Chris Bennett
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Redhead, NC native, and higher education researcher. He/him.
https://chrisbennettedu.com
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CHOAM Economics
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From āThe Simpsonsā house genius John Swartzwelder, interviewed in The New Yorker by Mike Sacks
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Robert Kelchen
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The Department of Education has issued its proposed rule regarding earnings accountability metrics and program-level tuition data. Comments are due in 30 days.
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U.S. Department of Education Issues Proposed Rule to Hold Colleges and Universities Accountable for Low Earning Outcomes
The U.S. Department of Education today issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to establish a postsecondary education accountability framework that will break the cycle of low return on investme...
https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-issues-proposed-rule-hold-colleges-and-universities-accountable-low-earning-outcomes
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Dominique Baker
3 days ago
Cool interview about my latest work conducted with my "co-collaborator and husband, RTI International research analyst
@chrisbennettedu.bsky.social
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www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
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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...
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty/research/2026/04/17/who-gets-guggenheim-professor-has-answer
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Needhi Bhalla š š½
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As a recipient of federal grants from
#NIH
(for now! š) that funds research in my lab, I'd like to sincerely thank American taxpayers on
#TaxDay
for investing in scientific research that lays the foundation for medical and technological innovation in this country and keeps us ALL safe and healthy
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Dominique Baker
6 days ago
My latest column is an interview with renowned historian of higher ed, Eddie Cole. Come for learning about HBCUs and stay for his thoughts on why accreditation is the biggest issue we're not talking enough about in higher ed.
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
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HBCUs and the Uneven Legacy of Academic Freedom
Eddie R. Cole explores the complicated history around protecting scholars at historically Black colleges and universities and the risks of political interference in accreditation.
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/echoes-quad/2026/04/14/hbcus-and-uneven-legacy-academic-freedom
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David F. Sandberg
7 days ago
I misread the headline as one movie and got very excited for a momentā¦
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Public Books
7 days ago
New at PB: Dominique J. Baker (
@bakerdphd.bsky.social
) & Christopher T. Bennett share their research into the question: Who gets prestigious fellowships?
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Who Gets Guggenheims? - Public Books
Unfortunately, 100 years of data show that those whom such fellowships might represent the greatest departure from their everyday experienceāthat is, those not at elite institutionsāare least likelyā¦
https://www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-guggenheims/
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Dominique Baker
7 days ago
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...
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Who Gets Guggenheims? - Public Books
Unfortunately, 100 years of data show that those whom such fellowships might represent the greatest departure from their everyday experienceāthat is, those not at elite institutionsāare least likely t...
https://www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-guggenheims/
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Cherry blossoms!
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OlĆŗfįŗ¹Ģmi O. TĆ”Ćwò
8 days ago
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
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Fun
8 days ago
the Artemis crew took photography classes so they could take the best photos possible up there š
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RIT alumni train Artemis II astronauts in photography
The four NASA astronauts on the Artemis II Moon Mission are well equipped to document their mission because of two years of training from RIT alumni.
https://www.rit.edu/news/rit-alumni-train-artemis-ii-astronauts-photography
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John Garrison Marks
11 days ago
The incredible team at
@inquirer.com
continues to be all over this story. The revised approach the administration proposes here is very typical in recent years, qualifying statements about Washingtonās enslaving by pointing to his statements in opposition to it. (Gift link)
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The Trump administration wants to sanitize George Washingtonās role in slavery at Presidentās House
The federal government uploaded digital renderings of 11 new panels that it was preparing to display at the President's House. They reframe George Washington's role in upholding slavery.
https://share.inquirer.com/tkvteN
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Dan Greene
12 days ago
WE DID IT! Our illegal union
@uam-umd.bsky.social
is a lot less illegal today. 12,000 contingent faculty in MD just won the right to collectively bargain. Life-changing win for teachers and students. Only happened bc thousands of people worked together to beat our bosses in the statehouse.
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Laura Davulis
12 days ago
I just had to send a bunch of āgood idea for a book but not a good fit for usā rejections, which always bums me out, so: this is your periodic reminder that our pals at
@aupresses.bsky.social
publish a guide to which UPs publish in which subject areas ā
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AUPresses Subject Area Grid - Association of University Presses
Guide to the subject areas in which member presses have recently published.
https://aupresses.org/resources/aupresses-subject-area-grid/
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Jasmine šš
12 days ago
OH. MY. GOD. THIS IS THE MILKY WAY SHOT BY THE ARTEMIS II CREW. LOOK AT ALL THOSE STARS!!!!
