 15 departments into four schools will foster interdisciplinarity and make academic fields more relevant. Faculty members aren’t so sure.

Montclair State University is planning to eliminate departments...and department chairs. Who is going to do things like handle promotion applications and approve mundane paperwork?

Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.

“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”

Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter

Public Universities Don’t Want to Discuss the Compact Institutions have been slow to respond to records requests related to the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” and UT Austin is fighting to withhold records.

Today was supposed to be the deadline for colleges to join Trump's higher ed compact, but only three have expressed real interest and public universities are stonewalling open records requests.

Pro tip: don't announce a compact until you already have a robust list of signers.

Nearby ICE Raids Stoke Fear on North Carolina Campuses As federal immigration enforcement agents descend on North Carolina, campus leaders are rushing to advise fearful staff and students about how to respond.

This is critical for campuses to pay attention to and figure out how to keep their members safe.

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