“The dismantling of Harvard’s diversity offices arrived at Harvard College on Wednesday as websites for centers serving minority students, LGBTQ students, and women disappeared suddenly and without fanfare.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Cool paper with an great title. Across the world, boys are much more likely to overestimate their math ability than girls. People from high SES backgrounds do the same www.iza.org/publications...

About 250 years ago, an unassuming structure on the campus of William & Mary, housed the Williamsburg Bray School, making it the oldest known building where enslaved and free Black children were formally educated. It is now, on Juneteenth, open to the public.

I am becoming a bit of a higher ed history nerd. Old photos and records of women's sports are some of my favorite docs. Check out this fun photo of the 1904 Smith College hockey team and their mascot, Max, curtesy of Smith Special Collections.

I don't have an #NSF grant, but I have spent the past 17 months collaborating with 5 students analyzing open access data from another team's NSF-funded project. Fed investment in education & science is critical for our society, and the benefits are widespread. These cuts have long term implications.

Surprise surprise! Allowing scientists to have continuity and security in their funding lets them focus on research and ask big questions that require long term support to answer, and that are most likely to have big impacts for humanity. TIL. 🧪

President Donald Trump’s administration has pulled close to $10.2 million in federal grants from AmeriCorps projects in Philadelphia, jeopardizing the future of 11 community service programs.

Harvard’s website changed to feature research and impact: www.harvard.edu. I know they are private and the literal most well resourced institution in the US, but if you know how hard it is to make even the smallest edit on a college website, this is even more impressive.

Gutting. From the Tallahassee Democrat.

Interesting new research suggesting one reason women are less likely to major in STEM, economics, and business is that they expect to face labor market discrimination later in those fields (so that the return to such majors is lower). www.nber.org/papers/w33680

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

If you don't feel like scouring my skyline for all the places I've talked about why encouraging profligate & uncritical use of "AI" in education & public life is is so so so very bad, you can read more on what makes this situation so dangerous & problematic here: afutureworththinkingabout.com?p=5899

Pieces like this are why I'm concerned about the ability of students to get financial aid on time in the fall...and for some small colleges to make payroll as a result. Even if there is no intent to cut aid, there don't seem to be the staff to handle inevitable issues that arise.

In case you wanted to know some of my thoughts on how student loans would be affected by all this nonsense...here you go! Gift link. www.wsj.com/personal-fin...

In addition to being morally wrong this is also just plain old wrong as shown by research by @kevinshih.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

AERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...

We're hearing from multiple sources that all U.S. Dept. of Ed buildings are closing at 6 p.m. and are closed tomorrow. Email to staff cites "security reasons." "Employees will not be permitted in any ED facility on Wednesday, March 12th, for any reason." @jodiscohen.bsky.social and I are following

I'm appalled by the USDA's decision to pause funding to the University of Maine System. This will hurt our farmers, halt critical research, and impact students throughout Maine. Once again, our state is being targeted for retribution—all because our officials are standing up for the rule of law.

NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

Tough to see my alma mater (SUNY Geneseo) and a number of other upstate NY institutions on these lists

CALL FOR PAPERS The Sociological Quarterly will be publishing an upcoming special issue on student activism. The deadline to submit an abstract is Jan. 15, 2025. For more information on the special issue, and instructions on submitting an abstract, go to think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

I've been doing follow up interviews with participants from my dissertation about their careers. In college, they chose to be teachers. Today, most plan to leave teaching (or already have). It's a small sample, but a bit sad to see how some of these dreams have unfolded.

Well isn’t this an interesting little piece of PA history—The Steelers and Eagles were once the same team. Here’s the history of the short-lived Steagles. www.inquirer.com/eagles/steag...

UVA Students Resume Campus History Tours Without Officials’ Approval In August, administrators banned the volunteer student guide service from giving university-sanctioned historic tours. Now, the club has decided to go out on its own. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3Bpvyeu

Doctor's offices doing wild things out here.

