This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.

Student Success | As the Humanities Shrink, @cuny.edu Boosts Support A new $250K scholarship fund at Macaulay Honors College supports research, advising and graduate preparation for undergraduates. https://bit.ly/48W5Lbh #EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky

A National Embarrassment! WTF is wrong with our country and the assholes that made this a reality!

Random professor for the win

So many people seem to care about an institution's existence more than its impact.

Every person who writes about US higher ed should have to pass an eligibility survey that includes an item like "what is the share of 4 year institutions with a <50% acceptance rate?" If you can't get that right within a certain bandwidth, you don't get published.

Administration: DEI is bad; only merit. Also Admin: “a months-old nonprofit run by a woman (37) whose most recent job was owning a luxury pet food store in Tampa.. who has no professional museum experience” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/a...

Captain Clutch! #knicks

I'm having a hard time understanding the outrage over the luxury second home tax in New York. The socialist paradise of South Carolina triples your property tax if it is not your primary residence and the hoops they make you jump through to prove it's your primary residence are not small.

My street cred is growing!!!

The National Merit Scholarship Program didn't start as a scholarship program. It started as a Pepsi marketing campaign. That origin tells you everything about what it still is. A thread. 1/7 #PSAT #NMSQT www.nationalmerit.org/s/1758/image...

I was way too engrossed in this!

Epstein Craved Harvard Connections. Many There Were Eager to Help. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/u...

Bob Marley's War (1976) whose lyrics were drawn from a 1963 speech by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie before the UN General Assembly seems very relevant today. youtu.be/4XHEPoMNP0I?...

Love France 🇫🇷 They understand the importance of the battery life of a Nokia 3310

EU: The European Union will require sale of mobile phones with “user-replaceable and longer-lasting batteries” starting in 2027. The regulation demands “availability of spare parts and manuals for 10 years to curb planned obsolescence”.

The Mississippi Free Press got inundated with a raft of AI-generated opinion pieces—which we pay writers for—from people who don't exist pretending to be Mississippians. One of those columns made it to publication before we caught the scam. Kevin Edwards, editor for our Voices section, explains:

AI is fascinating in its wrongness, certitude, and allure. here is an example: Claude had a problem with Beyonce! (Spoiler its not Beyonce)

Theory: Behind almost every weathy fraudster is an "elite" education. Evidence: Shkreli (Hunter College High School) SBF (MIT) Skilling (Harvard MBA) Raj Rajaratnam (Wharton)

I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

I've been a reader and member of @talkingpointsmemo.com for literally decades and it's one of the most impressive independent media operations in the country. Amazing how long it's been going, producing great reporting and analysis. Indispensable. talkingpointsmemo.com/memberships

The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

Tesla. Disney. CVS Health. United Airlines. PayPal. Billions in profits. $0 in federal corporate income taxes. That money should be funding schools, healthcare, and public services. This is why people are mad as hell.

Skip the article about/from the employees of the Yale corporation and read this from SUNY Geneseo www.geneseo.edu/enrollment-m...

Will Ivy League researchers ever point to themselves rather than “colleges”

Today i learned Hampshire college isn’t old enough to be my father

Wishing you and yours a very merry Confederate Surrender Day.

Why does no one call out Wilson Fisk for wearing white after Labor Day?

Also of note, Iowa paid Chris Rufo—perhaps the leading propagandist for the current assault on higher ed, an unqualified hack and admitted fabulist—$34,000 to speak. It's embarrassing that any higher ed institution would invite him, especially when they are cutting departmental budgets.

The inventor of the SAT, Carl Brigham, was a eugenecist and racist. The President of Harvard who first implemented the SAT, James Conant, create poison gas for WWI and the atomic bomb for WWII.

AP finding creative ways to be even worse.

Updated 3/31/26: "College Board may use artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other computational methods (collectively, 'AI'), including in the development and scoring of tests and for test security purposes." Got it.

"if i were in a position of power" is a hell of a thing for a [checks notes] senator to say.

I'll never stop point out how much test publishers are not educational organizations... they marketers selling a widget and that widget happens to be used in school settings. #marketing

In today's fake outrage, the conservative echo chamber is now up in arms about colleges dropping a swimming requirement..

its on now! On 4/23 I'll ask (and maybe answer) the questions are standardized tests deceptive, precise, deceptively precise, or precisely deceptive.

Scott Galloway thinks elite colleges are "morally corrupt." He's also desperate for his son to get into one. https://chroni.cl/4v1x3q2

Can I block people from replying to my emails with emojis?

I just heard from students who got into Northeastern London, Northeastern Oakland, Northeastern Abu Dhabi, Northeastern Mars and Northeastern Uruguay! I'm so proud!

Just starting Julie Park's new book and it's great! #sffa #repressivelegalism #college

"nearly a dozen leading models were highly sycophantic, taking the users’ side in interpersonal conflicts 49 percent more often than humans did — even when the user described situations in which they broke the law, hurt someone or lied." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/w...

Selective colleges probably can't stop being selective but they can stop being predictable and gameable ...

This is a good time to ask "what is a good college" akilbello.com/2025/03/19/w...

“Americans’ employment prospects must be truly dire if Natalie’s son Trevor is still stuck working at Best Buy,” said lead author Joseph Stiglitz

Research for the public good starts at SUNY! During a visit to the New York State College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University, Chancellor King highlighted groundbreaking veterinary and plant science research which is improving our communities and economy. (1/2)

As usual AI nails it #GRE #AI

Economists Warn That Even Their Friend’s Son Who Went To Business School Can’t Find A Job http://theonion.com/economists-warn-that-even-their-friends-son-who-went-to-business-school-cant-find-a-job/

Someone should force them to update the "To Protect and Serve" motto... maybe "To protect property and serve at will"

Shorter title: Dominique is right about linkedin