Great piece in @chronicle.com today by @drkevinrmcclure.com on faculty motivation in higher ed. www.chronicle.com/article/facu...

📰Newly Published: @perezfelkner.bsky.social and Shouping Hu co-authored “Does Advanced High School Coursework Enhance Community College Women’s Pathways to Computing Degrees? Evidence from Florida,” published in The Review of Higher Education. #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEdSky

When women researchers publish, media attention doesn’t always follow | @science.org | @aaas.org Women-led papers ... appeared more often in liberal-leaning outlets than conservative ones. And coverage of their work carried a more negative tone. www.science.org/content/arti...

“Like their four-year counterparts, community colleges are grappling with disappearing federal grants, shuttered D.E.I. offices, eliminated programs… many of the grants that fund financial aid for low-income students and the staff that support them have been eliminated or threatened”

Public funding of #STEM Education fuels innovation & remains essential. Our @fabbs.org policy review explains effective investments in students and systems to train a skilled & future-ready #STEMWorkforce. #EdPolicy #STEMEducation #FutureofWork @fsuannescollege.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/2372...

What did we find? 🧵 Key Points #1: Strategic public investment in #STEM education has enhanced national competitiveness and broadened student access, especially in the U.S. Cc @aeraedresearch.bsky.social @fabbs.org @fsuannescollege.bsky.social @fsuresearch.bsky.social

Public funding of #STEM Education fuels innovation & remains essential. Our @fabbs.org policy review explains effective investments in students and systems to train a skilled & future-ready #STEMWorkforce. #EdPolicy #STEMEducation #FutureofWork @fsuannescollege.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/2372...

Looking forward to #ASEE2025 in Montreal next week with valued community. Presenting in two sessions, one of which caps our #AAHHE award winning book's debut year. Join our Wednesday session - we'll have book copies to sign and sell, and look forward to conversation. @rutgersupress.bsky.social

🧪 PRACTICAL tip for NSF PIs with terminated grants: You're entitled to recover more closeout costs than a DOGE-fueled NSF may lead you to believe. ➡️ Do this NOW: Send fed reg 2 CFR 200.472 on allowable "termination costs" to your sponsored research office: www.ecfr.gov/current/titl... 1/8 🧵

🚨🚨🚨🚨 NOT A FUCKING DRILL!!! NSF just announced slashing its indirect rate down to 15%, using the same previous fuckery at NIH. Applies to new awards made to institutions of higher education on or after May 5 or after. Demand to talk with your rep about reversing these cuts!!

🔔BREAKING🔔 The NSF has frozen all research grant awards—cutting off life-saving science midstream and demanding ideological screenings for future funding. This is censorship disguised as oversight. Here’s how you can help us spread the word ➡️🧵(1/3): www.nature.com/articles/d41...

3. Fewer physics educators and programs. 4. Students wouldn’t have great science courses at uni. 5. Research community would not exist. 6. Would lose a generations of scientists. Masterclass in connecting the personal to the political!!! @standupforscience.bsky.social

Sending lots of support to the NSF and NIH program officers who have been serving the science community in so many ways. Thank you 🙏

UPDATE: After DOGE/NSF froze making any new NSF awards last week, it has now resumed. Of course, this is amid the NSF director resigning yesterday, more terminations of active awards expected today, etc. But an interesting tidbit nevertheless...

“As far as I can tell, no one (including and especially Congress so far) voted for the dismantling of the NSF. If you think the present trajectory is wrong, contact your legislators and make your voices heard.” 🧪

Pell is facing a funding shortfall of $2.7 billion unless congress acts to shore up the programs funding. The last time this happened, post Great Recession, the cuts were devastating and some of them have never been rolled back. #EduSky www.forbes.com/sites/edward...

Also related: we have run dept level job searches for the last several years. Any time we don’t hire a white male, all of our notes get FOIA’d by a think tank. It’s absolutely an effort to intimidate and make people feel threatened when making hiring decisions.

