What a story. What a blessing she was to the fight.
"At that first meeting, Dr. Long realized that the activists needed a guide who was fluent in science to help them expedite the approval of drugs to treat AIDS & the H.I.V. virus that causes it.
“She was their scientific North Star."
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Registered! ✅
Quite excited for this event. Will really have to hold myself back from asking about Lee's thoughts on original rhony.
There's a livestream in case you can't attend in person but want to watch!
This Yale report on reforming higher ed is going to get a lot of attention, but what is happening at broad-access institutions matters much more for improving the public perception of higher ed.
My sweet little girl likes the Chronicle graphic, though. It's cute.
I have a new article out in The Review of Higher Education examining the economic returns to newly established master's degree programs. Overall, these new programs generate similar or somewhat better outcomes than existing programs, showing they're not just potential cash cows for universities.
📣New Article Alert📣
How is gender and sexuality institutionalized in higher education?
Using longitudinal data collected on a national probability sample, this study examines whether and when HEIs establish LGBTQ resource centers and studies programs.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe.
Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities
www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...
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.
Gonna go out on a limb here and assume these tech fellas haven't considered state authorization as a thing they need to do once they start claiming to offer a postsecondary degree
Again, specific sample and I’ve only talked to half of them this round (it’s our third interview). But their reflections on this have been something I’ve been chewing on.
Anyway, back to reading prelims.
They hate AI creep into everything. They have internalized its environmental impacts (data centers are irreparably harming the environment because you don’t want to make flash cards). They really loathe its existence.
It may be a result of a very specific sample, and it’s been fascinating talking with research participants about AI this semester.
These are undergrads who have been universally opposed to it.
Really looking forward to this!
*inserts into class-relevant screencap folder*
Come for the rich analysis, stay for the specific pop culture references (multiple Law and Order reference this time!)
Finally got a moment to catch up on some news and @bakerdphd.bsky.social's newest column is once again a must-read. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
This is the type of thing I keep trying to talk to people about for higher ed. Not conference rooms where I "listen to diverse perspectives" but actually doing work to imagine what strengthening the US higher education system in furtherance of a democracy would look like.
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.
Small win today: a positive R&R that included reviewers affirming the work in kind ways, good suggestions on where to revise, *and* places to cut to make the suggestions happen!
No excuses
I shared some context with the Washington Post (whose education team survived the mass layoffs) on the Trump administration's efforts to go after the National Student Clearinghouse and NSLVE. I expect red-state publics to drop out of what used to be a bipartisan effort.
Consider the suite of “reforms” for public higher education in Iowa. This is a sweeping package that would dismantle public universities. The justification? Public money should go only to training people for high demand jobs. In the Postliberal University we call this a “neoliberal Trojan Horse”
Cool workshop in DC in June for higher ed policy academics with less than 10 years of research experience. Deadline to apply is March 1.
www.peer-center.org/research/sum...
Julia is a tireless supporter of student loan borrowers who worked to ensure that companies, and the federal government, did not take advantage of people. She is exactly the type of person we want looking out for people.
I am not being snarky. I need my colleagues who wrote on covid school lockdowns to engage with this. To be as loud as they have been about prior "learning loss." Hell, you can cite Tom & Mark's AERJ paper so you feel better that there's some econ somewhere in your argument.
Through all the horrors, my little corner of happiness is for Delroy Lindo’s Oscar nom today
the oscars are not my thing but No Other Choice should have got nominations
