Not saying that game was stolen from Egypt but it is now on display at museum in London.

Genuinely confused as to why Alaska is represented by a margarita and Missouri by champagne and champagne flutes.

I keep making this point when discussing college closures. Nobody wants to be the one to make the politically painful decision, and everyone would prefer that someone else does it. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/29/m...

My great grandfather changed the spelling of my (already very rare) lastname mid-WWII (to seem less German) and I'm on a college fly-in and one of the professors that came to talk with us has the old spelling of my lastname as her last name (and like me went by Ms. D when she worked in K-12 ed).

Are chip bags specifically made for walking tacos a Cleveland thing?

Last day of work before taking my final personal day of the year to go to a spa, a lazy weekend, seeing my folks, attending a college fly-in (which includes attending a minor league baseball game and a trip to an NFL training facility), then a weekend away.

Learning that a sizable chunk of our incoming 9th grade students don't know how to play tic tac toe exponentially increased my concern for the future.

The “DEI” language in question? The student group “is expected to foster a safe community where diversity, equity and inclusion is embedded in the organization” has been replaced with “expected to foster a safe and inclusive community” statenews.com/article/2026...

“Joining Amherst, Chicago, NYU, + USC in the six-figure club are mostly top-tier schools with low acceptance rates: Barnard, Claremont McKenna, Colgate, Duke, Fordham, Georgetown, Harvey Mudd, Haverford, Smith, Vassar, WashU STL, Wesleyan… I had no idea that Fordham was in this club!

“We saw that no students really wanted to participate in that program, but this legislation will require families who are paying for college education for their kids, which is not cheap, that they would be forced to take these freedom classes..." www.kcrg.com/2026/06/03/c...

I didn't renew my pretty bougie kahoot account and then realized I wanted some of the features... I used to be able to run kahoots for 1,000 students at a time... now 200 max. I won't be paying over $100/ year for that.

Great weather for finding the Taylor Swift Toy Story billboard.

Hosted two events today-- a pharmacist for a day event with Walgreens and then a Kona Ice truck for students who won an incentive. One of the Kona winners asked if I could help him get back in the building so he could gift his favorite custodian his Kona Ice.

Chaperoned a field trip during which we walked to the zoo, wandered there, and walked back today. I’m not sure if I’ll ever walk again.

This is terrible. ICE separated a single mother from her son, and deported her without him, leaving him in the care of her sister’s abusive ex. Who murdered him.

I would die for my country: Chicago

As an alum of Sacramento State’s daycare, I have to say the concept of Sacramento being the best college town in California is a ridiculous statement.

Today a high school senior asked me if I know who Taylor Swift is.

"One study found that increasing the number of people who receive SNAP benefits by 5 percent could have prevented nearly 32,000 suicides over 15 years. And a $1 increase in minimum wage has been linked to roughly 8,000 fewer suicide deaths over a decade."

Well said, @bakerdphd.bsky.social. This is a great piece on the troubles with transparency in college admissions. www.chronicle.com/article/why-...

There's nothing quite as exhausting as proctoring extended time AP exams.

Texas Tech managing to preemptively satirize itself.

Imagine being the richest person on earth, and then pretending to be your mum on twitter, telling people not to be mean to you.

A Harvard study just published estimates Elon Musk's destruction of USAID has already caused 600,000 deaths 2/3 of them children. That is his legacy in this world.

The only thing that could make me back up into any human being let alone a STUDENT is if they were actively shooting at me. Literally no other excuse. Zero.

Give it up already. Just let trans kids go to college and move on.

this is DELIGHTFUL

A detail I didn’t know: “The Herald entered the Epstein series for a Pulitzer Prize that year, but it was not a finalist. Alan Dershowitz … who helped broker Epstein’s original deal, wrote a letter to the Pulitzer committee that year, urging them not to honor Brown’s work.” share.inquirer.com/THMiUZ

Not sure what universities are supposed to do to win the respect of the right when we’re 3 years into the SCOTUS ban on affirmative action in college admissions and there are still all these viral stories of “this kid with a 1560 SAT score was forced to go to Duke instead of Harvard because of woke”

The new IPEDS component created in response to an executive order calling for a return to merit collects data on the race, sex, GPA, scores, income, & parental education for applicants. It includes no questions about legacies. Kinda tells you everything you need to know about the whole effort.

The way people drive around schools, including parents dropping off their kids, is a subtle reminder that too few Americans commit to the basic obligations of social solidarity.

Not enough people are talking about this.     The Trump Administration is moving to cut benefits for up to 400,000 disabled Americans — people with Down syndrome, severe autism, dementia — for no other reason than that they live at home with their families instead of in an institution.

“Not only did ASU allegedly not communicate to its academic community that their lectures would be spliced up and cannibalized by an AI platform, but the resulting modules are just bad.”

There was a mass shooting this morning at Indiana University that has left nine injured. The Indiana Daily Student has been facing pressure by Republicans and school administrators to shut down the print edition all year. Why isn't Donald Trump or legacy media corps reporting about this huh?

Anna Maria College in Massachusetts is closing at the end of the spring semester, the second small private college in the Bay State to close in the last two weeks. Given its financial situation, this is not a surprise.

I thought this was overstated, but nope, full ban on teaching LGBTQ+ related topics, no researchers who discuss LGBTQ+ topics will be hired going forward (and current faculty unlikely to be promoted), no grad student research on it unless already underway and then only if approved. #academicfreedom

On our way back to Chicago- I’m thoroughly impressed with MSU’s pastry game.

Here's an important read for today: policymakers are encouraging students to learn trades that are costly to teach, but community colleges and apprenticeships don't have the capacity to meet demand. This sends students to the more expensive for-profit sector, where they take on debt.

This reads so Onion-esquely wrong that it sounds almost funny...and don't give me some "oral history" nonsense...this is part of normalizing total surveillance & possibly using every bit of real conversation as AI "training data"!

"Given the greater use of waitlists by popular and more selective schools I expect to see a lot more students seeking to “trade up” than in the past."-- 100%, every year it seems like seniors talk about the option/plan to transfer more casually. educatedquest.com/will-trading...

If we work hard enough we can trap Russell Vought in here like Gen. Zod in the Phantom Zone

Today’s view:

Waiting outside Wrigley and a street vendor keeps telling folks they’re about to be “financial violated” inside. Honestly, a phrase I think I’ll start using.

Can anyone who works in financial aid tell me if colleges can see where you ranked them on your FAFSA this year? #financialaid

Okay bluesky I need your help I live in Massachusetts. You might think we're a bastion of lefty intellectualism but our state government a clusterfuck of post-puritan real estate bros Reskeet this. Text it to your "friends from home" Help this find every masshole poster who will know what to do

@michaeltrivette.bsky.social today our data science teacher asked me if I knew Dataverse from College Transitions... a team of his students are doing research based on at least one table on your site!

Any reasonable lawyer who has read the memo knows that this is not what it requires, so Mizzou is just performing racism to satisfy racists. Also this rhetorical slip was absolutely made easier by people who conflated DEI with race/affinity spaces and I hope everyone is learning their lesson.

UChicago ED0 used to just be for Chicago's public/charter school students... and I actually think more highly selective schools should let local public school students apply earlier than early. chicagomaroon.com/51541/viewpo...

It's mathematically impossible for anyone to beat me in my school's pool (for pride and I think a 3D printed trophy). By far the best I've done.