When Democrats get state trifectas they should try to amend state constitutions to change board composition and selection. Keep >50% of the seats for partisan appointments and make the reset student, faculty, staff, and alumni representatives. McGill is one example www.mcgill.ca/boardofgover...

Posting as a reminder for when I next teach about politics and higher ed.

It is a race y'all!! Will it be Vanderbilt or Dartmouth left hanging out with public universities (who are beholden to state political leaders in a way the privates are not).

The presidential search at the U. of Florida — which ended dramatically on Tuesday with the rejection of Santa Ono, the sole finalist — drove debate about whether a traditional academic leader could be trusted to advance conservative policy goals, such as dismantling DEI efforts. chroni.cl/4khVHwW

Trump Proposes Cutting Pell Grants in Order to Avert Shortfall The administration’s proposed budget also defunds TRIO. Some programs are already losing funding, according to one association. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4kPogSh

Opinion | Why I Chose the University of Florida Santa J. Ono explains why he’s pursuing the University of Florida presidency. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4k5iTOl

White House Fact Sheet on Accreditation EO: www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

The rhetorical victory is this: the proposal that we can and will outlast them.

New pub with @itspgr.bsky.social & Denisa Gandara examining how state policymakers in New Mexico frame their support or opposition to the New Mexico Opportunity Scholarship, a statewide promise program that has a flexible and generous design. #edusky #highered epaa.asu.edu/index.php/ep...

According to Google, this would suggest they are filming a Lifetime movie on the campus by my house…

The NAEP 2024 -2025 Long Term Trend Age 17 assessment will not be administered in the upcoming weeks Unbroken testing series since early 1970s Nothing like ignorance to keep our country moving forward

FANTASTIC ICPSR at U Mich is coordinating the archiving of at-risk federal data (all of it?) You can upload data you have & search for data you don’t have www.datalumos.org/datalumos/

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The position of a prominent red-state public university president is becoming virtually impossible for traditional academics. And those who can do it well will get lucrative job offers from institutions that have enough money to buy into a new athletic conference.

Saving this for future governance classes...

Announced at the #ASHE2024 closing, future ASHE Conference locations: Fall 2026 📍San Juan, Puerto Rico Fall 2027 📍Albuquerque, New Mexico Fall 2028 📍Providence, Rhode Island

Exhausting.

Linda McMahon as the Sec of Education… 💆🏻‍♂️

I have lived in Utah for over 6 years. When I arrived those many moons (and a pandemic) ago, I had so many questions about Utah higher ed. With the help of two students, we crafted a study and manuscript that was just published open access in Higher Education Quarterly. doi.org/10.1111/hequ...

New pub w/ MEd Grad Sara Thomas & @aliwatts13.bsky.social We tracked publicly-available responses by various institutional stakeholders to the emergence and passing of anti-DEI/CRT state policies in the Southern U.S. 50 free downloads at the link below! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TIXYB...

I sometimes wonder what would happen if I accept the invitations to the random spam conferences... like, sure, I'd be happy to speak at the International Conference on Infectious Diseases.

New(ish) pub with @itspgr.bsky.social Denisa Gandara and Lindsey Hammond that was just made open access this week. We watched 131 hrs of budget hearings in two states - TX and CA - to examine how higher ed leaders frame their budget requests to state legislators link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The deadline for proposals is next Sunday! Please send proposals and any questions to Karley or myself.

Quick reminder that the Call for Proposals for this NDHE issue on higher education governance in the U.S. is due in a little over one month (September 1, 2024). Please don't hesitate to reach out to Karley Riffe or myself if you have any questions!

New #RIHE pub: @billingsmer.bsky.social, @itspgr.bsky.social et al. examined over 130 hours of state budget meetings from 2020/2021 in CA and TX to ask: how do public #highered officials appeal to legislators in funding requests for state appropriations? doi.org/10.1007/s111...

Karley Riffe and I are co-editing an issue of New Directions for Higher Education tentatively titled "New Insights in U.S. Higher Education Governance" w/ proposals due Sept 1, 2024. The Call for Proposals is below! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

just setting up my bsky 🥁