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#update: I submitted this paper to a journal on Tuesday at 3:10am. Next up conference papers!!!

Early indicators point to decline in number of Black freshmen at elite colleges. #HigherEd #AcademicSky www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

I woke up to a Christmas feeling. I received edits from an editor at 7:30 British Summer Time (BST). Today is going to be a great day. It's time to wrap this up. #SaturdayWriting

To get funding, FSU faculty have to attest that the conference they want to attend doesn’t “advantage” a particular racial or ethnic group and that their presentation doesn’t suggest that one group has “inherently or structurally oppressed other groups.” www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

I signed up to be a discussant for a conference. I am unsure, I realized I would be reading papers for class and conference papers the same week. 😐

This is true; however, it appears those who should/can make reform happen are off doing their own thing. Those of us in the TT pipeline, postdocs, & PHD students will have little to no voice in this change. Department chairs, Associate Professors, & Full Professors need to unite like the Avengers.

Some schools will be starved of resources. Other schools will be offered bribes. The end goal is the same. To make the universities an extension of the Trump administration. Shame on any of these institutions willing to take the bribes.

After two days of teaching and faculty/student meetings, the third day is always dedicated to catching up on my email and responding to anxious messages. I believe this cycle will repeat each week this semester.

Every time I open this app, I realize that at this rate, we may all be doing different jobs in 5+ years. By choice or force, depending on which state you live in.

Journal rejections on a Saturday are always a reminder I need to work/write 24 hours, 7 days a week. 😞

I heard about this but hadn't seen the article since I was offline (thanks for sharing Tressie!). Mini thread. Gift link www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Final summer manuscript submitted (3) to a journal. I'm one short of my goal, but hey it's better than last year! Two more on deck, let's see how the rest of August goes and September. 🙏🏾

I don't like to think about the future (career), but when I do.....

I think we have all been brainwashed to forget this time in life. This was normal retail and consumer behavior.

Oh please www.wcvb.com/article/bost...

Nice reporting by the Harvard Crimson, which cuts to the chase on the Trump Administration's objectives www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

A professor had a $2.4 million grant to study Black maternal health. Then Trump was elected

Red alert for student visas: Education groups warn that new international enrollments at American colleges could fall by more than 30 percent unless the State Department deals with a serious bottleneck. chroni.cl/41ikMAn

My HigherEdu brain: SMU raised $100 million in seven days for football, and $159 for the year. My 2025 pessimistic brain: Columbia caved because they didn't have money or access to millions.

I’ll bet all $5 in my pocket this leads to hiring quotas for white men. Imagine a search committee has 4 finalists: 2 white men, a woman, & a minority. If a white man isn’t chosen, and yearly data shows they’re not a significant majority of hires/promotions watch how fast that becomes “a problem.”

I do believe good work is being done at Columbia University. I hope all colleagues and associates at Columbia find ways to move forward. That being said, I would not recommend to family or close friends to apply/enroll due to fear the federal government could/will interfere in personal life.

This is all insane😳!!! Is there another level of alarm that should be sounding off???

In America, power thrives by dividing. Poor whites were convinced they were different from poor Black folks fueling Jim Crow, which hurt them too. It’s the same playbook: manipulate the marginalized to justify harm, all while claiming to protect them. Wash. Rinse. Repeat.

There is a wealth of documented empirical data/evidence of the harm caused to Black Americans in American Higher education over the decades. *The fines amount to $0 - nothing significant. Moreover, there will never be swift action in America to protect all marginalized groups at same levels.

I'm not a legal scholar, however it'll be interesting how institutions (if they had backbones) could use statements to say they are targeted based on assumptions of individual political beliefs. They are saying out loud conservatives will target a university that appears to have progressives.

Maybe one of the most frustrating lines. 😞 "The agreement — effective for three years — states that it is not an admission of guilt or liability by either party, but rather a settlement to avoid the burdens and risks of litigation." Extortion!

@bdtauthor.bsky.social I would love to speak with you about your upcoming book!

The outside world: 🤪🔥💔😥🧊🍊👑🥊😡 Me: Oh, look, Python may help with my work, let's learn it!

Business isn't usual & we need to rethink higher education in this country. We need to understand a world were post-secondary education may be led by extreme partisan actors & things may change overall, election to election.

I'll see y'all in Colorado for ASHE! 1 of 2 papers accepted. It's weird that my rejection rate is higher at ASHE than any other conference I feel like.

1/ A new working paper from me and my amazing collaborators, Alberto Ortega, Matthew Patrick Shaw, and Vandy undergrad extraordinaire Daniel Yoo: "Politics of the professoriate: Longitudinal evidence from a state public university system's universe of faculty" Link: github.com/MemeMedianMo...

"The university, by any objective measure, [IS] completely outmatched by laptop warriors like Rufo, who have utterly changed the game when it comes to shaping public opinion about higher education."

Writing is hard

This helped me a TON!!! Submitted!!

Teen years! 😥

I am spending this week finishing a paper that uses this data extensively. It's almost unfathomable how stupid our leadership would have to be to compromise the quality of this information.

Unplugged a bit this weekend, now on a plane back to Boston. I'm realizing I missed a lot...😫

Bluesky right now:

Its more telling that the American "leader" on education has no idea who Ruby Bridges is!!

The child in this trustee’s scenario? Faculty. Who submitted their tenure files for consideration in accordance with the terms of their employment. Both sides have a responsibility in that contract, one to submit and one to review. I hope everyone really hears this.

Seems important to note that accreditors have discretion over these decisions, so they can ignore what the federal government says. Also important to note that the federal government is threatening to go after accreditors.

Still can't get over a UNC board member labeling faculty as children. AWFUL!!

Tenure isn't guaranteed; individuals largely control their own destiny. While there are horror stories, most tenure-track faculty members are familiar with the process. UNC is signaling that tenure awards may now be linked to the university's financial situation on a year-to-year basis. #HigherEd

"In Massachusetts, over two dozen colleges and universities have closed or merged over the past decade due to financial and enrollment difficulties."

As children many of us read a few folktales including the "Big Bad Wolf" and we all understood how the wolf portrayed himself as a "good faith" character. As observers of these stories, even as children, we knew the wolf was up to no good. College presidents should read these stories. 🤷🏾‍♂️😞

"Few had to do with how he would run the University of Florida; ...... most questions focused on DEI." They didn't care about his administrative capabilities or his expertise. He didn't have a record of attacking marginalized groups or bonafide conservative chops. He ultimately played himself.