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Nicole Chung
13 days ago
i feel like you all need this
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Scientific American
13 days ago
After emerging from the far side of the moon, the Artemis II astronauts witnessed something few have ever experiencedāa total solar eclipse in space. š· NASA
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Look to your left. Look to your right. If youāre Joe Lunardi, chances are that both those people had a better bracket than you.
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For those keeping track at home, we're only one episode into the Real Housewives of Rhode Island and we're already three spaces away from a bingo! Not on my bingo card: the cousin math was for a couple that is still married
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14 days ago
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Erika Hall
16 days ago
US car dealers hate EVs because EVs need a lot less maintenance
www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/202...
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My favorite genre of mnemonic devices are the ones that are easy to mangle: -In [year ending in 2], Columbus sailed the ocean blue -Remember, remember the 5th of [month ending in -ember]
17 days ago
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Omar Wasow
18 days ago
Excited to share new paper w/
@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social
: "Veiled Power: How Rosenwald Teachers Quietly Shaped the Civil Rights Movement" The puzzle: did ~5,000 segregated schools built in rural South emphasizing āmanual laborā strengthen or weaken Jim Crow? š§µ
omarwasow.com/wasow_grumba...
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Brian Nosek
19 days ago
SCORE, a collaboration of 865 researchers, is now released as three papers in Nature, six preprints, and a lot of data (
cos.io/score/
). SCORE examined repeatability of findings from the social-behavioral sciences and tested whether human and automated methods could predict replicability.
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SCORE | Center for Open Science
SCORE shows that there is no shortcut to producing credible research findings, and there is no single indicator of trustworthiness. Research progress depends on transparency, rigor, and establishing r...
https://cos.io/score/
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Robert Kelchen
19 days ago
The Missouri House passed a budget bill that would abruptly shift all state higher ed funding to a per-FTE basis, resulting in some rural institutions and HBCUs losing half their funding. It may shutter my alma mater, its region's economic engine. This is unprecedented in higher ed finance.
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Missouri Lawmakers Consider Shuffling Public Higher Ed Funds
Lawmakers proposed a new funding model that would reshuffle funds among public institutions. Some, including the stateās two historically Black colleges, wouldnāt fare well.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/state-policy/2026/04/01/missouri-lawmakers-consider-shuffling-public-higher-ed
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Edan Foley
20 days ago
I don't know if I just graphed a result or designed the cover of an 80s new wave album, but I like it!
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Merriam-Webster
26 days ago
When movies were shot on physical film, the film was measured in feet. This is why any recorded thing is now called āfootage.'
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TristanBridges.bsky.social
27 days ago
New research challenges what we thought we knew about men's friendships. A new study by
@ucsantabarbara.bsky.social
Sociology grad student, Emily Fox (
@emilycfox.bsky.social
), asks: is the "gender friendship gap" really about gender? Spoiler: not exactly. š§µ
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Are White Men Missing Out?: Differences in Friendship Closeness by Gender and Ethnoracial Identity - Sex Roles
Sex Roles - Research has consistently found that boysā and menās friendships are less close, intimate, supportive, and satisfying than girlsā and womenās...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-025-01638-7
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The next time imposter syndrome starts to creep in, Iām going to remember that someone who gets paid to speculate about the NCAA tourney all year has a bracket thatās right at the 50th percentile nationally
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Robert Kelchen
28 days ago
The Department of Education released an update to the College Scorecard. Debt and earnings at the institution level have not been updated in several years, but new program-level earnings data coming from the negotiated rulemaking dataset got pulled in.
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Data Home | College Scorecard
Download institution-level and field-of-study-level data files directly from the College Scorecard. Available data goes as far back as 1997.
https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/data/
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Citizen.Coping
30 days ago
Thompson's hematologist at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Robert A. Brodsky, published a study revealing that the research now has an overall 94% disease-free survival rate. "[A cure is now] available to the majority, almost the entirety, of sickle cell patients.ā
#GoodNews
#BlackSky
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Woman Diagnosed with Sickle Cell Disease at 2-Months-Old Wakes Up with No Pain for the First Time in Her Life After New Treatment
Tatyana Thompson, who was diagnosed with sickle cell disease when she was 2 months old, was successfully cured of the disease after she participated in Johns Hopkins research on sickle cell treatment.
https://people.com/woman-diagnosed-with-sickle-cell-disease-at-2-months-old-wakes-up-with-no-pain-for-the-first-time-in-her-life-after-new-treatment-11931453
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OlĆŗfįŗ¹Ģmi O. TĆ”Ćwò
about 1 month ago
if there's one conclusion that the study of both labor history and imperialism converge on, it is that the richest people in the world are happy to burn money on control, power, impunity. and the "everything is about profit" version of anti-capitalism does not survive serious contact with either
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Brandon D. Wilson
about 1 month ago
FIRST WOMAN TO EVER WIN BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY. FIRST BLACK PERSON TO WIN BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY. FIRST FILIPINA TO WIN BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY. ACADEMY AWARD WINNER AUTUMN DURALD ARKAPAW.