“Ironically, some of those history books on civil rights might reference the deployment of the 101st Airborne to Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957 to protect Black students during the desegregation of a high school, a pivotal moment in civil rights history.”

This is something I'd like to give more dedicated attention in my writing coming up. (This is from The Chronicle's recent survey of 4,000 higher ed workers.) I've touched on workload in several parts of my writing, but mainly as a problem. Next is to think about solutions.

So proud of our book being named one of #AAHHE's Books of the Year! Makes it even more special to share the category honor with José Del Real Viramontes and Marissa Vasquez, too, for their work on #comm_colleges!!

Come out to our San Antonio #CoNECD2025 Book Signing and Meet-N-Greet! Mon, 2/10, 10AM, The Westin Riverwalk. Would love to see you there and have your support for the book! #Texas #Latine #engineering #SanAntonio #students #highered #identity @rutgersupress.bsky.social @perezfelkner.bsky.social

Our Latin* Engineering Students book won its first award— Edited Book of the Year! Looking forward to AAHHE next month. Thanks to them and especially my co-editors @srod-vt.bsky.social & Ciera Fluker + our incredible collaborators & reviewers. Appreciate you all & @rutgersupress.bsky.social

Additional great news -- former doctoral student and rising educational leader Dr. Marcus Nicolas and I have a forthcoming publication coming soon in @ JAAME journal. Looking forward to sharing more and seeing it officially published.

I am bringing my LAST copy of the #ASHE2024 to receptions tonight with my card reader and looking forward to officially selling out! Sarah Rodriguez has copies too, and we look forward to seeing you tonight.

3 days left to apply! We are looking for an Assistant/Associate Professor in #HigherEducation at Florida State. @perezfelkner.bsky.social is chairing the search, and I’m also tagging our other Higher Ed faculty on Bluesky. ☺️ @cameroncarl.bsky.social @semcguinness.bsky.social #faculty #EduSky

Presentation and book signing day at #ASHE2024. Will otherwise be working from the lobby and happy to chat about our program, students, and faculty search.

Ready.

Cc @rutgersupress.bsky.social #ASHE2024

We're searching for a new Assistant/Associate Professor of Higher Education at Florida State University. I'm the search chair and happy to take questions. Review begins Nov 25. Detailed info here: tinyurl.com/ytnyx698

Getting ready to fly with our books to Minneapolis! We can’t wait to sign them and share them with you. See you at the booth Friday morning at 10am and perhaps too our session just before. #ASHE24 Book Signing & Meet-N-Greet ASHE 2024 Friday, 10/22, 10AM Rutgers University Press Exhibitor Table

We're searching for a new Assistant/Associate Professor of Higher Education at Florida State University. I'm the search chair and happy to take questions. Review begins Nov 25. Detailed info here: tinyurl.com/ytnyx698

Come work with me! We are hiring a #TenureTrack Assistant/Associate Professor in Higher Education at FSU. Deadline 11/25. tinyurl.com/ytnyx698 Please join us to continue the important work we are doing in the southeast! #HigherEd #Faculty #EduSky #AcademicSky

Learn more about our book, featured at #AERA24 #AERA2024 next week in Philly. www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/latin-studen...

Debuting on twitch.tv tomorrow evening on Ask_a_Scientist_Gaming ... www.twitch.tv/ask_a_scient...

Announcing: TT Assistant/Associate Prof Position in Higher Education at @FSU, focusing on Career Pathways! Reviewing starts 3/29/2024. Please share! tinyurl.com/27kdpr9k

So far this year, at least five state legislatures have passed bills seeking to curtail diversity, equity and inclusion in higher education. This year’s batch may seep more into the classroom. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky #DEI bit.ly/3TaKz8Q

Are the Legacy Dominoes Finally Falling? Virginia is likely to ban legacy preferences for public colleges next month, making it the first state to do so since the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action. Others are poised to follow suit. #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3UfhSJV