Please check out our new article in the Review of Higher Education titled “Behind the Veil”: Unmasking Anti-blackness in Presidential Discourse and Responses to Racialized Incidents. See link: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

The alt doesn't cover what the actual call is so I'm sharing the post and including this link for anyone interested in the history of ed! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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...

Seconding Robert's rec, Smith's @chronicle.com article below on Knoxville College is excellent, yet quite painful. It should also be considered within the lens of a recent JHE pub shared on here about financial aid systems and whiteness: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Join us at the Temple University College of Ed & Human Dev in Philly! We're hiring faculty in K12 ed leadership, counseling psych, school psych, and urban teacher ed & literacy. linktr.ee/cehdcareer

ASHE was a success! Hit a milestone in my career, which was sitting in the audience to watch my student collaborators present our work! This project, focused on understanding paths into bioscience PhD programs & parent education influences, came out of an advanced qual course! #ASHE2024 #ASHE24

My husband, a loyal New Jerseyan who uprooted his whole life to follow my career to Philly, still boos every time we leave NJ and enter PA. NJ loyal is a while different brand.

go.bsky.app/TL1589Q I made a starter pack but check first and make sure it is your vibe!

This is terrible NCAN devotes itself to making college accessible It is a big, big deal for them to recommend that filing the FAFSA is too dangerous for some families

🚨 The Qualitative Scholars and First-Gen Scholars Community Groups @aefpweb.bsky.social are hosting a panel discussion with journal editors focused on publishing qualitative and mixed-methods research related to education policy. 12/9 from 3-4 p.m. ET Register here: utexas.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Looking for a community of Latinx/a/o scholars broadly throughout academia? With help from @larrylafountain.bsky.social I started this starter pack, now w/ 111/150 scholars. If you wanted to be added please reply to post. Dr. @jorgenleal.bsky.social also has a starter pack!! go.bsky.app/NrJs1Hr

⬆️ in Michigan’s teacher prep enrollment are driven by alt-route programs, with the largest increases coming from two relatively new virtual programs. Teachers who enter the workforce through alternative certification pathways are more diverse than those from traditional TPPs (1/2)

W&M faculty Melissa Whatley @melwhat.bsky.social presenting research on “A Quasi-experimental Analysis of the Relationship between Gun Violence at US Higher Education Institutions and International Student Enrollment” - found campus shootings didn’t have a significant impact on enrollments #ASHE2024

#ASHE2024 folks — join for a working meeting advocating against anti-DEI movements TODAY 1-2:15pm! 3rd floor, ballroom Salon E

Hello, #ASHE24 in Minneapolis! It’s winter here.

Higher Education Politics and Economics (HEPE)- Call for papers. Special issue guest edited by @dcollier74.bsky.social, @chrismarsicano.bsky.social, and Alex Marsicovetere: Beyond the Balance: Narratives from the Frontlines of Student Loan Debt

I'm thrilled to share the cover for my forthcoming book Major Trade-Offs! I love the retro design, building illustrations, and color scheme. The team at the University of Chicago Press really nailed it. Keep an eye out for the book, coming May 2025

Oh yay, this paper is finally out at AERA Open! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Crisp explanation from the BBC of what the Education Department does and how Trump can’t close it www.bbc.com/news/article...

Amazing opportunity to learn about LOTS of education data, including the Elementary/Secondary Information System (ELSI); the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Data Explorer; Educational Demographic and Geographic Estimates (EDGE) data tools to explore ACS and GIS data...

How do postsecondary structures shape women's entry into computing bachelor's programs? In short: through admissions, institutional organization, computing cultures, and major entry policies. Read more: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... (open access w methods details in supplementary files)

The American Bar Association is allowing law schools to try test-optional admissions policies for a 3-5 year period while requiring data sharing for evaluation purposes.

As a recent and first time homebuyer, anything other than the lowest possible level of flood risk was an automatic dealbreaker.

This site getting good is really defeating my attempt to be Less Online

I waited 4 hours to vote yesterday in Burlington county, NJ. I can’t even imagine how many people may have shown up to the polls but who did not have 4 hours to give. That was completely unacceptable.