So far at this baseball game, dads have discussed chemtrails, fluoride, cyanide in sports drinks, red dye in food, and burning witches. I love youth sports!

I just napped so hard I woke up unsure if it was still Friday. I have been assured that it is, but I Googled just to be sure.

Breaking News: The White House asked nine top universities to pledge support for President Trump’s agenda to help ensure access to research funding.

The internet used to scream every time you logged on and maybe that was for the best

The New York Post is reporting that the Trump administration and Harvard have reached a settlement where the university pays $500 million to run a series of trade schools.

Breaking: Texas Tech chancellor limits academic mentions of transgender and nonbinary identities at five universities.

Trump's ED Department has punished Harvard with heightened cash monitoring, an oversight tool for financially shaky colleges. But as ED squeezes Harvard, it’s letting unstable colleges slide off HCM—leaving students & taxpayers unprotected: My latest: www.newamerica.org/education-po...

What does it mean that they clearly got raptured and I did not?? @darthbluesky.bsky.social

Glad about Kimmel, just tell me I don’t have to stay up to watch.

Whaaaa

Breaking News: Texas A&M’s president will step down after turmoil over a children’s literature course that recognized more than two genders.

“[As University counsel, you report to] the attorney general,” Heaphy said. “And that's precisely the problem. The University, a multi-billion dollar enterprise, does not have the ability to hire or fire its own lawyer. That is an inherent conflict of interest that needs to be changed.”

It's a good day when you get Jason Isbell tickets.

A lengthy and lovely conversation with the inimitable Terry Gross. I was so touched by her words on loss and vulnerability. open.spotify.com/episode/1p81...

"To allow a widely admired university to be bossed around by political operatives undermines its own basic ideals and imperils the future of critical thought, dissent, and democracy itself." - Judith Butler

I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"

The University of California, Berkeley, said on Friday that it provided the names of students, faculty and staff in cases of alleged antisemitism to the federal government, complying with the Trump administration’s investigation of universities it has accused of failing to protect Jewish students.

Friday night.

At least seven historically Black colleges and universities across the South received threats Thursday that caused lockdowns and closures. via @wwno.org

Sometime in the near future, I need to go down to the sea and holler. I’m rapidly losing my ability to cope in any other way.

"Now I am going to say something that will probably strike you as strange, and which you will almost certainly not understand until you are on the other side of the storm." The latest from Megan McArdle:

BREAKING: New York Governor Kathy Hochul is set to sign an executive order allowing pharmacists to prescribe and administer Covid-19 vaccines to anyone who requests them, regardless of age or underlying conditions.

That's some really sharp art.

Bullet fires.

It smells like back to school, y’all.

Good time to repost this: WIRED talked to the group behind all the hoax active shooter campus calls www.wired.com/story/purgat...

A lawyer for George Mason University President Gregory Washington told the board the leader had done nothing unlawful and would not apologize for his diversity, equity and inclusion policies, despite a call from the Education Department to do so.

"Gregory Washington, George Mason University’s first Black president, will not be apologizing over diversity initiatives he’s pursued since his hiring in 2020, according to a 10-page letter delivered to the university’s Board of Visitors on Monday." -just posted to the Chronicle of Higher Education

Welcome to everyone’s least favourite week—Building Your Canvas Site Week.

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I'm joining Ruth Johnston of NACUBO Consulting on an @insidehighered.com webinar this Wednesday (8/20) at 2 PM ET to discuss a new survey of college chief business officers. Register here: bit.ly/41FDHoR

I am on vacation. I am on vacation. I am on vacation. I am on vacation. I am on vacation. (I have some things to do tomorrow.) I am on vacation. I am on vacation. I am on vacation. I am on vacation. I am on vacation.

Taylor Swift is going to break my brain hours before she breaks the internet.

I'm so sorry. I loved Bermuda the one time I visited...not how I'd hoped to make a return trip.

Recording the first episode of Trusted Voices S4 today. I'm not saying we're going to break the internet with a long-awaited album announcement, but I'm not not saying it either...

Why doesn't anyone tell you that the worst thing about owning a home is having to rely on questionable contractors? Concrete guys are on their SECOND pass at my new front steps; discovered today they STILL don't meet code. Here comes attempt number three. Haven't used my front door since May 5.

@drkarenweaver.bsky.social is one of the voices I trust most on these issues.

There is no annoyance like that generated by crappy neighbors and no joy like that created by great neighbors.

I am grateful to @msrachelforlittles.bsky.social for trusting me with her story at this moment of consequence, as she advocates for the children of Gaza and follows in the footsteps of her own childhood hero, Mister Rogers. Sharing with a gift link: wapo.st/46vqYbL

👏👏🫡 www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts...

Given all of the serious news coming out today, this piece on how colleges try to update information on Wikipedia is a nice palate cleanser.

NEW -> Brown just reached an agreement with the Trump admin to restore its federal funding. Unlike at Columbia, though, Brown won't pay a fine to the feds. Instead, it will donate $50 million over 10 years to workforce development groups in Rhode Island. More here: www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

Here’s our first stab at the DOJ memo. More soon. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

I went outside and I hated it.

Today was a good day. @karafreeman-nacubo.bsky.social

I haven’t been outside of the Gaylord in almost 48 hours and the worst part is I’m starting not to care. I live in this biodome now.

Here beginneth my favorite part of any work trip…dinner alone at a bar with my book and a glass of wine.

The NACUBO 2025 Annual Meeting is underway! Follow along and share your insights using #NACUBO2025 nacubo.org/Events/2025/...

Let’s gooooo! @nacubo.bsky.social