some really, really exciting news. we're hiring a two-year reporting fellow to cover higher ed in NYC but especially CUNY!! come work with me and dive into an amazing, complicated and under-covered beat

so blessed to not be in DC this allergy season

Most common asks in the j school gc are for obscure sources and ibuprofen, makes you think

sometimes being a journalist is being a monkey at a keyboard and other days its this

"It is also worth treating numbers with caution ... Only God”, it has been said, “knows how many saints there are”—and His data are not publicly available." www.economist.com/culture/2026...

getting cherry blossom fomo from DC

reached peak New York journalist arguing with the city over my FOIL request while power walking to Trader Joe’s

Starting to understand why all the baddies rock with fleece lined tights in nyc …

being the journalist friend in the gc is treacherous ground, like do i have to fact check every joke or can i let the vibes ride

The Trump administration acknowledged it mistakenly deported a college student flying home to Honduras for Thanksgiving. But the government has not moved to drop the case.

explained the rules of rodeo to two New Yorkers and felt the yeehaw rise out of me

obsessed with my Seattle bartender calling everyone bud or buddy, both gender neutral yet kindly affectionate

just acted like a boomer navigating an Amazon go store

Living in a home actually stinks bc I have too many square feet to travel when I forget something in my room

suddenly concerned I don’t know the rules of driving through a four way stop

Our Favorites of 2025 | "Ashley Mowreader worked to identify which institutions and how many students were affected, resulting in a widely-read map that was cited in legal filings and by numerous other publications." Josh Moody, business, finance and leadership reporter. 🔗 https://bit.ly/49x0yas

Trump's June travel ban restricted access for foreign nationals of 19 countries, which international education folks warned could hurt enrollment. Some initial data scraping by moi from last December to now implies some of that may be true

i think the vlookup formula is both my blessing and my curse because when it works, my data is so much fun to work with and when it doesn't, everything is bad and evil and dark

One in 10 college students say they don't know where to find postgraduation outcomes information, per @insidehighered.com data. ED is making that a little easier, by labeling some colleges as "low earnings" www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

Student Success | Facilitating Deliberative Dialogue in College Classrooms A panel of experts provide insights into how to integrate challenging conversations into class activities to build students’ interpersonal skills and critical thinking. https://bit.ly/4pwZitu

Student Success | Kansas Scales Credential Program for Students With Disabilities A $1.9 million grant from the Department of Education will spur expansion of a support program for students with intellectual disabilities at two Kansas-based institutions. https://bit.ly/48HK7qg

i thought of a post i wanted to make this morning but i forgot what it was so now i'm just sad

Opinion | For New High School Grads, Workforce Pell Might Be Wrong Place to Start Many young people will be better served by going straight to degree programs—not using up their Pell eligibility on short-term programs. The regulations should account for this. https://bit.ly/4iNFH5Z #EDUSky

Conservative Think Tank AEI Names Ben Sasse Senior Fellow

Hello #academicsky, I'm working on a piece about how students are more comfortable refusing to participate in discussion than they used to be. I've seen a lot of complaints from professors about the so-called Gen Z stare. Do you have experience with this? Think the concern is overblown? Let me know!

at least i can always count on our event photographers to capture and publish the worst photos of me speaking

damn i was jussttt going to pitch to my editor that I should also drink three beers at 10 am and write a story

Happy Thanksgiving! IHE is pressing pause in observance of the holiday weekend! We will be back Monday, December 1st!

Student Success | How One Community College Is Embracing AI-Powered Data Tools Inside Higher Ed’s Voices of Student Success discusses how AI can be leveraged to improve predictive analytics and provide insight into workforce outcomes data for a two-year college. https://bit.ly/43R3Z8V #EDUSky

Student Success | Professor Identity Can Influence Perceptions of Transfer A study of over 3,000 faculty from @cuny.edu two- and four-year institutions found gaps in awareness of transfer student outcomes and processes, which can hurt transfer success. https://bit.ly/4ofEw0e #AcademicSky #EDUSky

realized i never set up my OOO email .... and people thought i was just ignoring them......

And ED makes it official. Numerous programs are getting shipped out to four different agencies. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

anyone know why the tap water in Atlanta tastes like dirt

always happy to read my friends' job/grad school apps because its so fun to read about how hard they slay

UNL rolled out (what I'm assuming is) Edsight's AI chatbot for student retention data last week and it's... not going well, per the Daily Nebraskan www.dailynebraskan.com/news/unl-stu...

i'm going to be honest i am not sure i'll ever learn how to spell bureaucracy, i just do my best and hope spell check gets it

In "reverse transfer" students who transferred from a community to a bachelor's IHE before getting associate degree can get it using credits from the 2 IHEs, but few students opt in: buff.ly/OSeJ9mo 1 reason might be stigma associated w. having an assoc degree. @amowreader.com #AcademicSky #highered

few work days will beat when i created the international student visa revocation map and stress ate an entire bag of baby carrots simultaneously

Looking for free food and meals in NYC or Newark as SNAP benefits come to a pause for the first time in the program’s 60-year history? Here’s a list of food pantries and other resources.

at one point in this interview the program director mentions students can cut up the carpet and inspect it to see which mysterious body fluid is on there and i was too scared to ask how they source mysterious body fluids

Adding a little spooky content to your Halloween higher ed news diet; Gwynedd Mercy University just opened a Crime Scene House on campus to provide an experiential learning lab for criminal justice students. www.insidehighered.com/news/student...

Student Success | How the One Big Beautiful Bill Act Threatens Student Success At a webinar Tuesday, experts shared projections about how the budget bill could impact college students and their financial stability. https://bit.ly/4nu70mA #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

Roughly three million New Yorkers rely on food stamps, which will lose federal funding on Saturday amid the government shutdown. More than a fifth of recipients in the state are 60 or older, a group especially vulnerable to the cuts.

Hi I'm an @insidehighered.com reporter writing about which universities are cutting travel expenses, freezing hiring or slashing other costs citing the fed government shutdown. Please DM me or email me any examples at [email protected] today (especially statements on websites)!

There’s some things I miss about DC but the din of a motorcade is not one of them

Giving Credit Where It’s Overdue Reverse transfer—the practice of awarding associate degrees for credit previously earned— is beneficial for colleges, state workforces and the vast “some college, no credit” population. Why do so few students opt in? https://bit.ly/4o6ab58 #EDUSky #AcademicSky

Reverse transfer has been seen as a way to move the needle on college completion, but a majority of eligible students pass up the opportunities. And, from my reporting, there seems to be a gap in understanding why that is for @insidehighered.com www.insidehighered.com/news/student...

🚨 BREAKING NEWS | The University of Pennsylvania has refused to sign the Trump administration's Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education, making it the third of the nine initial institutions that were presented the deal to publicly turn it down. https://bit.ly/4oiFglC

sometimes i get nervous to listen back to my podcast recordings bc i remember the interview being less awesome than i thought it could be, but most times i'm pleasantly surprised by the words that come out of my mouth

submitting four cover letters for my career counselor to review during our 30 minute time slot