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David A. Richards
about 1 month ago
#IES
and
#NCES
have announced that data for the 2020-22 Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study (BPS:20/22) are available for analysis on DataLab, here:
nces.ed.gov/datalab/inde...
I'm pleased to see these data available and want to share some observations, below: (1/X)
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DataLab
NCES DataLab offers public access to wealth of data on the condition of American education. This suite of online data analysis tools (PowerStats, TrendStats, and QuickStats) allow users to create tabl...
https://nces.ed.gov/datalab/index.aspx
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Polar bear fur is transparent, not white, and their skin is black.
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about 1 month ago
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In middle school, I scored more soccer goals with my hands (via throw-ins) than I did with my feet
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about 2 months ago
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Milo Baynes and the Goodness of RenƩes
about 2 months ago
OH MY With 100% of precincts reporting, Sam Page defeats Phil Berger by⦠TWO VOTES
#ncpol
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Two votes??!
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about 2 months ago
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Ian
about 2 months ago
Providence RI up to 32.8 inches through 1p which is the biggest snowstorm on record there. Beats 28.6 inches Feb 6-7, 1978. Records begin 1904.Ā (edited)
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Adam Harris
about 2 months ago
I have a new essay out this morning about Black History Month, remembering in a moment when those in power want us to forget, and the importance of seeing people in the past as people
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Black History Month Is Radical Now
A nation that wants to forget its past must be reminded of all of it.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/black-history-month-trump/686000/?gift=mm9HO-iPLVaSjqfKn0DIKF7h_BiCqnSid8sEOxB7s1I
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Abraham Gutman
about 2 months ago
Almost a month after abruptly dismantling exhibits about slavery from the Presidentās House, National Park Service employees began reinstalling the panels late morning on Thursday ahead of a court-imposed deadline. Story w/
@fallonroth.bsky.social
& Maggie Prosser.
www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...
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The slavery exhibits at the Presidentās House are beginning to be restored by the National Park Service
The restoration is the latest development in the city and community stakeholdersā fight to preserve the Presidentās House after President Donald Trumpās administration ordered the removal of exhibits.
https://www.inquirer.com/politics/nation/presidents-house-exhibits-slavery-restored-judge-order-20260219.html
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cait (and adonis)
2 months ago
let's stay together
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Ahead of Valentineās Day, Iām thinking about this 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship bio from Harry Bernstein, who published his first novel at age 96, which was written shortly after the death of his wife of almost 70 years. Iām crying, youāre crying, weāre all crying.
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uncanny valley girl
2 months ago
nobody posted the clip anywhere so i went and dug the whole episode up
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Ben Casselman
2 months ago
As expected, the annual benchmark revisions sharply lowered estimates of job growth in earlier months. BLS now says we added just 181,000 jobs in 2025, down from the earlier estimate of 584,000.
#NumbersDay
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Dominique Baker
2 months ago
If you know the moral thing for an organization to do, feels important to state it, even if you recognize that the org likely won't do it. We should recognize the way that powerful orgs historically capitulated to censorship and suppression. Shame only works when we remember the transgressions.
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Dominique Baker
2 months ago
We deserve good things!
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Mark Copelovitch
2 months ago
Again, if you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.
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Alexander Chee
2 months ago
If they make a sequel to Muppets Take Manhattan I hope they do it while heās mayor and put him in it.
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Alex Ip čęø é
3 months ago
BREAKING:
@ajc.com
on Tuesday evening said it will lay off approximately 50 staffers, about 15% of its headcount, as it seeks to cut costs and marshal resources to invest in its growth. The AJC published its last print edition on 12/31. About half of those laid off will come from the newsroom.
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The AJC to cut staff as it continues digital transformation
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution said Tuesday it will lay off staffers in the newsroom and other segments of the business.
https://www.ajc.com/business/2026/02/the-ajc-to-cut-staff-as-it-continues-digital-transformation/
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