I was happy to contribute to @deandad.bsky.social's timely question about how we can adapt in the current era of higher education. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Viewpoint diversity would be hiring someone at Associate Professor rabk from a small nonelite teaching school in the Plains. It'd be an actually diversity of view point, rather than political leanings within the same white elite upper coastal class. But cool, yo, hire some Nazis I guess.

Grad students who want to learn about teaching at access-oriented institutions, and faculty at those institutions--this is for you!

Sad to hear about Hampshire. It's a quirky little place in a world increasingly hostile to quirky little places. It wasn't for me, but I hate to see it go.

This wasn't the point of the article, but I've been trying to figure out why the stock market continues to climb even when there's chaos in the real economy. Could it be simply that having far fewer companies on the public market reduces the denominator? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

why didn't anybody tell me that saturn has "ravioli moons"? WHY DIDN'T THEY TELL ME ABOUT THE RAVIOLI MOONS?

Happy anniversary to all who celebrate (the greatest celebrity-on-celebrity social media takedown of all time)

Absolutely remarkable statement from Pope Leo today. One for the history books www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

This column by @deandad.bsky.social matches my experience at the graduate level...many students now prefer a majority of classes being online in a traditionally in-person evening program. But students still want (and international ones need) some on-campus classes, creating scheduling dilemmas.

Terrific piece by @carlsonics.bsky.social about three-year bachelor's degrees. I'd add confirmation of Baumol's cost disease. www.chronicle.com/article/fast...

Clearly, he's not a student of history. Because if he was, he'd know that the one time the federal government did "take care of daycare," they did it *because of a war* and used defense funding to pay for it. 1/🧵

And a golden calf.

Thinking out loud about what happens if your politics revolve mostly around two rules: 1. Everyone deserves a baseline level of respect. 2. Ain't nobody special. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

"Every citizen or subject of another country, while domiciled here, is within the allegiance and the protection, and consequently subject to the jurisdiction, of the United States."

A very real problem with our foreign policy is that we are able to easily kill for causes we don’t actually think are worth dying for

"In higher ed, customers aren’t always right. If they were, they wouldn’t need higher education in the first place." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Sorry to hear about Steve Rose. He was a terrific colleague in my time at Brookdale, helping me navigate the idiosyncratic waters of New Jersey higher ed politics. He hired well, kept a level head, and was steadfastly kind and sane. I'll miss him. pccc.edu/president-ro...

Note from my notebook (2017).

Reminded of Sloterdijk’s definition of cynicism as enlightened false consciousness.

“I must make clear, the current national campaign of mass detention and deportations is a grave moral evil, one which must be opposed, with prayer, peaceful action and acts of solidarity with those affected,” El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz wrote: www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

No, Utah, "conscientious objector" status doesn't make sense when being there in the first place is optional. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Pope Leo this week called universal health coverage a "moral imperative." He also said: “Health cannot be a luxury for the few,” it is “an essential condition for social peace.”

One thing that AI evangelists seem to assume, particularly legal AI evangelists assume, is that the thinking and analysis is quick, and the writing is just tedious busywork that slows us down. But the writing IS the thinking and analysis. You work out the thinking and analysis by writing it down.

Cardinal Pizzaballa: "The abuse and manipulation of God’s name to justify this and any other war is the gravest sin we can commit at this time. ... If God is present in this war, He is among those who are dying, ... suffering, ...in pain, ... oppressed in various ways, throughout the Middle East."

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

Happy Pi Day to all who celebrate.

When "process" attacks... www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

You ever write something and there are so many parts you hope people engage with that you can't figure out which ones to quote? I'll do a wee thread on the 3rd, and final, essay from my Red Scares series www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Readers respond with suggestions for budget cuts that (mostly) don't hurt www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Imagine if we actually cared about infrastructure. You could travel across the country in a day without spewing jet fuel into the air.

Crowdsourcing a quest for budget cuts that don't hurt (such as energy efficiency or early retirement incentives). www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

You know what isn't affected when you start an all-out war in the Middle East? The sun. The wind. Talk about backing the wrong horse.

"if challenged, I’d be hard-pressed to explain why state agencies should receive judicial deference that federal agencies do not." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Laura Linney is a national treasure. I will not be taking questions at this time.

Steve Martin had a bit in the 70's about speaking English with a French accent when he visited France. The difference is that he made the absurdity the point.

Suggesting that "If [bots] can do the things that we used to pay smart people to do, what's the economic value of smart people?" isn't quite the right question... www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

There are bugs, and then there are bugs.

Listen...these dudes changed the locks on her mailbox They marked her mail undeliverable and returned it to the sender They blocked her & her tenants from receiving doctor’s bills, medications, credit card statements, car titles, property tax statements, & more ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/posta...

"Of course, anything can become controversial simply by virtue of someone objecting." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Why attack Iran now? What’s the US goal? Regime change? Damage? Coerced agreement? How will the US achieve it by force? With what follow through? How will any achievement last? What will others in the region do? I’ve never seen so few answers to those ahead of potentially launching major combat.

We're all about second chances... triblive.com/sports/youre...

Tonight at 9: "When Actuaries Attack!"

It’s easy to think writing is mainly the transcription of ideas you already have—that is, until you try to write something worthwhile, and you find what you thought were saying transform into something far more interesting in the process. This skips that last step, and that is *not* an improvement.

Don't utilize "utilize". Use "use".

alt: “Thinking about how lucky some of us were to have so much education woven into our childhoods. Like I remember watching THE Itzhak Perlman play the violin on Mr. Rogers. I know a non-zero amount of classical music from Looney Tunes. Reading Rainbow, Mr. Wizard, Wishbone, Carmen Sandiego,…”

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

@deandad.bsky.social's latest @insidehighered.com column is delightful and should be read. It makes me think about a game I regularly played with World Politics students that, if the name of it were shared in isolation, could get me fired today. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Some admin-to-admin advice for my counterparts at UNC: "Lacking the capacity—whether technical or legal—to monitor everything gets you off the hook for monitoring everything. This is not to be taken lightly." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Picking up on @drkevinrmcclure.com 's thoughts on compensation absurdities in higher Ed www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Idea for Winter Olympics event: drive a front-wheel-drive sedan up a steep and twisty residential street with a fresh coat of wet snow. “All season” tires are a dirty, dirty lie.