Hot off the press! Hanan Abu Salih and I analyze how university presidents navigate the tensions between institutional neutrality, support of their diverse communities, and public pressures in the wake of international conflicts. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

New op-ed! With the election of Pope Leo XIV, Gerardo Blanco and I reflect on what his papacy could mean for Catholic higher education worldwide. Read it here: www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...

I have a new open-access article in the Journal of Postsecondary Student Success that examines whether colleges respond to accountability pressures by trying to increase enrollment. At least in the short term, that may have been the case. journals.flvc.org/jpss/article...

📢 Check on your junior colleagues! The stress, research disruptions, and uncertainty of the current moment are weighing on a lot of us (and, tbh, have been since we started jobs in... *check notes*... a pandemic)

Interested in a Master's or Doctoral (Ed.D. or Ph.D.) degree in HRED? Come study with us! We have three amazing programs, great faculty, and over 100 fantastic students with whom you can build a great community! Join us next Monday (03/03) for a virtual info session! events.shu.edu/event/39385-...

Because you TOTALLY asked for this… and MapQuest has NOTHING better to do… We’ve granted you exclusive access to a place very dear to our heart: gulfof.mapquest.com Think of it as the Upside Down but more... minimalist. Pls share so we can behold your genius (or judge you, lovingly) 😘

For those of you desperately in need of distraction from today's headlines, here's a photo of a bunny & a chick who are friends.

"𝐼𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑏𝑒ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑑𝑒𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑒, 𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑡 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑔𝑛𝑖𝑧𝑒, 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑖𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑔𝑚𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑚 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑑𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑠𝑎𝑓𝑒𝑡𝑦 𝑜𝑛 𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑢𝑠." What a relevant study that sheds light on how public HEIs have allowed to create unnecesarily tense and unsafe environments.

GovWayBack. govwayback.com

"The Kamala Harris Provision"... This is the best hypothesis I've seen on the nonsense of specifically mentioning student and work visas in this executive order.

I went through Trump's birthright citizenship EO, line-by-flagrantly-unconstitutional-line, to highlight the illegal, the racist, and the just plain incorrect understanding of the constitutional *right* to citizenship. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

I wonder how many people in the U.S. would not be considered citizens now if the Trump executive order would have been implemented. depending on how long you go back in time, I am sure it would be a very considerable number of the population.

The Ida B. Wells Society Summer 2025 Investigative Internship Program is back and bigger than ever! We're partnering with 17 newsrooms to give talented students and recent grads hands-on journalism experience. HBCU & MSI students are encouraged to apply! https://buff.ly/49bTkas

Reading Baldwin's 70 year old essays sound still so relevant "We have a very deep-seated distrust of real intellectual effort (probably because we suspect that it will destroy, as I hope it does, the myth of America to which we cling sonl desperately)." 2025 will be another tough year for #highered.

56 doctoral theses/dissertations published in 2024 about international students (that I can find so far), compiled here: researchintlstudents.com/doctoral-the... A small thread of trends and thoughts ⬇️

Vacancy for a researcher working with @alinecourtois.bsky.social @sazanajayadeva.bsky.social and me on a new project on the 'Virtual Mobilities of International Students'. Based at @uniofbath.bsky.social Deadline for applications: 5 Jan 2025 Please repost - thanks! www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

I just received an email from an unknown journal saying that they are open to article submissions "for original article(s) if (1) plagiarism of the article is less than 15%" So, I guess you can go ahead and plagiarize 14.5% of your paper and you should be ok...

New @ #RIHE: Many people study policy adoption, but few study policy discontinuation. #AmyLi & #XiaodanHu find that states show evidence of policy imitation, but not of policy emulation, in the discontinuation of performance-based funding (PBF). doi.org/10.1007/s111...

Employer: Inflation is bad, so you all get a 2% pay raise! Daycare: Hold my beer, everything is going up, so your tuition is increasing 6%...

Beyond heartbroken to learn that Prof. Luis Moll, an esteemed educator and researcher whose pioneering contributions have left an indelible mark on the field of education, passed away this morning. Luis and his wife Ana became our 'foster' family while in Tucson.